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Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
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8:47 am - It really isn't funny anymore...
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Consider:
http://www.bobbitt.ws/blizzard_09_html/
and:
http://www.bobbitt.ws/blizzard_2010_html/
The former is from December, the latter is from Saturday. I'm pretty sure Saturday was close to the 28" reported in Baltimore, clearly more than 22" reported in December. I took a different approach on Saturday than I did in Dec with the drive way in that I planned to clear the whole driveway instead of just enough to get the cars out. It was a monumental pain, but I think it paid off in the end. I shoveled snow from about 5:30am on Saturday one hour on, two hours off all day. Towards the end of the day, a neighbor with a plow cleared our road, but got stuck four times before giving up, leaving all but two other houses stranded 'til Sunday afternoon. Many roads in our neighborhood, and town are still nearly impassible.
Yesterday I got the boys started on making a snow cave out of the 4'+ piles of snow out by the driveway.
I had a weird experience yesterday in that four UPS appeared to fail almost simultaneously. I say appeared because the power was still on, but they were stuck switched to the battery. I went out and replaced them and the dude at the office depot said the same thing happened to them at roughly the same time. Think that something 'fishy' happened with the power, not the UPS, I replaced one, then retried the big one in the server room noticing that it appeared to be working again. If anyone (*cough* circumbabulate *cough*) has any ideas on how this happened I'd appreciate it.
During the change in the UPSs it became clear that the power supply on the file server has failed, so I'm off to best buy to find a replacement, and hopefully find some more salt for round !@#$ing two. I'm seriously sick of snow. I'm seriously sick of snow.
In case any wonders, you can find more timely updates at FB (I know, I loathe it too). search for joesweetsox at yahoo dot com
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| Sunday, January 10th, 2010
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9:32 pm
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Hardy Heron recovery...
I've been having this oddball X failure problem. I posted about it a couple of months ago, with no joy. After weeks of moderate dinking (the machine would work, but I could only use it remotely... not really a problem as it was a file server). It turns out the entire problem was a failing graphics card. I've replaced the card, and when rebooting, selected an older kernel... just to see what would happen with the new graphics card. This apparently was a problem as now I'm getting some error when I use the normal kernels, as they say the files don't exist.
Here's my question:
Isn't there a recovery option on the live CD? I've booted from the ISO I used to originally install, and I don't see that as an option. I boot into the live CD, and I don't see that as an option either. I've tried installing, and it never seems to recognize that there exists an existing partition...
Is it a question of editing grub?
I'm really lost. I really, really don't want to go for a complete reinstall...
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| Friday, December 25th, 2009
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8:40 am
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Merry Christmas.
Morning routine with the boys:
5:30: wake up (note: this is the normal time to wake up with the boys).
6:00: go through the stuff in the stockings
6:30: sort the presents
7:00: eat a breakfast of what amounts to cocktail party food... Seriously the boys begged for eggs this year to stave off the horror of crackers, cheeses, hard meats fruit, pie, cookies... My wife is so weird. I chalk it up to being raised in Canton, OH.
7:30: wife and the boys make these weird pinecone things with bird seed on them, and hang them in the forest part of the community's park down by the water.
9 (ish): when they get back, start opening presents (and this is key) starting with the youngest one at a time.
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| Thursday, December 17th, 2009
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8:57 am - Office 2007
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I got upgraded to office 2007 a couple weeks ago. I'd been putting it off as the idea of a completely changed interface seemed dumb to me. I figured I'd hold out 'til the bitter end.
All in all, though... not so bad. In fact I sort of like it.
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| Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
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7:27 am
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I'm ashamed to admit that I've finally succumbed to the dual monitor work station here at work. After mocking it for years, laughing at numbnuts who've used it, I finally broke down and had a second one installed. Why? I've been developing this large scale project, and it occured to me when I'm debugging code, it may actually go faster if I had two monitors side by each to compare.
Note: this is not an appology to all the numbnuts out there who have a web browser open in one, and their email open in another.
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| Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
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9:13 am
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A conversation with big O last night:
BO: Wait, why do geniuses take drugs again?
BB: Well, not all geniuses, but it seems like a lot of artistic geniuses do.
BO: Why?!
BB: Artists, especially great ones tend to see the world the way the want it to be, not necessarily the way it is... Taking drugs can make it possible to be happy if the world doen't necessarily live up to your expectations. The downside, of course is that over time, drugs can make you completely bat-poopy crazy.
BO: But is it the drugs that make them crazy, or the way they have gone crazy anyway?
BB: Drugs, boy, it's definately the drugs.
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| Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
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12:57 pm
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So this roman polanski thing...
Is he being persecuted for being famous, or is he getting a pass for being famous?
What, exactly is the point of a statute of limitations? What is the point of justice in the context of criminal detention?
Personally, I think the dude is a pig. But it isn't like he skulked off to vietnam to kill himself with the buying 13 year old sexslaves... By all accounts, it began and ended with that one 13 year old. What purpose would be served by throwing him in jail for the rest of his life? He's clearly been rehabilitated... he's clearly no longer a threat to CA... what's the problem? I'd like to see the stats on how many other seriously twisted asshats who've walked on statutory rape charges don't have this much effort made to bring them in...
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| Friday, September 18th, 2009
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8:07 am - I hate people when they're not polite...
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| Thursday, September 10th, 2009
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1:55 pm
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| Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
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8:37 am
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8:09 am
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| Friday, August 21st, 2009
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11:06 am
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things done in august:
week 1) watched the boys while H was doing her mission trip in TN. This was non-trival as O was taking that math geek summer camp at hopkins... worked from home that week.
week 2) H was home for one day, then we drove to OH for her father's birthday... Not too shabby, but I was left sleeping on a sofa... no real intense family drama.
week 3) Took the boys to AZ, left H at home (she had to work)... Wasn't actually a week, closer to four days (Sunday-Thursday). Sort of a miserable trip. My family (in AZ) are pathologically anti-kids, so it was nerve wracking to keep them from trashing really expensive art, or not destroying the interior of really expensive cars...
Back now and looking forward to a little more normalcy. O starts school Monday, U starts Kindergarten (with regularity) next week.
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| Sunday, August 2nd, 2009
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8:42 pm
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For the third time in my life I'm making a serious attempt of getting off the bean (i.e. caffeine). I managed it once in graduate school at MN, then again in graduate school at OSU. I went back the first time (at OSU), because the grind is just too great, you really need to stay awake. I went back the second time because H was in labor for 22 hours, and I needed to stay awake.
My motivation both previous times (as well as this time) was to just detox... While I don't consume MASSIVE quantities of caffeine, it's enough that I notice myself becoming absurdly distracted... not able to focus, even prone to anxiety attacks. In both previous cessations I became extraordinarily calm, much more able to focus after I punched through the withdraw... The headaches are the worst, they're blinding... and the constant need for napping really takes a toll, but after a time, you start getting into a rhythm of more sleep, less stress... Right now, all I've got are blinding headaches.
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| Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
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5:43 pm - Last night...
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while helping O work on his CTY homework, he got the following sequence and was asked to do the next three:
1,3,8,18,32,...
I tried for a few minutes, thinking, pounding my head trying to formulate some strategy to do it, as O rarely takes notes, and there was no supporting instruction... Just before I gave up, O looked over my shoulder thought for a minute or so, had his 'ah-ha' moment and wrote them down. After he explained it to me, I'm pretty sure I never, ever would have gotten it.
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| Tuesday, July 28th, 2009
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3:59 pm
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ASUS EEE PC, or netbooks in general... I'm thinking of getting one for O to take some on-line classes with. Comments? Suggestions?
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| Monday, July 20th, 2009
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11:48 am - 7/20/69...
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I have only a vague memory of the moon landing. I was only three at the time (due to turn 4 on 8/8/69). My family, fearing the adoption would not actually happen had taken a suddent trip to disney world. We'd flown to florida, then rented a car and drove to a holiday in near Disney... it was really late at night, when my family made a big stink to watch the pictures on the TV the management had dragged into the lobby. I had no idea what the hell was going on, and just wanted to go to bed.
I do remember watching other moon/space flights... I remember my grandmother being glued to the TV while she was staying over to babysit while the apollo 13 business happened.
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| Tuesday, July 14th, 2009
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5:40 pm
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Jacks Told Interrogators She Expected Girls' Resurrection
I'm no shrink, but I think it's pretty clear the woman was completely bat-shit crazy... I don't even know why they're going through this nonsense. I remember going on a field trip with O around the time that it happened, and mentioned to a couple of mothers that if there was ever a case of inocent by reason of insanity, this was it... they looked at me like I'd torn off my son's arm and offered it as an snack.
WTF is wrong with people?
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| Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
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5:56 pm
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I've felt like crap all day. I think I'm getting H, U's flu bug.
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| Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
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3:50 pm
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Oh my God... it's anotherone... it's breaking the 'come in threes rule... aaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiiigggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!
Surely it's got something to do with those Godless socialists running the !@#$ing whitehouse.
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| Monday, June 29th, 2009
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10:12 am
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It's sort of amazing, the trasition of my friends list. back in the day, there'd be 20-30 posts from you people a day... now a good day has maybe four. Now granted I haven't been active, and I haven't been replacing people who fade out (as I myself am fading out due to time constraints of fatherhood), but I'm just curious how many of you are gone, or just started using FB because you cold easier keep in touch with people you actually know (as I have to some extent)?
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