TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Has a baby ever been born with two umbilical cords? If so, he or she would be a good symbol for you in the coming weeks. Why? Because you should be extremely aggressive about getting the nurturing you need–even to the point of double-dipping from a primal source. In my astrological opinion, it’s your responsibility to make sure you’re flooded with blessings. Trust your unprecedented hunger.
Music Meme
List 7 songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre,whether they have words, or even if they’re not any good, but they must be songs you’re really enjoying now.
Post these instructions in your livejournal along with your 7 songs. Then tag 7 other people to see what they’re listening to.
1. Mambo No. 5 – Lou Bega
2. Whatever – Godsmack
3. Dear Mr. President – Pink
4. Deify – Disturbed
5. Too Much – Dave Matthews Band
6. Run Rabbit Run – Eminem
7. Bouncing Baby Clones – Chiasm
Just to pester people that I don’t usually get, I’m tagging
Successful day as a consumer.
Holy crap, there’s a lot of email backed up in my Smart Networks account. Clearly I need to start making weekly time to get back on the horse for this. As it is, I’m working OT at LiquidWeb tomorrow, so tonight ended up being the only time.
Buying used has been a success today! I have scored:
- USB-to-mini-USB 5-pin cable for my Motorola Razr.(got sick of borrowing the one from Benny’s Palm)
- 512 MB of RAM for my iBook
- A Sony PS2, so that I can play games and DVD’s in my office. Now all I need to do is fix the VCR part of the TV/VCR combo, and I’ll be all set.
All of the money used to purchase this was gotten from selling off things that I don’t need to those that will find a use for them. This makes me unspeakably happy.
Signing Photos – 07 May 2006
Click here to check out the photos from the signing at Gone Wired Cafe for The Remembrance.
EDIT: Apparently, I can’t link to PicasaWeb’s pics from here to create a graphical link to the album. Or, I don’t know quite how to make it work yet. Hopefully soon, in either case. :)
I need to tell you these things.
I put that title on here, and my fingers freeze on the keyboard for thirty seconds.
I won these, and they are a sweet pair of headphones. They even block out the crazy Theio’s regular cackle and shouting. This makes me very happy.
I’m hoping that someone buys this, just like I hope they buy whatever else I’ve been putting up on eBay for the last couple of months. I mean, my Amazon.com Marketplace sales just never seem to stop, and eBay, for the most part, has followed suit.
The old Compaq laptop from Nate and Cheryl is next. Definitely for parts. Motherboard is very, very unhappy. Then there’s
Also on the list of purchases is more RAM for my iBook, a USB/mini-USB cable for getting images, movies, and such off of my phone, and hopefully a PS/2. I’m going to try to get these things used locally first (except for the cable), and then hit up teh intarweb.
It still makes more sense for me to buy used. Why would I encourage more new things to be made, when there are perfectly good used things out there that don’t need more resources to be expended in making them? Oh, I’ve got to remember to put up my copy of Asheron’s Call for sale.
Tonight is the season premiere of Stargate: SG1 and Stargate: Atlantis on the SciFi channel.
I’m tired, and it’s the kind of tired that makes me feel like my days have been really full lately. I’ve been learning SO much, and I still have to read a DNS/BIND book for work.
I have some thoughts that I need to get out about the Steven comic, but that will probably wait until tomorrow. For now, check this out.
Hee hee!
In other news,
Thinking about operating systems
The other day,
This got me thinking about other things. Things like LiteStep from back in the day. I couldn’t remember the name of it when I was thinking about it, but this article about ReactOS, linked to by SlashDot, had a reference to it in one of the comments.
Good article, by the way.
Now, on the original topic of window managers, I decided to check out KDE. I was all like, “Wait, that’s what Knoppix uses!” I’ve used it on my own machines, after being introduced to it at a Penguicon.
I got to wondering, what if the K in Knoppix stood for KDE? I mean, it’s pronounced as if the K wasn’t even there, right? Kind of like the G in Gnome (if you’ve ever played AD&D, that is). So, I wonder if there’s a Gnoppix! Well, there is. Not only that, but Gnoppix is based on… wait for it… Ubuntu.
What cracks me up is that Gnoppix, Knoppix, and Ubuntu are all derivatives of Debian.
Well, it cracks ME up.
UPDATE: Looks like that article on ReactOS got slashdotted. Whoops.
Horoscope
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Surveys show that two out of every ten people have bought stuff they found out about through e-mail spam. While you’re no doubt too sophisticated to be among that number, you might want to open your mind a bit to the possibility. That’s because the astrological omens suggest you may soon receive useful information and out-of-the-blue inspiration from sources you’ve ignored in the past–even chattering gossipers and questionable teachers and TV news shows. Don’t be too sure you already know where your juiciest clues will be coming from.