Thursday, November 22, 2007

T+Day 2007 Delicious Roundup

This song is brought to you by a beautiful girl from Saudi Arabia. Besides American Indian music, she loves Lauren Graham of the Gilmore Girls and also freedom.

My own contribution, this artist is very near to my heart and her song is a perfect expression of what I feel in my soul today. We have done so much, there is so much to do.
Here we have a reflection of just how much. How much is that? A whole bunch. Art and information want to be free! Why won't we let them be?
If only man could sit and talk with Ishmael, he would realize that in fact he can. Add this to your reading list, I want to know just what he is thinking.
And finally, a message from the reincarnation of George Clinton. In a word, Calculus.
Thanks to all of my paying subscribers, the rest of y'all should know where to go. Happy Holidays, and I'm very grateful to have your following, now go with peace in your heart and love in your soul.

Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Word of the Day

enraged - angered, infuriated, with regard to horses this word describes an upright leaping posture, as in saliant for a lion or a tiger

I'm having some trouble with the Pandora application. I can't say why exactly, but for some reason my Windows 2003 server is lagging the hell out, and it can't get through an entire song without the audio cutting out completely. This is especially infuriating because I have been using this server as my work radio while I work in the kitchen in the next room. My Linux workstation is chugging along, playing music from Pandora without skipping a beat, so I think it must not be a problem with the wireless network. The two machines are on different wired subnets, so more investigation is necessary to prove that conclusively; it's still a mystery to me.

Unfortunately the Bluetooth dongle doesn't work so easily in Linux. In Windows Server 2003, I installed the Belkin drivers and paired my Bluetooth headset, and the audio gateway service registered a new sound device. Heading into the audio preferences, it was a simple matter to select a new Default Audio Device, and immediately I noticed that all of my sound events were routed to the Bluetooth headset. In Linux, it has not been such a simple matter. Pairing the device did not require a separate driver installation; I was immediately impressed by this! Unfortunately, neither Skype nor the Sound Preferences panel applet make any reference to a Bluetooth device in the interface elements.

What does this mean? We need a new arrangement. The Linux machine should become the #1 internet radio in our home, and Blackruby, the Windows Server, is in charge of vidi-telefax services. The Linux machine still works as a standard audio-only Skype phone, and the built in speaker in the monitor is sufficient for that purpose, so long as an external microphone is connected. Moving the Klipsch 5.1 speaker set from my apartment will upgrade that box to a pretty sweet entertainment machine, and the Windows 2003 Server will continue to serve as the chief Video Telephone and Fax Machine. All of this will move upstairs to Joe's old room and we can call this the guest office for as long as it takes to find a new tenant here at 149.

As for the Macintosh, I guess it is still a pretty good word processing machine.

Monday, November 19, 2007

Word of the Day

Another word from me this day, this one comes to you all the way from Texas:

spur - to give heart or courage, to spur, to prod or goad with a pointed stick or especially with spurs, as found on some cowboy boots

and since I've got some catching up to do, I don't believe this came from India:

spurn - a narrow sand spit on the tip of the coast of Yorkshire, England that reaches into the North Sea and forms the north bank of the mouth of the Humber estuary

Thursday, November 15, 2007

Word of the Day

The word of the day, this is a very good one... and don't go thinking you're going to have another word tomorrow on my account! Just because it's called the word of the day and it came from me, doesn't make it my responsibility to provide a new word every day henceforth! That's fair warning, and now for the word:

Sapiosexual - deriving sexual excitement from developed thinking patterns. A person who is said to be sapiosexual will get hotter and hornier as their partner is thinking out loud and making cogent points. The more points that are considered, and the more lucid and clearly expressed are those points, the greater the intensity and the passion of the ensuing sex.

Think about it! I'm not making this up.

Paul Simon == George Carlin?

I'm watching Paul Simon perform Outrageous on David Letterman, and the resemblance is uncanny! Anyway, even if the two are not really bred from the same stock, I'm telling you Paul Simon could spend eight days a week beating the living hell out of Johnny Cash and still have plenty of time to make blueberry pancakes in the morning.