Pug’s Place

This will likely be my last update from Gainesville for the semester. Most everything is packed, and Resmiranda has been stripped of all her unncessary gear to speed final packing in the morning.

Nadrak (my level 13 Transmuter) dueled Odette (13 Sorceress) twice last night. I’ll get nice logs to you sometime soon.

Ah, the joys of secure document disposal.

Everyone tells you that you should destroy all credit card applications you get in the mail; cross-cut shred them, and then either scatter the shredding in several garbage bags, or burn them. So we burned them. As a burning-base we used my German workbook from my last few semesters here. At the end of things the workbook was about half destroyed.

Isn’t it fun what you can do with naphthalene and a zippo?

Oh, what have I done today?

• Set up a quick bypass for ICARUS and IRC (damn you willis!)
• Read more Two Towers
• Cleaned out notebooks
• Ate a free chocolate fudge brownie ice cream cone at Ben and Jerry’s (but donated to the Gainesville Animal Shelter )
• Got my bike tuned up
• Picked up my Statistics homework assignments from my professor
• Updated my formula sheet for the exam on Friday
• So far resisted the temptation to watch Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers (Though I fear I might not hold out the night!)
• Remembered, so far, that tonight at 7 PM is UF’s first College Libertarians meeting which I am planning to attend
• Completed my switch from Ximian Evolution to Mozilla Thunderbird for email

I’m also giving thought again to HID Commander, but it’s seeming less and less useful to me. See, the point of the program is to provide a generic Linux user-space framework for reading button presses from any USB Human Interface device. I was going to use it to read button presses on my Microsoft GameVoice Puck so that I can use it to control XMMS. But I’ve found that for some really odd reason Resmiranda occasionally fails to boot while the puck is plugged into a USB port. Freaky, no?

So, if the puck hurts my baby, do I really want it plugged in all the time? A very good question…

Otherwise, I saw the above above quote in Jen’s away message. It amused me:

I love that my roommate and I keep quote lists from the year of funny things that we’ve said… I swear I don’t remember telling her that she looked “like a gopher on speed”…

Only three days left in Gainesville. The end is nigh!

What’s happened? Well, I just finished the Fellowship of the Ring again (I think that makes my… 6th reading of Fellowship), I have corrected bugs in the Aikido website’s practice schedule calendar, I’ve taken two exams: Digital Logic on Saturday Morning and Discrete Structures this morning, defeated more evil in Neverwinter Nights, begun learning the C# programming language (and Mono), started packing for home, and upgraded to Gnome 2.6, encountering all sorts of queer problems along the way.

But I don’t much feel like recounting them now.

Released it. ChangeLog:

Version 1.0 - 23 April 2004
    * Added configure-time selection of whether to build gimfavorites
       or not.
    * Added TagLib as a optional dependency to...
    * Allow song-length limiting, new API functions added related.
    * Add song-length limiting to the GTK+ GUI and console application,
      closing feature request 934108.
    * Add --music-cd to the console application.
    * Changed the /home/$user default target in the GUI to
      /home/$user/favorite_music/

Grab it from http://imfavorites.sourceforge.net/. I’m tired. Digital logic exam at 7:30 am tomorrow morning! Yay!

Seriously though, if you use IMMS, you should have IMFavorites. It makes it easy to synch your music tastes between your car and your computer, or whatever.

A. A good start.

Q. What’s the difference between a violin and a viola?

A. The viola burns longer.

Q. What’s the difference between a violin and a trampoline?

A. You take your shoes off to jump up and down on a trampoline.

Just had to post these.

The Elf came down to Gainesville on Monday. We played Chez Geek. We had a good time at it, too!

I think the CSC will have to come down to visit Carmen over the summer so that we can ALL play rousing games of Chez Geek and Ninja Burger!

I’m wishing my roommate a happy birthday right now. Really, right now. Right. Right now.

Happy Birthday, James. May you go Ronin, defeat an Army of Darkness, be dubbed The Last Starfighter on a morning with a Red Dawn, and Die Hard.

[ Followup to 10 April 2004's post ]

The awards ceremony finished 30 minutes ago. My group received no awards as an entity, but I walked out the only individual to receive two (and the only guy in my group to receive any):

• Best Document Design
• Best Electrical/Computer Section Presentation

I apparently should have won “Best Electrical/Computer Written Section”, but our teacher admitted to the class that the best section’s author was already getting several awards (”I had narrowed the choice to two stellar sections, but one person was already getting several awards.“). I was the only guy to get several awards… Gee, thanks, I got some real nasty looks from the winner…

But hey, I got two nice cardstock-printed “Certificate[s] of Excellence” and doughnuts/juice/bagels for breakfast. Can’t beat that!

Heard on a classic rock station somewhere in the US:

“David Bowie doesn’t remember 1975.



Any of it.



LONG. LIVE. ROCK.“