We watched a great movie on DVD last night, Danny Boyle’s horror thriller 28 Days Later. Normally when people say something is a “scary movie,” my brain automatically inserts those little quote marks as they’re talking. The Ring was no scarier than an average episode of the Teletubbies, for instance. …
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Elliott Smith – 1969-2003 – R.I.P. What can I say? The music world has lost an incomparable songwriter, who drew on his own personal struggles to write dark but wry reflections on relationships, and particularly the difficulties involved therein. While they may not have been strictly confessional, his songs were …
Tomorrow night (yes, another Sunday), you can catch me backing up ace songstress Leah Morgan, at IOTA Club & Cafe in Arlington. We will be debuting a couple of new original tunes. That’s right, this is one act not content to rest on its laurels. We are hopelessly devoted to …
Even if you’re a strict vegetarian, this should turn your stomach more than a plate of London broil.
We left the munchkin with my sister on Saturday, and gleefully tore rubber to see Kill Bill Vol. 1, thankfully at our local THX screen in glorious digital sound. And wow, it certainly wasn’t wasted on this glorious tour-de-force. Director Quentin Tarantino shows that he still has everything it takes, …
There’s a tremendously helpful post on the fedora-list mailing list concerning the whole point behind the Fedora Project, its goals, and a pretty thorough explanation of its vision and philosophy for the future. Check it out here. Thanks to Mike Harris, you da man. Don’t forget to check out my …
Note to self: Cancel plans to teach cows “Stop, Drop and Roll” technique.
This morning I had an experience with one of those “training sessions” that makes me feel like I’m in high school again. Now in some ways, feeling like that’s not a bad thing, especially when it’s Saturday night and I’m on stage (or home with the wife and the munchkin’s …
Please, everyone, think of the kittens.
If you tend to mirror the latest and greatest changes from rawhide and don’t have the benefit of an rsync mirror near you, this script might come in handy. It parses out a directory of .rpm files and eliminates duplicate files based on the build times of the RPM’s. I …