I've been insanely busy with the holidays, that's why I haven't posted of late. Between that and school, I haven't had much time at all to post...not much going on, bought Office Space in wide screen, got a digital camera for christmas (most excellent), counting down until the Detroit Auto Show...that's the five minute run down, I think, may post later...

Thanksgiving has come and gone, we ate way too much and then came and collasped into bed. Today was actually kind of sane, didn't get up until 8:30, then threw on clothes and got some christmas shopping done. After that, we did school work for the rest of the day...and now cooking dinner.

Posting from lynx for no particular reason other than I can...there's just something cool about text based browsing and I can't put my finger on it. (edited in safari...cop out tonight)

On the Mernovigain, there's something weird there, him being married to Persephine and all (Hades reference). After plugging "Mernovigian" into Google, I found two things: 1) Gave Frankish throne away to "mayors" who ran kingdom/court and eventually became Caroligians and 2) Gnostic sect claiming descendence from Christ. Okay, so I think the Mernovigian ran the Matrix creating Agents to make his job easier. The Agents took over and he lost his kingdom. Hence his collection of rogue programs and why the Agents didn't attack the Twins. Now to maintain any kind of power, the Mernovigian is forced to traffic in information and create "mystery"...I think my thought is half done but that's the gist.

Yea! Blogger has returned to the old post/publish screen...but I digress, I fear...

I finially saw The Martix and Reloaded after beginning woefully behind pop culture for a while. Nifty, although I understand the Big Deal about the first one, Reloaded was cool in a detached, intellectual sense and an action sense...it didn't have that je'nesequois of the first one, tho....and what's up with the Mernovigian being married to Persephine? All my googling just muddied it further, other than saying he's Gnostic (traffics in data) and is some kind of gate keeper...maybe Revolutions covers this one better, maybe not...not I have to figure out when to go see that...

I have a semi-complete working thesis on the Mernovigian to be released at a later date....I need to write that one down...

It is now a week later...I have not much to report...work and school, same old, same old...

Okay, so I installed Fink Commander and it's easier to see what I have installed but it still won't do tex so I can install KDE stuff...damnit...have to mess with this week end, I guess...but I really, really, really like Jaguar...very nice...

Blast from the past on my now dearly departed domain name...the Internet Archive project is cool...

ugh, I'm tired and don't feel like doing anything which completely blows...bad, bad, bad...I need to work on my laziness and I just lost AIM which is very bizzare, as I know I have internet and it just got right on...

I have two mid-terms to write (no big deal, I don't think) and reading to do...I want to start programming, haven't got to that between school work...very annoying...

DSL is setup and working, running through a 10/100 Router/Switch now....much better, I had it setup on the XP box and shared and it was crap for the laptops. Now everything works like it should (lost iTunes and Sherlock for some inexplicable reason) plus everything is behind a firewall...we'll see how it does but right getting 120K/s or there abouts (!!!) downstream...don't really upload that much, so I dunno where that is now...

Unintentional double post deleted...may post tonight, may not, dunno...

greetings from lynx...this is cool, i am running lynx in terminal window on a mac...dig it

I went war driving with the iBook today...all I have to say is sweeeeet...I was semi-surprised at how many networks were on my street (2-3 not including ours)...here's the breakdown:

- Went from house to UT Library, turned laptop on about half there - 8 networks (2 WEP, 6 wide open)
- Got needed items at library
- Drove from UT Library to pick up Lee from Volleyball...14 networks (5 WEP, 1 hidden SSID, 8 wide open) (15 if you count our WiFi network, which I had to drive by to pick her up)

Anne really got into the war driving thing, probably because I had her running the iBook...on the other hand, she does take a moderate interest in computer stuff, so I dunno...

i have been rather lax in posting of late...been busy with work and school and illnesss mon and tues...which sucked totally...

I have too much to do and not enough time, and right now I've being lazy...at least I have Mon and Tues next week off school, so I can hopefully get reasonably caught up.

The Friday Five actually on time...

1. What vehicle do you drive?

1994 Buick Roadmaster

2. How long have you had it?

Since Febuary

3. What is the coolest feature on your vehicle?

Auto-headlights get kudos, I like those. It has everything, tho, leather, automatic climate control, power seats...so it's hard to pick a best feature...

4. What is the most annoying thing about your vehicle?

The automatic climate control only works really well in the summer, I can never get the temp right any other time...

5. If money were no object, what vehicle would you be driving right now?

right now? Subaru WRX or BMW 330Ci Coupe...as far as "money no object" and cars, I would like to a own a vast collection ranging from a 1969 Maserati 3500GT Mistral to a 2003 Porsche 911 Turbo to a 2004 Jeep Wrangler...of course, any given moment I'd driving something different...

My finger still hurts from when I dropped a rather hefty set drawings/desktop on it...although it didn't come out broken. My brain is very much mush right now...and I have much to do and finte time to do it. I don't need motivation, I need a job that isn't killing me...I come home and I'm done...it's awful...

I'm entirely sure what I'm posting tonight...I feel mostly out of it and probably need to eat something but the whole thought of dealing with the kitchen at this hour right now is really unappealing. I had pondered posting song lyrics but decided against it or least shelved the idea right this second. Other than thinking I need to start a bidness (which is a real challege with no bidness plan, capitol, or ideas), no great ideas have struck me...

no wires good...most excellent to be able to use laptop anywhere in house. I'm tired and worn out and generally feeling a lack of anything interesting to post. Happy 40th to the Porsche 911. Although I have to admit to being kinda of purist and really consider the last real 911 to be the aircooled 993.

My motivation has completely run away and gotten killed in the middle of the street...that sucks...

I'm not sure I like the blogger interface, it took me needless clicking and poking to finally type in the box...very annoying...

I have been extraordinary lax in posting, although there is not much of anything going on as far as notable events. Work continues to be taxing drudgery while school has begun and ended up being moderately taxing although interesting. My Toshiba begin its death rattle which preceded christa's all out crash. I caved and bought a new computer for the first time in five years...which is the how and why of posting from an iBook right now...I am very pleased with it. I've gotten it pretty well setup with Office and X11 (although I haven't delved into getting Gnome to run in window yet) plus Bochs which apparently emulates an x86 via software and allows full monitoring/picking/probing/prodding of a virtual machine. I haven't played with that either and it seems to be overkill to get trillian...which is sadly deficit on both *nix and Max support.

Yes, this post is on 9/11 and, no, I don't really have any thought regarding this day other than disgust at the whole spectacle. The war on terror which has become a joke, the war in Afghanistan which has been forgotten, the war in Iraq which has nothing to do with either other than the main foe speaks Arabic...

The Friday Five actually on time, amazingly enough...

1. Are you going to school this year?

yes

2. If yes, where are you going (high school, college, etc.)? If no, when did you graduate?

The University of Toledo working on my B.A in English (Literature)

3. What are/were your favorite school subjects?

English, calc (although my brain has issues with higher math now), that's about it...

4. What are/were your least favorite school subjects?

physics and foreign language, Spanish has been and continues to be challeging in the worst way...I make it through that class a week at a time...

5. Have you ever had a favorite teacher? Why was he/she a favorite?

Yes, a few, all of them because they changed the way I thought about the world.