Among other things Louis Fowler is a radio poobah, DJ, and all-around awesome dude. Don’t hold the fact that he occasionally puts my work on the air against him, as he has written a mighty manifesto which is definitely worth a read if you’ve ever liked a song that someone else hasn’t, and been the victim of music snobbery.
Observations gleaned from the mission which restored my Internet access…
I like my new router. It’s a Linksys, and looks like an alien robot bug, like in *batteries not included. That alone is worth the extra twenty.
Livejournal friends lists are fun, but after “skip=100″ things get a bit tedious. If anything important happened to any of you before than, you’ll just have to, I don’t know, actually tell me or something.
When I resumed my incomplete eMule downloads that had sat for a week, I realized I didn’t really want almost half of them anymore.
Installing a new NIC felt a bit refreshing.. so I went along with that and took apart the old machine, cleaned and reseated everything, tweaked a few things I’d been meaning to for ages, and gave it a new name and a gender/species change. “Marlene” has regenerated into “Frobisher” (who, incidentally, is a Doctor Who character I play on a crazygonuts RP board, and happen to be working on a fic about. A fanboy is me.)
Circuit Sidney security will follow you around if you’re wearing the HOPE5 shirt with the security camera print.
As it turns out, generic routers from the opened-box clearance bin at CompUSA which cost around $25 and run hotter than the grill at Mel’s Diner actually won’t last more than three years or so.
802.11g + WEP = neat.
This is precisely the sort of thing I really missed most about the Internet.
While cleaning out a week’s worth of backlogged emails. I found one from someone informing me that I have an entry in Wikipedia.
I’m flattered (in a weird way) and weirded out (in a flattered way) by this. But it does bring forth a dilemma for me.
While I find no errors in this entry, I could certainly tweak a few things and add to it a bit, being more than a bit familiar with the subject matter… but what’s the etiquette here? Would it be pushing it for me to contribute to Wikipedia regarding myself? I’m not sure the Internet really needs even more of my ego cluttering it up than it already has.
Granted, I could have some fun with this, for better or worse.. but the little cartoon angel and devil on my shoulders are currently giving me nothing but the same dumbfounded expression I’m already wearing.
I’ll leave it alone for now, I guess…
I just wonder who started it. Come forward, my odd GNU-referencing fan known only as i8myh3d! Anybody who likes Super Mario and Mick Foley is okay by me.
I’ve been offline for a week or so, heading out to replace some cat5 and a NIC tomorrow night. Should be back soon.
I keep a text file of my favorite quotes around. Here’s a chunk of it…
“The right people will get it.”
– Joel Hodgson, creator of MST3k, on starting such an unusual concept for a show.
“If that is the thing you fear you cannot do, THAT is the thing you MUST do!”
– Sophia Ainslie
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it and then misapplying the wrong remedies.”
– Groucho Marx (knew I’d get him in here, didn’t you?)
“There are people who can never come to Fantasia, and there are people who can but who remain there forever. And then there are a few who go to Fantasia and come back again… And they make both worlds whole.”
– Michael Ende, Die Unendliche Geschichte
“I’m not trying to do anything spectacular except to change the fabric of our society and bring down the Government.”
— Rik Mayall
“The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I’d make all the same mistakes, only sooner.”
– Tallulah Bankhead
“Love is like pi – natural, irrational, and very important.”
– Lisa Hoffman
“The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.”
– B. B. King
“The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have one million dollars when the crash comes, or just one dollar. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.”
– Marianne Williamson
“What we are is God’s gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.”
– Eleanor Powell
“He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still”
– Lao Tzu
“I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice, and let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.”
– Karl Hess, as writer of Barry Goldwater’s 1964 Presidential nomination acceptance speech
“Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman’s toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace.”
– Marianne Williamson
Rounding out with Albert Einstein…
“Never do anything against conscience, even if the state demands it”
“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”
“Reality is merely an illusion, although a very persistent one”
“Two things inspire me to awe — the starry heavens above and the moral universe within.”
“There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.”
Home sick from work. Remind me to take my stomach back for a refund.
In other news, Your Friendly Neighborhood Louis has written what may be the best Greyhound travelogue ever.
Decorated 18-year housing cop Ed Polstein – screenname “Polecat” – was apparently fired for admining NYPD Rant, a message board for cops to safely vent. The NYPD, Mayor Bloomberg, Police Chief Kelly, and others are often criticized on the board.
Full Story:
NY Daily News – London Times
Great collection of quotes on the London bombings
In other news, Auntie Krizu has kick-started an old fandom of mine. Now I have to get back into Blakes 7, dammit…
More than a few Londoners and UK types were worried about me when my city was blowing up, not a favor I had hoped would ever need returning.
The BBC website is even down. Not good…
EDIT – There’s a board set up on livejournal about all this.
