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Sun, 28 Jan 2007 New clock. Again. Hot. Y'know... clocks... tick? Yeah... Ari starts at SiLabs tomorrow. Hotness! Wed, 17 Jan 2007 ...or so it seems. Since Monday, Austin has experienced freezing rain and snow. Since they don't plow or salt here, and because Texas drivers are so bad they even scare me when the roads are slick, I've been trapped in the house with Matt, Lyra, Cyrus, and Katherine for the last few days. Normally this would be fine, except that Mike and Cyrus broke a window fighting over a pizza a couple weekends ago and it still hasn't been fixed, and on top of that on Monday the septic tank started to act up. All in all, not a great time to be trapped in the ManHouse. Of course, Katherine made it more bearable, first by being so kind as to keep me warm despite our lack of window, and second by being understanding with respect to the no showering on account of the septic tank. Now the weather is getting warmer, I worked out and then showered at the gym, Austin is mostly functional again, Cyrus has tomorrow off, and Austin Books has new comics. With the exception of the fact that Katherine returned to Berkeley today, Thursday is looking good. [ permalink | 0 comments (add one you lazy bastard!) ] Fri, 12 Jan 2007
it's like a koala bear crapped a rainbow in my brain
Should my physical self feel created from untold millions of bubbles? No... but I do feel taped out. Bitches. Let the comp week begin (at least, after tomorrow, when I have to sit around and babysit the PG). [ permalink | 2 comments ] Mon, 08 Jan 2007For Christmas I bought myself an AL Tech MG-35, basically a USB 3.5" hard drive enclosure that is also a media player. It's got coax and optical digital out; component, composite, and S-video; and is equipped with an Ethernet interface. It doesn't come with a hard drive (which was great for me, since I had an extra 160 Gb drive lying around), but in default trim it can mount NFS volumes and play all kinds of audio and video formats. The best part, though, is that it runs Linux and its firmware is therefore GPLed—and there's a Yahoo! group dedicated to firmware hacks if you're too lazy to do one yourself. I think I'm going to hack together a firmware image that uses mp3q so that I can get my bigass server machine out of the living room. Stay tuned if you're digging what I'm shoveling. [ permalink | 0 comments (add one you lazy bastard!) ] Sun, 07 Jan 2007Though I designed it a long time ago, I've only now put up the (very short) writeup of 2nix, my two-digit NIXIE clock. Have a look. [ permalink | 0 comments (add one you lazy bastard!) ] |
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