Unspoken incredulity
Turned on NPR and heard: “…funded in part by the pajamagram company. Providing matching pajamas to you and your entire family, including cats and dogs.” In the most monotone, bored voice I have ever heard on that station. Could practically feel the “Really??” dripping out of the radio!
But Lost was still worse
· 🤬 irate
Grr Mentalist Red John finale.
Quandary
“I want more vegetables!” On the one hand, it’s 2 hours past her bedtime. On the other hand… my toddler just asked for more vegetables to eat. O_O
Draconian but efficacious
Anyone responding to email without using a modern threaded email reader should be BANNED FROM THE INTERNET.
The 'i' is for 'indestructible'
· 😮 impressed
Forgot to take the iPod Shuffle out of my pocket. Pants went through a full washer/dryer cycle. iPod Shuffle survived completely unscathed.
Infinity mirror
Why is my déjà vu always recursive?
Movie time
Me: “We could see Planes. Or Smurfs 2! Without Emily!”
Anna: “No. Maybe Planes. But not Smurfs 2. You go into Smurfs 2 without kids and they just call the cops.”
Impressionable parrot
Anna: “Bye bye everyone!”
Curt: “Bye bye Anna!”
Emily: “Bye bye Anna!”
Anna (to Curt): “Now see what you’ve done!”
Emily: “Now see what done!”
Institutional parapraxis
OMG, Pepsi’s new slogan is “Live for now!” Roflcopter! #sodapopinremission
Vague profundity
Getting older hasn’t made me any wiser – it’s merely made me more aware of my foolishness.
xfce
If your /proc/cpuinfo says Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N270 @ 1.60GHz or something similarly weak, run xfce. While “xfce” may be a stupid and unpronounceable name, it is an excellent software suite. Do not run Unity, even with graphical effects disabled as completely as possible.
Actually, never run Unity under any circumstance. Or Windows. In fact, it might be best to throw away your computer and try something less exasperating, like having some children.
A timeless syntax
CamelCase wiki linking: great idea, or the greatest idea ever?
Childish delight
Successfully SCPed a file to my laptop from a VirtualBox Ubuntu guest running OpenSSH on the standard SSH port but which is port-forwarded to a non-standard port via VirtualBox’s NAT feature, with the host OS on a firewalled workstation running OS X, to which the laptop connected via SSH tunneling through another Ubuntu server configured to allow SSH through said firewall. In other words: laptop → real Ubuntu server → firewalled OS X workstation → virtual Ubuntu server. And amusingly, the file in question was the OS X installer for the latest version of VirtualBox. It has been a fun morning!
Hot take
I wish Adele would use Auto-Tune.
Humanist affirmation of St. Francis
I will strive to be a channel of peace;
that where there is hatred, I may bring love;
that where there is wrong, I may bring the spirit of forgiveness;
that where there is discord, I may bring harmony;
that where there is error, I may bring truth;
that where there is doubt, I may bring assurance;
that where there is despair, I may bring hope;
that where there are shadows, I may bring light;
that where there is sadness, I may bring joy.
I will strive to seek rather to comfort than to be comforted;
to understand, than to be understood;
to love, than to be loved.
For it is by self-forgetting that one finds.
It is by forgiving that one is forgiven.
It is by experiencing death that one awakens to life.
Iterating toward perfection
I love it when a band rerecords one of its old songs (sometimes with a co-artist) after improving and refining their style: Green Day’s “Welcome to Paradise”; Megadeth’s “A Tout Le Monde (Set Me Free)”; The Offspring’s “Dirty Magic”; Mumford & Sons’s “The Boxer” (with Paul Simon & Jerry Douglas); and let’s not forget the entire S&M album by Metallica & the San Francisco Symphony.
Credit where credit is due
In this decade of oversimplified unusably “clean” software applications, with every version worse than the last, I never thought I would say this, but… iTunes finally got it right. The new “Up Next” queue rules, and is long overdue.
A wild Baby Teddy appears!
Baby Teddy has joined your party!
Evil triumphs once again
Gmail is sooo much faster in Chrome… *cry*
Resistance is futile
· resigned
I am giving up on trying to multitask with a toddler around. It is too stressful for both of us. Easier and happier if home time is kid time. No more video games, no more programming, and no more Internets unless toddler is unconscious.
And it’s time for more child-proofing, too. Gotta create some more space that he can’t reach. And every low shelf and table is for toys only! Otherwise it’s just inviting disaster.