Journal Journal: Coming soon to an iOS device near you 1
.. a match 3 game featuring buxom blondes, clubs, and baby seals.
I call it...
Scandi Crush Saga.
Journal Journal: Tomorrow Windows XP dies, long live Windows XP! 7
Journal Journal: SC2 on the MBP 4
When StarCraft II came out I bought it. Unfortunately I didn't play for too long. My machine could barely run it. As I progressed through the campaign it became increasingly laggy as the scenarios became more complex. There were also some fundamental changes to gameplay that I didn't care for. I never liked the missions where I didn't build a base but instead followed a path, picking up a few units here and there. There were these along with missions that were very time oriented and you have to constantly hurry. So I stopped playing.
I was sitting last night, just relaxing, and thought - that Macbook pro I just got is pretty beefy. I wonder what good games are around for Mac. I was looking at some lists, realized when I saw SC2 on one that I already owned it - and installed it on my machine. I've been watching a lot of SC2 matches on youtube. I'm a HuskyStarcraft fan. That's gotten me to thinking about playing some on battlenet. I know I'll never be that good - but especially after watching his Bronze League Heroes casts, I think I could still have fun. It seems I have a better chance of getting matched up with people closer to me in ability than I did with the old original StarCraft.
Journal Journal: Systemd, Plymouth, KDM, weirdness
Very recently my Fedora machine stopped booting to the graphic login. It would be humming along, I'd see my little "f" appear, then I'd drop back to a text list of boot up events and it would just sit there. I could hop over to another tty and log in and then startx and log into KDE.
I've been busy so I didn't have time to try and figure it out. Today I finally could do a little research. I found stuff like this and this. There was a lot of other stuff too - but what I couldn't find is a single explanation of just what is going on that I could understand. I hate changing stuff in my system without knowing why I'm doing it or exactly what it is I'm doing.
In this case a quick "mv
Journal Journal: Steyn on Eich 83
Mozilla's chairwoman Mitchell Baker issued the usual tortured justification:
"Mozilla believes both in equality and freedom of speech. Equality is necessary for meaningful speech," Baker said. "And you need free speech to fight for equality. Figuring out how to stand for both at the same time can be hard."
I heard a lot of this stuff during my free-speech battles in Canada. The country's chief censor, the late Jennifer Lynch, QC, was willing to concede that free speech was certainly a right, but it was merely one in a whole range of competing rights - such as "equality" and "diversity" - that needed to be "balanced". What the "balancing" boils down to is that you get fired if you are an apostate from the new progressive groupthink. Underneath the agonized prose, Mitchell Baker is a bare-knuckled thug.
And thus the sins of the past are recycled with new labels. Bravo.
Journal Journal: Sweet, sweet Vichy GOP
"Maybe you say it helps (Obamacare), but it really helps the small businessman," said Rep. Phil Roe, R-Tenn., one of several physician-lawmakers among Republicans and an advocate of repeal.
No member of the House GOP leadership has publicly hailed the fix, which was tucked, at Republicans' request, into legislation preventing a cut in payments to doctors who treat Medicare patients.
It is unclear how many members of the House rank and file knew of it because the legislation was passed by a highly unusual voice vote without debate.
Feel the awesome subversion of representative democracy that is the Amorphous Care Act.
Journal Journal: Should we just make UPS the government? 12
They have shown the wisdom in avoiding the Left:
http://priceonomics.com/why-ups-trucks-dont-turn-left/
UPDATE: Canning 250 drivers, including the King of Queens (not really)? FedEx laughs.
Update II: posting here since it was written, but some karma over-ran my dogma :-(
I support the right for a grand jury review of UPS every bit as much as in the case of Benghazi.
http://priceonomics.com/why-ups-trucks-dont-turn-left/
UPDATE: Canning 250 drivers, including the King of Queens (not really)? FedEx laughs.
Update II: posting here since it was written, but some karma over-ran my dogma
I support the right for a grand jury review of UPS every bit as much as in the case of Benghazi.
And if you don't support the right of all workers to seek union representation, then you don't support the right for any workers to choose union representation.
Covered here.
Journal Journal: No 10
Journal Journal: AES magic trick 1
Very clever. I approve.
Journal Journal: Blah 11
Life sucks sometimes.
You know?
Journal Journal: *yawn* 2
So...what's been going on?
Journal Journal: Heck yeah, unions 33
In late April 2013, the American Federation of Teachers-Wisconsin chapter gathered for a post-election "workshop" on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Among those scheduled to present that day was Mike McCabe of Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, to explain how big-spending special interests "conspire to prevent government decisions from reflecting the will of the people." McCabe's presentation promised to include a discussion of how "Super PACs, dark money and unlimited election spending" erode "democracy's health."
Perhaps lacking the most in McCabe's presentation was any sense of irony or self-awareness. According to one recent report, AFT has been the 12th-largest contributor to candidates and outside spending groups in America over the last quarter-century, shelling out $37 million to support Democratic candidates almost exclusively. Further, WDC is a liberal lobbying group that advocates for progressive reforms while refusing to disclose its donors, and McCabe himself is a registered lobbyist.
Private sector unions are a matter of free assembly. Public sector unions are a godforsaken mutiny that even the generally wrongheaded FDR understood were a lousy idea.
Journal Journal: Sorry dudes: I hit a posting limit 68
No more witty rejoinders today. Fustakrakich, stay beautiful. Damn_registrars, borrow a sense of humor from somewhere, at least for the duration of your Slashdot sessions.
Journal Journal: Feed the altars of Moloch 18
Pagan gods always seem to have the munchies:
So after Justice Breyer hinted at the nub of what the real question at stake here is, Justice Kennedy bored down and Dean Chemerinsky had to admit something mainstream media has been feverishly trying to avoid--disclosing that these cases are abortion cases much more than they are about birth control. If the Court rules against Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood here, there's no limit to what the government can mandate closely-held corporations have to do, including providing for the termination of life.
Remember: the rights of the pregnant female always trump the rights of the one she may carry. Because #ShutUp, or something.
Journal Journal: MySQL on Vagrant 8
Trying to point mysqld to some shared storage in lieu of /var/lib/mysql. I'd like to keep the data off of the virtual machine.
The precise reason the synched_folder isn't working is really unclear. Just an error 13 in the log. Wish I had all the time in the world to comb Google and find the proper magic spell.
The precise reason the synched_folder isn't working is really unclear. Just an error 13 in the log. Wish I had all the time in the world to comb Google and find the proper magic spell.
