Some incipient mild panic at the relocated Penguin Villa. Ran some diagnostics on Squishy Llama and found out that the hard drive that has the system partition on it is going to fail soon. Happily (?) she uses ATA drives, so a replacement shouldn't be TOO hard to find. And I found a cloning tool, so relocating the system files shouldn't be too ( Read more... )

Three years since my last meltdown. Given the environment I inhabit and a set of events that have occurred over the last two weeks or so, another one seems likely shortly.

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An interesting extract from a book published in 2004, before Second Life and its bretheren came along. It's description of 'hybrid cyberspace' sounds exactly like SL, but it also suggests that there might be other ways of looking at and interacting with virtuality. In particular, the description of 'hypervirtuality' is intriguing... though how ( Read more... )

I have to make one tomorrow, returning a call from Canadian National Railways. If it goes well I'll have had yet another complete change of direction in my life, a whole new project that will keep me massively occupied and loaded with new responsibilities for... years, probably.

That's a lot to burden one poor li'l phone call with, innit?


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Tornado touches down in Yonkers causing extensive damage
YONKERS?

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Been puppy-sitting this week. Not the best time I've had recently.


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After a decent enough day yesterday*, today has been, well, blech. Hot and humid outside. Sunburned so bad at the track I look like a minor demon, and even a few seconds' exposure to the UV out-of-doors hurts like a sumbitch. My feet hurt cuz I walked the length of the pits at least a dozen times, in my hard sandals, and my arms hurt from having to ( Read more... )

I shouldn't find this funny, but it is.


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Extended my dry-stone wall in the garden before it got too hot this morning. Burned soem George Carlin albums to CD. Did the mail and shopping walk. Looked up engine data on the Max Wedge. Answered some messages. Watched a bit of TV. Played a pile of Same-X games ( Read more... )

Taking a break from the hot sun, so I might as well waste soem bandwidth here...

My big job for today was getting the Farmall Cub up and running. (For those who haven't seen it, it looks like this - this one isn't ours but it's very close.)

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