Been a while, so here's a cocktail of frivolity and unsubtly masked maudlin sentiment. I'm going to be just slightly obnoxiously gimmicky about this, too ( Read more... )

hollower is predisposed to greatly disliking an upcoming film, news at 11.

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(A few weeks of Linux and I already find using mum's laptop a vexing experience. How the hell did that manage to happen? I wouldn't have thought that the difference is that noticeable after only a month of using Kubuntu. It just feels more comfortable than XP, even if my pitiable Linux knowhow has only improved a mere fraction ( Read more... )

It's aliiiive! I got the wireless working! On my last day here in this Internetless wasteland, how hellaciously appropriate. ( Read more... )

Nefarious things are afoot in this sleepy (read: very fucking dull) little northern village. Evil Logging Corporation Metsähallitus (the Finnish state forestry enterprise) is cutting down old forests in our county and it's got people riled up, among those my father. Today there even was a demonstration, probably a first one for my parents. I'm on ( Read more... )

I suspect I might be coming down with a case of holiday cheer. Well, maybe not actual cheer, let's not get crazy here, but I'm feeling good. The train trip to Muonio was awful, but in the grand scheme of things it was fairly inconsequential, so it didn't manage to sully my mood. Nothing all that grand about my schemes, but friends = good and ( Read more... )