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Anyone want a new Boat ? Sat May 31 16:37:34 CDT 2003
Mood: silly Music of the Day: Babylon 5 - Season 4 - Lines Of Communication
http://www.frenchcreekboatsales.com/details.asp?File_Number=BOP12

Kinda expensive to run, and docking space will be pricy...but imagine the houseboat :)

Fun with Palm Pilots Fri May 30 07:07:24 CDT 2003
Mood: Geeky Music of the Day: Christy Moore - Go Move Shift
Well, I've been having fun once I revived my palmpilot. I was up last night reading Arthur C Clark's 2061 on my palm pilot. I'm such a geek. And in true Discordigeek fashion, I have the Principia Discordia on my Palm Pilot. I'm tempted to turn some American Tradition of the Goddess docs to palm docs, but I have this feeling I'll get glared at for my efforts. May do it anyway, just to be weird.

Busy Evening Wed May 28 21:50:47 CDT 2003
Mood: Accomplished Music of the Day: UFO - Let It Roll
Well, I got the office sorta cleaned up. Tomorrow I'm planning to measure out the desk space, and hit home depot to do some plotting. Figure out how much for wood and brackets and stuff. Along with things to do bring elecricity over to the other side of the room. And lighting. :) Also found my palm pilot again, and got my laptop working correctly. :) Well at least booting :) So I'm pretty happy. Well other than not sleeping worth a damn and generally feeling bleah. So on that note, I'm going to post this already. ;)

Starcraft is addictive Tue May 27 19:58:25 CDT 2003
Mood: Good Music of the Day: Seven Nations - The Selling Of Waternish
Well, ever since I got WineX and Starcraft running on Shub-Internet, I've been playing starcraft fairly addictively. I remember being a big fan of Warcraft, but finding Starcraft a little dull. I guess I expected more than just Warcraft with aliens. Well, after several years of almost no gaming...it's not dull anymore. I finished up the Terran campaign fairly easily, other than not knowing what did what ;) Now I'm on the Zerg, which are sorta like Aliens from the movies. And a very different strategy than either Terrans, or anything from Warcraft. I've taken to calling it bum's rush ;) Lots of little guys, in swarms. That and workable ambushes...having tunneling aliens makes it quite fun. :) I need to get the expanson pack, Brood War, just to keep having games to play for the next few months. Also need to track down some new games. Hmm...any ideas ?

Small update to Shub-Inter.net Mon May 26 22:01:48 CDT 2003
Mood: Geeky Music of the Day: %s
Just made a small update to Shub-Internet's website. I updated the dream hardware section to take into account new hardware, and well... once hell of a monitor setup.

Star Trek: Nemesis Sun May 25 02:45:02 CDT 2003
Mood: Sleepy Music of the Day: Blue Oyster Cult - Don't Fear the Reaper
Well, today I got to see Star Trek: Nemesis today. And as badly as it was panned by fans and reviewers alike I expected it to be high cheese. It's not. It's not super good, and I don't mind not seeing it in the theaters. But it was alot better than the last one. More belivable and better acted. It did read more like a 2 hour long Star Trek TNG episode, but I could live with it. The show was better, but I enjoyed it alot. Some of the plot kips were just not needed, but all in all I enjoyed it. I wonder what's next for the series....The TNG crew is wearing thin, DS9 ended without much of a follow though in movies, same with Voyager. And Enterprise never lit my mind up. Oh well. We will see.

New Webcam Fri May 23 21:21:23 CDT 2003
Mood: geeky Music of the Day: None
Well, got the webcam back up...new Logitech cam. Well, not new, but new enough. Enjoy. Oh, for the record, the URL is http://www.cyberfox.org/foxcam.shtml

Matrix 2: Reloaded Fri May 23 18:55:09 CDT 2003
Mood: geeky Music of the Day: none
Well, I went and saw Matrix: Reloaded today. And I loved it. Ok, it's confusing and the ending will throw you brain from 5th to 3rd...and in the process break your mind. But it takes the Matrix in a way I didn't expect, and I loved. The fight scenes are amazing (and I scared i Rhiannon by pointing out that I recognized Woo-ping Yuen style in the fight scenes). The fights and stunts are the high points, I will admit I still don't think Keanu Reeves can act. But he's belivable in the movie. I also liked how they showed Zion, it was believable to me. I really can't wait for Revolutions later this year :)

Goin' to DFW Fri May 23 07:04:08 CDT 2003
Mood: sleepy Music of the Day: Danzig - Let it be Captured
Ok, that should be "Gone to DFW" since I went and came back ;) Drove up Wednesday to visit my mom for a late mother's day. Get on the road late, but I should have gotten there about 4:30 or so. Ended up getting there right at 6. Why ? Texas drivers. We had rain, so everyone decided to go set driving mode to "uber-paranoid" and go 50 mph. Then, about 1 1/2 hours from DFW, all traffic on the highway stopped.

For an hour.

Glad I had a book.

When we finally got though, I got to see the mess that caused it. From what I can guess, a semi suddenly jackkniffed and careened over the median into oncoming traffic...This is a 'very bad' thing. Only saw one car really demolished...but it also looked like the semi came to a rest blocking the whole northbound. :( Oh well.

Finally get to Mom's, have a good visit with her. My mom does have an evil streak in her, she got out this puzzle my sister sent her. 9 pieces, each with 4 halfs of a butterfly on it. The object, to match up the bug bits. After an hour and some, I gave up...because I didn't want to be there all night working on it. *thud* After that foo, said goodnight and headed over to Amythest and Nymaz's to crash. Stayed up, ate chocolate chip cookies and watched Point of No Return with Bridget Fonda. Yet another version of La Femme Nikita, but still fun. Stayed up talking a while, then eventually passed out. Overslept the next day, then got up, went to a local Half Price Books *grin* then stopped at an Waffle House for lunch (we don't have them in Austin, and I missed the grease). Then back on the road. Made pretty good time back. Then on to download way too many emails ;) My wild life, ain't it fun...

Bored bored bored bored bored Tue May 20 13:08:45 CDT 2003
Mood: Bored Music of the Day: Ballistic: Ecks vs Sever: DVD
Well, I'm sitting here, bored out of my gourd. Waiting on the mail to show up so I can run errands. Watching movies, doing software updates, general boredom. So far I've updated Xscreensaver, Xinei, gaim and installed Stellarium. I also wrote a quick bash script to play with xmatrix from the xscreensaver package.
    #Matrix Trace
    #!/bin/bash
    xmatrix -window -small -knock-knock -trace -phone $1 &
Just your basic take the input #, and do some neat things with it. If you have xscreensaver and feel bored, give it a shot ;)

Not much else, reading an article about some Russian Crackers who got caught. Intresting read. Too bad I'm honest...and not good at such naughty activities. Oh well...I still rather be honest. Darn that work ethic ;)

Not much else going on here...about to go wander by the mailbox...*Crosses fingers*

Insomnia, my old friend Mon May 19 06:10:57 CDT 2003
Mood: sleepy Music of the Day: Tad Morose - Gates of Babylon
Well, another night...another watching the sun rise. :( I don't like this, other than I'm getting alot of geeking done. Tried Mozilla's new browser, having many headaches with it. Then, lo and behold, i Operai has a new release. I think the gods are trying to tell me something. So, scarffed down Opera 7.11 (doesn't come with a slurpee though) and so far, no crashes. (Opera 7.10 had some issues with hosing at the worst time). I also grabbed a program called Cinelerra, for video editing. I'm having issues getting it to install, something's up in the Makefile. When I'm a little more alert, I'll figure out what's b0rked. Been playing alot of Starcraft still. I'll probably start getting burned out in a week or two. Also worked on Shub-Internet's page, finished up the Other Machines page. Again, nothing fancy...just a listing of the boxen here at Chez Cabal 23. Hmm, not much else...maybe I'll sleep...yeah right.

Busy Weekend Sun May 18 20:09:01 CDT 2003
Mood: Tired Music of the Day: Nightwish - Stargazers
Well, I had a...err...hard to describe weekend. Friday me and Rhiannon woke up and proceded to run errands. Got to see scenes of a movie she was in (details coming later), got a bug in my brain now about doing video editing. Need to find out what the software is like for Linux. I know alot of movie studios use Linux for rendering, but I wonder what the more basic video stuff is like. *adds to his TODO list* Once we had all that done, came home, helped the munchkin with her reading. She's been having issues in school, so I volunteered to tutor her. It's slowly getting better, she's finding out she can't outstubborn me. :) After that Rhiannon went out dancing, and I promptly passed out.

Woke up on Saturday morning, and got ready for the GWNN bday bash. This is a yearly event here in Austin for the local BDSM community. Drop off the munchkin with the grandma, and off we go. Get registered, go to a few workshops that were interesting, if not enthralling. After the workshops, and alot of drooling in the vendor's area, we headed home. I got ready to go to a full moon ritual at the local AmTrad coven, and Rhiannon got ready for the party that night. Btw, more news on the pagan front, I've offically joined Circle of the Mare as High Priest. *much rejoicing* It's been about a year since I left my old coven, and well I've missed being part of a group. And Mare's folks have made me feel part of the family since day 1. So I'm no longer in a "Coven of One" ;) Well, we did Full Moon, then I vamoosed.

I got to the party a bit later than planned. I blame Pagan Standard Time issues and the fact I got lost trying to get there. When I did get there, Rhiannon was not happy, and we had a rather nasty fight. I won't go into details. We left early to come home, she went to bed...I stayed up and played Starcraft and talked to a few people online, then crawled into bed around 2am.

Sunday morning dawns, and me and Rhiannon get ready for day 3 of the weekend. We head to the GWNN picnic. Had a much better time, and things in general were better between us. I won't go into the gory details of the activity, since I don't want to squick out the vanilla people ;) We came home, by way of picking up the munchkin. Rhiannon then made a yummy dinner, and I settled into geeking :) Tada :) Currently downloading the latest Mozilla browser. I should have it downloaded in a long while. I hate dialup. Not much else, working on the planned upgrades to Shub-Internet. Looking at going to an Athlon XP in the near future, thanks to Ebay. Also plotting future upgrades, like RAID5 for the /home partition and some other toys. But I'll have to be patient on that. RAID cards are bloody pricy. Oh well.

The Matrix is Calling Thu May 15 14:36:46 CDT 2003
Mood: amused Music of the Day: Nightwish - Phantom Of The Opera
Need a new phone ? Got $500 to spare ? Then get yourself a Matrix Phone. And ye gods is it ugly looking. But someone will have to own it. Just not I.

Weird Dreams Thu May 15 14:22:37 CDT 2003
Mood: weird Music of the Day: Gary Moore - You Kissed Me Sweetly
Well, I had a weird ass dream last night. My own fault, I got to know better than to read about Italian banking cabals before I sleep ;) So... me and Rhiannon move into a new house. Well, not new for me...it was my old house in NYC. With suprises. Like the fact that my old house did not have a secret room with banks of monitors reviewing banking stats. And of course, all I could think is..."More monitors for Shub-Internet !!!" I need help. Even in my dreams I'm a geek. But yeah, I have banking info scroll across my screens, details that I could use to make $$$$ and all I can think is having a linux desktop that's 15' wide :) I need help.

Vulpine is Gaming Tue May 13 03:05:19 CDT 2003
Mood: geeky Music of the Day: Starcraft
Well...I've been saying for months now that I wanted to build a gaming box for home, so I can game without stealing Rhiannon's computer. Well, last night I went ahead and paid for a licence for TransGaming's WineX. And ye gods, it works. I'm currently playing StarCraft on Shub-Internet, as the following screenshot shows.



To say I'm feeling megageeky is an understatement. If I can game without having to use Windoze, that is the last hurdle I had to cross. *happy dance* Now, it's not all wine and roses, I can't get Diablo 2 to install, but I'm pretty sure it's something simple that I borked on first install. *snoopy dance of joy*

Woohoo !!! Mon May 12 19:27:13 CDT 2003
Mood: happy Music of the Day: Ghost in the Shell Soundtrack - Inner Universe
I got my *sarcasm* whopping big tax return check *end sarcasm*. Well, I shouldn't complain, it's 40+ bucks I didn't have before. Hmm...I wonder what I should spend it on...probably food. ;) Or a small geektoy. I dunno. Any ideas ?

BSD Booth Babes Mon May 12 17:17:13 CDT 2003
Mood: admiring Music of the Day: Yngwie Malmsteen - Sails of Charon
Check out http://kurtspace.com/boothbabes/ for pictures of some lovely BoothBabes. BoothBabes, for those who don't know, are ladies who are hired for geek conventions to hand out flyers and swag and generally attract attention. Most of them are non-geeks, just hired for their looks and outgoingness, but a nice exception to the rule is Cerin, aka the first BSD babe. She's a geek as well as a yummy lady. So, I thought I'd just share the wealth (and yes. Rhiannon agrees with me on her yummyness. I'm such a lucky guy.)

Now that's a LART Mon May 12 08:52:10 CDT 2003
Mood: silly Music of the Day: Anthrax - Anti-Social
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/news/0509story1_news.shtml

University of Rochester wants to build a pair of petawatt lasers.... (that's 1,000,000,000,000,000 or so watts) for fusion experiments.

Hmm, I wonder if I can get one in a satellite ;)

Update to Shub-Inter.net Sun May 11 05:59:51 CDT 2003
Mood: tired Music of the Day: Megadeth - Hangar 18
Well, in today's insomnia bout I went ahead and added a new page to Shub-Internet's website. Specifically the Other Machines page. It's still a rough page right now, but I'm working on making it a little prettier and more userfriendly. I still need to add the two wintendos around here, plus some of the non-computer hardware...but that will wait on sleep I think. Yeah, I see sleep in my future...

Cabal23.net Website Sun May 11 03:28:58 CDT 2003
Mood: sleepy Music of the Day: The Dudes of Wrath - Shocker
Well, until I figure out what I'm going to do with Cabal23.net, I've put a blank coverpage up. I don't know what I'm going to do with the site, my original plan was a Slashdot style website for Discordian and Conspiracy theory stuff, then a webhosting/ISP style setup. Now...*shrug* I dunno...but for now it's a placeholder ;) We'll see what I do over the next few $TIMEPERIODS ;)

A Banner Day For Cyberfox.org Sat May 10 22:50:12 CDT 2003
Mood: amused Music of the Day: Weird Al Yankovic - UHF
Well...today I opened up Opera and had an amusing suprise.



How very Discordian, don't you think ?

Cirque du Soleil Sat May 10 22:42:51 CDT 2003
Mood: happy Music of the Day: Blue Öyster Cult - Madness To The Method
Well, thanks to Rhiannon's mom, I got to see Cirque du Soleil last night. Woohoo !!! As with the last time I saw them, I was entranced. Amazing acrobatics, contortionists and clowns. Beautiful music and just a great time. Words just don't cover enough. If you've never been to a show, go. Go when they get to your town. Trust me on this :)

Got Slack ? Sat May 10 07:48:55 CDT 2003
Mood: geeky Music of the Day: Julia Ecklar - Terminus Est
Well, I got Slack. Specifically Slack 9. After a failed attempt to get win98 working on Nyarlaptop, I went to SuSE 7.0, in hopes to get the sound working. (I had it working under SuSE 7.1 a while back). Then back to 8.0, still no sound. :( So, on a whim I burned the iso's of slack 9 to CD and tossed it in. And ye gods if it wasn't one of the least painful installs I've seen. Now I started my Linux adventures with Slackware...and it was hard. But Slack 9 is pretty much slap the cd in, set media to install from, set partitions and targets, pick software sets and subsets and go. It even setup X without asking any questions besides what windowmanager I wanted. Of course, sound isn't working yet...but I haven't spent any time tinkering yet. Just haven't had the time with everything else (including my annual Super Sinus Attack). But I am majorly impressed with Slackware, just for the ease of install. I wonder how well it would handle a complex setup, like Shub-Internet? Hmm....

Linux on Laptop Mon May 5 17:21:58 CDT 2003
Mood: frustrated Music of the Day: Metal Church - Battalions
Well...I've decided I had enough with the headaches of Linux on my laptop. Not so much with linux, as with my Fujitsu notebook having screwball parts, that I cannot find any documentation on. So back to Wintendo98. As rarely as I use this box, it should be ok. At least I'll have sound under Windoze. But maybe I'll just figure out the sound settings from windows, and go back to Linux. I dunno. Eventually, I want wireless (and a working battery) so I can take this box with me on my travels. But until then...maybe I'll put Diablo II on it and play without stealing Rhiannon's computer ;)

X-Men 2 Sun May 4 20:58:31 CDT 2003
Mood: Good Music of the Day: Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
Well, I went to see X-men 2 today. It was very good, not completely canon with the comics, but that is ok. It's good enough. I didn't think I'd like the change they made in Nightcrawler/Kurt Wagner (my favorite X-Men in the comics) but it made sense and was played well. It was a good movie, if a little long and draggy in spots. But not too bad. Lots of action, lots of special effects. Mystique is still as hot as last movie. Lady Deathstrike/Yuriko Oyama is yummy as well. ;) But I'll admit that I still think Nightcrawler was the coolest ;) Hey, the fuzzy blue elf was my hero as a kid. I just wish they gave him some rapiers and a pirate style sword fight ;) Oh well, maybe next time. Vulpine says, go see it unless you hate comic books.

O Henry PunOff Sat May 3 21:04:34 CDT 2003
Mood: Good Music of the Day: None
Well, today I went to the 26th annual O Henry Punoff here in Austin. For those not in the know, this is when the best and the worst of punsters get together to see who can make the best pun. (or worst pun, depending on point of view.) I went with The Grim Squeaker and SugarFae, who were down from Dallas. So off we go to the pun-ishment. And suddenly I'm feeling daring. I'm feeling brash. So I sign up for the "High Lies and Low Puns" compitition, which is a punwar, winner advances to the next round. I then sit and watch the "Punniest of Show" which is 90 second prepared puns which are judged. An ye gods were their some groaners.

That ends, and then it's my turn. Yep, that's me #23. (and yes, I got that number randomly. Hail Eris.) So I go up for round one. The subject is..."Bodies of Water". And I go first. I start with "I'm feeling Superior right now" and my opponent was so slammed he couldn't respond. Hurrah for me !!! A while later, I'm in round #2, which is a threeway, (woo) 3 punsters in a row. Ok. The subject is...Education. Oy vey ! Ok...my turn comes, I comment on the college of pictures of my family. Low groan. Next pass, and I comment on how rabbits are learning higher math...you know, a hare-trig-er. (groan). With pass #3 I comment on the ocean born creation of women's underwear (an Algae-bra). Which I am proud to say, had the judges and the MC's of the event groaning and commenting how bad it was. *happy dance*. Alas after that, I utterly blanked on the subject, and bowed out. So I didn't go past 2nd round, but I'm still very impressed with myself. *happy dance* Next year though, I will get them. *evil cackle*

The Illuminati Have Me Fri May 2 18:58:37 CDT 2003
Mood: Happy Music of the Day: Futurama: Love Labors Lost in Space
Actually, I have the Illuminati. Specifically the 3rd book in the Historical Illuminatus Trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson, Nature's God. I've been trying to get this book for years, and I finally won it on Ebay. Actually I won it last week, and it came in today...just in time for some friends to come visit...so no time to read ;) *sniff* Oh well.