I am now running Ubuntu 9.10 with RAID0.

Can I just say…

It’s been nice knowing you Windows

Of all the rivers that meander through our lives
The ones with the greatest flow
Are also the deepest and darkest
To swim or not to swim?
Are you afraid?
Remember that the river is yours
And if you are lucky,
Someone will choose to swim it with you.
Also remember, that to not swim
Out of fear of the depths or darkness
Is to choose safety
And safety is a stagnant pond in the delta

Breathless is the embodied silence of our souls
Eager to scream
Yet bound by our outward existence
To shed the daily minutia
And to release ourselves to the ether
Is to truly live
Not within, but rather in spite of ourselves

How did it happen?

Where did I go?

I’ll tell you.  I enveloped myself in a relationship.  I thought I had all I ever wanted, so I lost my desire for anything else.  In my complacency I lost everything…and then I woke up.  Much too late to undo what had been already done.

I forgot how to be myself.

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Banks suck. They charge you 50 million dollars worth of overdraft fees out of courtesy. Yeah…since when does one PAY for courtesy. They say they allow charges after you’re overdrawn, again, out of courtesy. FUCK them. They do it because they can, and if truly wanted to protect their customers, they would protect them.

Anyway. Banks suck stinky ass.

Pink Floyd – Echoes

I could listen to this almost 24 minute song 3 times a day.  When it plays, the visuals I get are of alien beaches,  still clear lagoons, and aquatic night life.  It builds to the end with a slowly building sunrise that apexes at the moment the otherworldly sun breaks the horizon (Gilmour finally fulfilling our anticipation with his expert chops), then reprises itself, tempered with my now perceived day flavor.  Along the way are an aural narrative of the exploration of the depths, and a stop to listen to some very vocal life forms beneath the waves.

The lyrics are classic Floyd, and decorate the song competently, but it is the music that is the  star in the this tune.  If there is only one song that I say anyone must listen to, it would be this one.

Have you ever been so tired that silly doesn’t touch what you are? I’m way past dumb, miles past lucid, and consciousness is light years away. My brain is mad at me because it has to do stuff that’s not covered under Auto Pilot.

In fifteen minutes I am free to crash…can you hear me snoring yet?

locked in @ work today with no lunch so they bought us all pizza. Don’t mind that at all…BUT…we ended up getting Papa John’s.

Does anyone still like Papa John’s?

They used to be SO much better than they are now, but they then went the way of Domino’s. (Was Domino’s better back in the day too, or is it manufactured memory?).

Anyway, back to Papa John’s:

Their pizza sauce is too damned sweet. I mean it’s so sweet that they could use that and make candy pizza. It’s like 99.47% extra refined white sugar. So sweet that an ant crawled on my slice and promptly kicked over and died violently after getting within an inch of the crust. I’m talking so sweet that it could repel yellow jackets…permanently.

They’re not as good as they used be anyway, but making that sauce less sweet would go miles toward reclaiming some of their former goodness. I’m sticking to Nino’s…

Does anybody buy that dark roast coffee is made that way on purpose?  Seems to me that it went something like this…

“Hey Frank.  Whatta we gonna do with this batch of beans we scorched?”

To which Frank replied…

“You know what,  Johnny?  We’ll bag ‘em up and sell ‘em as  ‘dark roast’.  Whaddya think?”

Coffee is coffee.

It is either good or not.  Dark Roast just tastes burnt…period.

around lunchtime on Wednesday, the 21st of December 2005 by defkhan1

Based on a true story…that happened today…like an hour ago…for real…no, I mean it…

Once upon a time there was a simple white collar warrior who wanted nothing more than to have some bubbly potion or another to quench his thirst and invigorate his soul.  His back, injured in an earlier quest(See The Quest To Bring the Outside Tree To the Inside As a Pagan Tribute), was feeling a bit better, so this man took up his +70 Change of Buying and began the hike toward the town of Vendia Machinus.

When he reached the first crossroads, he was confronted with a multi-leveled lifting device.  He was familiar with these and proceeded to show the operator a single finger, choosing to get off at the first level above.  The device lifted him up, after a sudden lurch, and proceed to move up very slowly.  More slowly than normal, and our hero could not see how high he actually was for the protective chain curtain obscuring his view.

When the lift stopped and the curtain withdrew, he was amazed to find himself on the third level.  This was an inconvenience, he thought.  It is good that he knew an alternate route around the Officious Wood, down the mountain trail, and around the Halls of Eating, to Vendia Machinus.

His back wasn’t feeling better any more…in fact, he figured he would need to see the healer upon his return to his hobbicle.

When he got into the heart of Vendia Machinus, he approached the potion dealer and presented him with his Change of Buying.  The vendor guffawed.

“You must have the exact buff on your Change of Buying for me to sell you a potion.”

Our hero’s Change of Buying was +70…he required +65.  So back to his hobbicle he went, cursing the gods for his misfortune.  He consulted a mystic he knew and had his +70 Change of Buying changed into what he needed, with the excess to be applied for some future endeavour.  Again he left for Vendia, this time avoiding the Lift altogether and taking the mountain path.  He arrived in town again and approached the vendor.

” I have the exact Change of Buying you require.  May I purchase a Pepsican Refreshment Potion?”

“You may not.”

“Do you mock me, kind sir?”

“I do not”, the vendor replied,” I do not take Change of Buying in denominations of five.”

“And just why not!?!”, our hero fumes.

“Because.”

Rebuked once again, our hero makes his way back to Cubica, into his hobbicle, and consults a visiting friend, who happens also to be a mystic changer.  He gathers his newly acquired Change if Buying, now consisting of +25 and four +10’s, then angrily makes his way back to Vendia.

He approaches the vendor, confirms he has the correct denominations, and makes the purchase.  The Pepsican Refreshment Potion makes its way through the Chute of Deliverance and into the Basket of Grabbing Your Purchases From, and into our hero’s waiting hands…

Back to Cubica he goes, and to his humble hobbicle.  He sits down and breaks the seal on his refreshment.

“Life is about the journey.”, he thinks, whilst absorbing the day’s hardships with a gleam of comedic joy, his back aching from the journey.

At this he reels in horror.

He has actually gotten a Pepsican Refreshment Potion Flavored Liquer of Slimming!

After 20 years of reveling in the music of a particular band, I find myself not so enthused about them at present.  Something has shifted in my mentality, and I’m having trouble identifying it.  Sure I still like them, but it’s like they were a crutch…

It’s kind of unsettling.

Yey!

Finally…

As of Ubuntu 8.10, I can install it to my ‘fake’ RAID. I need to use a normal drive to host Grub, but not a bad situation.

Took their time to develop the key characters, which really paid off when the doo-doo flew. Armor was incredible and the effects were spectacular. The origin was updated from the classic story but in a very topical and believable way. As a long time reader of the comic, who knows the story line and characters very intimately, this was VERY well done. Kudos to Favreau and Downey for keeping it pretty darned faithful to the real deal. One or both of them must be an IM fan from way back…on top of everything else, the movie kept my attention throughout and was punctuated by an awesome score. Excitement reigned in the theater on Saturday afternoon…

ADDENDUM: Iron Man 2 now slated for 4/30/2010!

Pretty Slick!

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