Recently…
…bought: Marumari: Supermogadon
…seen: Lilo & Stitch
…done: shaved my head
…asked: “Is he poopy?”
…said: “He’s poopy.”
…wondered: why people are mean
…dreamed: that I moved to Portland
…thought: Ari is quite pretty
…learned: how to prevent swimmer’s ear.

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Did you know that you can change the words of the Koyaanisqatsi theme song to, “My name is Potsie”? Try it the next time you watch that movie or listen to that song - in your deepest voice, sing: “My name is Potsie.” Ari taught me that. It’s fun. Plus it’s a nice little homage […]

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Well, I did it. I got my home network working. I can now telnet and ftp from my iMac to the Linux box. And although the permissions on the html directory are currently wrong, I’ve at least got the Apache server up and running. And you know what? If I’d read the directions, I would […]

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Going against my better judgment, I’m bringing up something that I’ve recently discovered bugs Ari. For some reason, I’ve fallen into the habit of calling Gabriel all kinds of silly names. When he’s goofy or smiley, I call him “Smiley McGillicutty.” When he’s squirmy, I call him “Squirmy McGillicutty.” Basically, I just call him the […]

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I just read in the July 2002 issue of Linux Journal that Star Wars II: Attack of the Clones “was Industrial Light and Magic’s first movie produced after converting its workstations and renderfarm to Linux.”
So. If ILM uses Linux and they rock the world with their special effects, then that means that since I now […]

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Thanks to Kevin and Jessamyn, I’ve finally accepted my destiny: I upgraded to Red Hat 6.2 last night and lo and behold I didn’t even need to install the driver that was giving me so much trouble earlier because the upgrade automatically recognized my ethernet card. However, now I’m getting an INVALID CHECKSUM error when […]

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I knew when I started tinkering with Linux that I was getting in way over my head. I never pretended that I had any inkling what I was doing.
But the fact that I can’t install a simple network driver is giving me gray hair. I have a Pentium with a 3Com 3C905C-TX-M Etherlink 10/100 PCI. […]

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Apparently, that’s not a question homophobes ask before beating the shit out of you. Case in point. In brief, a couple years ago, an old friend of mine from Albuquerque was at a conference in Memphis when he was beaten, robbed, and stuffed in the trunk of his rental car where he remained for 6 […]

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Okay, so Babylon wasn’t built in a day. Fine, whatever.
It was easy enough to delete Windows 95 from that donated box. Somehow, though, I got the bright idea to delete the command.com file from MS-DOS and well that screwed everything up (what was I thinking?). I spent the better part of my night trying to […]

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I’m totally about to geek out. I can feel the geekitude levels rising in my body. And you know what? I kinda like it. It feels kinda sexy. A friend from work just gave me an old 586 PC. Another friend at work just gave me a copy of Red Hat. (How freakin lucky am […]

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