Not my words, but true nonetheless. More than one would expect from Flickr comments on a photo called “Atheist Headstone”. The believer tells himself that he is going somewhere special because he is not strong enough to face the truth that he is just decomposing into the same earth as millions of humans before him. […]

For someone pretty computer-literate, I can be unbelievably stupid sometimes…. Santa brought me a new 19″ widescreen monitor. I connected it and was all set to sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg, but Ubuntu picked it right up on boot and all I had to do was change the screen resolution. No problem, too easy. However, Santa also […]

B. is utterly convinced that if it pertains to computers or the internet in any way, I either did it, or if I didn’t, then I know about it and can fix it for him. On one hand, that could be annoying, but he has such absolute honest faith in my nerd-bilities that I have […]

P. brought in a section of the paper that had “Letters to Santa”, and they are printed exactly as they were written. A sad day for the future of the country. If you are savvy enough to write to Santa so your parents will think you still believe and buy what you want, and you’re […]

I wouldn’t exactly call Reddit a meeting place for the finest minds in the world, but occasionally, some wisdom can be found amongst the paulbots, [pic], [comic] and the faux-far-right trolls. This amused me to no end: conito: Will someone, ANYONE, please tell me what the difference is between the Democratic Party and the Republican […]

CheckGmail is a neat little tray icon application that allows you to see when you’ve got new messages in your Gmail account even if your browser is not open. How to install CheckGmail on Ubuntu 7.10: Start Synaptic, enter password. Enable Universe repos if they are not already enabled. Type “checkgmail” into search box. Right […]

Hehe. When I was a Win user, I used to check at GRC.com to make sure my computer was safe according to Steve Gibson, paranoiac in residence. I freaked out the first time I showed an open port and tightened my firewall security so that practically everything was blocked unless I specifically allowed it on […]

Sometimes, I’m so goddamned awesome that I scare myself. 🙂 Last night, someone who shall remain nameless (but lives in this house and knows how to use Linux) may have been drunk enough to accidentally upset half a bottle of Smirnoff Twisted V, “Pomegranate Fusion” on the desk, and a good percentage ran down into […]

I had forgot how crappy Windows is with memory management. Two gigs of RAM and it still can’t manage to run Photoshop, Firefox, WinRAR and Winamp without giving me enough time to go make a pot of coffee while an A4 PSD at 300 dpi saves! In Ubuntu, I can have a dozen windows open […]

This cat thing is soooo not working out. P., of course, loves the cat. I have Claritin and an inhaler, so I can tolerate the cat as far as allergies and asthma go (so far, at least), but the longer it’s here, the less I want it here. It is supposed to sleep on its […]