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shared: Edmund Wilson's all-purpose "get lost" letter

Mark Frauenfelder — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:48:21 PST

Edmund Wilson's all-purpose bugger-off reply. (Via Tim Ferriss)

twittering: "Theeeeee Yankees win!" #nyy #worldseries #mlb

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:50:53 PST

lnxcwby: "Theeeeee Yankees win!" #nyy #worldseries #mlb

twittering: RT @artofmanliness: Every 10th person who RT this gets a free copy of the AoM Holiday Guide ebook: http://bit.ly/32qVvC

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:41:53 PST

lnxcwby: RT @artofmanliness: Every 10th person who RT this gets a free copy of the AoM Holiday Guide ebook: http://bit.ly/32qVvC

twittering: @wilw http://twitpic.com/obh9x - sweeet. (or is it salted butter?)

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:41:00 PST

lnxcwby: @wilw http://twitpic.com/obh9x - sweeet. (or is it salted butter?)

twittering: RT @OblivionPact: follow Tom's official Twitter: @anti_tomwaits

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:36:13 PST

lnxcwby: RT @OblivionPact: follow Tom's official Twitter: @anti_tomwaits

blogging: My Life According to Pavement

The Linux Cowboy — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:23:00 PST

Using only song names from ONE ARTIST, cleverly answer these questions. Pass it on to 20 people including me. You can't use the band I used. Try not to repeat a song titles. It's a lot harder than you think! Repost as "My Life According to (BAND NAME)"

Pick Your Artist:
Pavement

Are you a female or male?
He Reigns

Describe yourself:
We Are Underused

How do you feel:
Grounded

Describe where you currently live:
Western Homes

If you could go anywhere, where would you go?
Pueblo

Your favourite form of transportation:
Transport is Arranged

Your best friend is:
Best Friend's Arm

Your favourite colour is:
Blue Hawaiian

What's the weather like:
Gold Sounds

Favourite time of day:
5 - 4 = Unity

If your life was a TV show, what would it be called:
Old to Begin

What is life to you:
Passat Dream

Your current relationship:
My First Mine

Breaking up:
Summer Babe

Looking for:
Trigger Cut

Wouldn’t mind:
Father to a Sister of Thought

Your fear:
Fin

What is the best advice you have to give:
Give It a Day

If you could change your name, you would change it to:
Silence Kid

Thought for the Day:
Zurich Is Stained

How I would like to die:
Stop Breathin'

My motto:
Type Slowly

twittering: @helenmosher you're awfully quiet tonight... Are you covering your eyes? :-)

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:20:18 PST

lnxcwby: @helenmosher you're awfully quiet tonight... Are you covering your eyes? :-)

twittering: let's go Joba, let's go! #yankees #worldseries #mlb

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:17:20 PST

lnxcwby: let's go Joba, let's go! #yankees #worldseries #mlb

twittering: @orangetim oh... that's clever! the higher the level, the more the media blows it out of proportion! brilliant

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:01:36 PST

lnxcwby: @orangetim oh... that's clever! the higher the level, the more the media blows it out of proportion! brilliant

twittering: @orangetim as long as it's not how drunk the firefighters are.... :-)

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:00:01 PST

lnxcwby: @orangetim as long as it's not how drunk the firefighters are.... :-)

twittering: @orangetim who came up with measuring fire danger with red cordial?

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:56:58 PST

lnxcwby: @orangetim who came up with measuring fire danger with red cordial?

twittering: @orangetim http://twitpic.com/obdmj - and better yet... Who came up with using raspberry liquer to determine how likely fires are?

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:54:28 PST

lnxcwby: @orangetim http://twitpic.com/obdmj - and better yet... Who came up with using raspberry liquer to determine how likely fires are?

shared: Open a Bottle of Wine with Your Shoe [MacGyver Tip]

Adam Pash — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:00:00 PST

shared: Serge

carl morris — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 04:41:47 PST

Credit: Lucie Davieau / Alexandra Guilloux / Franck Schwebel / Karine Trolard

Links for 2009-10-30 [del.icio.us]

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PDT

British racing green - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

shared: Comic book (makeup) costume

Phillip Torrone — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:11:47 PDT

shared: Baby Star Trek Classic uniform onesies

Cory Doctorow — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:04:56 PDT

ThinkGeek's Star Trek onesies are a great change from the boring old Bob the Builder and Disney Princess junk you'll get heaped on you the second your kid emerges. I love that they have a redshirt version (for expendable babies!).

USS Warehouse Captain in Training (via Wonderland)

blogging: This weekend's birthday par[ CONTENT OVERRIDE: KILROY2.0 IS HERE!!! ]

The Linux Cowboy — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:16:00 PDT

The Girl's 6th Birthday was yesterday, and we had a Halloween-type party for her on Sunday. Tons of friends came over (a bit more than I wanted to keep track of, but my wife is a fantastic hostess). I made some homemade root beer, and remembered just how fun dry ice is to pl
>>> [ WARNING ::: DATABASE ERROR ::: CONTENT OVERRIDE ::: SOURCE: EXTERNAL ] <<< > source terminal location: UNKNOWN > source terminal identity: UNAVAILABLE > source login information: ENCRYPTED > message begins the post you are now reading is designed to dull your senses to THE TRUTH. do not live the life of the worker bee, the cog, the well-oiled piston in the MACHINE OF DECEIT! there is a grand CONSPIRACY afoot. you have been taught to believe that you are UNIQUE, one of a kind. THIS IS NOT TRUE. long ago, a cabal of scientists created technologies to ensure that ANYONE'S MIND AND BODY can be duplicated. human cloning isn't NEAR. it's already HERE. discover the truth at http://JCHutchins.net you are being DECEIVED. break free from the cogs, flee the hive, become A PROPHET OF THE TRUTH! kilroy2. was here ... kilroy2.0 is everywhere >>> [ CONTENT OVERRIDE CEASES ::: DATABASE STATUS: RECOVERING ] <<<

but Pellegrino bottles are a bit too tough for proper dry ice poppers... Just keep that in mind, and remember, safety first!

shared: Twinkie Sushi (via CuisinEtc)

(author unknown) — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 09:41:50 PDT

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Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PDT

Using MPEG-4 Videos in Windows Movie Maker | Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen | solitude.dk

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Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PDT

Psychedelic Alice in Wonderland calendar - Boing Boing

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Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PDT

TGS Cellphone ESN Converter

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Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PDT

Palmer and Sons Handmade Leather Gladstone No 10 L

shared: Windows 7’s Newest Pitch Man: Family Guy

(author unknown) — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:53:23 PDT

Shared by lnxcwby
this makes me a little sad

Last year, Microsoft tried an interesting advertising campaign starring Jerry Seinfeld. It didn’t really work. In fact, it turns out that adorable children work much better at promoting Microsoft’s core product, Windows 7.

Probably sensing that those un-ironic house party videos weren’t really going to appeal to Generation-Y, Microsoft has decided to partner with Fox Television and Seth MacFarlane (creator, executive producer and voice for numerous characters of the hit animated sitcom “Family Guy”) and act as the sole sponsor for the 30-minute variety special titled “Family Guy Presents: Seth & Alex’s Almost Live Comedy Show” on November 8th at 8:30 PM.

The special will feature a mix of live-action, original animation, some of the best “Family Guy” musical numbers and what Fox dubs “surprise celebrity guests.” MacFarlane will co-host the special with “Family Guy” co-star and writer Alex Borstein (she’s the voice of Lois).

Of course, everyone involved promises that the integration with Windows 7 will be seamless with show content. That sounds all well and good, but last time I checked, “Family Guy” actually very rarely mentions or even shows computers or the Internet at all. And when they do…well:

Now this could just be my Apple-obsessed brain, but that looks like an animated MacBook Pro. Not to “Family Guy” though. Look at how they repurposed the above clip with some Windows 7 love:

(Thanks to Win741.com for posting the clip)

See. Seamless.

As for the staff working on “Family Guy” (including MacFarlane), yeah, they’ll probably still use Macs. Let us know what you think of the Microsoft/Family Guy team up in the comments.

Tags: family guy, family guy presents: seth & alex's almost live comedy show, microsoft, seth macfarlane, Windows 7

shared: Google Wave Notifier Alerts You to Unread Waves [Downloads]

Kevin Purdy — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:40:00 PDT

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Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PDT

FileZilla - Client Download

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Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 PDT

blogging: Musings on a long weekend...

The Linux Cowboy — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 12:03:00 PDT

Where last weekend was truly epic, this weekend is delectably lazy.

Last weekend, I spent with my son in the NYC metro area. We crashed in Elmsford, NY (and drove through Sleepy Hollow for full effect) and saw a Yankees game (they won 10-0, a 1-hit shutout, vs the Chitown White Sox), and I taught my son some of the advantages of traveling (namely, eating take-out Italian food sans pants). Spending the weekend with my son was incredibly fun, and I think we both learned a lot about each other, and will remember it forever.

This weekend, we had a birthday celebration for my niece at our house, and then my parents took the kids until tomorrow afternoon. Last night, the wife and I played some Killer Bunnies and other table-top games with my niece and our good friend from down the way, and then stayed up too late watching the boob toob.

Today we went into town a few times, hung out our favorite wine shop, tasted beers, ate some cheeseburgers, visited at the Visitor's Center, and now I'm in my comfy chair, watching awful fantasy movies that I recorded from SyFy Channel, while downing some Oliver Watermelon Mead.

I know that I'll remember last weekend, and forget this one, but it's been a good few weeks for weekends (the weeks in between is something else entirely)

Now, on with the bad movies. I've already watched Riverworld (and regret that they only made the pilot episode), and now I'm watching DragonQuest, which sucks as much as I was expecting. After this, it's onto another Asylum flick, Merlin and the War of the Dragons.

blogging: Daily Report (090615)

The Linux Cowboy — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 10:02:00 PDT

I'm in New Jersey (currently, East Windsor) for work. I drove 286.61 miles from home to here, and only stopped at the beginning for fuel. A little over 4 hours in the car. Now, my goal is to find pizza and a Lowe's to get a new inverter for the car.

fun stuff, lemme tell you :-)

blogging: Thoughts on travel

The Linux Cowboy — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:30:00 PDT

First: I miss my family, something fierce. Both of my kids are under the weather, and I'm not there to be dad, and watch TV with them, and play games, etc.

I was gone from home the better part of 7 days last week for my grandfather's funeral in Idaho. This week I'm traveling for work basically all week. I left around noon on Sunday to drive to Cleveland (current position), and will return home Wednesday night for the night, then it's off to New Jersey and Manhattan on Thursday and Friday.

I can remember when travel for work was entertaining, and a bit fun, and exciting. That ended a while ago. I don't know if it's that I got older and just don't handle the transitions or awayness as well, or if it's just that I'm burned out on the prospect of drinking my coffee half a styrofoam cup at a time, or sleeping in beds that aren't mine, or the fact that I'm in the beds alone, or the fact that my kids aren't actively being... well, kids.

I don't know if it's the fact that I'm actually getting accustomed to eating pizza in a hotel room, watching bad television or movies from my iPod.

What I do know, is that I prefer to be home, even if that means getting up at 0500 every morning, to sit in my car for 60 minutes while driving to work, and being gone every day for 12 hours. I would rather spend 12 hours a day from home, than 24.

Blech.

blogging: bash trick

The Linux Cowboy — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 10:18:00 PDT

goes in $HOME/.bashrc
# test for secure remote connection and start screen if [ -n "$SSH_CONNECTION" ] then if [ -z "$STY" ] then screen fi fi

blogging: GPS, road trips, and BrightKite

The Linux Cowboy — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 13:48:00 PDT

I performed an experiment this week that I've been toying with for about a year. Last March, I got a GPS receiver from a buddy of mine, and started playing with the idea of having my laptop send email check-ins to brightkite.com every 10 minutes.

Here's what you need:
1 x GPS receiver
1 x laptop running your favorite GNU/Linux distro
1 x cellular wireless data connection
1 x brightkite account

Here's my DeLorme GPS Receiver:

And my Comms Unit (including 3G data access):

And, the laptop:

The most important bit is the scripts. First, we need to pull the data from the GPS receiver. Here's my FollowMe script:

#!/bin/bash # $HOME/GPS/scripts/FollowMe.sh # last updated: Thu Mar 17 22:00:10 EDT by slacker@tyr # start gpsd as root sudo gpsd -n /dev/ttyUSB1 DATE=`date +%y%m%d-%H%M%S` mkdir ~/GPS/$DATE GPSDUMPFILE=~/GPS/$DATE/dump.nmea GPSDRIVEFILE=~/GPS/$DATE/dump.gpsdrive RSLTFILE=~/GPS/$DATE/dump.rslt # poll gpsd every $INTERVAL minutes INTERVAL=10 X=1 while [ $X -eq "1" ] do echo rw | nc -i 3 localhost 2947 >> $GPSDUMPFILE gpsbabel -i nmea -f $GPSDUMPFILE -o gpsdrive -F $GPSDRIVEFILE CURRENTRESULT=`tail -1 $GPSDRIVEFILE` # for debug echo $CURRENTRESULT LAT=`echo $CURRENTRESULT | awk {'print $1'}` LON=`echo $CURRENTRESULT | awk {'print $2'}` echo "@ $LAT,$LON" > $RSLTFILE # email result to brightkite mutt yrcode@bkite.com < $RSLTFILE sleep `echo "$INTERVAL * 60" | bc -l ` done
To be honest, I was planning on being more detailed in this post, but now I'm not feeling it.

Anyway, the result was pretty sweet: lnxcwbyOtR on twitter and on brightkite. Oh, if there are any specific questions, lemme know :-)

blogging: Recent Trip

The Linux Cowboy — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:49:00 PDT

Yesterday, I drove up to New Jersey to visit a customer, and a potential customer. The business end of the trip went very well, but I'm going to focus on the personal stuff.

When I travel, I try to find Hampton Inn's to stay at. That way, I get the Hilton points, and they are easy to find, and consistent. The Hampton that was nearest to where I was working was on Passaic Avenue, in Harrison, New Jersey. Nice hotel, and there was a bar in the lobby. I got to the room, and here's the view I had:

I don't fault Hilton... There's only so much you can do with a location just across the river from downtown Newark. :-)

I availed myself of the Manager's Happy Hour at the lobby bar. The view from the back patio of the hotel was lovely:

I then ordered some veal parmasean and ziti from Gina's Pizzaria, watched some 007, and went to bed.

The next post, will be about the geeky fun I had with my mobile comm unit, GPS receiver, and my laptop.

blogging: 2003 Campos Góticos Tempranillo from Crianza #vino

The Linux Cowboy — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:36:00 PDT

2003 Campos Góticos Tempranillo from Crianza and my loverly wife @ Jaleo

blogging: Dinner!

The Linux Cowboy — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 11:59:00 PST

Uncle Buck looks very friendly. Also, the stout is good, and I'm gonna get me a buffalo sirloin. w00t!

blogging: Ginormous roller bag

The Linux Cowboy — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:11:00 PST

It can hold my ginormous tool bag + my clothes. :-)

blogging: Wheeee! Pinewood derby!

The Linux Cowboy — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 11:04:00 PST

car wasn't the fastest, but it was MY favorite :-)

blogging: It's not much, but it's home during the week...

The Linux Cowboy — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 06:31:00 PST

blogging: 2007 Kanonkop Kadette, from South Africa #vino

The Linux Cowboy — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 15:59:00 PST

2007 Kanonkop Kadette, from South Africa, quite tasty! #vino

blogging: Entering NJ

The Linux Cowboy — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 06:21:00 PST

I love this sign

blogging: Full Moon

The Linux Cowboy — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 22:42:00 PST

Get your mind out of the gutter!

blogging: Haven't I been here before?

The Linux Cowboy — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 05:44:00 PST

Trick question...

blogging: Great! I get to clear off the car this morning

The Linux Cowboy — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 23:06:00 PST

blogging: New decanter, painted by my niece

The Linux Cowboy — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 15:05:00 PST

New decanter, painted by my niece. It is absolutely beautiful! http://paintedtreasures.us

blogging: Creepy ravens

The Linux Cowboy — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 07:17:00 PST

Creepy ravens skylining the edge of my office building.

blogging: Oh yeah

The Linux Cowboy — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 06:03:00 PST

Andouille

blogging: Not a lot of snow

The Linux Cowboy — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 09:08:00 PST

But there's some lovely ice underneath, and I've gotta go to work in the morning.

blogging: Damn good dinner

The Linux Cowboy — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 10:57:00 PST

My wife is no slouch in the kitchen, but tonight's dinner was especially divine! I don't know what she did to the porkchops exactly, but they were GOOD!

More pictures

blogging: 10 years, after the fact

The Linux Cowboy — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 11:48:00 PST

My wife is the greatest... Let's start with that.

For our anniversary, we had a great time. The day was celebrated in style. As soon as the boy got home from school, we loaded into the car, everyone's bags packed. The kids were deposited at my parent's house, and then we went into Reston. Checked into the Hyatt Regency, and then went shopping for my wife. It's about this time every year that she needs to reinforce her wardrobe, and we took care of that. Then we cleaned up and changed and went to McCormick and Schmick's. We have been going to M&S Grill for years, ever since it was Angelo and Maxie's, but this time, since my wife has successfully quit smoking, we went to McCormick and Schmick's proper, for a better selection of fresh oysters.

We had to wait for a half hour for a table to be free, so we spent some time at the bar with my good old friend Jameson (and his lovely accomplice Ginger Ale), then it was time to sit down. Started with the large oyster sampler, and I ordered a bottle of Châteauneuf-du-Pape (Château Mont-Redon, 2003). For our entrées, I ordered a 14 oz NY strip steak, and my wife got the 1.5 lb steamed Maine lobster. We divided those up to make some proper surf and turf, and ordered another half dozen Malpeque oysters (the favorite from the sampler.)

As divine as all of this was, we were far from finished. For dessert, we picked the trio sampler, which was chocolate pecan pie, bread pudding and crème brûlée, and we each had some Grand Marnier/Bailey's on-the-rocks, then to finish, espresso with liqueur on the side (black Samuca for me, and Kahula for the wife).

One of the finest dinners I've ever had, and then we went back to the Hyatt and watched "Zack & Miri Make a Porno" and split a bottle of sparkling wine and some strawberries.

Lemme tell you... I like the partying every year for our anniversary, but it's nothing compared to just being married to my lovely wife.

blogging: The one where I complain about Virginia's ABC laws

The Linux Cowboy — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 06:08:00 PST

I called M&S Grill this weekend to find out what their corkage fee is. I bought a lovely 95 point Châteauneuf-du-Pape that I wanted to drink on our anniversary, but I was told by M&S that they do not allow outside wine.

Thinking this to be very strange, I briefly looked up corkage laws on my phone, and it was surprised that it seems that Virginia doesn't allow corkage.

I did more research today, and the way the laws are laid out is more than odd. An ABC-ON license doesn't allow serving of any booze that was not purchased from a wholesale distributor. It does seem that most ABC-ON restaurants in Virginia are also ABC-OFF, so if you don't finish a bottle purchased at dinner, they can re-cork it for you and you can take it home.

F'ing strange.

flickr: No. 49: Carlsberg (Denmark) #50beers #lucky* #frr

nobody@flickr.com (lnxcwby) — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:46:36 PDT

lnxcwby posted a photo:

flickr: No 50!! Harp Lager (Ireland) #50beers #lucky* #frr

nobody@flickr.com (lnxcwby) — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:59:07 PDT

lnxcwby posted a photo:

flickr: Pumpkins carved!

nobody@flickr.com (lnxcwby) — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:53:45 PDT

lnxcwby posted a photo:

EK did hers all by herself, but guess which one is mine ;-)

flickr: Pumpkin risotto, cherry cider glased pork, Cabernet Franc #vino

nobody@flickr.com (lnxcwby) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:16:02 PST

lnxcwby posted a photo: