Mmmm, pupusas and pasteles for lunch today. I couldn't just order one item so I got a couple and it was way too much for just me. I ate it all anyway though, ha!



OMG, last night I was sitting on the couch watching a movie and I was licking my teeth/braces when my tongue got caught on my braces! I couldn't move it for like two minutes and my tongue was stuck in the corner of my mouth. It was horrible! I thought I was going to have some serious issues but it worked its way out ok.


Oh, I forgot to mention something that happened this weekend. For some reason we were talking about Bon Jovi and Shan was saying some person didn't know anything "new" from Bon Jovi,and I said, "Oh, like anything after Slippery When Wet?" and she agreed. Then she said the song she was talking about and I said I had no idea what it was, that I only knew "Livin' on a Prayer" and Wanted: Dead or Alive" and that Slippery When Wet was the only Bon Jovi album I ever had. Shan says, "Those songs aren't from Slippery When Wet..." and then there was like an hour long conversation that included calling witnesses and using the INTERNET to find out that, of course, I was right. Anyway, I would like to move that some of Shan's Jersey Cred be revoked due to serious Bon Jovi malfeasance.

Oh wow, check out this video, it's so cool!

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Does anyone else think the new Mars lander Phoenix logo is a little too similar to the Firefox logo?

Yay! I just went for my first bike ride of the season. I rode out to Ace Cider Pub. Boo! They were closed! Yay! I'm going to go to a pub in a little bit! And then maybe to the river.

As you can see, I wasn't able to do a Yay/Boo/Yay/Boo/etc post, so that is a good thing. It's probably yay that Ace wasn't open anyway, because I would have stuffed myself and got drunk and had a slow ass ride home. ;)

• Ok, if my laptop says "Please do not power off or unplug your machine. Installing update 2 of 2..." for much long I think I'm going to throw it across the room. Can BOTH OSes on there really be broken at the same time? lol
  
  
• Also, I just discovered Sambassadeur from a random LastFM listen. SO good, I'm DLing all their stuff.
  
  
• Oaked Arrogant Bastard Ale tastes like homebrew, though I'm not really getting the oak. Mmmm anyway.
  
  
• Most of my wine has spit up through the airlocks from this heat we're having. I'm gonna rack and sulphite all of it tomorrow and stick it under the stairs so it doesn't cook in this garage.
  
  
• I wish LJ's web update could detect your music like Semagic.
  

edit: fuck YOU salmonbot!
edit2: Ubuntu required a reinstall. Vista required a rollback. Both fixed. Yes, this is how I enjoy a Friday night.

Today was the second time I've seen this episode of "What's Cooking America" that was on Cincinnati Chili(I saw it a year or two ago also). Anyway, I've been meaning to try that recipe because I love that style of chili. Mainly because that is the chili that is best on chili cheese dogs and chili cheese dogs are the best food in the world. I doubt I will still by the exact recipe there and I plan on developing my own amazing chili cheese dog chili that is the best in the world. In fact, I believe the universe was speaking to me and tell me to do just that because I was actually eating a chili cheese dog when the episode came on today!

ALL HAIL CHILI CHEESE DOG!

Heh, this MetaFilter thread reads like an Onion article.

MetaFilter Thread Causes WoW Gamers to Question Lifestyle

When questioned about the thread Travis Singleton of South Fork, MO said, "Well, even though the dude that posted it was WAY wrong about the connection, it still made me think when people said World of Warcraft and LARPing were basically the same thing. I mean, have you SEEN those guys running around, dressed like wizards and stuff? Sure, I play WoW a lot, but I don't do THAT!"

Yay I rode my bike to work today. It felt really good since I haven't been on my bike in a year or so. It's only three miles, but still. It was pretty windy, and it's going to be hot as hell today, so I don't envy Shan her ride. In Santa Rosa we have a pretty consistent wind pattern from South to North for most of the day during the summers. This is why I would usually ride south, then north, so I wouldn't have to fight the wind on the second half of my ride, but Shan's commute is opposite, poor thing, although for riding to work, I'd rather do the big sweating after work then before.

Speaking of sweating, first patient: Smelly, yeasty fat rolls. /vomit

I went to a talk by one of the developers of KDE 4 last night. It seems like it's going to be really cool. The system has been totally revamped 'from the flo up'. It uses a series of modules or architectures that control everything in the OS with APIs that programs must use to interface with the computer. For example, there's the "Solid" module, that references hardware and the "plasma" module that creates windows and panels and whatnot. What that means is that things like Compiz/Emerald/Beryl(whatever) and XGL support are now built in to KDE, so you get all those really cool screen effects and transitions without having to wrestle with installing a bunch of third party stuff. It also means that more robust programming can be written with less code. One example the presenter gave us was writing an audio player in THREE LINES OF CODE. Basically, name the file, open the file and play. Everything else was handled in KDE. Another example was the possible combination of three different programs(a star chart, a Google maps and Google earth type apps) that would work seamlessly and use much less code. A final example that he gave us is that everything is pretty much broken right now. :) So, everything that worked in KDE before has to be rewritten for this new system. KDE 4 came out in January, but it's really only for developers right now. 4.1 will come out in early August and that will be ready for desktop use. Oh yeah, and they're releasing it on Windows, Mac and Solaris too. :)


Speaking of programming, I'd like to announce that Winamp Remote sucks. It's kind of sad, since MP3 streaming has come full circle with this program. Way back in the early days of the internet I started streaming my home music collection using Shoutcast, which was an excellent system. It had an easy to configure server with a tiny footprint, a simple web admin interface as well as a nice dynamic web display. Winamp Remote has a HUGE overhead on both the server and client side, an unnecessary, non-intuitive web client and it just plain doesn't work well at all. So, bad on you Winamp. Winamp is still my music player of choice but Remote is crap.

PS: That star chart/planetarium program I mentioned is called KStars. It's really neat, better than the other two major free star chart programs and really tailored to star gazing. I'll be taking that along on the laptop next time we go camping. Marble is also listed on that page and that is the Google Earth type program I mentioned.

In the last few days we watched Superbad and Juno. Superbad was pretty funny; definitely this generation's Can't Hardly Wait or Sixteen Candles. I laughed, I cringed, it was all good in the hood like a pube salad with Seth's dressing.

I thought Juno was really good. Every character that you started out liking revealed some really crummy trait and every character that you started out disliking ended up having some really redeeming characteristics. I like movies that show people to be people. Not that I don't like movies with people playing classic archetypes, but I think it's more difficult to make you like someone you dislike and vice versa.

Looks like I'm done here at work. Have a good weekend!