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links for 2008-06-30
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They really do need to make a clean break. It would be ballsy to do, but as Stross notes, virtualization has come a long way baby.
Mon 30 Jun 2008
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Sat 28 Jun 2008
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Hmmm.
Fri 27 Jun 2008
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I, too, am still learning to be myself.
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Anil’s exactly right. I’m an Apple fan, but does the Steve do this kind of work?
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Besides, Andrew has already written a song about me, but hasn’t recorded and released it. And that was a very … very … weird experience.
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Dink.
Thu 26 Jun 2008
Wed 25 Jun 2008
Three Weeks Without Music at Home Has Sucked
I am so thankful for hard drives that work. 
Three weeks ago tonight, my 500GB miniStack V3 started screeching something awful—clearly beginning its death throes. I ran a quick Time Machine backup, said a prayer, and hoped it would hold together until the backup finished. It did, and as soon as it was done, I pulled the drive out of service and filed an RMA request with Other World Computing, the vendor I’d bought the drive from. I got them the drive off via UPS that Saturday [it was a crazy, crazy week], and I had the replacement drive last Monday.
Except, 111GB into a 305GB file transfer, the replacement drive woke me out of a dead sleep [it had been an even longer week prior, running almost 70 hours in seven days' time]. The new drive was, too, dead. I returned it the next day, and the drive got there on Friday. Monday, my replacement shipped. It arrived today.
Anyhow, I saw that it was at the house a little before three this afternoon, so I took my “lunch” break [one of those days; I was up at 0400, so I'm fading fast now], came home, and put it into service. I was a bit surprised when the drive mounted … already labeled like I wanted, with my data on the drive. “THOSE BASTARDS!” was my first mental thought, but then I read the packing slip. Bad fan in the casing. Ahh. Makes sense, especially for a new-out-of-the-box drive, y’know?
Anyhow, seven hours later, with 305GB moved, I’ve now got tunes again. Wilco’s “Impossible Germany” has never sounded so sweet.
Predictably, this HDD failure came less than ten days after I finished getting all the music off of my old machine. The only backup I had was the Time Machine backup. I’d never really tried TM before this event, and I must say … I’m reasonably impressed. The UI is still a little non-intuitive for me, but that might be because I spend half my day on a PC and sometimes think like a PC guy even on a Mac. Either way, it works. That said, you can imagine that I’m going to get another 500GB HDD ASAP and use SuperDuper! on it. Not having my tunes has been like lopping an arm off, especially with all that’s happened in the last three weeks.
links for 2008-06-25
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This is bad-ass.
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I never thought I’d see the day, a decade ago, when I agreed with Robert Reich, but he’s spot on.
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Daniel Jalkut is exactly right: “A real security improvement would be bottlenecking all access to the blog’s vital authorized content, and making sure that the remote APIs and the web interface all go through the same interface.”
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Go watch the video that Stephen embedded. Best 8:15 of your day. Promise.
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Len Bias has been dead as long as he was alive.
Tue 24 Jun 2008
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Vaya con Dios, George.
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As soon as Craig Hockenberry tweeted about this, I knew that it would be on DIME before noon on Tuesday. Well, try 18 hours before that.
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I’m giddy.
Mon 23 Jun 2008
Under Fire
I awoke this morning ready to kick ass. Less than an hour later, I was having my ass kicked by some stomach bug. I’ve just about decided that it was something that I ate, but as I was running a low-grade fever this morning, I decided not to pass this on to my co-workers.
When I decided that I could safely leave the house for longer than a half-hour, I headed to my local Books-A-Million and returned to a pulp fiction favorite of my youth: W.E.B. Griffin. Griffin is no master of detail—characters’ names and linguistic abilities change [most notably in The Corps series], personalities don’t always seem to line up—but yet his characterizations are always interesting, and the prose lends itself to being swiftly read. To wit: where I have certainly fallen out of the habit of reading books for long stretches in the last five years, I pounded 400 pages today like it was nobody’s business.
If you’ll excuse me, I have a book to finish …
Sun 22 Jun 2008
Paul and KG Talk Title
I think my favorite bit is about 10 minutes into the interview, when Rachel Nichols asked about how the experts underestimated the Celtics coming into the series, and … the pause is punctuated by under-the-breath chuckling. I love it.
17.
links for 2008-06-22
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… because I’m still 12.
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TBP is pretty well awesome, and this is a great interview by Andy. It’s obvious that this was either done over the phone or with multiple emails, not just one email interview that feels wooden like so much trip on the Web.
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Might play around with this for a design rolling around in my head. But that design has been rolling around for years.
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Merges the two. Nifty
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I am now resisting the temptation to drive straight over there and nuzzle Liza for an hour.
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Good times.
Fri 20 Jun 2008
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I love that tag.
Thu 19 Jun 2008
Top Ten Movies
Well, since Jeff called me out like a punk, I better go through with it. It’s not like I’ve been writing about much lately anyway. [Besides, I get to break out Jeff's favorite tag!]
The rules of the “game” are simple:
- list your top ten favorite films (in no particular order).
- if you’re tagged, you’ve got to post and tag 3-5 other people.
- give a tag back (some link love) to the one who tagged you in your post
- give a hat tip (HT) to Dan
I’ll follow those, except somehow along the way, Dan lost the linklove. Sorry, dude. Since these are in no particular order, I won’t use an ordered list. That saves me brain cycles on ordering them…
- Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back: Yes, they are defining movies of my generation, even if the first one came out before I was born. I don’t include RotJ because I hate Ewoks, and the first three … well, the problem is the same: letting Lucas write dialogue is like letting me plan an exercise regimen.
- The Big Lebowski. I adore introducing this farcical romp of mistaken identity to people. Goes better with a good Caucasian, and I mix a hell of a Caucasian, Jackie. And yes, because I am a large, bearded man, I often get pushed into role-playing Walter. Eight year olds, Dude.
- Primer. I’ll go off the board here with a movie I’ve seen only once, but have probably replayed in my head a number of times. It absolutely blew my fuckin’ mind when I saw it.
- Clerks. So recently, a friend called this “a whiny bitch movie”. And, well, yes. It’s crude and hilarious, but it’s also pretty ingenious. Well, for a buddy movie shot in black and white that involves playing roller hockey on the roof of convenience store. This movie, of course, made Kevin Smith’s career. Thankfully, it was the first of his films that I saw.
- Arma … okay, no, I couldn’t finish typing it. Seriously, this is a fun movie to watch with me ONLY IF YOU LIKE TO LISTEN TO ME YELL AT THE TV AND THROW STUFF AROUND THE ROOM. Ahem. [I'm a killjoy.]
- Swingers. Right up there with Lebowski, a movie I can pop in at any time and always feel better afterward. When I thought yesterday that I’d be driving to Houston last night, I said, “I can be to Houston by midnight. Hell, I’ll be up five hundy by midnight!” Too bad no one in the room got it.
- Miracle, for two reasons: the agonizing “AGAIN! [whistle]” scene, which is totally legit, and … well, beating the fucking Soviets. Okay, a third reason: Kurt Russell’s son plays hockey for my alma mater, and not yours. Chumps.
- Apollo XIII. Um, hi. I work in manned spaceflight, and this movie makes heroes out of engineers. Not all of my days are as exciting as the “We’ve got to make this fit into this using this” scene, but some days, it feels like that. Without, you know, the deadline and the risk of people dying if we keep on fucking around.
- High Fidelity. Let’s just say that I watched it last week and lived it starting Sunday. Well, not really. But I did consider autobiographically organizing my CD collection. [I'm okay, though. Really.] Admission: if I were independently wealthy, I would buy a big, old downtown building and put a coffeehouse/bar, record store, and music venue in it. I would also hire John Cusack to manage it and smoke a lot of cigarettes.
- Shawshank Redemption. If you have to ask why, you clearly have not watched the movie, and … well, you should. Mind you, this comes from someone who really doesn’t watch movies that often.
- 2001: A Space Odyssey. Ending with Kubrick is always a great choice. Stunningly beautiful, hauntingly weird, terribly quotable, and spot-on. Well, other than the fact that we’re seven years past that and still fucking around in low Earth orbit.
Okay, since I have to have a list of victims …
- Kari
- Amy
- Stephen and Misty, since we watch movies together.
- Alex, because he’ll be pissed at me for calling him out.
links for 2008-06-19
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ABSOLUTELY HILARIOUS. I love Stewart.
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This is the kind of distributor article that rocks—provides info, doesn’t dumb stuff down, and gives the customer price points. If I had money to blow on one, I’d be buying today.
Wed 18 Jun 2008
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I’m good with naps.
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“Yes, AT&T told us that those corporate e-mail features are intended for business users, which we took to mean you’ll need to pay the extra $15 a month for the corporate data plan over the regular data plan.” Guess I won’t hook my iPhone in to work.
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“On Tuesday, UAH President Dr. David Williams said he plans to request tution hikes of 14 percent for in-state students and 19 percent for out-of-state students. He is also proposing to eliminate 15 faculty and 28 staff positions to save money.” OUCH.
Tue 17 Jun 2008
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SOMEONE had to make that comment. Glad it could be me!
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I’m … incredulous.
Mon 16 Jun 2008
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My name is Geof, and I like to bust Alex’s balls.
Sun 15 Jun 2008
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HEE HEE HEE HEE HEEEEEEE!
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Dear Cuomo: Fuck off. What are you doing, trying to become a Republican?!