Just sitting here watching the Daily Show, and I thought I’d just take a moment and reflect on what a great day we all had. Mostly because of a little outage that we had to go out for a little trip for a checkup for Arwen. Everything’s cool, her blood pressure is cool, and Tate’s cool. Yay them!
Okay, so after we did that (Rip and I sat in the waiting room, reading a Sesame Street book that was ANCIENT – with old scary skinny Big Bird and some sorta GREEN Grover-look-a-like in it.
It was awesome,) we wandered down to the Toys’R’Us looking for a dinosaur costume for Rip. We found one dragon one that was pretty good, but then we found a wicked Dinosaur costume that was… too small. POOP!
So, as any normal 3.5y/o would, Ripley had a massive melt-down about not buying a Thomas the Tank Engine, of course. We ended up outside the store while Arwen paid for the burp cloths ($9 for 4 of them?) with me talking to Rip like a Negotiator because he was already “Timed Out” of being in the store, but I couldn’t send him to a room anywhere (A’s got a post about what we’ve been doing to R’s head as of late) unless you want to count me sending him to the baby section.
(Commercial Note To Self: Tommy Lee Goes to College – God Help Us All)
Cameron Diaz is on the Daily Show now, pumping “In Her Shoes” and she’s got some really REALLY bad hair. I’m not a huge fan of hers in the first place, but seriously, who’d she piss off in the green room to go on-stage looking like that.
Arwen’s falling asleep in the glider chair ’cause Tate’s toasty warm, and cute as hell, and gets this look on his face like Bernard on Black’s Books when he asked for a sandwich with pickles and was told “sure.” Pure bliss.
got totally sidetracked, and will have to talk about the day later…
Via We Make Money Not Art, there’s the project called Playing the Building
With Playing the Building, David Byrne wanted to create an installation that would produce sound and would take advantage of the fact it is housed in a raw factory space- with exposed pipes, heating and structural elements.
I wish I had had enough equipment, time, and mostly, MONEY to have done this in just about any place I’ve ever lived. And maybe a few cars.
So, I’ve been playing around with Ubuntu Linux over the last few years, downloading the occasional LiveCD to see what things look like, and what does/doesn’t work on my tower and/or laptop. For the most part, the main thing that’s scared me away from seriously trying Linux is that I’d have so much fiddling around to do to get my WiFi working in the house. This version (5.10 “Breezy Badger) just plain worked. No messing around, no preconfiguration with another NDIS wrapper or something. Just… worked.
So then I downloaded a proper installation disc (non-live), created a little 5gb partition on my laptop, and now I’ve got dual booting XP/Ubuntu.
Pretty neat, and now I’m finally getting some experience in this particular flavour of Linux. Oh, and if you call it Leeeeenux within earshot, I will giggle at you.
