I can't find the pair of thumbscrews that go to the second side panel, and the power supply is still showing a short.
Damnit.

OSnews posted an article about how IKEA changing from their font from Futura to the Verdana is causing an uproar among typography geeks.

After reading the article, I thought I would post some of my favorite fonts.

Arial is my favorite all around font. It's clean and easy to read. It doesn't hurt that it looks good on everything. LCDs, CRTs, print it looks good on all of them.

Lucida Console is my favorite monospace font. In fact, I like the entire Lucida font family, but Lucida Console happens to be the one I use the most. The differentiation between "l" and "i" is what really seals the deal as my favorite monospace font. The four letters look nothing alike, so it is very easy to tell them apart. The zero not being slashed is my only complaint. The capital "o" is a little bit fatter, but other wise they are similar.

Calibri, DejaVu font family, and Microsoft San Serif all get honorable mentions.

Typophile is a website about typography that I came across on the Univers font Wikipedia page. It's a neat little site that will tell you moer about fonts then you really ever wanted to know.

The best thing about friends is what they can remind you about.

Current Mood: calm

I'd forgotten how nice it is to just drive. It's just a good feeling being the only person on the road with the windows down, and the car is working perfectly. It's just a awesome nailing the heel/toe and feeling the transmission slip past the gate and into gear. The clutch hooks up and the car accelerates. :)

My lunch is gone!

I brought it in yesterday, just in case BBQ Thursday didn't work out, and it's not here anymore. What happened? Shells, grilled chicken, and alfredo sauce. It was going to be delicious. :(

Why people can't figure out saving a Word file as HTML is just as easy as saving as RTF or DOC is beyond me. I'm tired of people posting Word and PDF files on the Internet. I want to look at the document not open another application, and it interrupts my work flow. Instead of dealing with one application, I'm dealing with two applications, and one of those applications makes dealing with multiple documents a miserable experience.

Remember, if it's going on the Internet, save that shit in fucking HTML, or you're to hell. I swear I will get this ratified by the Catholic Church and amended on to the Ten Commandments.

Current Mood: annoyed

I want one these: RedayNAS Pro Pioneer, Thecus N7700


I could just build my own, but it would trend towards huge overkill.

I have one more week in this semester, and after that it's three weeks of catching up on things I haven't had time to do. Like clean up my side of the garage, hang out with people aside from my wife [I love her, but I don't see many people aside from her during a semester], and rebuild the OS on my laptop [:)].

I think I'm going to go with Arch Linux this time. Fedora is nice, but my laptop is getting old and Fedora is kind of heavy. I tried Arch in December, and I found it to be very light. I wasn't very confident in my ability to configure it for a laptop, and I was running out of time after trying OpenSolaris, among others. I'm going to give it another try, and this time I'll have more time.

CrunchBang is an other distro I'm interested in. It uses the highly configurable Openbox as it's Windows Manager. I played around with Openbox for a little bit, and I really liked how configurable it was. Unfortunately, Fedora doesn't have a lot of the really neat programs that can be run with it, so I would have to compile them from the source code. I'm definitely going with Arch, but I'll watch Crunchbang.

This quote comes from the comments in an Autoblog.com post. The article is about how Virginia is experimenting with painting zig-zag lines before crosswalks to warn motorists of the upcoming pedestrian thoroughfare. It's a good idea, and they are proven to work in Australia and the UK. In the quote below, user pimento explains why they work in Australia.

Here it is your Quote of the Day!

"pimento: In Australia we have them to indicate a cross walk (zebra crossing?) is ahead. They work because we generally try not to run each other over." -- From Virginia goes back-and-forth on new speeding countermeasure

Note: For more fun, check out Geekengineers description of how things work in the Virginia/Northern DC area.

It lives.

Here it is your Quote of the Day!

"Awe is not a very comfortable standpoint for many people... Hence, all about us today, we see avoidance of awe-by burying ourselves in materialist science, for example or in absolutist religious positions; or by locking ourselves into systems, whether corporate, familial, or consumerist; or by stupefying ourselves with drugs. -- Kirk Schneider, 2004, Rediscovery of Awe, p. xiii" - From Existential Quotes

I found Academic Earth via TechCrunch the other day, and I'm pretty impressed so far. The website achieves lectures from various universities on various topics; it's the library version of Youtube or Vimeo. I started working through the Harvard Computer Science series as a tester since I already have a base of knowledge in that area, and watching the lectures is just going to refresh me and increase me knowledge.
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What is hell?

Hell is having to call the HP service desk twice in one day.

I'm still on the current cruise, but as soon as I can, I'm jump to another ship.

It's amazing how much less fun college gets when you're pushing to get graduated.

It's a Fuck You! Friday.

I could have used one today. Between the fucking bridge calls and continuous bullshit, it's time to say, "Fuck You! Sit and rotate."

The first five people to respond to this post will get something made by me! My choice. For you.

This offer does have some restrictions and limitations:
- I make no guarantees that you will like what I make!
- What I create will be just for you.
- It'll be done this year.
- You have no clue what it's going to be. It may be a story. It may be poetry. I may draw or paint or photograph something. I may bake you something and mail it to you. Who knows? Not you, that's for sure!
- I reserve the right to do something extremely strange.

The catch? Oh, the catch is that you have to put this in your journal as well. We all can make stuff!

This... is gold. A Scarlett Johannson Internet clone conspiracy. :)

Here it is your
Quote of the Day!

"I'd like inform you that Scarlett Johansson, "actress", actually is a clone from original person, who has nothing with acting career. Clone was created illegally using stolen biomaterial. Original Scarlett Galabekian last name is nice, CHRISTIAN young lady.I'll tell more,those clones(it's not only 1)made in GERMANY-world leader manufacturer of humans clones,it's in Ludwigshafen am Rhein,Rhineland-Palatinate,Mr.Helmut Kohl home town.You can't even imaging the scale of the cloning activity.But warning,H.Kohl staff strictly controlling their clones spreading around the world,they're NAZI type disciplined and mind controlled,be careful get close with clones you will be controlled too.Original family didn't authorize any activity with stolen biomaterials,no matter what form it was created in,it's all need to be back to original family control in Cedars-Sinai MedicalCenter in LA.Controlling clones is US military operation.Original Scarlett never was engaged,by the way " -From sergal in a Tech Reports comment section

Current Mood: chipper

I finally ordered procs for my new build yesterday. :)

This was the last major part I needed; everything else is little stuff from now on.

Current Mood: cheerful

So I have some time. To fill that time, I've been browsing around the Internet, and I found the site of Kashiwa Sato, a Japanese director, from the Colour Lovers Blog.

The design of the site is a very techno and minimalistic. It's awesome.

I'm slowly dismantling the infrastructure I've built over the past couple of months, and only a couple of weeks until I have to rebuild it.

Ok, I'm not totally dismantling everything, but I am scaling it back to a more manageable level. For instance, I had four different code editors (Visual Studio Express, Komodo Edit, ConTEXT, and Kate) with one being part of entirely different desktop environment (Kate is the code editor for KDE). I like Komodo Edit (Plus it's cross-platform), I can't get rid of VSE (I provides the MS compiler), and ConTEXT is a great lightweight editor. Kate is nice, but I've just grown to like Komodo Edit more. Consequently, Kate and the KDE environment get the ax.

I should mention that NetBeans was axed a couple of weeks ago. If I ever have a project to code, I'll re-evaluate it, but it proved to be too inflexible.

I also installed the Eclipse IDE at the end, but I never had a chance to evaluate it. It may end up being like NetBeans though.

I'm going to take sometime during this downtime to evaluate my Operating System platform. I'm currently running Fedora 10, after an upgrade this weekend, but I want to check out some other options. OpenSolaris had a release this month, and it looks very smooth from the liveCD. Going the Solaris route would give me access to SunStudio and the Sun compiler, which I would like to try.

Another option is PC-BSD. I haven't used this one in a while, but I would like to see what's going on with it. It's had problems with Flash support in the past, and I would like to see if that's been fixed. Most software is ported over from linux, so I shouldn't have a problem setting up my environment again.