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^^ sim: It's an HP 14. I haven't kept careful track or anything when it comes to crouton updates or breakage, so I'm working with an exaggerated impression. I just think it's cool that crouton makes this bit of plastic into something actually useful. And if a chroot gets weird, it's nothing to delet...

My office computer: A bad little Dell box that I suspect is specially refurbished in bulk for businesses (an "Octiplex 980"). Popcorn Lite is the main system on it, all bloated out with LaTeX and Libreoffice (yeah, sometimes it's necessary) and GIMP and Inkscape, all useful for work. (Bork...

Tiny Tim: Easy listening meant to unnerve. The best kind.

Tiny Tim, "Tiptoe through the Tulips" -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QOcYfEXCAI

^^g-slob:

yeah, most of what I hear coming out of car stereos in my part of the world is uninspired stuff on the lines of in da club, we in da club, yo shorty in da club, drankin' in da club...

at that point in time I wasn't even intending to rhyme
my keyboard play just happened that way

it's not at all too cold -- it never really gets cold here on the South Carolina coast -- but it is too wet.

a visit to the beach is definitely in order this weekend, if it ever stops raining.

looks like good reading, and a healthy break from the world of abstractions I'm in most of the time.

thank you.

Happy belated nativity. "x11 must die" has been an major inspiration for my Linux exploration, btw. Thanks for that.

thanks, everyone. this makes my day. :)

now if this stack of awful student papers on my desk would only grade itself...

That makes sense, rust. There's a lot I still don't understand (obviously) about system maintenance. I'm updating, but it's not like I'm doing it knowledgeably. Not yet, anyway.

I may just keep Popcorn going then. Proof is still awesome, though.

Finally got to explore Proof this past weekend. The live system works beautifully on my crappy HP 14 Chromebook. Will install as primary system on my office machine in the new year. (Using Popcorn Lite on that machine right now. I know, any spin over 3 months old is an antique, but it's doing fine f...

A long tune by Sisters of Mercy? "This Corrosion" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obzPPeHgHRQ This is good a song to drive along with very fast late at night across barren wastes Not goth exactly, but in the same "dark wave" vein (and funny too): The Smiths, "Girlfriend in a...

so much youtube (and other) video goodness is to be found here: http://watch.everythingisterrible.com/ These guys collect old VHS tapes and enhance their creepiness and badness by creative editing. Their greatest masterpiece/discovery is "So Your Cat Wants a Massage": https://www.youtube.c...

^^ yeah, you're right, I screwed up there, though Wikipedia suggests that there is some distinction between "French" as spoken in Hainaut and the Walloon of Brabant, but it doesn't seem all that great. I was remembering some very wierd Belgian language that a had a few web pages by some pe...

isn't "Belgian Dutch" properly called Vlaams (Eng. Flemish)? I'm told that Belgian French is also a bit weird (although they count to 100 more sensibly), and let's not get started on Walloon :) Edited to add: love the complexity of the language situation in Belgium according to wikipedia: ...

Thanks Schmickel for starting this thread. I was curious about what the experts would say. Now I've got a bunch more things to read and try myself. For what it's worth -- and it's probably not much -- I've found Mark G. Sobell's _A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming_ r...

^^ slacky: install gummi right away. it compiles LaTeX code on the fly and shows the results in an adjoining pane. Really useful for learning. if anyone's interested, I could dig up some links about beamer (the popular presentation package for LaTeX) that I've found useful for making lecture slides ...

History prof here. I remember grad school. Hope you have a decent or at least quasi-humanoid advisor. The grill has led me to work (and play) almost exclusively in terminal.

Nice to meet you.

"linux by human beings"

That's it exactly. Nicely put. Pleased to meet you.

Time to drop some Das Racist on y'all. Hiphop geniuses from New York. The name isn't mock German. It's the phrase "That's Racist" as many Americans commonly pronounce it. Their name may not suggest it, but they are hilarious. And extremely good. They smoke a *lot* and the tracks are better...