I just wasted hours of time trying to figure out how to install three goddamn upgrades to a debian system that doesn't currently have any network connectivity. I *finally* found a debian document that talks about using dpkg-something and creating a Package file and gives the most brief mention of putting "deb file:/dir debs/" somewhere. Of course they mean in the sources.list file, but they couldn't explicitly say that. And guess what? It didn't work even then, even after an apt-get update (

The Divinyls most recognizable hit, covered by.... a girls choir.

diggit: http://www.devilducky.com/media/42822/

If you haven't seen it yet, Library Thing is yet another nifty "web 2.0" (blearcgh) web application/site. Lets you catalog your library. Despite my dislike for the hype over Ajax and similarly driven sites, it works pretty well and has a lot of cool stuff. Plus you can go browse my library (once I get all several hundred put in, I'm only about at 350 right now). I have the same nick there as I do here.

Roses are red
Grass is green
What the hell is this
poetry meme?

Have a happy birthday, hope I made you laugh at least once. :-)

1) I have a killer Google Maps app in mind, but don't know enough about the API or anything to know if it's feasable. Feel free to take the idea, but if you make lots of money, I'd like at least like a nice dinner out of it :-). The idea: let me map my route from A to B and THEN do a search for businesses, mapping out which ones are closest to my route (within a distance I can select). Example application: I drive here to there to work every day, and I want to know where I

First: I don't usually read dailykos, mostly because of their reputation as stonethrowers on the left. Mirror image of LGF maybe. Or maybe that's not fair, but I don't usually read it anyway. BUT the following seems pretty free from BushBaiting, and puts an interesting spin on the "muslim cartoon" fiasco: http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/2/5/13149/60748

That some of you guitar heros would LOVE playing this thing: http://www.worth1000.com/view.asp?entry=252349&display=photoshop

Oh, and the reference to making a baby for the first time. But otherwise....

http://community.livejournal.com/21406/4276.html?thread=1222068#t1222068

Ridiculous, if it weren't so scary. Sounds to me just like stories of apparatchiks forcing particular outcomes and statements on Soviet scientists, actually.

http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2006/02/04/outrage-at-attacks-on-nasa-science/

Time again for another backup of the iBook. This time the battery board is hosed; the battery won't charge, the little LED won't come on, but everything else works fine. The nice thing about this is that it gives us some leisure to get the backup done easily/straightforwardly.

I was a big fan of the pixies back in the day.

Recently I was reading (yet another) summary of the senate hearings on Judge Alito, and was reminded yet again of the lovely word "bloviation".

For those of you who can't already see where this is going, I'm trying to find somewhere the inspiration to actually finish the idea inspired by "Wave of Bloviation".

Dude, you have to enable comments :-)

And I forgot your email address, lost in the morass of my email overload.

CINO is a good name. I think Thomas actually had a sorta reasonable argument, how can you square this decision with Raich (medical MJ), except it's pretty easy to point out that MJ is explicitly called out by Congress (not just the AG) as schedule 1, whereas this case has to do with non-schedule 1 substances. I like that Kennedy authored the opinion.

I was told that moving between PC & Mac was no trouble. So that I could set up my wife's playlists as part of the surprise, I hooked it up to my (windows) laptop first.

As it turns out, it appears that this made it "optimized for windows", and while she can see it on her mac, it doesn't want to update (firmware update, songs haven't been a trouble) from the mac. My laptop is not convenient, because I almost never boot the windows partition on it.