Mucking out the garbage box, I saw this spam/scam/whatever junk today:
Subject: Not for oversmart people
I think so, too. :-)
When I was a kid, radio control gear cost lots, even toy-grade stuff; the one time I got a toy rc car was therefore quite a letdown: it was a horrible piece of junk.
Now I've got such a tinkertoy again, a big rc car. But this
time it's far from toy-grade, and I'm already in the process of modifying
it. This is so much fun! giggle
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Geeks are suckers, perfectionists like me even more so. But even I learn: I've had enough of doing the web and registration backend work and hosting for the Canungra Cup, they can look for another idiot who does the work for nothing. Come the 31.10. and I will flush the site down the drain, and GOOD RIDDANCE! Well, SEP.
In other club-related news, they've decided to ban RC planes at Beechmont, for "safety reasons". Damn but this sucks!
The Ten Step program for a Happy Bright Future (the American way).
There's no chance in hell that I will be visiting these parts of the world anytime soon.
The Worst Journey In The World by Cherry-Garard,
about Scott's Antarctic trips, courtesy of Project Gutenberg
Antarctic Conquest by Finn Ronne (and L. Sprague de Camp)
The South Pole by Amundsen
...lots of stuff by G. Dargaud about the French/Italian Concordia Station, and by
Bill Spindler about the American Pole Station
plus Stanley-Robinson's Antarctica; which is (science)fiction but nevertheless very nice.
Silastic RTV sealant is very useful, even if a third of the tube has
already vulcanized...
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Rob gave me his surplus nice caliper (Thanks again, BTW!).
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It's amazing what they managed to squeeze out of that poor 6502...
Consider this: you have a nine or ten year old, originally fairly cheap
vacuum cleaner, which has a busted floor head, a broken handle piece
and a dud cable retract. Apart from those problems, it sucks, a
lot :-)
Aldi/Hofer has a new vacuum on sale for $39. What do you do?
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On my recent trip to Austria I got exposed to/fed a bunch of really nice
musical stuff. Thanks go to Nina, Julia and Tamara (in no particular order).
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If you have a laminate floor, solidly installed skirting boards and a computer with rattly fans nearby, then a microwave termite detector may indicate movement where there is none (or at least nothing critter-caused).
I had the annual inspection and general spray today, and that reading made for a few interesting moments; I immediately ripped the skirting boards off in the relevant spot and as hoped we didn't find any indication of trouble.
Tonight SBS will run Silentium, as usual in the original language (Austrian) with English subtitles. The above is a quote from the Tv guide.
today i got my new (well, less than a decade old) sun to replace
my last dead ultra2: a netra 120 (aka sun fire v120).
but what a noisy bugger!
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FvG is going to jail! finally.
for those who have no idea what i'm happy about: the fellow in question is the most obnoxious litigating landshark in germany. he's been flailing around his cease and desist letters and lawsuits for pretty much anything and then some, usually remotely related to IT matters.
now he's ripped off the taz, a newspaper, and got 6 months without probation. yes!
but best was this quote of the judge: "Die Allgemeinheit muss vor Ihnen geschützt werden."
should you be so unlucky to have to use a box with onboard Intel "Graphics",
specifically a 965Q chipset, and also one of those fat Dell screens which
suck at all resolutions but 1680x1050, and maybe even want to run debian
Etch (without testing or experimental or somesuch),
then you'll hate all
the involved hardware manufacturers. (Likely you do that anyway, for unrelated
crimes against syadmins but regardless: THIS time i did find a way to coerce
them to function.)
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...but rather with them. Nevertheless, here's a pretty cool game I've started playing recently: Terminus, a space FPS/RPG thingie which rocks: a solid Newtonian physics model, good graphics, both linux and win supported natively (on the retail cds) and so on.
What's even better is that the Underdogs have the game downloadable in its full glory (abandonware; released in 2000).
My daughter complained last week about the lack of updates on my website;
she's checking it every so often but there's nothing new. So, do more, daddy!
Ok, I'll try, but much of it will be rambling, unhappy blah.
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