In which it’s not where I thought it was. When I went to The Ex’s earlier this week, I got my external USB HD and pulled my other drive right out of my old computer. Today I settled down with Truck’s laptop, my enclosure, the hard drives, and a screwdriver to reunite myself with my […]
In which I ramble. NLW, when she came to pick me up to go on our vacation, brought me a box of hair dye (I now have three boxes!) and a set of iPod headphones, so I now can hear both channels. Which is so awesome I can’t even deal. My bro-there was going to […]
In which I talk about seeing Amma this year. One of the swamis said in an evening satsang that various scriptures describe and define the state of being experienced by people such as Amma. A phrase used often, he said, was that these incarnations or avatars are ‘drunk on the Self.’ I tried to imagine […]
In which it’s good to be home. (First of all, let me just get it out of the way: I love my blue dog soooo much! K thx.) Saying “I had such a good time at Amma!” is so silly I’m not even going to say it. I didn’t have ‘a good time,’ I was […]
In which I say hi. (“Hi!”) Greetings from Oak Brook, Illinois, where I live in a hotel room at a Marriott with NLW, who came down with a sinus infection and hasn’t left the room in 30 hours! I watched fireworks from the parking lot on the 4th and it was good. I have eaten […]
In which I do some maintenance. For the good of the household. When I got on the laptop today, there was a new icon in the systray and every few minutes it would launch a popup to tell me that the machine is infested with spyware. I think it came bundled with a codec I […]
In which there was an electronic exchange between myself and my bro-there. Jayrob 7:03 pm: These are the ducks at my work telling me about the day. Mush 7:08pm: Egad! Quackers! Where’s the soup? Jayrob 9:23pm: Every day those lil fuckers waddle right up to me on my break and try to control my mind. […]
In which Vuboq thinks I’m crazy. I say watermelon is sold by the pound. Vuboq says they’re sold by the piece. What do you think? Fifteen of the first 17 votes were Vuboq, btw. RESULTS ARE IN!: 4 to 20, in favor of by the pound.
In which I babble about a few unrelated things – mostly technical, some travel. Three days ago I installed a WP plugin called Bad Behavior. It stops bots from leaving comments on the site, and therefore reduces bandwidth usage. In the brief time Bad Behavior’s been installed, it’s stopped 1680 access attempts. Which makes me […]
In which we talk about comments spam and ID3 tags. We’ve been getting utterly hammered here at goblinbox by spam comment bots for lo, these past 12 hours, and Askimet isn’t catching them because they don’t have any links and they’re not from known IPs! It’s crazy! Bandwidth-eatin’ mofos, a pox upon you all: I’ve […]
