Linux, musical road-dogging, and daily life by Paul W. Frields
 
Category: <span>General</span>

To which you’ll return.

Most enjoyable movie night in a long while tonight, watching Stardust with Supawife. Romance, action, magic, drama, and comedy, with the extra one-two punch of Michelle Pfeiffer looking her best (and worst), and DeNiro doing La Cage. In all honesty, I haven’t seen something quite like this since I saw …

Sweet relief.

Things looking generally up today. For whatever reason, my new WRT54GL is now working fine. Dinner plans with friends fell through, so as nice as that would have been, I now have some extra hours for some bits and pieces I needed to work on. Also, turns out this crazy …

Coping mechanisms.

A banner day thus far — only wasted two hours this morning getting my wireless setup back to something resembling “working.” Last night I tried replacing my old D-Link AP with a new WRT54GL, in the hopes that I could later flash that unit to something from OpenWrt or DD-WRT. …

Childhood’s end.

One of my favorite authors working in the science fiction genre, Arthur C. Clarke, passed away today at the age of 90. I will never forget the wonder I felt when I read 2001: A Space Odyssey (in an attempt to better understand the Stanley Kubrick film). I didn’t realize …

Day One.

Orientation at Red Hat started today. I had a great time meeting a bunch of new faces — in many cases, people I might not see again for a long while, if ever, since they are all going to different parts of the company. I was the one employee starting …

The real deal.

Today our realtor visited and we signed all the papers to start the process of listing the house. We are well underway with packing and making the house a little more bare, which for some odd reason is supposed to appeal to sellers. I remember clearly looking at homes over …