After some slight frustration with Firefox playing Flash video sound in Dapper Drake (and a two step fix I found after I was politely instructed to JFGI), I sat back and enjoyed this lovely piece of animation: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5503582578132361295. I think everyone will agree that it's much more effective with working sound ( Read more... )

I could be posting this entry from my couch. Or from my deck. From my attic or my bathroom. I'm not, but I could be. Why, then, do I comment? Because:

I have working wireless on quixote!

I love linux. Even though I was originally very crestfallen to learn that the wireless card was going to be a huge pain, I knew that if I just sat back and waited a ( Read more... )

Well, the LUG meeting went fairly well. I talked a lot, and still rushed some of it. I made some errs in some of the technical stuff, but I feel I made up for it with some interesting points on Linux in developing countries and Linux and the SCO and etc. I talked fast. Then, I always talked fast. At any rate, there were some new people, and they ( Read more... )

As it turns out, my eyes were only really dry, so they became a bit inflamed under the upper eyelids. It's weird, because they weren't itchy or red or burning, but rather just sore, like a bruise. I got some eye drops to put in every hour on the hour ( Read more... )

So much has happened since I got home. I don't want to post about it all, because it will be really long, so I'll try and hit the highlights ( Read more... )

Here's what I've learned ( Read more... )

I just did the stupidest fscking thing ever. Essentially, I deleted the architecture that links each of the directories together in my computer. I did this willfully, because I was stupid enough to a) trust a person known to be cruel who was in a pissy mood who I annoyed even more with my stupid questions, and b) type a command into my computer ( Read more... )

Wow, my first year of college, overwith. It blew by, like I suppose time always does when you're not watching. I enjoyed it very much, and am happy with where I am right now, and where I'm headed. Specifically, to two herping internships - this is gonna rock ( Read more... )