o/` Duran Duran – Come Undone o/`

Well luckily I did manage to get to the Philly Chix meeting wednesday night, my friend mjoseph (boyfriend of another one of the chix) offered to drive me since he was going so he could take his girlfriend home. Great! It was really nice of him to go a bit out of his way to pick me up. The meeting was really nice, five people actually showed up! It’s a new record %) A couple women brought their cameras so we had pictures! stargirl was nice enough to post the pictures on her livejournal so I swiped (with permission!) them for the chix page.. So now we actually have 6 active members in the group, I update the site to reflect this and then signed up for O’Reilly’s User Group program, which requires the user group to have five or more members. It has yet to be approved but I’m hopeful, since we met the requirements.

Usually I don’t post quizzes and things, but this was funny…:

o/` Peter Murphy-All Night Long o/`

Updated the #13thHour page a bit yesterday, I’m adding some new members to the members page as soon as they get around to filling our surveys, separated the pictures sections a bit so that members who don’t come around much anymore are on a second page (as most people just want to see pictures of people the know and chat with often of course).

I spoke with my cousin Melissa yesterday afternoon, they changed their plans and decided on going to Hershey Park on Friday (she wants chocolate now), so said it would be better if we met up for dinner on Saturday. That’s cool, will probably work out better that way anyway, so Myk won’t need to rush home from work and head straight out to dinner. Melissa said she’d bring her new digital camera so she had “photographic evidence” that Myk exists, since no one on my father’s side (besides my father) has ever met him.

The Philly Chix meeting is tonight. Unfortunately Myk woke up to a bit of a mess at work and I am sure he’s horribly stressed out over it. I’m not going to push him if he doesnt want to go into the city tonight, sometimes it’s just too much. At times like this I wish I had some more real life friends so I didn’t have to depend on Myk so much to get me out of the apartment…

The op rules for #13thHour seem to be going over well. It IS sad how they were needed. As far as I knew most of the people there now had chatted in other channels before and understood that it’s a privilege to have operator status. I guess I am just too nice sometimes %) Hopefully most of the annoying problems that keep popping up in the channel will go away now that everyone has clear boundries to follow. I am also frustrated that the last section about giving respect to Myk and I was needed, I mean come on… we run 1/4th of the irc server, Myk has put HOURS into making sure that is always up and running, we have been with #13thHour for nearly 5 years, and people can’t learn to respect that at all? *sigh*

I am going to get some things done today… clean up my home directory a bit more, I am *sure* there is stuff I dont need there. Probably move some stuff off of my Windows partition since I’m running out of room there (too many games installed). I should put all my images directories together. It’s all such a big mess %)

I also want to get another poll written in php, a friend of mine wrote up the questions and I am writing up the poll, it shouldn’t be too hard, I want to do a few things differently than I did with the IRC Quiz I think, just so this is more of a learning experience %)

Hmm… I probably will post some of my irssi perl scripts today as well, along with a couple themes (mine and r2d2’s), yeah… that’d be good.

*wanders off*

o/` Bjork – Possibly Maybe o/`

Myk spent a great portion of the weekend getting stuff all set up for our server, and created r2q5.xelium.net to replace the server on the cobalt which goes away at the end of the month, they are both connected now so the /map looks like:

clockbot.xelium.net (11)
`-ice.xelium.net (164) 1
|-r2q5.xelium.net (61)
|-mainstreet.xelium.net (42) 4
`-deep13.xelium.net (127) 37

Luckily most of the people are off clockbot, so it shouldnt be too much of a problem when it’s finally shut down. I’m glad we’re able to keep the server, I would have been disappointed if we weren’t able to… I’m quite attached %)

Well now that this is all set up I can edit my webpage again, YAY! I uploaded a couple sections I worked on in my spare time:

“Minesweeper” In Linux

irssi Basics

I’ll upload my irssi scripts and themes later this week when I have a chance and put that on an irssi “extras” page.

I also got a chance to upload my screenshots:

Enlightenment in Debian

LiteStep in Windows 2000

And I get to show off my pretty bash prompts!

Ok, I’m done… I’m just really excited about having access to my webpage again %) It’s been *weeks*! Hehe. Of course I understand and greatly appreciate all the work Myk did to get this all moved over, he’s so awsome %)

This past weekend was a nice one. Didn’t really do much, read some, wrote some, played with Cargo a bunch.

So this “friend” that I spoke of in this entry now thinks I should forgive him. Yesterday he came to me and asked what he could “do” to “fix” things between us. I told him that I couldn’t even consider forgiving him if Myk still had a problem with him, who am I to forgive someone who was acting like a jerk to Myk? So today he says “I have apologized to Myk, now come back to $mychannel please!” … what? No, he can’t mess around with me like that and expect me to come running back, does he realize that he actually did hurt me? I guess not. I think he’s just hurt that I left and took half the channel population with me(not intentionally, he was being a jerk, people wanted to leave). I don’t know IF I’ll forgive him. I hate being walked on, and this “easy forgiveness” policy of mine never fails to hurt me, I don’t need that. I have wonderful friends who have always been there for me and deserve my time much more than someone who seems to have no respect for Myk and me.

In light of this, and other problems that have arisen in #13thHour of late, I finally got around to writing up a list of op rules:

#13thHour’s Rules For Ops

I felt this was needed… some things were getting out of hand and I got sick of talking to each op individually about their infractions. And I guess it was a bit unfair to the ops to give them power without knowing the rules that went along with it.

I finished a few books, so I have reviews:

Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, by Douglas Adams, 306 pages
I am writing this review after the second time reading this book. I really enjoy all of Douglas Adams’ books. This one centers around a man, Richard MacDuff, who is wrongfully accused of murdering his boss. He encounters a college friend of his, Dirk Gently who is now the sole detective of “Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency. The book follows the “adventures” these two men have while trying to work out Richard’s innocence before he is found by the police. Of course this book has all the strange twists, turns and odd experiences that we all have come to exp
ect from Adams, and it makes for a very enjoyable ride. We encounter a time machine, an “Electric Monk” whose job it is to believe when people aren’t able to, and a horse in a strange posession that makes people do the strangest things… I really loved this book.

Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens, 531 pages
This review comes after I have read this book a few times. I am not sure what draws me to it, maybe the overall depressive attitude that the main character has about the world, maybe it’s the characters themselves. I’ve always been sadly captivated by the character of Estella, a beautiful woman who at a young age had the ability to love driven out of her, so that she is in a position to make the life of our main character very difficult. Even though this book is over 150 years old, I still feel that there are parallels you can draw between the life of the characters and a situation today, indeed the most recently movie version of this book does just that. The author did a wonderful job crafting this book so that it covers nearly the entire life of the main character. Pip, the main character, grows up as a poor orphan, raised by his sister. A variety of trivial experiences as a boy lead to him having a “Benefactor” who provides him with all the means he needs to become a gentleman. I love this book, and this comes from someone who generally has little knowledge of many of the “classics” in literature.

The Long Dark Tea-TIme of the Soul, by Douglas Adams, 307 pages
This was my second time reading this book. It comes after Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency (but reading them out of order is ok, their plots are completely different). Dirk is caught trying to figure out why his latest client has been murdered. The book takes a number of coincidental turns (as is often the case with Adams’ books), and the same characters keep running into each other under strange circumstances. Immortal gods, a coke machine, and an eagle that won’t leave Dirk alone are only part of the story. It was an amusing book, and gets into the story fairly quickly so it’s not difficult to get into. Another very amusing book by Adams!

I guess that’s it *wanders off*

o/` Loreena McKennitt – Dantes Prayer o/`

Happy 10th Birthday Debian!
Yep, today is Debian’s birthday. The PLUG Picnic next weekend is partially celebrating this as well. I don’t think we’re going to the picnic, last year it sucked, and it’s in a scary park in the city %) They are also having a “bar night” … but we can’t go to that either since that night is when my cousin will be in town and we want to go out to dinner with her.

Now wait, before you think I’m a big geek (hah!) for remembering Debian’s birthday, I must state for the record that the only reason I remember the exact date is that it’s my father’s birthday today as well. I called him this morning to get the hassle done and over with. I was pretty scared about calling, hoping I wouldn’t catch him at a bad time, or when he was “not quite with it” as my sister says. Luckily he has one of his sisters up visiting, so he was awake and alert when I called. It was a short conversation since they were heading out to lunch, but it was pleasant. I told him I had been busy with things like the philly chix stuff and he asked if I got paid for it, but that was all he really said about my current situation. He did ask when I was coming to visit again, geez, I just visited 2 months ago! Maybe once I get a job he’ll be less nagging about me visiting all the time. I’d say it was an altogether painless conversation.

Well it looks like our mail has all been moved, YAY! No more depending on crappy Comcast connection to do mail! Things have been moved and changed around a lot, so in the next couple days if you find irc.clockbot.net is acting funny just connect directly to clockbot.xelium.net or to irc.xelium.net

Last night was great. Cargo is over for the weekend, we got pizza and rented Solaris. Solaris was ok, apparently it was a remake of some 1970s film, maybe the 1970s one was the one I was supposed to see %) I still need to watch Blue Velvet, maybe tonight. The same friend that sent me Blue Velvet also sent me “Bowling for Columbine” it doesn’t come out on DVD til next week %) So we’re definately watching THAT tonight, maybe we’ll bring one of the computers into the bedroom and hook it up so we can watch it on the tv, that would be much more comfortable.

So what else will we do this weekend? Myk needs to do some work, so I’ll probably spend some time writing, and reading and probably do some knitting because I haven’t in a while and I don’t want to forget how %)

I watched a show on PBS earlier this week (big surprise huh?). It was “Scientific American Frontiers: Mysteries of the Deep” and it was really interesting. I was especially captivated by Bob Ballard, who was this totally awsome guy… he’s one of those people who just has tons of brilliant ideas that make you want to say “oh I could have thought of that” because they seem so obvious. And his long interviews in this episode proved him to be one of those rare brilliant people who also have humor, social skills, and are very comfortable to listen to. Well I wanted to find out this guy’s name so I could look more into stuff he’s done because it’s super interesting… where do I go? Searching the PBS website of course! I got to the main Scientific American Frontiers Website and was pleased to find the same great PBS websites that I have so recently come to expect… and I found something else:

“Welcome to the SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN FRONTIERS Video Archive. Every episode of the series, from 1990 to the present, is available for online viewing. Just enter the title or topic you’re interested in below. You can choose to watch individual stories or an entire show right on your computer. Enjoy!”

No way!

Well, I probably have to go into Windows to view them… but I’ll just *try* plugger since I have it installed. Oh my god it works!!! It didn’t work when I tried it with the windows media player, bu
t when I said realplayer it works %) I have realplayer version 8.0.3.421 installed, and although it opens up several realplayers, has an error, AND does the usual plugger crap of creating zombied processes… it does actually work! I can watch any of these episodes now, that rocks.

*wanders off*

o/` Bel Canto – Rumour o/`

I watched a show on PBS (this link is worth clicking on, PBS really impresses me with how they provide relatively extensive websites for some of their programming) the other night about how a fungus growing on rye might have been the cause for many of the salem witch trials, and the deaths in thousands of similar cases across Europe. I had heard this theory of Ergot poisoning but had never actually watched a show completely explaining the theory. Anyway, during part of the show they were walking through a very old house in France and he said “watch your head, people were shorter when they made this house.” That comment made me wonder. Why were people shorter? Was it because their diet was worse than ours today so people had their growth stunted? Was it some sort of evolution where tall == good and we have been “bred” to be taller than our ancestors? Was it something else that I’m not aware of? Well, I have the whole wealth of knowledge from the internet in my den, so I decided to surf around.

After a couple google searches and coming across too many midget pages, I discovered some relavent pages. There is apparently some debate surrounding whether people really were shorter then. I found this page:

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Mark_Gist/height.htm

He makes some very interesting points… which include pointing out that the average height in the United States today is 5’8″ (I looked this up, it’s actually 5’9″ according to this CDC study, but the point is still clear). And:

“in centuries past, houses had much lower doorways, not because their inhabitants were shorter, but to reduce the circulation of cold drafts. (References from several periods and social classes support this.) The same is true with beds. In prior centuries people habitually slept semi-reclining, propped up on bolsters, and their beds were shorter. Numerous illustrations from the 14th-17th centuries bear this out”

Hm. Of course I won’t base my entire idea on what some guy says on his webpage, but it certainly gave me something to think about. Then again I could just give up and go with teenmstie‘s theory:

“Well, people were still much more isolated back then than they are today. Its possible that some people in one area were tall, some in another area were tall, they got together, made midget pr0n, and normal size people were born.”

I watched this interesting thing happen yesterday afternoon:

16:12:11 [clockbot] !clockbot.xelium.net *** Notice — Client exiting: Barenjager (~zappa@…) [Ping timeout]
16:12:18 [clockbot] !clockbot.xelium.net *** Notice — Client exiting: Ruecian (~Ruecian@…) [Ping timeout]
16:12:37 [clockbot] !clockbot.xelium.net *** Notice — Client exiting: Lizard_Axe (LizardAxe@…) [Ping timeout]
16:12:37 [clockbot] !clockbot.xelium.net *** Notice — Client exiting: Xoria (~knsad@…) [Ping timeout]
16:13:10 [clockbot] !clockbot.xelium.net *** Notice — Client exiting: Wakatu (Un00bs@…) [Ping timeout]
16:13:10 [clockbot] !clockbot.xelium.net *** Notice — Client exiting: Ritler|Sleep (Ritley@…) [Ping timeout]
16:13:53 [clockbot] !clockbot.xelium.net *** Notice — Client exiting: tortau (duh@…) [Ping timeout]
16:13:53 [clockbot] !clockbot.xelium.net *** Notice — Client exiting: NightsB (lwejkhfadh@…) [Ping timeout]
16:14:43 [clockbot] !clockbot.xelium.net *** Notice — Client exiting: Mojoooo0 (mojojojo@…) [Ping timeout]

Puzzled by this I wondered if it was a server thing? Hm. What had gone on? coincidence?

Nope, you’re looking at what happens when power goes out in the northeast! It was about a half hour before I learned of the power outages, and then had to look back and laugh. Luckily none of the IRC servers on xelium were in the outage area so we didn’t have an
y trouble. And I didn’t either, yay for Philadelphia not losing power!

Today I, um… gosh %) Oh I cleaned the apartment a bit. We’re having Cargo Kitty over this weekend so I’m saving some of the cleaning for Monday, it’s silly to dust today when I will have to do it all over again on monday. This afternoon I was able to talk to my cousin Melissa on the phone, I saw her when I was visiting family back in June and she is visiting a friend in Philadelphia next weekend! She’s coming in thursday, and thinks it might be fun if we could meet somewhere and go out on friday… and she’s going to Hershey Park on Saturday and asked if we’d be interested in going as well. I’ll have to talk to Myk about it, and make sure we aren’t busy or anything… at least going out for dinner on friday would be nice. My cousin is calling on Monday so we can work out some real plans on what to do. Finally a member of my dad’s side of the family will get to meet Myk and see how wonderful he is %)

Tonight is going to be pizza and movie night. A friend of mine on IRC dcced me “Blue Velvet” woo! So we’ll probably rent a couple movies, and watch Blue Velvet. It should be a nice night, especially with Cargo here, yay!

*wanders off*

o/` Mono – Life In Mono o/`

I have this friend. Over the past few months we’ve gotten to know each other better. Spent some time helping him set up a channel on xelium and have had a lot of fun. I’ve talked to him about issues he’s had with a girl he’s attracted to (but can’t have). I’ve helped him promote his channel so some trivia nights he had over a dozen people in there. I even spent a couple days putting together a webpage for the channel AND decided to host it on princessleia.com for him. Unfortunately this was not enough to prevent what happened this afternoon.

He starts talking about things he wants to add to the site. Ok, that’s fine, I said, but it all has to wait until I have access to the webserver box again. I have been intentionally avoiding this subject with Myk because he’s been extremely busy with work and hey, on weekends I’ve taken up his time with other things. So I told my friend that he’d just need to be patient. Well, the next time Myk says something in #13thHour … (nickname has been changed to $friend to protect the bad):

-@Time- I’m at my wits fucking end with this windows server bullshit.
-@Peacimowen- heh.
-@$friend- Time, you have to give Leia user access!!!
-@$friend- Pleasee!
-@PrincessLeia2- $friend: dont be bad %P
-@Time- $friend: What are you talking about?
-$friend- Me and her want to update the website, but we can’t!
-@PrincessLeia2- i told you he’d get to it when he had a chance %P
-@$friend- I know, I just want to remind him.
…
-!- $friend was kicked from #13thHour by Time [“I’ll make a note”]

First of all, in #13thHour kicks don’t mean that we’re crazy angry… usually it’s just like “haha, you jerk” in a friendly way… If you are seriously in trouble you are banned as well!

So now he gets all mad about how unreasonable this is. I tried to explain to him that it’s perfectly reasonable action for someone who is stressed out and put in this position, I probably would have done the same. “Hey, I see you’re stressed out, I just wanted to remind you that you still need to do $morework” … you just don’t do that! It’s almost comical that he respected a positive response. Of course this friend didn’t understand this, and continues being upset and saying how Myk was wrong and how he hates #13thHour and how it’s all unreasonable and wrong. THEN he apparently got into a “conversation” in private message with Myk, where he said (among other things) “Yeah, makes me wonder what Leia sees in you, if I were her I would’ve dumped your ass long ago.” Ouch.

After all I did for this guy and he decides to treat me like this. How did he think he could insult Myk like this and stay my friend? You know, even if Myk wasn’t right in this situation, don’t come to me to bitch about his actions! I will argue to the death to defend him, and if you continue to insult him I just won’t be your friend anymore. How could I? Having friends that Myk does not exactly “love” is one thing, but once words of agressive dislike are exchanged I need to make a choice. And of course there have been times when Myk has given people another chance, but sometimes I need to decide that people don’t deserve that second chance. I don’t know what will happen in this situation, I’ll let things cool down for a couple days.

Stupid day.

I am feeling a bit better today, woke up ok… ate breakfast and felt miserable, had a really mild lunch and my stomach seems to be happy with that. I don’t quite feel 100% yet, but I do feel much better than I was. I spent a bunch of the day chatting and cleaning up files on my computer… my home directory was a huge mess, so I got everything sorted into folders and then started sorting those folders out, but it’s a big job… I have about 200 text files in my txtfiles directory that I need to go through, and my Images directory oh dear, I don’t even want to think about that, over 4000 of them … a lot of which are unorganized. What I need to do is devise a good file organization system and force myself to use it, the problem I have is either not organizing
things at all or I put them into folders that have broad names like “text” or “images” … and then I can’t find anything. Yes, I need to do this, organization like this would be a good project for me. Then maybe I could use it for organizing my real desk, hehehe.

And it turns out that after I went to lie down yesterday afternoon the Philly Chix talked in the IRC channel and decided to post-pone the meeting until next week. Only two people would have shown up, and one of them was just too tired from work, and the other had no problem with waiting, cool! So I didn’t miss the meeting afterall %) Of course this means I need to go into the city next week, hehe. And now all you chix who have excuses will need to come up with new ones! Hah!

Well it’s late, Myk should be coming home soon… I’m going to finish up a couple things and then go make dinner *wanders off*

o/` Depeche Mode – Enjoy The Silence o/`

‘LovSan’ Worm Crawls Into Philly’s City Hall – Many Workers Sent Home After Virus Infects Computers

*chuckles* Nothing like a worm like this to show how little most people know about computers.

Well, thanks to escapenguin I now know that the -sh option in wterm (shaded transparency) actually works. Previously I thought it was completely broken because when I used it I used it with -bg black it doesn’t work. Well apparently if you try other colors, like -bg blue or -bg magenta it works. Oh you know what I chose %) Magenta YAY! Actually the rose on my desktop (in this screenshot) is now fluorescent pink. I’ll be sure to make a pretty showing off desktop in the near future that includes it, hee.

I slept a little better last night, but not much. Then I woke up this morning feeling terrible, bad stomach ache, it’s stayed with me all day making me miserable. I am not having a good week. And I really am not feeling up to taking the train into center city to go to the chix meeting tonight %(

When Myk got home yesterday and saw I was horribly exausted again he asked “Do you think it’s the coffee?” Oh dear… The past 2 nights I hadn’t slept, and those were also days I had coffee. Damn. I never realized how much caffeine influences me these days, a cup of coffee at 10 am can make me unable to sleep at 12 am. Bleh!

I have spoken to 3 friends in the past couple days who are having relationship troubles. It’s really hard to watch. One friend decided to date a close friend of his who had a rocky past, well her past caught up with her emotionally and she broke up with him because she got scared. Another seems to have gotten involved with someone and didn’t realize that he’d need to outline the boundries of the relationship and now she’s seeing another guy as well, he is now just laughing it off, doesn’t want a relationship with her anymore… but it’s pretty obvious that he’s really hurt by it. And my other close friend was in a long serious relationship that has hit some stormy weather. This one is the one that cuts deeply, he’s a close friend and I hate to see him in such restless agony.

Well on a more amusing note, I went to usps.com today (I actually forgot why once I got there) and the following warning popped up:

Warning, you are using Opera Version /6.03 (Linux 2.4.18 i686
The recommended browsers to view this page are:
– Internet Explorer 4.0 or better
– Netscape 4.0 or better
– Mozilla 1.0.1 or better
– Opera 5.0 or better

Heehee. *wanders off*

o/` BOA – Anna Maria o/`

Yesterday was ok. After my burst of caffeine that I had earlier in the day I quickly became to realize that I really hadn’t had much sleep the night before and I was exhausted. I spent most of the afternoon having trouble focusing on anything. I was working up the design for the #WheelOfTime website and I couldn’t even think clear enough for that! Gah… I sat around chat on xelium for a bit. Surfed the web a little, but that couldn’t keep my interest. So I just wasted away the afternoon trying to resist taking a nap.

While hanging out in #13thHour I had the “pleasure” to see one of my friend struggling with some sort of worm that was causing Windows XP to reboot at random intervals, sometimes a minute apart. Another friend began to help her out when someone else showed up in the channel with the same problems. Strange, I thought. But I am horribly inexperienced with worms, the last time I got one was in 2001 and I just reinstalled. So I sat back and chuckled. Well after watching this play out for a while I saw someone in the xelium #support channel report the same problems on his system (why he came to IRC support I still don’t know…). I informed him that it was a virus or worm. That’s when another IRCop piped up and reported that two of his friends were having similar troubles! Well I didn’t really put any effort into helping, I honestly don’t know enough windows to even know where to look for the problem. I know of at least one person who just decided to give up and reinstall his C drive and hope the other harddrives weren’t infected. Then another friend of mine ended up dropping by #13thHour last night saying she had the same problem. Bleh.

Well it turns out this was an RPC DCOM worm (Washington Post News on it). Spread rapidly all day yesterday and by late last night there were virus scanner patches and fixes out to deal with it (apparently the windows patch had been released previously?). It’s neat that I could watch this thing spreading, and laugh. The best part is that even if I had been using Windows I would have been fine, secure firewalls are good!

Damn Windows. I certainly don’t miss these problems %)

My father’s birthday is on Saturday. I am not sure how I want to approach this, maybe I’m making a big deal out of nothing. I have his cellphone number, maybe I should get ahold of Heather first and see if they have plans that day… or maybe just call him up and risk the chance of catching him at a bad time. I’ll just call, ask about the weather, briefly ask how he is, and wish him a happy birthday. I don’t think I can afford to get more involved than that. Ok, this should be simple. It’s just a phone call. I can’t cop out like I did on Father’s Day.

The Philly Chix meeting is tomorrow night. Looks like Sam will show up, and “stargirl” who is a woman from the uk who is in Philly for the summer. It should be a nice time and I’m looking forward to it. I’m not really looking forward to actually getting into the city, but that’s no big surprise, trains are expensive take forever, and driving is stressful. I need a teleporter, I wonder if they sell them on thinkgeek %D

I need direction again. Last week I spent working on that perl weatherbot, and now I’m starting to feel like I don’t have anything to do again. I guess I can keep on learning about bash scripting, I’ve learned some very interesting things just after reading through parts of that scripting tutorial that I mentioned in a previous entry. You know, speaking of shell scripting, that reminds me. This morning my friend Ocean-Saurian (who is taking a required intro to linux class for college) came into #deep13 asking how to run a script. My first response was ./scriptname because that’s how I had first learned. Then I went ahead and explained the requirements for running this way (had to be executable, had to define what shell/program to run it with with #! so it didn’t make a mistake and use the wrong shell). Then
I told him about the `bash scriptname` way to run the file. That’s when he said his teacher told him that they could run it just by typing the file. Hm. I quickly explained $PATH and said that if it was in a $PATH then sure it could be executed just by typing the name. Well apparently what he actually meant was typing /full/path/to/scriptname. Right. OS came back later and told me that is teacher didn’t know about the ./ way to run a script. Um… seriously? I find that difficult to believe, where did this TEACHER learn his *nix from? Scary.

Hm today… dunno what I’ll do. It’s only 10 am now.. I’m sure I’ll figure out something. *wanders off*

o/` Klaus Schulze – Totem o/`

I hate mondays.

Luckily this monday I have coffee, that coffee maker makes good coffee. I gave it up for a while after our coffee maker broke, and I felt good. But I really do love the taste of coffee, and it’s such a wonderful warm happy feeling when I wake up and have a cup of coffee. Of course now I’m caffeinated and I am not sure what to do with this energy… I’m sure I’ll think of something.

So IRC… I decided just to give #deep13 a chance, I’ll hang out there a few more months, really give it the benefit of the doubt. I have narrowed down my IRC attendance to 4 servers and 15 channels though. What? *grin* this is progress! It’s not like they are all big channels, and I don’t end up on top of *all* the ircstats.

Last night I watched some Bravo. The West Wing is going to be on Bravo every weekday night at 11, and starting tonight they are going through all the episodes starting with episode 1 in season 1, yay! It’s the only network show I watch often, I really enjoy it. So on Bravo this past weekend they were showing lots of “West Wing hype” things. I watched half of “Wag the Dog” and then a Bravo special on the real west wing that drew parallels to the show, then an “Inside The Actor’s Studio” with Martin Sheen. Now I’m all excited for the West Wing’s new season! It’s such a great show.

Well, I should go find something to work on today. *wanders off*