"Better Vulpines through Technology."

Thu Aug 22 23:24:53 CDT 2002

Hey there, catching up on posts. Last saturday went to the InWood Theater for a midnight showing of... Elvira's Haunted Hills. Now this was a damn funny movie. It's a friendly parody of the old Hammer Studios/Edgar Allen Poe movies from the 60's and 70's...the ones I grew up on. It gets alot of its plot and parody from Fall of the House of Usher and THe Pit and the Pendulum . So I had quite a few laughs in this one. Also, the scenery and sets are actually quite good. Makes me want a castle in the Carpathian mountains myself. Also staring along side her Vampiness, is Richard O'Brien aka RiffRaff from the Rocky Horror Picture show. All in all, it's a hoot and a half. If you have a chance, see it on the big screen. And if not, buy it when it comes out on DVD. :) It's so worth it. :)

More emails...	Thu Aug 22 20:23:44 CDT 2002
Well, I added a few more email addresses. 4 to go to make 100. The magic number. Just a few more to go. Then....a few more after that ;)

It's ALIVE !!!!!!

Tue Aug 20 19:35:18 CDT 2002

Hey all. I'm back. Not that I was really gone. I went ahead and rebuild my Linux box before I moved down to austin, so I'd have access to broadband to update everything. So after a lot of hardware headaches... (must remember rule one, never switch motherboards...some reason computers get pissy.) I got SuSE 8.0 installed. I've been having fun getting things setup and installed. I'll make a longer post when I get everything setup and running. :)

Cthulhu vs the Plushies.	Wed Aug 14 17:28:50 CDT 2002
And you thought I was weird for having, at last count, 8 stuffed cthulhus. Well, I haven't made a website about them. This guy did. :) Hmm, maybe I should as well. PlushCthulhu.com is available...

Ebay	Wed Aug 14 17:02:00 CDT 2002
Ok, I'm back into doing Ebay stuff. Mostly just selling off some of the crap I own. Nothing too good, DVD's for the most part. If your curious, Check it out.

Punday, Punday, Punday !	Tue Aug 13 16:51:57 CDT 2002
Two frogs are walking down the street, looking for some action. One stops and says, "Lets go in there." "Why?" asks the other one. "It's got plenty of action and babes." "How can you tell?" "The sign of course..." Live Newt Girls

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Mon Aug 12 20:23:49 CDT 2002

First of all, sorry about all the links on the last news post...I went a little crazy. Second of all, my evil plans for world domination move forward at an acceptable rate...err, my plans to move to Austin move forward. Gave my 2 weeks notice at IA today. No commentary yet, other than the HR people schedualling an exit interview. I always so love those. Well other than the utter urge to say everything I really think and feel. ;) Have alot more crap to get done, but right now I'm dragging so badly from too little sleep last night to get crap done. Gotta sort books and movies and stuff. Plus, dear gods...I have to move my network. ARGH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *thud* Ok, I'm better. But yeah, I have to move the network, Cabal23 is moving. So this time, I'm going to take the time to make things right. Do what I want/need things to do, and pick up some new skills. Like, for instance, Rhiannon's computer runs windows. My laptop runs windows, eventually I'll have a game box running windows. All these windoze boxen will want file server access. And printer access. And all other kinds of neat things. So, use Samba to act as a Primary Domain Controller. It's not hard (or so I'm told) and be a useful skill in my trickbag. Also, I want to make Tempest (my mp3 server) into a stereo. So instead of playing the mp3's across the network, play them locally on the server and have the controls accessable from the network. Plus some intranet webhosting stuff, like a calendar and info, and whatever else we find we need. Eventually, I have this picture of running everything in the house via the computer...but I think common sense will win out before that.

Not much else new, looking forward to the move. Not looking forward to packing. Not looking forward to job hunting. Really hoping to avoid tech support this time. Or at least, level one dialup support. Argh, my brain still hurts thinking about some of the things I have to fix on a daily basis. I think I rather have my head smeared in jam and left for ants. :( But maybe I can avoid being a phone jock again. *hopeful look* Or at least do something that's less painful. Wow, I'm babbling... :) Babble more later.

Austin Movie Fest

Mon Aug 12 15:32:30 CDT 2002

Well, another weekend, another weekend spent in Austin :) Me and Rhiannon went to see a few movies, XXX and Signs. Both were good, if very different.

First XXX. It's an action flick (duh). It's got a soso plot, but it's fun and hyper and has some amazing stunts. Plus it has Asia Argento, aka the daughter of Dario Argento the king of Euro-Horror. She's yummy. Though Rhiannon thought Mr Diesel was yummier. Oh well. I give it two thumbs up, unless you just can't stand a completely unbelievable secret agent who is just amusing to watch.

On to Signs. Another of M. Night Shyamalan's weird ass movies. I liked it, other than the pace was a touch slow. Aliens after farmers in Pennsylvania. Fairly good acting, and even with the slow pacing it kept my intrest. The ending on the otherhand... well lets just say it goes from 0-60 in about 4.8 seconds. Again, I'll recommend it...especially if you liked Unbreakable.

Downtime

Thu Aug 8 12:27:18 CDT 2002

Feh, I hate the internet some days. First, all the DNS flern is fixed for the moment with my domains. I no longer have any domains with NetSol. Everything has been moved to either Dotster or Superhero Networks as registrar. Then, the ISP That Shall Not Be Named decided to cancel my webhosting. No more non-profits for free. So unless I pay alot more than I can afford, I loose this space. So I had a fun scramble to find space. Got it arranged, not that I had to scramble too much...I have time. But still, after the DNS hell I went though, having to do it again is damn annoying. So, thanks to WesM for the space. Hopefully, after I move and get job foo squared away, I'll be able to afford some form of colocation or dedicated server. I can dream at least. So, migration fun again. :(

Wandering Vulpine Blues

Mon Aug 5 14:20:57 CDT 2002

Hello boys and girls. I just wanted to make a rather large announcement. I'm going to be moving to Austin at the end of this month. I've been considering moving out of D/FW for a long time now, and I've finally decided to go ahead and move back to that little corner of Weirdness called Austin. Yes, the pretty redhead down south has helped this decision, along with a few other friends who have been harrassing me for years to move. But I've always loved Austin, and it's a fun place to live, and I need a change...

So as of the end of the month (week of the 28th), the Ol' Foxgeek (tm) will be heading out. Once I get settled down there, I'll make sure everyone has my info. I'll still be able to check email, if a bit slowly. (ick, dialup) so i'll be in touch. :) I'll miss you all, but I won't be far. :)

Watch out Austin, here I come :)

Vulpine, letting his Gypsy blood wander.

Oh my gods this is funny.	Sun Aug 4 13:37:21 CDT 2002
Check out Bash.org and read the geekissues db. These quotes are hysterical...I think I just coughed up a kidney from laughing too much.

My Crafty Vixen	Sat Aug 3 21:31:05 CDT 2002
Check out Ebay to see what a certain Rhiannon does when she's not being sexy on websites. :)

ARGH !!!!

Fri Aug 2 11:45:49 CDT 2002

Well, I'm still having major DNS flernage. I hate NetSol/InterNic/whatever the hell it's called...they make things so difficult. So some of my domains work, some don't. Some work for some people, some don't. ARGH !

Plus to add to the frustration, got written up at work yesterday for being sick...6 weeks ago. Boneheads. Plus a team lead 'talked' to me about being overheard by another tech...and I should keep my voice down. Well, if we had phones that worked right and customers who weren't deaf I wouln't have to project my voice. ARGH !!!!!

ARGH !!!!!