I just unsubscribed from a Rosicrucian mailing list after a week, in large part because its denizens relentlessly top-post and fail to trim quoted text when replying -- even if they're replying to a thirty-message digest.

I am reasonably sure that the true representatives of Frater CRC will exhibit much better netiquette when I find them.

An errant spy satellite is due to re-enter soon; it's big enough and has components tough enough for parts of it to hit the surface, and contains toxic chemicals. So apparently the Navy is planning to blow it up with a missile.  I find it amusing that the story's headline says that the satellite will be "shot down".  No, it's already coming down, ( Read more... )

It was a busy weekend.

Saturday, I attended an excellent "Psychology of Initiation" workshop at LVX Lodge.  The best moment came as we were discussing the behavior of repressed individuals, those incapable of expressing some aspect of their personalities.  An attendee asked, "What is the opposite of that called, where people dump personal details on ( Read more... )

I was feeling glum and tired on the bus to work this morning, listening to random music on my mp3 player and not liking anything I heard.  Then it played the live version of "The Song Remains the Same" by Zep, and suddenly I was smiling, tapping my foot, and struggling not to sing out loud on a crowded bus.  It's amazing what the right music at the ( Read more... )

I could have saved a lot of typing in my last post by just linking to today's xkcd comic.

I had a relatively calm and happy four-day weekend.  It started well with a pleasant Thanksgiving dinner at
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Fresh off the AP wire:  Student Slain to Death Near U of Chicago.  I didn't realize the writers' strike included journalists.

I'm having a good time scientifically tracking down what's hanging my home computer.  It's been a classic "divide the problem space" exercise.  It happens in XP but not Ubuntu, so it's not the hardware.  It happens when ( Read more... )

So now that I have my networking problems solved, I stayed up way too late playing with Ubuntu Linux last night.  So far, I love it.  I'm a Unix guy from way back, and have used plenty of Linux servers in my day job, so I already know most of what I need to know about the system; this allowed me to concentrate on playing with cool toys. :)

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I still haven't replaced the Linksys WUSB300N wireless network device that (a) doesn't work at all with Ubuntu and (b) periodically locks up XP. 
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