jumpy jumpy vitamins

Installed Gentoo last night on the old Powerbook (which did, in fact, get named “rupaul”). That part only took about 5 hours, much of which was inattention on my part. Once the new system was in and the new kernel installed, though, I re-emerged world with new USE flags; that part took seventeen and a [...]

Not much to say tonight. Now that the tooth is no longer inflamed, we can do the holidayish stuff that we had skipped a week and a half ago. This includes shopping, which is actually better right after Christmas IMHO (lower prices, lower incidence of drama). We’re staying in tonight. The bubbly is chilling in [...]

Well, between the dental drama, a few other money-type commitments, and the sometimes-iffy availability of the hardware itself, I think I’ll wait on the Kurobox. Still looking for something smaller/quieter/more energy efficient, though. Today, while digging through shelves at the office I stumbled across an unused “bronze keyboard” Powerbook that appears to be in good [...]

I mentioned that the Kurobox would get its own post, so here goes. It’s shaping up to be kinda long-winded, and I apologize for that. Currently, I have a fileserver (named “pangloss” in a fit of pure optimism) based on Gentoo built from old whitebox components. It’s about a 1GHz i686 processor (don’t remember exactly, [...]

OK. Here goes. This coming weekend is the Gateway Men’s Chorus holiday show, which we’re doing with an interim director who’s rather good but who is probably feeling a bit overwhelmed by some of the poor habits that were tolerated by prior directors. (for example, I don’t know half the material and the show opens [...]