…is a dead one. Texan ranchers don’t take kindly to coyotes running about their ranches. I found these along a Farm Road near Bertram this past weekend. There were at least 1/2 dozen hanging from this one fence. It’s not an uncommon sight around these parts.
: Divorce Song from the album “Exile in Guyville” by Liz Phair
Just finished watching all 10 hours of my Christmas gift. Band of Brothers is now my favorite thing I’ve got on DVD. I had seen a couple episodes when it first came out on HBO a couple years ago and have been wanting this set for as long as it’s been out. The mini-series is based on the real-life story of Easy Company, 506th Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division. It is basically a 10 hour version of Saving Private Ryan. It is an unblinking look at WWII. It shows the good and bad of both sides of that conflict. The men who fought in that war are to be respected.
: Am I Awake by They Might be Giants
Had a darn fine Christmas. My wife got me HBO’s Band of Brothers on DVD which I’ve been wanting for a while. I was also given an emergency kit for the Defender, a couple of Eeyore(my favorite Disney character) sweatshirts/jackets, and a Lego set I had been eyeing at DisneyWorld. For my wife it was a veryNightmare Christmas. She got an NBC sweatshirt, ring, necklace, pins, 2 watches, snowglobe, and other things I’ve probably forgotten. My son was spoiled most of all. Lego, slot cars, K-nex, transformers, books, etc….We gave my parents a Toshiba portable 7″DVD player. Very sweet. I’m actually jealous of that gift.
It was also a very tough Christmas as it’s the first one since my uncle died. Things just aren’t the same without his laugh in the air.
My wrist has been bothering me off-and-on for a few years. I’m pretty sure it’s carpal tunnel. I attribute its original injury to one of the sweetest games ever invented, Total Annihilation I spent way too many hours/days/weeks playing that game around ’96/’97. Every once in a while it acts ups and gives me problems. The past month has been one of those times. I went to the doc who prescribed Darvocet. It helps a bit. I’m supposed to go see an ortho surgeon hopefully for a Cortizone shot. That should help dramatically. If not it may be time for surgery. Oh boy! Another surgery…
: O Little Twon Of Bethlehem from the album “It’s Christmas Time” by Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra
My Christmas shopping is done. What more do I need to say?
: Christmas Melody by Trans-Siberian Orchestra
We’ve been getting a lot of wind in Austin lately. It’s been playing havoc with our fence blowing it down every other day or so. The fence is a 25 year old cedar board fence. It need replacement but we’ve been putting it off. My cordless drill I use for repairs gave up the ghost so I went to Sears and bought my self a new 19.2 Cordless Combo Kit. Oh, yeah. It came with a cordless drill, cordless reciprocating saw, cordless circular saw, and a flashlight.
Now I’m looking for something to break.
Austinites don’t know what to do when it rains. Went by the hospital to visit my grandfather at lunch and it took me 15 minutes to drive 2 miles. People in this town freak out when it rains and forget how to drive. Yeah, there’s water coming from the sky. Yeah, I know it’s cold. I’m driving a car with no heater. Keep moving.
Another thing, what is it about the rain that makes people rude? People in their cars not getting wet act like they are. I’m the one standing out here in the rain. Would you mind stopping to let me get across the parking lot instead of trying to run me down? I’ve noticed this phenomenon for years now. People do not let pedestrians cross the street when it rains. I guess they figure they are gonna get wet if they stop.
On the way back I decided to drop into BK for a grab-and-go lunch. There were 12, yes 12, cars in the drive thru. Do you really think you’re going to get that wet by walking inside? I parked and walked into an empty restaurant. I gave my order, paid, and was out in under 2 minutes. I think two cars got through in that time. Yeah, that drive-thru is a real time saver.
*Furrfu!*
Took the drive I was trying to format into work yesterday. I dropped a firewire card into a Windows2000 machine. It saw the card just fine. Plug in the the drive and it sees it just fine. Try to format the drive and everything was no longer fine. Turns out MickeySoft intentionally crippled Win2000/XP to not be able to format drives greater than 32GB using FAT32. Nice. Thanks a lot. And, no, I don’t want to format it using NTFS thank you very much. Searched all over the lab for a Win98/ME machine to no avail.
I ended up taking it over to my parent’s house and doing the format there on my mom’s WinME machine. It worked first time no problems…*sigh*
: Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas from the album “A GRP Christmas Collection” by GRP
Bought myself a new toy for my birthday last week, an 80GB External firewire drive. I thought it’d be really easy to hook and and use. My plan was/is to use it to backup my iBook and also store things on it from my Linux boxes. Should be easy right?
OS X and Linux are supposed to be able to read write FAT32. That’s the one partition format they both share rw accessibility to. I hooked it up to the Linux box and formatted it as a nice big FAT32 partition. Linux reads/writes no problem. Cool. I write a few files to it and then hook it up to the iBook. “No partition found” it says, “Wanna initialize it?” Um, no, it’s already been formatted. Ok, fine. I use the iBook to format it using ‘diskutil’ to make a MS-DOS partition. Cool. It how shows up as a FAT32 partition that I can read and write to. Move it back over to Linux box and it just stares at me. Shit. I do this for several hours with no success.
I gave up and drug the drive and the firewire card to work today to put in a GameOS box just to format a stinkin’ drive. Nice…
: Race Car Ya-Yas from the album “Fashion Nugget” by Cake
…to my good friend Mando for the birthday present of an iTMS gift certificate. I shall spend it well on new music for my iPod.
: O Holy Night from the album “The Best of Narada Christmas (” by Brian Mann