Uh-huh….and? Keeping cichlids doesn’t make you brave unless you’re risking serious bites from a 15″ monster with a 36″ attitude every time you do a water change. Bites from the smaller guys don’t really hurt. I know they don’t because I’ve been bitten more than once. You say, “Ouch! Little fucker” and carry on. It […]

“I did! I told him great big massive lies with feckin’ bells hanging off them.” – Father Ted Crilly, “Entertaining Father Stone”.

I’m not a grammar nazi. I expect people in informal settings to use words like “complected” (technically a word now, but more properly “complexioned”), and to end sentences with a preposition even if it does leave me thinking, “Oh, I’m sorry–was there more?” That’s fine, and it’s equally fine to use informal language when a […]

Oh, I do so love the seasons. In the winter, it’s the mice, looking to make themselves snug and cozy in our basement. Dry summer brings seething hordes of Oriental cockroaches in search of the moisture they need to stay alive. Incidentally, say “water bugs” if you want, folks, but that doesn’t make ’em any […]

What a magnificent day! I can scarcely think of a reason to bitch, although P is out there watching some ridiculous NASCAR thing (well, he’s “resting his eyes”, but it’s on) and the person they had sing the national anthem (I think that’s what it was–the “oh say can you see” thing) sounded horrible. Two […]

I swear that’s what I feel like I’m going to do every time I’m unfortunate enough to have some kind of business at W-M (too often, since W-M’s put nearly everything else in town out of business). The most godawful, suffocating bouquet of reeking cheap perfume in the entire state can be found right at […]

I want to like it, really I do. I know lots of people like it, I know it’s functional and I know it does everything I need, and I’ve got the Kubuntu KDE desktop as well as Ubuntu’s default Gnome, so I suppose I have whatever it wants, but I just can’t get over how […]

So proud of myself! Finally (mostly) tidied up the confusing mess that is my bookmarks. Try as I might to organise them well, they’re still far from perfect, but they’re better. I have so damned many–some I’ve had for literally years–that perfect isn’t a reasonable expectation, but I use good descriptions, keep them alphabetised in […]

I thought I’d put some of my favourite comedies all on the same DVD so I could watch them when whatever’s on TV bites arse (which is most of the time). I don’t know how to do that in Linux (not with a menu, at least) so I ripped them and chose the episodes I […]

Apparently, the Lyra either “works or doesn’t” because the files are the same for all models, so that means I can’t play mp3 (seems no one knows why that happens), but that doesn’t mean I have to use icky-picky ol’ Windows. DbPoweramp works fine under Wine (technically Crossover Office), I can convert to wma with […]