Most of the networks around my house are called "Relix," and I can't really remember where that came from. I remember Pete or Javi mentioning it at one point, but I'm not sure if they made it up or stole it from somewhere else. The point is, it's largely meaningless...
I'm taking a political science course right now. We watch a lot of films in this class. The current topic is the history of power in the middle east, and the unwitting struggles that major world powers get into over ridiculous local squabbles. Lebanon in 1983 is a fantastic example....
At Mouser's quasi-suggestion, I reworked this image. OK....
I know for a fact that this car is driven daily to-and-from an apartment building around a mile away from campus. Hit the image for a close-up. HOW DO THEY DO IT???...
Aleph is in a rowdy mood today. First, he unrolled half of a roll of toilet paper. Then, he spilled dirt all over Ken's desk. What a little butt. I gave him a stern talking to (rerolling paper towel tubes isn't the kind of thing I'd like to be doing...
One of the words for "attorney" in French can also mean, "avocado." Avocat (m). L'avocat n'est pas tres savoureux....
I don't, in general, trust incremental updates of anything. It's not that they're inherently inreliable—because they're not—it's just that because it's difficult to prove the correctness of operations performed on undefined existing data, most people don't bother. It's a good deal easier, for example, to get full updates correct because...
I'm having trouble with vowels this morning. When I typed the word, "other" in the title above, it first came out as, "athor." And then, the word, "when" came out as, "whon." Anyway. One of my CS professors was ill yesterday. He sent an email to one of his classes,...
14 And lo, Hosea came down from the mount 15and spake the word of the Lord: 16Be all good who look upon me with a respectful gaze, and always remember to use the fucking spellchecker. I was looking for phoon shots earlier. Don't ask why. I did, however, run across...
This is my 200th post. Mini-party in honor of the numbers 2, 0, and the number 0. I have a problem with pants. "Why," you must be saying to yoursel(f|ves), "that explains the misdemeanor charges." And to that I say that Senator Hutchinson (R-TX) needs to learn a thing or...
Aleph's hind leg markings look an awful lot like BMW Z8 taillights. The funny thing is that I've been waiting for a week to take a picture of my cat's ass....
I have three things to note:I noticed a Wal*Manager using a (gasp) digital camera to take a picture inside Wal*Metropolis earlier. He was shooting a carton of fuel additive that was perched on top of an 8' shelf. His comment was, "that's not safe." Presumably, his powers of digital photography...
My friend Vik is headed to Europe for the summer. He asked for some pointers, and instead of dumping them into the IRC window, I figured I'd post them here. There are a lot of things here that are pretty high on the, "duh" scale, but it's impossible to know...
Aleph has a new friend. Earlier tonight, we had a crane fly find its way into the house. Aleph spotted it around 30 minutes ago and has been chasing it ever since. I'm surprised he hasn't killed the damn thing so far—he seems most interested in chasing it and swatting...
Yay, more painting fun. I'm sure you're all sick of hearing about this. I got started around 10am, because it's the weekend and I can be a lazy ass sometimes. Anyway, it was partly cloudy (around 5/8 coverage1) but I figured I had enough time to mask the car, paint,...
I'm trying to watch Citizen Kane on my computer right now. Unfortunately, it keeps freezing. Twice so far. Fuck this, I'm going to sleep....
In response to Monday's bromine spill, the SFS class was moved to Denny's. Thankfully, the EDC was on hand to cover the action....
This is probably the highest comment-to-post length ratio I've ever pulled off. We're talking around 100:1 here. P.S. The title of this post came from a letter by Bob Jones, III (president of Bob Jones University) to the Right Honorable Mr. President George W. (W is for "white") Bush, just...
I just got back from Wal*Maracas. I was buying more tape and plastic masking for the car, and litter for Aleph. On the way to the cashier, I debated using the self-checkout. No, I figured—I wouldn't. There's no reason to get involved in that whole mess1. Anyway, I got into...
More car painting fun. And yes, that's a draft copy of my EE334 homework....
+/- 1 day. Results courtesy of Gallup Polls. I have to admit that I'm much less excited about graduating than I am about actually starting work. I guess I don't really see my academic involvement ending for a very long time, and graduation doesn't really indicate anything other than the...
I bought some Half & Half the other day. For coffee. The thing that I noticed was that the little cap thing got in the way of the ink delivery system, and part of the expiration date got printed on it. I can only think of three ways this would...
...is the name of that goofy evacuation hood thing for sale in the duty-free catalogs on airliners. Hours of entertainment, right there. Anyway. Last night, at around 6:50pm, I went to campus for my political science class. Much to my surprise, they were evacuating at least five buildings. Apparantely, a...
I'm taking a speech class. We've covered this before. The upcoming assignment is to give a 10–12 minute informative speech with visual aids. Since I gave a seminar on how to buy a car last semester for the car club, I figured it would be easy to rewrite it into...
I call this part of campus, "broken Saturn alley."...
Behold, more sanding! I'm nearly done with the sanding—but not entirely. I've decided to take all of the smaller chips out of the hood, which is probably a good idea, but not completely necessary. I get the impression that in a few years, I'll be happy that I took an...
I've had the same IP since exactly ten days after the hail storm: October 15, 2004. 63.227.105.11 has served me well. My router has rebooted numerous times since then, but it always grabs the same IP back from the pool. Hurrah for DHCP. But this morning everything seemed to flub...
MST3K: Space Travellers was just on the TV. Episode 0401. I really missed most of the movie because I was doing my taxes. But, what pieces of this movie I caught, seemed to be very Apollo-13-esque. Hint: it's all about NASA, rockets, space, three guys, and running out of oxygen....
I mean, taxes! I paid my taxes years ago, and the government keeps sending me the forms! Two consecutive jokes sortof take the fun out of it all. I just finished my taxes, for both the estado de Nuevo México as well as the federales. Every year up until now,...
I own a Pentax Optio S camera. Here's a picture that I ripped off of images-eu.amazon.com: So what's the occasion for the celebration? I just took my 5000th picture with this camera1. Here it is, in all its glory: Aleph, Aleph, Aleph. When will you learn not to sleep like...
I mentioned previously that my file server drives were b0rking up from time to time. I'm fairly sure it's heat related. On Tuesday, when the gods let loose their fluffy white load all over the Grand State of New Mexico, the temperature in my house dropped a good ten degrees...
...by Fyodor Dogstoevsky. Boy, was that ever terrible. Remind me to never use puns, ever. I've got two things to note.I've started using a spray bottle on Aleph when he does something that could potentially get him in physical harm: such as climbing in the fridge (where he could get...
In lieu of actual content, here's Another Aleph Clip Show Post. Today's topic: Aleph being a nerd....
Only 60 days left until graduation. I could have any number of things, such as having a rebate processed, in that amount of time....
What the hell? This last weekend, it hit (at the very least, according to NOAA) 72 degrees here in sunny socorro. Today, however, it snowed. A lot. Compare: The first shot was taken on Saturday, while I was weeding. The second was taken today at around 10am. And yes, I...
Rob told me that I needed to watch City of God a long time ago. It's taken me until now to get around to it, and I'm really wishing I hadn't waited so long to actually do so. This film is probably one of the best I've seen in the...
I need to drink less. A bottle of wine, and I'm giggling uncontrollably at MST3K. Maybe it has to do with the MST3K. Maybe it doesn't....
MST3K: Colossus and the Headhunters is on the TV. Episode 0605. Looks promising. Choice quote: "Oh man, Hasslehoff can't suck it in like this guy!"...
I ran across this today at lifehacker: Typing in a site's 2LD (like, "amazon" for "www.amazon.com") and pressing Ctrl-enter will automatically wrap the name with www. and .com and launch the page for you. Hot. Way hot. This is saving me a lot of keystrokes in the future....
MST3K: Girls Town (ep. 0601) is on. It seems odd to see Girls Town without an apostrophe in it, but I guess that's the way it goes. I'll weigh in when it's done. It's done. Commence weighing. Consistently good, but lots of jokes that refer back to older jokes. A...
I picked up some more cat toys for Aleph today at Wal*Transnationalmegacorp because A) cat toys are cheap, and B) maybe this will keep him from eating my feet every time I walk down the hallway. I got him some more hypercheap fluffy-things-with-a-hint-of-catnip because he seemed to like this before....
...has a dead filament. Really. We have two incandescent (i.e., cheap non-halogen) torchiererere lamps in the living room. They're three-way lamps with a low-intensity and a high-intensity filament in each. Calling them three-way lamps is sortof a lie, because they really have four settings. Whatever. Anyway, the low-intensity filament has...
Hooray for spring and the opportunities I have to work on cars! Today I pulled the door card out of the Scirocco again so I could fix the door latch, again. Here's the background: When I bought the car, neither of the door latches worked very well. In particular, one...
I've got car painting on the brain and it looks like it's going to rain outside. So instead, I'll quickly discuss the first car I painted and why I don't get excited about sanding cars...not that I ever did, really. The first I car I painted was my 1991 Eagle...
MST3K: The Human Duplicators is on the TV right at this moment. I actually haven't been watching this very closely because I've been writing my car-sanding ultramegamegapost. In fact, I had forgotten what the title was and then was surprised when I found out what it was. Human Duplicators? There...
But I've just sanded and painted another car. Not the entire car, but really any automotive painting is a giant pain in the ass, and it's something I'd just as soon avoid. At some point, I'll discuss what it took to paint my Talon in 1998 and 1999, and why...
So I've been running into some serious problems with earl, my fileserver. When I'm trying to read big batches of files at once (in particular, when copying off MP3s or doing mass resizings on image galleries), my whole system will lock up for a good five to ten minutes. The...
Last night was the first night that I was the only one around the house. And since Aleph was being an assbasket last night (lots of biting and scratching ... and he was trying to climb the screens earlier) I left him to sleep in the living room. This morning...
Spring break. Woo. Everyone seems to have split town, which means I'll have a ton of time to catch up on work. And probably spend a ton of time at the Wikies, but whatever. Excitement!...
Remember my comment about graphs without axes? My CS prof was so pissed that he spent a good five minutes discussing why graduate students (this was in a graduate course, by the way) needed to know that graphs need axes. You really should know how to do this by the...
I just sat through the best CS lecture of all time. It involved recovery of database systems, and thus, there was a good deal of discussion about dumps and logs. Dumps, especially large dumps, can often be very involved. This is especially true when there are alot of transactions during...
I've got a ton of pictures of Aleph sleeping in weird positions. I've included some duplicate poses because he's really grown over the last seven weeks. I'm not sure why this breaks all the layout, though. Guh. Figured it out: errant newlines in the table were converted into <br />s....
More pictures! I figured I'd post this too, because it's one of the sweetest airplanes I've ever flown. It's the Diamond Katana, and it's essentially a glider that's been converted into a plane. Actually, that's a lie—motor gliders are gliders with engines, whereas the Katana is an airplane that's been...
...because I couldn't think of a good title. So my attention has strayed back into flying again, because I can't seem to concentrate on one given thing for more than an hour or so. Really, though, you should see the stacks of different projects I've got. I'll be wandering back...
My house has been consistently clean for the entire last week. Color me content....
Will called me around 30 minutes ago. "You know the ditch