happy pie day!
I have a somewhat annual tradition I like to do around Thanksgiving, which is go visit random friends and family that I know, drop off a pie, and at the… Read more »
c in the land of dvds
So, I started learning C lately, and my life satisfaction has gone way up. In retrospect, I started thinking about all the things within the past three years that I’ve… Read more »
reading, ejecting, ripping and polling dvd devices in linux; also, notes on my dvd library
It has been a looong time since I both posted in my blog and worked on my custom DVD ripper scripts. Apparently the last time I worked on the code… Read more »
clothesline project
Every year, UVU (my school) hosts what’s called The Clothesline Project. It’s a project that is designed to raise awareness about domestic abuse of all kinds — physical, emotional, sexual,… Read more »
znurt.org cleanup
So, I finally managed to getting around to fixing the backend of znurt.org so that the keywords would import again. It was a combination of the portage metadata location moving,… Read more »
another semester done
I just finished my Fall semester for 2012 today at UVU. This was, by far, the hardest semester I’ve ever had since I’ve been in school. It was brutal. I… Read more »
bully
So, I went and watched the movie “Bully” tonight. It was good. I’ve got kind of mixed feelings about it, probably because of the many ways I look at the… Read more »
the gospel of simplicity
I had an interesting thought tonight. “Lord, I want to join the battle.” I love working with youth, talking to them, helping them out the best I can. The thing… Read more »
simpsons treehouse of horror buying guide
Note: I found this in my drafts of old posts, and this one never got published. I wrote it in October of 2011, so the list may have changed a… Read more »
gentoo, openrc, apache and monit – proper starting and stopping
I regularly use monit to monitor services and restart them if needed (and possible). An issue I’ve run into though with Gentoo is that openrc doesn’t act as I expect… Read more »