After several years of thinking I should make one, and a year of stashing away bits of writing, issue 0 (Circumspice) of Late Night Thinking finally exists in physical form. 34 pages of random ramblings about Toronto, Ypsilanti, moving to Michigan, and more about making tea than you probably cared to know. You can find info about it here.. Haiku a Day is still going strong after over two years.
I finally had gone long enough in life without owning a crockpot, so off to the store I went last night, picking up a six quart unit (when I cook, I cook large, and freeze up a weeks worth of lunches). This was inspired by reading a recipe for mushroom stew. I made the recipe pretty much as noted, although I didn't have any portobella mushrooms, and I was kinda free handed with the amount of ingredients.
I use the LaTeX booklet style often to make folio-size booklets — for example, Haiku a Day has used it since it started, and so when working on a longer zine I turned to it. The booklet style has the concept of signatures, essentially a logical grouping of pages. In actual printing it defines how many pages are printed on a large sheet of paper, which is then folded and cut in various ways to make a grouping of pages.
Last Tuesday my colo provider knocked the powercord from my machine there whilst doing some power work. Since then, although I didn't make the connection until just now, my nightly afs backups were taking much much longer than usual. Since I was also running out of space on the disk at home that holds one copy of the dumps, I just turned off backups until I could look at it tonight.
Cranksgiving was held this year the Sunday before Thanksgiving. Over thirty finishers raced to six Ann Arbor area food stores, purchased items, and raced back to Bandemere Park, where the food was given to Food Gatherers. I believe I heard that over three hundred pounds of food was collected. I rode over to the park to help out as I usually do. The weather was pretty cooperative for the race, dry, probably around 40ish when the race started (and clocking it at just above 30 when I made it home just before 8).
I broke down and purchased a copy of Paralells Desktop for Mac several months ago. It's very useful when I want to have a local NetBSD system to work on (typically because the network at my Designated Local Coffee Shop is sucking hardcore). I've got a fairly nice setup with OpenVPN, and have it set up so that the parallels virtual machine has its own little network that can reach (and be reached) by my entire network, as well as get to the rest of the Intertoobes.
#review music #band They Might Be Giants My second favorite band ever is on tour and came through my part of the world, playing at the incredibly wonderful Michigan Theater in a little suburb of Ypsilanti I like to call Ann Arbor. The show was, as I usually expect from TMBG, excellent. Opening for them was a duo from Belfast, Ireland called Oppenhemier. Poppy, synthesizers (and they must have had a sequencer in there somewhere, because there was more music than two guys could play).
I got an e-mail from my friend Nick [1] today, in which he was probably the dozenth person to ask me if I had a blog. I'm a curmudgeon when it comes to things like that, but I've finally broken down and called this thing a blog, for what it is worth. There's no comments because I'm too lazy — strike that, because I make things too complicated to set up something like that without months of work — most of what is here already is either computer arcana or random food tidbits I don't want to forget, and I can't promise I'll update it with any regularity, but here it is.
Okay, this is probably better entitled "Stupidity on My Part". If you have multiple zephyr servers and forget to put the keytab with the zephyr/zephyr principal in the proper place, they can't talk to each other. The symptom of this is your zephyr servers constantly trying to braindump at each other, and failing. Once I realized I had forgotten to put the keytab as well as the srvtab in the proper place, everything started working.
This comic, and the fact that it is the 137th comic in that series, clicks in my mind very well.