Tuesday
It’s almost June and I live in the high desert. I expect it to be warmer than this.
I did a little comparative research between here and home:

City Temperature
Baltimore 84°
Greensboro 85°
Salt Lake City 57°

Oh, well.

Thank you to everyone who sent Jess well-wishes yesterday. She is doing fine. Thanks to the miracle of modern painkillers (Lortab), she was relatively pain-free yesterday afternoon.

Stray Toasters

  • For …

  • : Teen Titans marathon is June 18th. (details)
  • There’s a poll in in which someone asked “Do you give your computers names?” and “If so, what is the name of the machine you use most often?”

    Being the Star Trek fan that I am, mine are: DS9 (PC), Defiant (laptop) and Enterprise (older PC that’s running Linux); Jess’ PC has a non-ST designation.

    Of course, this all goes out the window if I am troubleshooting the systems. Then they become: Bastard Ass (PC), Son of Bastard Ass (laptop) and Fuckwad (Linux PC)… and Jess’ becomes whatever random epithet happens to cross my lips at the time.

  • Last night’s gaming session was (at least from my p.o.v.) productive; might disagree, but… *shrug* I think that we actually started doing things to advance the storyline. There were still distractions, but they didn’t seem to be as prevalent as they have in the past few weeks.
  • If I had a hammer…
    Actually, I have three hammers:

    1. An old metal one
    2. A Stanley fiberglass one
    3. M.C. (on CD and mp3)
  • The U.S. Army is redesigning GIs’ Fatigues

    There’s still a slight whiff of vaporware in the air at Natick. Powering all these doodads, for instance, won’t be easy. The Army wants to keep the total “power budget” for FFW down to 15 watts or so — a quarter of what a typical light bulb takes. “We don’t even know where to begin,” sighed Kalish Shukla, FFW’s power-management chief. They have at least one idea, though. “Avoid the use of Microsoft Windows operating systems,” a recent memo on the subject directed. FFW is going open source. Cleaner software needs less energy to run.

  • : Click here.
  • Windows… for supercomputers (story)?

    Microsoft has launched an effort to produce a version of Windows for high-performance computing…

    Can you say “oxymoron,” boys and girls?

  • I just discovered the DIY Network’s website. After yesterday‘s little excursion, this bodes ill…

Nyx has a world to conquer…
I have a world to save.

Namaste.