Argh. Please, please, please get a new hobby that doesn’t involve any living creature. If you don’t somehow manage to kill your fish (or end up with some virulent strain of bacteria to do it for you), then you “lose” them. Unless the last time you fed them was a month ago, two amano shrimp […]
I’m in; I’m just one of them now. 🙂 Ten guys (plus P) yesterday and five today, and they’ve finally stopped “tidying up” their language because of me. I don’t want them thinking, “Can’t say ‘shit’ or ‘goddammit’ if I make a bad shot because some guy’s wife comes with him every time”. I don’t […]
MUAHAHA! Sometimes I’m so goddamned awesome that I make myself SICK! They fixed the repos so I could get the kernel update, and a kernel update means reinstalling the video driver, because the driver is compiled against the existing kernel, not the new one. There’s never a matching kernel module on nVidia’s site, so I […]
I was bitching to you yesterday about that stupid Paula Zahn show where they had a supposed “discussion panel” about atheists, yet had nary an atheist on it. Guess who’s going to be on her show tonight? None other than eminent evolutionary biologist and world-famous atheist, Richard Dawkins himself. I’ve heard him speak several times, […]
Samba, O Samba, how I hate you. WHY is installing Ubuntu as simple as half a dozen mouse clicks, and installing software as simple as two clicks, but setting up Samba is a fucking nightmare of epic proportions? Getting access between P’s XP and my Ubuntu was kind of a pain, but I figured it […]
Who the hell designs earbuds…DUMBO?! I’m trying to watch DVDs on my laptop in bed, but P’s asleep, so I have to use headphones. I don’t like headphones because they’re too hot, I want buds. I have half a dozen sets, and they’re all too goddamned big. The only ones I have that fit right […]