Everything I used to bore people on newsgroups and mailing lists with, now in one inconvenient place.
…the appeal of J-Pop bands like Shonen Knife? Looked at objectively, it appears they sing the most cloying and inane pop lyrics known to man, and combine it with that English as a second language vibe and accents. Oh, and they’ve not very good playing thier instruments either. So what’s the appeal?
And I should point out, I’m not asking why other people listen to it, I’m asking why I keep finding myself compelled to listen to it?
I think I need a 4 hour Pogues marathon to get my edge back.
In the middle of a media-fueled hyped up scare about people pointing lasers at the cockpits of planes and the danger to the pilots and the flights, NORAD announced a new security system WHICH INVOLVES SHINING LASERS AT THE COCKPITS OF PLANES!
Furrfu.
I booted with the Western Digital Diagnostics floppy that I keep handy, and when I did a quick scan it said it found a problem and asked me if I wanted it to fix it. I did. Then I did the full scan, and it didn’t find any problems. So I booted into Linux single user mode. Couldn’t figure out how to fsck the drives that way, so I booted with the rescue disk. It wouldn’t let me unmount the drives that way, so I booted back into single user mode so I could do a “shutdown -rF now”, which forced it to do a fsck when it booted again. It didn’t find any problems. So now I’m continuing to run my backup process every two hours, and keeping an eye on it. 36 hours later, still no more disk errors.
After today’s “State of the Project” meeting, I was looking for a sentence to describe it, and I settled on “It looks like things are progressing in a clusterfuckian direction”.
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I put one of those “HitMap dealies down in the bottom right of my main blog page. Ok, I get big blotches in Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, New York City, San Francisco, etc. But WTF is with that big blob in what looks like Churchill Manitoba? Do I really have a cadre of loyal readers in the frozen wastelands?