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Hmm, so according to a friend, the El Rey‘s roof fell in, which explains why all the shows have been rescheduled. The Sleater-Kinney show got moved to the Highlands at the monstrosity pinnacle of American culture that is Hollywood & Highland. Incidentally, the Latin Grammy‘s were being held that same night. The traffic was blocked off, but it was rather amusing looking down from the outside balconies and seeing limos coming in but seeing very few people at the barriers. Maybe I shouldn’t lose all hope for humanity yet.

I just got back from the the jazzanova, at Fais Do-Do. Fun, but I left before they finished. Just too tiring of a week.

Earlier this week I spent some looooong hours finishing up some analysis on improving web server performance, and then I was trying to install Gentoo on a work server. The build instructions are very complete, but at the end of it, my compiled kernel just wasn’t finding sda, despite that 1) the live cd’s kernel didn’t have any problems finding it 2) all the SCSI drivers were being built in properly. So, I ended up just installing Red Hat today. The server is a P3/1.26GHz Dell PowerEdge am I’m using it now as a log processing box. I have it processing the past’s months of stats. It’s been going for over 7 hours now, but it’s past the 7GB point. Only a few more left. I’m using Sawmill, but have downloaded Wusage and Funnel to test out as well.

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I drove up to the bay area this weekend and hung out and crashed at Ernie’s pad. He wasn’t feeling well, but the important thing is that I got to see all the important things, like the lesbian book store, the jack in the box, the liquor store, and the gay bar across the street — as seen on lyd!

A few weeks ago I got a GTI manual from ebay. It has this doohickey called a “Multi-Funktions-Anzeige” which computes all kinds of fun stats.

Here’s my trip up on the PCH:

  • Trip time: 9:34 hr
  • Distance: 473 mi
  • Avg speed: 49 mph
  • Gas mileage: 26.6 mpg

Down on the 5:

  • Trip time: 6:11 hr
  • Distance: 413 mi
  • Avg speed: 67 mph
  • Gas mileage: 27.3 mpg

And for the whole weekend:

  • Trip time: 16:51 hr
  • Distance: 903 mi
  • Avg speed: 54 mph
  • Gas mileage: 26.7 mpg

On a completely unrelated note, it seems like that speed limiter on my GTI really does kick in at 130mph. And hey look, them thar fancy schmancy GIAC chips are only $125…

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There are some true gems in the /. thread on The First Smiley.

Well, great that they found the first smiley, but I will not be satisfied until I see the LAST one. Once upon a time, people could communicate emotions effectively simply through the tone of their writing. Now that people have apparently lost this ability, they use a crude text representation of a facial expression. This is not an improvement.

Lighten the fuck up. 🙂

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Sad but true. I have an entire folder of bookmarked “groups of tabs” in mozilla entitled [MM/DD/YY To Blog]. I have a feeling that these will only ever get blogged if someone writes a “groups of tabs” blogging shortcut. Hmm, that’d be pretty cool, actually… How about a “Send tabs to blog.” Hmm…

I meant to post this up earlier, Ken Bereskin’s blog is very cool. He’s a product manager at Apple and has all kinds of neat tidbits about Jaguar.

Speaking of which, I downloaded iCal the other day, and it’s cool, except it can’t sync w/ Palms, which also makes it, well sorta a lame duck right now. Very gimpy. On the other hand, it has some very neat features. Apple offers downloads of a bunch of pre-made Calendars. These .ics files (using a ‘webcal’ protocol) are also accessible via http. Here’s one: http://homepage.mac.com/ical/.calendars/US32Holidays.ics. If you look, it’s just a plain iCalendar (vCalendar 2.0) file. What’s interesting is that while you can control the refreshing of subscriptions when you grab them from iCal, there doesn’t seem to be a way to suggest refreshes from the vCal file itself. Now that, would be very cool.

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