Author name: Arcterex

“Disappointing” Part Deux

This dream was harder to discern from reality. There was a wedding (I watched Lethal Weapon 4 [archive.org link] last night which is probably what brought that on. The wedding/dinner was at someone’s house, and Tig, K, and my wee leetle cousin from Ottawa were all there (that I remember). The food was the strange

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“Disappointing”

I haven’t had a dream I have been able to remember to share, so after an early (11:30 in bed, 12:20 approx asleep) night last night I had a strange one. was working at home, and from somewhere my ex-girlfriend arrived, just wanting to hang out and shoot the shit for a bit (I think

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Humbug2k+1

Well, another year has ended. I’m a stockholder in a now public company, I have a cat or two that still haven’t died or tried to eat me in my sleep, I have a new car, and I still feel young. Or old, I’m not sure. I think about high school and remember when the

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Back in Black

Well, back to 2.2.18. I had a few crashes and freezes and kernel panics with the setup described below, so I’m at 2.2.18, with the UltraDMA IDE and Reiserfs patchs applied. Seems cool, I can finally play quake again! The main thing that sucks is that the version of Reiserfs differed between 2.2.18 and 2.4.0-test*

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Sad Songs and Waltzes

Well, I’m back after surviving another Christmas! Mom, Dad, you’ve probably experienced it already, but when you get back in expect a log of love from Scotty (cat). When I went in I accidently let one food bowl get empty and I was treated to the royal telling off, followed by a lot of scritchin’,

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Ho. Ho. Ho.

This myth that people live under about Christmas being filled with “joy” and “goodwill toward man”. Bullshit I’m afraid to say. I was in the stores today, I did my shopping and braved the crowds and what did I see? I saw hundreds of shoppers, all with the same blank-yet-pained expression on their faces. What

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