Monthly Archives: May 2007
lord of the rings: the third age
An interesting thing happened this weekend — my computer broke. But what’s even more interesting, is what happened after that — I started spending my time on everything I keep wishing I’d spend more time on. I’ve been reading a … Continue reading
Filed under Computers, Entertainment
installing ~x86-fbsd
While I’m thinking about it, I might as well document what my install experience was like getting Gentoo/FreeBSD up and running. First of all, I was really skeptical that this would even work at all. I figured that with my … Continue reading
Filed under Gentoo/FreeBSD
gentoo + freebsd
At work, we use FreeBSD on our servers, and I don’t know jack squat about it. So, I decided to install Gentoo/FreeBSD on my laptop at home to try it out. Amazingly enough, I managed to get it setup without … Continue reading
Filed under Gentoo/FreeBSD
almost done with dvds
Believe it or not, my collection is almost complete. Of movies, that is. My Amazon.com wishlist only has five more DVDs to go before I’m done. Although, caught up is more the word I’d like to use. I originally estimated … Continue reading
Filed under Entertainment
legend of the green dragon … take two
For some reason, I got the itch the other day to play Legend of the Green Dragon again. Maybe it’s because I need something to do in my downtime and I’m just sitting in front of the computer waiting for … Continue reading
Filed under Computers, Entertainment, Gentoo
button, button
I’ve started to notice a trend in desktop-oriented software for the Linux platform. As some programs grow in features, the options to remove those features in a preferences panel are not keeping up. The idea behind that worries me, because … Continue reading
Filed under Computers
more classic cartoons coming to dvd
I have *no* idea how I missed these, they weren’t even in my wish list. I didn’t see these three until I was dinking around on Amazon.com this morning. Maybe they were recent additions. July looks to be a good … Continue reading
Filed under Entertainment
audio visions
Man, I love music. This morning on the way to work, was listening to Audio Visions on XM Radio (who gave me a sweet deal, by the way, $77 for a year’s subscription), and something really cool was playing. I … Continue reading
Filed under Entertainment
extra mythtv themes
I saw a bug in Gentoo’s bugzilla the other day to add some user-contributed MythTV themes to the tree, and I thought it’d be a good idea, so I did. I just barely committed mythtv-themes-extra which adds a few new … Continue reading
