You're not Northern, Southern, or Western, you're just plain -American-. Your national identity is more important than your local identity, because you don't really have a local identity. You might be from the region in that map, which is defined by this kind of accent, but you could easily not be. Or maybe you just moved around a lot growing up.
It's actually a crisping sleeve that came with a small microwavable (but I'm not using the microwave) pizza that I just bought. I'm now wondering if they offer engineering degrees for microwave food. I'm also never paying money for one of these pizzas again.
Saw "Stardust" today, and liked it very much. Love the story and characters, and I would recommend it to anyone who would like fantasy films.
Also, a few weeks ago I was visiting ovaltine8, pimento amd julsey in Seattle. We went and saw the wonderful show "Young Frankenstein" at the Paramount theater, and that was wonderful as well.
I've got like 500 or more burned CD/DVD media with data on them. Data which I don't think other people should have, but not sensitive data. Anyone have ideas on how I can dispose of them?
Apparently there was a train accident around 6pm on southbound tracks. I arrived at the Caltrain station at 6:50 to find the 6:33 train waiting for boarding. We cruised down the peninsula to Millbrae, made one stop and then stopped near San Mateo.
Now the lights have gone out, and the engine pulling us has apparently failed. We're waiting for the train behind us to link up, and push us into the next station. Then we get to disembark... and get on the train behind us to finally go home.
I guess I might get home 2 hours or more after I left work... bleh.
“Hi LiveJournal, this is Jonathan. I just got home from the train. Hoping, bring LiveJournal back up. This is a test Voice Post message. I forgot to check it before I left.”
I need to drive 4 (or possibly even up to 8) SATA disks from Linux with software raid and am having a difficult time finding any decent controller cards.
I've gone poking around on/at Newegg, Buy.com, Central Computer, Frys, CompUSA, and Best Buy so far.
Any suggestions welcome, but I've already tried the Promise controllers (big mistake).
I went and saw Harry Potter on IMAX in 3D this weekend. I liked it, the 3d effect was a definite good thing to add to the end of the movie. IMAX does make the film better though because there were zero previews before the film, and the guys who run that projector seem to actually care more about focusing the image on the screen. Oh yeah, and the screen is bigger.
Would have liked to see Transformers on that screen, in 3D. Oh well.
I just shaved. This really wouldn't be noteworthy except I accidentally had the trimmer facing the wrong way when I took the first pass at my beard, which took all the hair off down to the skin.
My Air Conditioner's broken, I just tested it to make sure it was okay. Less than a year old, nice job GE.
From the more technical standpoint, it's the outside fan that's broken. The starter coil/cap must be dead because I can get it spinning just fine if I nudge it. I don't even know how to test if a cap or coil is bad with out spare parts, guess I'll have to take it into the shop then.
Oh great interweb, I offer this information unto thee.
Windows file sharing coupled with smbfs mounting is slow. Very slow. On a 100Mbit switched link I was getting performance of about 2.2MB/sec actually transferring files.
I started getting angry, so I decided to grab cygwin1.dll and rsync.exe from somewhere, fire it up in daemon mode and retry the transfer. Now I'm fetching files at a rate of about 8MB/sec.
I just spent many many hours getting all of my finances put into Quicken all the way back to about February last year.
Now I just need to stare at some of the graphs and figure out why I can't move ahead financially, and I've finally started doing something I've meant to do for at least 5 years now.
I went and saw a chamber concert at the San Francisco Symphony called "The Moscow Soloists" on Sunday. The concert got better as it went:
Beethoven String Quartet No. 11, Serioso, arr. by Mahler - Can't even remember this.
Tan Dun Concerto for Pipa and Strings - Strange piece, very 'oriental' sounding with the Pipa as lead instrument, orchestra imitates and also provides some vocal accents. I loved hearing it, but probably wouldn't want a recording of it. Looked incredibly difficult to play.
Britten Lachrymae for Viola and Strings - Sounded like a Theme and Variations in reverse.
Schubert String Quartet in D minor, Death and the Maiden, arr. by Mahler - Incredibly good, no more to say.
Then there were also three encore pieces played. The first I can't remember, the second was a straivinsky piece, and the third was a Polka for strings or somesuch. I need to dig out the titles of these pieces because I quite liked them.
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