Katrina was bad. Swished around New Orleans like a gold prospector panning for gleaming nuggets. Only unearthed something real ugly. Instead of ugliness, now, we’d prefer to be faced with the banal. Hurricane fever, you might call it. Suddenly! battered-looking reporters gushing first impressions, concern heavy in their voices, are starting to seem a lot [...]
What I need to relieve my dry eyes is a good cry. Tell me I’ve not grown those years I was gone. Reduce me to your greatest vision of me: Obedient automaton. (å©åä¸æ˜¯äººã€‚) Incapable by design to see the flaws of a hypocritical maker. In whose image. To whose image one shouldn’t compare. We are [...]
There are two ways I approach a computer, any computer. In each mindset it is nearly impossible for me to escape to the other. One: the computer is a tool. Two: the computer is a metatool. When I treat it as a metatool, a tool to be sharpened, honed, tuned for greater efficacy, I delved [...]
The Gnome Battery Charge Monitor (battstat) has never played nice with my laptop, a Compaq Presario 1720. Maybe its ACPI implementation isn’t complete. Whatever the reason, even though perfectly usable information is available from the ACPI subsystem (in recent kernels under /proc/acpi), battstat has never used it appropriately. The problem in a nutshell is that [...]
Finally ready to dive into my traveldoc video editing project. I’ve never done any digital video editing before, so this is an exploration into existing technologies as well as skill training – learning the tips and tricks to make things work, the pedagogy of metaphor shear in the computer age, the problem of grasping the [...]
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