Things I Thought I'd Never See #8432062

I met up with "ddDJJjjaIine" (aka Barry) today for the 1st time in years.

So many years, in fact, that we have both procreated in this time. I won....First!



Even so. I have hair jealousy...she's only 1, but has the hair I've wanted all my life!

Also, following Flo's recent decision about cutting her own hair (it was the best mullet I have seen since Buck got a chop in NZ), she has taken to doing her own hairclips (following the hair rectification by her Ma). Nice huh? I have no idea why she has to spread her arms.

You like the twin-style daddy?

Errr?

Surrealist moment of the day (as in: most surreal, not dali-esque): Barry and I walking along with buggies...containing our own individual children.

Happy Birthday Grandad!

Twatter

Yes. I are on it...for better or worse...the internets keep wedding me.

See all the bullshit I can't be arsed with by following @guriben, but don't typo it and end up here...

Yoikes!

Apart from Flo refusing to settle down (and then immediately settling down following my instigation of the "ignore" button), wondering if I can become a _god_ by figuring out how to get un-DRM'd (there's no other kind ;) Spore to run under Wine with Intel graphix (and custom yadda-yadda), and dealing with some (lazy?) slovaks, I have little esle to do/ponder...

Except...If someone adds somebody to their twitter feed, has the twitterer twatted the twitteree? If someone tweets something they later wish to take back, have they retwacted? Fuck it, it's like glorified SMS...with bragging.

Maybe I've spent too much time on irc...

BTW, anyone on a Wine/Spore tip, other than Colas on Nahaboo... don't be shy!

SNAFU

From BoingBoing:

"Windows 7 allows application developers to write DRM that bypasses your firewall, refuses to let you modify or disable DLLs, and to block you from mixing your audio inputs (to prevent you from recapturing DRM'ed music, presumably)."

I came this close . to recommending it to someone the other day...should've known it'd actually be a skanked-up pile of shit.

More...

Source...

Also, if anyone has any tips on getting a cracked version of Spore to run under Wine (other than here, which seems my best bet so far)...let me know.

Worm Head!

How could someone as innocent looking as this...

Cut worms up with a cup?

Back to work then....

Could it be?

The best week evar?

Snow stopped physical attendance at work on Wednesday, Thursday I was off anyway....but it snowed like a muvva, Flo stayed an extra night and we had the most awesome snowball fight this morning in the street...physical attendance at work snowed off again today...and to cap it all off the VPN has died under the strain of the 1000s of people trying to connect from home. Someone stuck 20Mb of crap in my inbox so webmail is dying on its arse...

So, I made my acer pretty.


I've stolen the HP Mini theme (for their netbook) which is quite nice....need to tweak a thing here or there (it'd look very good on the blue acer (hint)). I'd like to be running Gnome-DO with Docky enabled, but for some reason it won't let me...so that's AWN down there on the bottom. "Show Desktop" is slaved to the "House" key, and Ctrl+"House" yields the lovely window-picker...


I've been toying with the idea of something revolving around Conky, but as yet a bit dubious/lazy.

If you ever get your hands on an Acer Aspire One (the 8Gb Linux one), drop me a line and I'll maybe package it as an ISO and post instructions on how to Unetbootin it with a USB drive... ;-)

's'no disease like snow disease, i know

Got snow?






In other news, I took Flo for a belated dose of vaccines today...check it:

• Measles
• Mumps
• Rubella
• Diphtheria
• Tetanus
• Whooping Cough
• Polio (booster)

These were delivered in 2 shots. The 1st didn't even cause a flinch (she was still chuffed to be stripped off to her vest and warm, plus hiding her eyes behind my hand)...the second...not so good.

But the tears stopped as soon as she got a sticker (~10 seconds). The problem was about an hour later, having to interact with anyone that didn't understand "how poorly my arms are".

That's my girl!!

Cheeezzcshhh!

Just tried to post some comedy video of Flo, but server issues....agh!

Here y'are...I hope:

We're off to Devon tomorrow, so I might post some pics when we're back....I may also have imminent news regarding transport. That's right....vehicle!

It's the perfect vehicle for an angry ginger (the second "g" is hard....did you know that?)...and it looks like a winner!

3 Krazy Kats

So. I had 3 krazy kats this weekend.

The 1st one has developed a tendency to stare out the lounge window.

The second two have a tendency to draw on themselves.

And dance like lunatics...

5 Geek Things

Tek laid down the gauntlet...5 geeky things I resolve to do this year (in no particular order...also note, most of these were on last year's list ;)

1. Build a mini-media centre using the Beagle Board
2. Fix the server and re-build the NAS
3. Sort out the workroom with decent part bins, shelves etc (and better lighting)
4. Flash the Linksys router with DD-WRT (or maybe Tomato)
5. Learn to weld

Hail to The Chief

So. That fucking chimp-like "president" is off...and some other dude is now king of teh world. Let's face it, it's going to be pretty tough for him to fuck things up quite as badly as "president" chimpington...

Did you have hail, this weekend?

We did.

The excitement...it is tangible!

"I'd better put this hat on Dad...and my welly boots", she announced.

"Little balls of ice, Dad....EEEEeeehhhhehehehheeehheheeeee!!!!!!!"

"There's loads on my trampoline!"

"I should go in there, shouldn't I?"

Things I Thought I'd Never Say #3576

That number's random btw...and I'm not sure if I'm angry, disappointed or just depressed about all the shenanigans

Yeah, I cobbled those links together without checking them out properly ;)

Anyway, to the point....I came home from work today and found the entire cast of scooby-doo plus cinderella evicted from "teh dollhouse" and Moshi looking sheepish (and then sprinting away)...

"WTF!! Dude, you pissed on Scooby!!"

Nobody lives in the dollhouse!

Drawin' Robots

Here's Flo drawing robots and computers in what she calls my "robots and computers and electronics book" (it's a Digi-Key catalogue)...

Why, hello there!

Happy New Year (or as Flo said: "Happy New Zealand")...

I can't be arsed to write much about Xmas etc, it's all a bit historical now and besides I was struck down with a cold yesterday...great!

I'm also tinkering around with a new netbook configuration (which, for now is codenamed "Tinx")...and I bought a Beagle Board (google is your friend remember) which I'll be experimenting with this year....until I get round to buying me a 32Gb iPod Touch (yes, I know).

So I introduced Flo to one of my "tastes of childhood" this weekend. Bacon sandwhiches with a cup of tea...

...and Flo wanted to show you her puzzles (which, by the way, she is fucking excellent at)...


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