When upgrading from (k)ubuntu Hardy to (k)ubuntu Jaunty, it looked to be seamless. Until I launched konsole, yakuake, or xterm. The former two just returned a cursor sans prompt, the latter just wouldn’t launch. I stumbled on the solution thusly:
Get a console login with Ctrl-Alt-F1
login
run `apt-get command`
It doesn’t matter what command, we’re just looking for [...]
LHC FTW!
Quoting someone else, “Look, it’s a 10^-19 chance, and you’ve got a 10^-11 chance of suddenly evaporating while shaving.”
All of this is in the queue, just need to finish them up and click “Publish.” In no particular order:
Finally saw Hot Fuzz
Finished The Club Dumas
Burning hatred of using hasn’t-been-updated-since-’96-won’t-compile-without-hacks-and-deprecated-to-boot modules in production environments (Net::LDAPapi, I’m looking at you)
Finished American Psycho
Finished Freakonomics
Had Beryl running on a laptop with a cheesy 32MB ati video card
Had XP [...]
(with apologies to Better Than Ezra)
Watching “Rear Window” again, I was struck by the still life in Jefferie’s apartment. The one Doyle looks at:
It’s the only bit of color in the place as all the other stuff hanging on the wall are black and white photos. Trouble is, I can’t find out anything about it. [...]
Mr. President,
It’s nuclear, not nucular. It even has a real, actual dictionary entry:
nuclear
See, the trouble is, when you mispronounce it, it makes me think you don’t understand the word (“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”). What’s worse, is that it’s really simple to pronounce. Forget [...]