In order to stave off my desire to spend money and buy an Android tablet (and to avoid – to the extent possible – listening about Anthony’s Weiner or looking at that smug POS Breitbart), I managed to cobble together a computer and install Linux Mint on it. It appears to be a pretty nice distro – a pretty painless (and brainless) install that has everything I need, pretty much. The only hassle I had with it was that it somehow managed to lose my password. Honest. I was using it to install shit, and then suddenly it wouldn’t authenticate me. Now, I swear I didn’t change it, and it’s the one I use for pretty much everything on my internal network, so I don’t know what happened. Worse, it refused to allow me to boot to a passwordless shell. So I just reinstalled it (only takes 15 minutes or so – and that’s on some fairly old hardware) and started over again. So that was nice. Except it’s a desktop – making three working ones in my office – and I rarely sit down to use them these days.
Otherwise, it appears that this is gonna be a really bad allergy year for me this year. I’m not only dealing with a runny, snot-filled nose, but also a sore throat and an itchy eye (just one eye at the moment, for some reason). Last night, my eye was so swollen up, I thought about tweeting a picture of it to some young girl half my age. Then I realized that would be really pathetic.
Yes, it turns out our champion of single-payer healthcare is a pathetic loser. I had my first doubts about him when he took an “Israel can do no wrong stance,” and, far from assuaging any doubts, the explanation that he was only a staunch Israel supporter so he good get elected in his district only heightened them.
And his “hacked weiner” story sounded like bullshit to me from the start, but I was willing to ignore it because he usually says things I agree with, and because I really don’t care (except, not to be judgmental or anything, but there’s something wrong with you there, Anthony; I foresee some rabbinical counseling in your future for the next few months until you get your mind right, or the media finds something else to obsess on – whichever comes first).
Too bad Weiner isn’t a Mormon. Those magic underpants might have saved him a lot of embarrassment. You’ll never see Mitt Romney get in this kind of trouble (though that’s most likely because he’s a “Ken” doll – no genitalia).
Well, our cool and pleasant weather appears to be nearly at an end, as it’s supposed to turn hot and steamy today. Sounds good. I’m trying to justify the pool expense by not having to use the air conditioning, so the hotter the better. But I think I need to buy a waterproof Android tablet.
Do they make those?
I should look into this Linux Mint, a good alternative to Ubuntu?
BTW, the current equation is:
“The Today Show” = “Breitbart News”
The latest version of Mint (11) is based on Ubuntu 11.04, I believe. Boot disk with all the codecs is like 850 MB, so you need a DVD (or bootable USB device), but they have a CD version.
It boots to a desktop environment, and there’s a link in the desktop to install it. There’s a software manager and a package manager (no Weiner jokes, please) for updating/installing.
Very nice and idiot-proof if you really don’t want to mess with anything and just wanna get a working OS installed. Would be a good “in-law” or “mother” distro.
I am so disappointed in Weiner. What is the point of mailing stupid pictures to women you do not know and never intend to meet ? I understand having sex with someone, but pictures?
I know I must be missing something.
Palin’s supporters tried to edit the Wikipedia page about Paul Revere’s ride. They wanted to add the italicized part of this sentence: Revere did not shout the phrase later attributed to him (“The British are coming!”), largely because the mission depended on secrecy and the countryside was filled with British army patrols; also, most colonial residents at the time considered themselves British as they were all legally British subjects.
They decided that if the Americans were legally British subjects then Palin was correct when she said that Revere set out to warn the British. And Palin helpfully added this on Fox Noise: “Part of his ride was to warn the British that were already there that ‘hey, you’re not going to take American arms, you are not going to beat our own well-armed persons individual private militia that we have.'”
Colbert got it right, yesterday. He said Revere was just continuing a long American tradition of warning the enemy that they were about to be attacked. Then he demonstrated the feasibility of ringing a bell and shooting a muzzle loaded rifle while riding though town.
He did not attempt to explain what a well armed persons individual private militia might be but according to the scholar, Palin, we have them or it.
Some really nice photos of Palemale’s new babies.
“Palemale’s new babies.”
great pix!
I bet he didn’t go around tweeting pictures of himself to some young chick, either.
Thanks, Rage.
It’s finals week (not that I really give a shit), so that explains a little of my whacked-outness.
Thanks Floyd Little, I actually have Ubuntu installed for that purpose, for somebody that just wants Facebook.
p.s. you can call me Chuck Foreman