I submit this log for your enjoyment, despite the fact that it admits my still newbish status in the land of the penguins. Enjoy:

( Cut because IRC can be a scary scary place )

So today, Paul IMs me:
Paul: what happened to Linux? It got.... cool.
Amy: ...I started using it six years ago, and it finally caught up to me. :-P
Amy: Install 10.4, did you? ubuntu or kubuntu?
Paul: Ubuntu

Then I quote this at my friend jport on the IRC. After doing so, he and I have this exchange:
DeathKitten: hmm, I probably should leave a cat5 ( Read more... )

Somewhere within the last week or so, I found out that John Barrowman had recorded his delightful filk song, The Doctor and I in a studio and released it on an album. So I went searching for it. The only trouble was, it appears to have been an iTunes exclusive track. Grr. At any rate, while searching, I made a swing through Amazon, and Amazon ( Read more... )

Poll Guilty Splurges for the New Job
* This one appears that it would require waiting for them to restock, but I like it enough to keep it in the running despite this.

** In plum, if the color would affect your vote.

I recently tossed up about a year's worth more of entires into Diziara's journal I've been working with as the primary background for the character. We're closing in on Trav's death, and while I've actually written the scene of his death, it doesn't feel like it's truly final until I commit it to the journal and move the pre-writing file over to ( Read more... )

I've noticed lately that I've been reading the weirdest mix of articles and blog entries to the end, but closing, or bookmarking and forgetting, many other articles that seem like they should be of use or interesting to read. This really grabbed my attention last night when I noticed that two tabs I'd left open in Firefox since Friday involving ( Read more... )

So very true.

I originally posted this on KubuntuForums.net, but I felt that I put enough long winded effort and I have little enough overlap between there and here that I would repost this here in hopes of opening dialog with some of you who read my journal.

The last few days, I've been watching things pop up on the various syndication feeds and news sites I ( Read more... )

I am sitting at the dealership, and they're poking away at my car right now. The problem they thought that was leading to my cooling fan not coming on turned out to be not the issue, but luckily they had the part needed to replace what really was the issue. The good news is that they have wifi, so I've been able to entertain myself while waiting ( Read more... )

For some reason that I am completely and utterly perplexed and unable to understand, I have somehow ended up on the mailing list for Mid Ohio Con. I do not live in or near Ohio, I do not recall doing anything that would put me on the mailing list for such a convention, yet for some reason I've been receiving emails about their convention like ( Read more... )