Pinging stuff I care about.
This was a really thought provoking article. Unfortunately most of the thought is about unpleasant and brutal things, so I’ll put the rest of my comments behind a “read more” break.
Continue reading “A Million Jockers, Punks, and Queens by Stephen Donaldson”
Thanks for putting up with the short hiatus. More below, personal stuff, skip if that ain’t your bag baby.
UPDATE: apparently I’m sick as a dog. Probably why I’ve been feeling crappy the past few days; it was creeping up on me, my body was telling me something was very wrong, but in the absence of overt symptoms I just read it as “life sucks.”
The Box O’ Truth #5 – The Locks O’ Truth
I’m not much of a gun guy, but this is a really fun page about how easy it actually is to shoot a lock off a door like they do in the movies.
Further Linux geeky commenting and elaboration —
There are a lot of things to like about KDE — the integration of applications and the beauty of the design have a lot to recommend them — but when you switch systems and don’t have an absolutely compelling reason to stay switched, there’s always something that drives you nuts and drives you back. For me it was that I needed the GIMP image editor to do anything worthwhile — there’s no KDE equivalent that’s worth crap — and non-KDE applications like the GIMP look terrible when you try to run them in KDE. Seriously terrible.
I think if I had started out using KDE I’d love it to pieces. I try to give it a shot every so often, but I just end up going back to GNOME, the default Ubuntu desktop.
