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The mini-saga of my Linux box continues…
Last time, Excel, my Gentoo box was found half-alive, drives and fans spinning but unresponsive and unable to boot. A faulty power supply was suspected, and spousal approval for a trip to CompUSA was obtained.
So, after a late day dealing with the various fusterclucks at work, [...]

As if I didn’t have enough issues this week, it looks like the power supply on my Linux box died sometime this evening. Tried to ssh to it from across the house and couldn’t connect. 100% packet loss in my pings.
So, off to the other room I trudged, to see if I’d had [...]

Okay, this is freaking hilarious, possibly even better than This Land…
You can find out how much money you would have lost in SCO using this nice little form on their investor relations site. An investment of $1000 on 3/21/2000 would today be worth… $39.82! That’s a ROI of -96.07%! Let’s hear it [...]

I must have been stressing a lot lately, because the last couple of weeks seem awfully irresponsible of me, from a converting-the-equity-of-my-labor-into-useless-economy-fueling-crap sort of perspective. I think I’ve also been in withdrawal ever since my favorite record store here closed… I need my fix, man!
Looking back over the past couple of weeks, the [...]

Recent occurrances, list-style:

Completed Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix late Sunday night.

Trying to recover from stupid, stupid Harry Potter (lack of) sleep schedule… uhhhhghghh…

My aunt and uncle came to visit on Sunday evening! They had been “passing through” and had a night to kill, so a visit worked out nicely. We [...]

Good things:

Going to the beach with Liz to watch the sunset
Root beer floats
Liz taking my car to the shop on Friday
Car being under warranty; fixed for free!
Cooking with fresh herbs
A fresh coat of paint on the house
The Pianist
Planning the upcoming trip to San Francisco
Being happy for one’s friend’s happiness
Tinkering with Gentoo
Napping with Liz in the [...]

Hey, kids, growltiger.net is back in action! That means you’ll be able to see all of our silly vacation photos, pictures of aquamindy destroying various parts of our house, and be generally astounded at how boring the pages there look.
Reinstalling IDS under Gentoo was a dream come true compared to the nasty RPM dependency [...]

We went out to the art museum to take in a lecture from Pete Docter, the co-writer of Toy Story 1 & 2, and the director and co-writer of Monsters, Inc. It was a really great presentation, and we had a lot of fun. I was particularly pleased that he went to great [...]

Yay, it booted with no problems! w00t! Rock the hell on!
Now I just have to load it up with some useful stuff so that it’s, you know, usable.
Kick ass!

Mood:accomplished
Music:Fleetwood Mac – “Gold Dust Woman”

And here I thought the “emerge system” would take longer than the bootstrap, since that’s what the installation guide seemed to suggest.
Nope! It only took until 3:45 AM. Whee!
So it’s time to tinker some more. Maybe I’ll even be able to boot into my new semi-functional install before it’s time to go [...]