Archive for April, 2008

NOLA the Lazy Way

Our trip to New Orleans was 6 kinds of awesome. JazzFest was fun, despite the fact that we had to  go on a relatively tame weekend, musically speaking. We stayed in the most kickass RV park in the world. I’m too lazy to write up much more on the subject, so go read what my [...]

Not what you think

I’m not making fun of anybody. Except maybe Mr. Left there.

History meme

farris@bauer:~$ uname -a
Linux bauer 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Tue Dec 18 08:02:57 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
farris@bauer:~$ history | awk ‘{a[$2]++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] ” ” i}}’ | sort -rn | head
93 ls
64 cd
52 sudo
36 8067
23 ssh
20 vi
19 locate
15 history
12 top
11 ping
And root:
root@bauer:/home/farris# history | awk ‘{a[$2]++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] ” ” i}}’ | sort -rn | [...]

New beds are good for the brain

We got our new mattress yesterday. With our already-tall bed frame, our noses are touching the ceiling. I like really high beds, and I’m not sure why. Maybe because it feels like I’m on a top bunk with no bottom bunk below me?
Last night I had what I think is the longest and most elaborate [...]

Knowing it was coming didn’t make it much better

More Catherine Tate in the knew Who series. Can’t stand her. The story was pretty weak, too. Some nice dialog, as usual, and a nice little “surprise” as well.

10 Weird Things About Me

I’ll attempt to participate in this thingy I saw Josh do. 10 weird things about me.
First off, I’m of the opinion that others are far more qualified to point out weird things about you than yourself. But these are some things I can more or less deduce are odd or not quite ordinary about me:

I [...]

My new ISP beats the hell out of FIOS

I don’t know what I would have done without this.




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