Why people are stupid. From every entomologist and exterminator, and this particular statement officially from the University of Florida IFAS Extension (and being a giant fucking swamp, Florida knows mosquitoes!) What About Devices That Emit Sound To Repel Mosquitoes? There is no evidence that wearing devices that emit sound will repel mosquitoes. “No evidence” doesn’t […]

I came across a site that had images designed to help artists render accurate drawings of various ethnic types. Simply putting narrowed eyes on a Caucasian face doesn’t make it look Asian, so these drawings listed characteristics of different types. I looked at all of them, and of course I was curious as to what […]

I normally think that internet memes are either utterly stupid, or somewhat amusing. For reasons I still don’t understand (I think it might be the tolerance of the animal and the “I see what you did there” expression at the end), Keyboard Cat amuses the living hell out of me. He began as “cool cat” […]

I fucked it up somehow when I was transferring old /home files to new /home (none of them was actually .dmrc), and tried the chmod that had worked way back when that was an Ubuntu issue and not a Lisa-broke-it issue, but to no avail. Renaming it, then later deleting it in an attempt to […]

I learned today how to say “twelve months” in Estonian. It’s spelt “kaksteist kuud”, and sounds like… Hahaha! My juvenile sense of humour loves the internet!

So far, I don’t actually hate the new notification system as some people do, but if I decide at some point in time that I do…. gconftool -s –type bool /apps/update-notifier/auto_launch false Do not try to “fix” a wifi connection when you’re as tired as I was this afternoon. My connection dropped out of the […]