Food for the Hungry
or It's a Metaphor; You Know I Really Don't Like Poor People
Realizing it's damn near April Fool's and that I haven't cranked some thoughts out to you in a while, Kind Reader, I was inspired to take pity on you. You can thank me later.
Oasis: I can't even describe the experience. Two and a half hours after the amazing concert ended, Sarah and I got out tickets signed by Liam, Gem, and Noel. Noel wasn't talking much. Liam stopped to say a few words to a few of us. Gem told me he saw me from the other side of the stage; apparently my fanatical arm-waving garnered some attention. Greatest night of my life, all made possible by the greatest person in my life. And what incredible pictures.
AI: Vote for Katharine McPhee, damn it. I can't take another week like that.
The Future: West Lafayette emailed me today to tell me that Purdue-WL has already accepted its allotment of grad students. So IUPUI it is. This weekend, I'll be emailing the faculty advisor that they gave me to start setting up classes for this fall. This is big. This puts us in Indy for another five years or so. If a position is available at Marian, we could even be talking a lot longer than that. Does this mean I'm going to get over the traffic and quit bitching? Not bloody likely.
Shocking Thought #1: Dorm life is coming to an end. Apartment life is just over the horizon. Freaky.
Holy Crap: This means I don't have to leave my Half Price stores. Sweet milk of magnesia.
On Spring: Even though I hate spring, I gotta admit that the storms can rock me like hurricane (ha...ha....). The powerful ones almost make the wild swings in temperature worth it. Reminds me of the tornados down here last summer. Sirens were going off like crazy and we were all herded into the basement. After a few minutes of that garbage, I muttered something about needing to go to the bathroom and I went back to my window and watched the trees do acrobatics. Fun as that is, I'm guessing the fun will be somewhat diminished when I'm worried about the damage that my own property could sustain. Current solution to this problem: live in a castle. Current problem with this problem: obvious.
Linux Update: Initial fooling-around with Fedora Core 5 shows that this release is much snappier than FC4. The version of GNOME that was packaged with FC4 was irritatingly slow for some reason, even on the laptop (2.2 GHz Celeron, 512 MB RAM w/ 64 dedicated to video). The newest version, GNOME 2.14, is noticably quicker to respond. KDE (version 3.5) crashed the crap out of FC5 after only about 30 minutes of use. KDE has the sex factor, but GNOME has the reliability and speed factors. Anaconda didn't completely fuck up the installation this time (there's a plus!). Yum is now sporting a GUI, if you chose to install it: yumex. Simple and helpful for a complete newbie; unnecessary for anyone with any more than 15 minutes of experience at the command line.
Ubuntu is still running like clockwork on the Beige Behemoth, the Old World G3 that's currently setup at Sarah's apartment. I had planned to put Damn Small Linux or a similar distro on the other G3 I've got, but the old HDD recently decided that it was done with this "mounting" business. It's currently sitting on my desk, waiting to have a railroad spike pounded through its center (or thereabouts).
On Nails: Gotta love 'em when they're holding your walls up. Gotta hate 'em when they find their fucking little ways into Scurf's tires. Nails - 1, Scurf - 0.
Enjoy the storms, weather the finals as best as you can, and as always...
Stay young.
or It's a Metaphor; You Know I Really Don't Like Poor People
Realizing it's damn near April Fool's and that I haven't cranked some thoughts out to you in a while, Kind Reader, I was inspired to take pity on you. You can thank me later.
Oasis: I can't even describe the experience. Two and a half hours after the amazing concert ended, Sarah and I got out tickets signed by Liam, Gem, and Noel. Noel wasn't talking much. Liam stopped to say a few words to a few of us. Gem told me he saw me from the other side of the stage; apparently my fanatical arm-waving garnered some attention. Greatest night of my life, all made possible by the greatest person in my life. And what incredible pictures.
AI: Vote for Katharine McPhee, damn it. I can't take another week like that.
The Future: West Lafayette emailed me today to tell me that Purdue-WL has already accepted its allotment of grad students. So IUPUI it is. This weekend, I'll be emailing the faculty advisor that they gave me to start setting up classes for this fall. This is big. This puts us in Indy for another five years or so. If a position is available at Marian, we could even be talking a lot longer than that. Does this mean I'm going to get over the traffic and quit bitching? Not bloody likely.
Shocking Thought #1: Dorm life is coming to an end. Apartment life is just over the horizon. Freaky.
Holy Crap: This means I don't have to leave my Half Price stores. Sweet milk of magnesia.
On Spring: Even though I hate spring, I gotta admit that the storms can rock me like hurricane (ha...ha....). The powerful ones almost make the wild swings in temperature worth it. Reminds me of the tornados down here last summer. Sirens were going off like crazy and we were all herded into the basement. After a few minutes of that garbage, I muttered something about needing to go to the bathroom and I went back to my window and watched the trees do acrobatics. Fun as that is, I'm guessing the fun will be somewhat diminished when I'm worried about the damage that my own property could sustain. Current solution to this problem: live in a castle. Current problem with this problem: obvious.
Linux Update: Initial fooling-around with Fedora Core 5 shows that this release is much snappier than FC4. The version of GNOME that was packaged with FC4 was irritatingly slow for some reason, even on the laptop (2.2 GHz Celeron, 512 MB RAM w/ 64 dedicated to video). The newest version, GNOME 2.14, is noticably quicker to respond. KDE (version 3.5) crashed the crap out of FC5 after only about 30 minutes of use. KDE has the sex factor, but GNOME has the reliability and speed factors. Anaconda didn't completely fuck up the installation this time (there's a plus!). Yum is now sporting a GUI, if you chose to install it: yumex. Simple and helpful for a complete newbie; unnecessary for anyone with any more than 15 minutes of experience at the command line.
Ubuntu is still running like clockwork on the Beige Behemoth, the Old World G3 that's currently setup at Sarah's apartment. I had planned to put Damn Small Linux or a similar distro on the other G3 I've got, but the old HDD recently decided that it was done with this "mounting" business. It's currently sitting on my desk, waiting to have a railroad spike pounded through its center (or thereabouts).
On Nails: Gotta love 'em when they're holding your walls up. Gotta hate 'em when they find their fucking little ways into Scurf's tires. Nails - 1, Scurf - 0.
Enjoy the storms, weather the finals as best as you can, and as always...
Stay young.
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