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Paper Planes by MIA with 100% more Cowbell

lolindrath — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:36:00 +0000

Enjoy:


	Make your own at MoreCowbell.dj

Naming Your Computers

lolindrath — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 17:14:10 +0000

I like to give all my computers original, easy to remember names. I think people cop-out if their computer name is XP-PRO or LAPTOP or LINUX. Here’s a few ideas I’ve gathered for naming schemes. Make sure you leave yours in the comments.

The Seven Deadly Sins (My current naming scheme)

lust
gluttony
greed
sloth
wrath
envy
pride (hubris)

Mythical Creatures

gryphon
dragon
hydra
unicorn
pegasus
gargoyle
chimera
sphinx
phoenix
cerberus
kraken
leviathan
wyvern

Happy Words (thanks Carey)

abandonment
isolation
hate
despair
revenge

Trees

juniper
maple
oak
cedar
pine

Update: I thought of one other one:

alpha
bravo
charlie
delta
etc…

Debian says Fork you, Firefox

lolindrath — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 11:54:51 +0000

Firefox has some very weird licensing going on with their artwork so you can’t patch Firefox and release it yourself with the original artwork. Debian’s solution was to create their own GPL’ed artwork and rename Firefox to IceWeasel. I really can’t blame Debian for forking it plus IceWeasel is a cool name. Some of the best software in the Open Source community has been created when one programmer saw a different direction to take a piece of software.

Here are 5 Reasons to Support IceWeasel.

And then 5 Reasons to Kill it.
[tags]firefox, iceweasel, gpl, debian, artwork[/tags]

Summer Playing

lolindrath — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 02:38:41 +0000

Our cute little boy

Ladylolindrath — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 15:53:48 +0000

Bird by Bird Quote

lolindrath — Tue, 09 May 2006 13:53:47 +0000

This is one of the greatest lines from a book I’ve seen in a long time:

“I worry that Jesus drinks himself to sleep when he hears me talk like this.”

- Bird by Bird – Anne Lamott

Thanks to Merlin Mann for the reading suggestion.

[tags]anne lamott, bird by bird, writing, merlin mann, funny[/tags]

Warning: method ‘StateOfTheUnionAddress’ deprecated, please use ‘blog’

lolindrath — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 12:12:47 +0000

Man, I hate these things, in a world where you can get instant news I think The State of the Union Address is majorly deprecated. I’d rather scan a blog post, throw the podcast on my dell dj and half pay attention to it or just listen to NPR for the summary.

The only good thing about it is all the small networks like TBS, UPN and the WB actually get some viewers while Bush gabs on for hours.

[tags]politics, rant, state of the union address, state, union, address, funny[/tags]

Where Technology goes to Die

lolindrath — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 13:34:03 +0000

Here’s the two graveyards of technology at my parent’s house, one for decrepit technology and dusty old tomes of computer knowledge. You should’ve seen the huge box of old 30 meg hard drives and token ring network cards I pulled out of my bedroom.

I hadn’t used any of it in at least two years so it got tossed!

The picture above includes the 386 my uncle gave me that I upgraded to a blazing 233mhz plus a bunch of printers where its more expensive to buy the cartridges than just buy a new printer.

These are a blast from the past, I loved the VB4 and 5 days, full of AOL script kiddie fun and perl hacking on Redhat Linux 6.

[tags]photography, technology, graveyard, funny, lifehack, lifehacks, cleaning, decluttering[/tags]

Why I Love NPR #49

lolindrath — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 14:33:28 +0000

Hearing Terry Gross say “Fiddy Cent” ’cause she’s that pedantic.

Sometimes it doesn’t taste better on TV

lolindrath — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 16:12:12 +0000

Wow, I watched this episode of Giada’s Everyday Italian, I thought this looked painful:

Here’s the blow by blow coverage, this is great.

[tags]food network, food, funny, humor, giada[/tags]