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Far too much fun.
A fan of the web comic Achewood has created a web site dedicated to the Great Outdoor Fight. What’s really keen is that he’s set it up as a Wiki, and is allowing reader contributions. I’ve already added histories for a couple of fighters… It’s a fun writing exercise to play in someone else’s sandbox like this.
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The Opposite of Phrenology
Here’s a reminder for those of you who haven’t figured out that Friday is New Comic Day:
Friday is New Comic Day.
Darn fine show!
Caught the Ann Arbor Film Fest earlier tonight with my Wife and one of her college buds. Really good selection of films in this batch: nothing too migraine inducing, and even those that were kind of strangely experimental were still quite good.
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Holy crap. That’s a lot of wax.
Last August, I posted something about a site with a bunch of old 78 RPM records all cleaned up and available for download. Turns out that there’s a monstrously huge library of old Edison wax cylinder records all downloadble from the University of California, Santa Barbara Library. Very very neat.
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Tagged Audio
St. Paddy’s Day Comic!
A little something to commemorate the hazards of long distance travel.
Fried up stir
Cooked up stir-fry tonight with some wonderful sweet Yakatori soy sauce that my folks got us for Christmas. It was part of a collection of Japanese stuff they got at an auction. It’s really, really tasty.. And unfortunately it’s not going to be easy to get any more of it.
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It Lives!
Ok, the DBD::MySQL problem that’s been vexing me for about a week is taken care of. I had to reinstall the entire MySQL system from binary packages to do it, but it all works now.
For you non-computer types out there, installing from binaries after trying to build a program from source is sort of the equivalent of having some engine trouble, trying to fix it yourself, and then buying a new car that looks almost exactly like your old one rather than dealing with the smoking heap of twisted wreckage that your inept wrenchwork created.
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Tagged Technical Notes
If you have flash…
This game will eat your afternoon.
Steer by pointing with your mouse. Accelerate by holding down the button. Glowing blue protozoa will make you float up, glowing red ones will pull you down.
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Tagged Games & Gaming
tar -xzvf
tar -xzvf
tar -xzvf
I’m putting this up here because, frankly, I seem to be something of an idiot and can never remember that tar -xzvf is used to eXtract a Zipped File, Verbosely.
If this doesn’t make any sense to you, don’t worry. It’s just something bothering me.
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