Year: 2008

Nothing like a funeral to brighten your day!

Entertainment, The Interweb


I found this video on Boing Boing today. It’s Big Bird preforming a song at a memorial service for Jim Henson. It’s really touching, It makes me think back to all those Henson produced shows I loved as a kid (and still do!). It’s funny that I know there is someone inside that suit, but I’ve always thought of Big Bird  (and all the muppets) as their own people. Laurel and I went to a Jim Henson exibit at the Ripley Center in the Smithsonian this summer. It was a brief retrospective of his career, from high school through his death. It was amazing to see his early works and the creativity that drove him. It really inspired me to get creative, since then I’ve tried to make something, anything, every day. It’s not the easiest for me because as the youngest child in my family I don’t have the drive my older sisters do. But I am trying!

I’m totally watching Fraggle Rock when I get home

[via] Boing Boing

I'm growing my Linux ponytail…

Projects, Stuff and Things

I tried to set up a Ubuntu box about a year ago and became frustrated with the experience very easily. I don’t know if it was just the difficulty of switching from a Windows mindset or if the software has really progressed that much in just the last year or so. But Its actually pretty easy now to set up a computer with older hardware that can do pretty much anything my XP laptop can do.

In about 2 hours I had done the following.

1. Installed Ubunto 8.04 from a cd (including formatting the 60gb drive)

2. Added 3 external usb drives (2 formatted NTFS and one a Mac Drive formatted HFS+)

3. Configured the built in FTP server to allow access to all the drives from outside the network.

4. Configured SAMBA shares for the computer for Windows networking.

I remember back in college spending hours just trying to get network access from Charlie’s Windows 2000 box to my XP box across the hall. I do have to admit that I have a little bit more experience than the average user, but since I have almost no Linux or UNIX experience I’m basically coming at it fresh. It’s been great so far!

I’m ready to call Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) ready for prime time*

Later!

*but not quite ready for mom’s and grandparents to use… unless you lock down all the settings.

Are you ready to stare into the face of our Criminal Ninja?

Life, Trips

And other assorted wackiness.

I spent the weekend camping with “All the Freaky People in the World“… well not all of them. Just the ones on the middle of the east coast. From New York to North Carolina the freakies gathered on a small beach like plain in Delaware to celebrate the coming fall at the phenomenon know as “Playa Del Fuego“.

And it was awesome.

This is not part of the liberal media attack. This is not part of the radical right wing agenda. This is part of the freedom of American expression. 1000 people gathering to have fun and party from Thursday to Monday… twice a year. Chocked full of fire and spirits.  I have to admit it was all very hard to take in for a couple of first timers. The date really snuck up on us and we didn’t really know much about it before hand. But that’s the way Laurel and I roll… we’re the explorers. We’re like the seal team of awesomeness, we go in first, scope the place out, and then call in the reinforcements. Next year I promise we’ll bring more to share and more people to share it with.

Also, I want to thank the guys from “Whiskey and Whores” for putting up with me on Saturday night. They know who they are!

Later!