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Erin Grace is born!  Check out some photos (and send yours!).

Last week I checked a book out of a library.  I haven’t done that in I don’t know how many years.  Definitely not since high school, but even then, I don’t think I even did in senior year at all.  (The book was Asimov’s I, Robot which I’ve been meaning to read lately, because a lyric from a Coheed and Cambria song keeps reminding me of it.)

I learned a new thing on the way home the other night -- I learned how far I can go after the low-fuel light comes on :)  Apparently there’s one gallon of fuel left when the light comes on, because I went about 30 miles after that.  (Actually, I went about 42 miles, but 12 of it was coasting down hills in neutral.)  There was one last small uphill that I couldn’t quite make it up, and I ran out about 200 yards before the crest of the hill.  Beyond the crest there’s a downhill that lasts about a mile, at the bottom of which is the exit for State College, and there’s a gas station near there.  I was so close!  I could have walked and gotten gas in 20 minutes or so.  But since I didn’t crest the hill, it would have been a lot farther and longer (about 2.5 miles and probably over an hour...) so it was easier to call Jeremy and have him rescue me.

I also learned that 20/20 vision isn’t the best vision possible.  That doesn’t really make sense to me in light of the fact that people say things like "hindsight is 20/20" but apparently it’s true.  I have 20/15 vision -- which I always thought meant my vision was sub-par, even though I can see really well -- according to this test.  (Actually, 20/15 is as good as that test will test, so it might be a little better than that.)

Pennsylvania recently repealed the law that required motorcyclists to wear helmets.  My sister knows someone who works in an ICU, and she said that since the law was repealed, the number of motorcycle accident head-trauma victims that they treat has dropped by about 80%.  Sounds like a good thing, right?  Until you learn that it’s because they don’t treat dead people.  Those 80% of the victims aren’t treated because now their injuries are almost always fatal.

Posted by Anthony on 1 reply

NPR

I used to listen to NPR every day, because it was a highly convenient way to keep up-to-date with the news.  But I eventually got so sick of their blatant liberalism that I had to stop.

I turned it on again today for the first time in about 6 months, and it was more of the same: in 3 out of 4 segments in a row, these were the items they presented:

Some random poet/artist read her monologue on why religion is evil and why she’s an atheist.

Two democrats talked about Reagan’s politics and what his legacy will be.

Some guy did a review of Morrisey’s new album, which just happens to have songs about how America’s head is too big, America’s belly is too big, and how he "forgives Jesus" for the things Jesus has done to him.

(The 4th segment was about a star hockey player from Canada who is black.)

Pure crap.  This is why I like O’Reilly so much.  Every night he has democrats and republicans on, debating the issues du jour from both sides.

Posted by Anthony on reply

Goodbye to Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan is a peace.

You can send e-mail condolences to Nancy and the family here.

My kind words:

"Please know that a grateful county mourns with you today.  God made a great man and that great man courageously stood with God to do his duty.

Our sincere condolences to your family."

To preempt any "guiding" comments, everyone knows the man was not perfect.  He was, however, a brave man who stepped forward when we needed him most and never looked back.

Posted by Patrick Copland on reply

My Boss

I go into my boss’ office to ask him a question, and he’s listening to Ill Communication in there.  This guy is like 45.  Sweet.

Posted by Anthony on 1 reply

Swap thingie...

Ok, so when I initially installed Gentoo on my laptop (which, aside from my router is the only computer I have left) I had all the files from my desktop system that I couldn’t burn to CD (ran out, and out of money) on there, and so, I shrunk the windows partition down as much as I could, and then installed...

Flash forward to, well, yesterday.  I emerged qtparted (think partition magic + linux + qt) and went to resize the windows partition by about 5gb to dedicate to /home (because I was rushed to install linux, and just made 1 partition) and when I went to fdisk /dev/hda, it told me i needed to delete a partition and create an extended partition.....

Well, the only partition i could POSSIBLY get rid of, would be, the swap partition, so I am wondering how you are doing still with the no-swap partition...  It’s been about a week or so now right?  Just curious.

Posted by steev on 4 replies

Petals Around The Rose

It took me about 40 minutes to conquer the game.  In the interest of not tainting anyone else, I won’t say anything else here; I’ll explain in a reply to this post.

Posted by Anthony on 6 replies

Man on Fire

I just saw Man on Fire yesterday.  Creasy is my new hero.  Sorry that he had to replace you Anthony.

Posted by kaiser on 2 replies

OQO

I’ve been waiting for this for a couple years now.  It’s a handheld computer that’s a real computer -- not a Palm device, but an x86 PC with a real processor (1GHz Transmeta), real storage (20GB disk, not flash), a real screen (landscape, not portrait, and 800px wide at that), a real OS (Windows XP, not CE) and a full keyboard built-in.  And it literally fits in your pocket; its dimensions are <5 x ~3.5 x <1 inches.  Less than one inch thick!  And the screen is also a pen-based touch screen.

Check out the specs, photos, and video on the website, and also this video which is an interview with the CTO explaining some of the features.

It’s due out in the fall and will cost "less than $2000."  Now, where did I put that $2000 for which I have no other use...

Posted by Anthony on reply

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