This can usually be found on Twitter.
As some of you may know, I've been having bad abdominal pain for the last two days. As such, I'm spending time in hospital (horspital!) waiting rooms, from whence blogging is hard. If you are so concerned, you can follow my progress on Twitter. Cheers!
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One of the bestest things about the Goons is, once you listen to them for any length of time, you start thinking like them. There was a lovely gag in this week's Goon Show on BBC Radio 7: a German spy is marched in to see Maj. Bloodnok, an interview ensues. At the end of it, the Major orders the spy lead back to his quarters. We hear the sentry barking orders, and military-precise footsteps marching into the distance. As the footsteps (finally) die away, the Major muses: "What a fine officer that man is". The spy then quips: "Then what did he leave me behind for?".
I'm sorry, I'm horrible at humour. Perhaps you had to be there?
On TV is a scene with a man and a woman, riding on a cart. The man is driving the horse at breakneck speed, and the poor beast is whinying and snorting. I can just imagine the man suddenly saying: "pardon me, I've caught a cold of some kind" or some such line.
Perhaps you had to be there, too.
Labels: television, The Goon Show
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Leopard, as you may know, does the incredibly smart move of moving the RSS reader into exactly the right place: into the inbox. (Admittedly, Opera's been doing that forever. But I've never much liked Opera's mail reader in general. And the total-backup of the e-mail here is sweet. But that's another story.
Anyway, one of the nice side-effects of that is forcing me to read all the friends' blog entries I've (accidently or otherwise) not read for months. One of the best so far is Janani's memories of a friend. Beautifully written, definitely worth the ten minutes it'll take to finish.
Sharon 1.0 just died in BSG season two on my television. How beautiful is that scene, too. Lovely, lovely.
Labels: beautiful, links, lovely
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Woke up with the most massive eyebags. Ah, well.
Not entirely sure how to proceed. I could work on the Test Anything Protocol spec for a while. Or on either Singapore.pm or my own much-neglected website. But I don't feel like working, especially not on a computer. Even I need some kind of break!
Other option: play Half Life 2. Yech. So boring. And besides, I'd like to conserve my "Xbox muscles" for playing Bioshock tonight.
So how? The weather's fine, I could go out photographing or something. Or just go for a walk. Or go and check out the photo exhibitions or something. Sigh.
Okay, time to reboot and turn off computer. I'll probably be back in the afternoon/evening sometime.
Dreamed of her again. Also: parents. Also: a beach. Something horrible happened, but I don't remember it at all.
Labels: dreams, morning, plans, today
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MacOS X 10.5 "Leopard" is as fantastic as everybody says it is!
It's ridiculously pretty (duh), has a nice, crisp loop compared to Tiger's more hazy feel. The laptop feels a little bit snappier, but that might just be me. The new Mail.app is as good as I thought it would be; and I can't wait to dive into all the other apps that I have to play with.
First things first, though; right now, am copying files off my old 80GB hard-disk onto my Mac (via "Karanth", my very old Linux laptop, no less! The poor dear is literally groaning under the strain, but that's only because the fan is pretty clogged up, old and noisy. For the geeks: I've mounted the Ext2 partition onto Karanth, connected the two laptops together with Cat5 - don't you love how Macs don't need crossover cables?! - and am now using `scp' to do the copy). Once this is done (it's almost finished half a gig in five minutes or so; for the full 10 gigs, that 100 minutes or around an hour and a half), I'll reformat the hard-disk, set it up as a Time Machine backup, and go to sleep while my computer backs up as much of itself as it can. That way, whatever happens, I'll have something to restore my computer off of. Like I said, I've already got e-mails and photos backed up, but I'd prefer everything to stay the way it is, if at all possible, thanks!
If I can keep my laptop moving until next month, I might invest in a "proper", full-disk backup solution like the 1TB Time Capsule. Even my entire home folder isn't going to fit on my current hard-disk! But that's all details for another day: if my computer should die tomorrow, I want something saved somewhere, and I hope that this is going to be the ticket.
P.S. Leopard is much smarter about RSS feeds than Tiger was - for instance, of course the feeds should go with the e-mails! Opera's known this for ages, guys, try to keep up! Which means I have much less of an excuse to miss your posts. So more commenting for all!
Labels: cool, happiness, linux, mac os x leopard
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Okay, here we go. Spent moneys on MacOS X Leopard - at long last!
The plan is to get it installed by this weekend, doing a complete backup one night, and then taking my Mac in for repairs once it becomes impossible to start my laptop when I want. So far, it takes about six times before the screen comes up. Hopefully, it'll stay below ten for a while.
Good news: today (well, yesterday, now) was an incredibly productive day. Well, okay, not that great, but everything was working and things were coming together and fitting into place and all that, so I'm happy. Finally started writing that Internet-Draft I wanted to. Got editing a book chapter (!!!) I'm co-author on, which was fun too.
Bad news - apart from a week without my beloved Sinhgadh, maybe sometime soon - is that it's 3:15am right now, which means tomorrow is going to be a bad, bad day to wake up to.
Labels: backups, good day, mac os x leopard, macintosh, productive
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Okay, this is definitely worse than it's ever been before. If I can keep this thing going until the end of the month, I can buy Leopard/Time Capsule next month, do a complete backup, and then send my baby in for replacement. I've got my photos and e-mails backed up, but seriously; I'm going to be buying Leopard/Time Capsule anyway, so I might as well get it done now and be sure everything's going to be restored when the new computer gets here.
I'm leaking money like there's no tomorrow though, so: bad, but what to do. The fact that my backups got categorized into "stuff to possibly keep" is worrying, too.
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My MacBook Pro went black today, and took a while to resuscitate. Brr, scary. And having bought an Xbox and iPod Classic recently, am in no spirits to buy Time Machine and/or Leopard to make sure everything (or most of everything) stays around when they eventually have to take my laptop in and have it replaced.
Then again, this is my data and stuff I'm talking about ... surely, any price is worth that? Good heavens. Good heavens.
Well, the good news is: so far, I've never not been able to resuscitate my baby. And ... that's good, right?
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Less than a week after Apple finally acknowledges the NVidia graphics problem bug, my laptop starts showing signs of a relapse. Luckily, the 'hold-down-T-while-booting-then-reboot' thing worked now, but who knows for how long? Brr, scary.
On the good side, my last Twitter read: Finished Gears Of War, a bit of Half Life 2, bought newly released Saramago book and two others, ate three Ramlys, and soon will chill out with pizza and BSG. Not a bad weekend! The BSG didn't happen, but I saw American Beauty for the first time since 2004 (maybe), which is awesome. I remember how awestruck I was by it then; it's easy to feel that way about something again. No, it's unusual; which is why its ease is impressive.
Ah, well. Whatever. I call home now, then bed, then a very stressful week ahead. PaperTerminal Alpha FTW!
Labels: good weekend, stress
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Such a long article and no mention of J., George, Harris, and Montmorency? Still, learned a new word.
Labels: Canals, hobbies, living
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Just spoke to someone for one hr 14 mins. Apparently, the record is 5 hrs, and my name's on this. Strange thing to be remembered for, but hey, anything goes, right?
Apparently, we were both at ECP at roughly the same time (me: 6pm-8pm, other person: 6pm-9pm). What if we'd met? Would things have gone the way they did?
Also: I finally asked the question I needed to ask. And it was the right answer. Now, comes the easy bit: learning to deal.
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I had a long, complicated, tragicomic dream last night, exactly the kind of crap I don't need right now. She was in it, and school, which really is exactly the most horrible thing I can imagine (school, not Her). School was horrible (but hey! Interesting design; one tall building with everything on top of everything), as you might expect. A teacher dragged me over the coals for eating in class. Srsly. But then She got dragged over the coals for reasons which I still haven't entirely figured (along with some friends of mine from the Flooded Place), and I felt awful, awful, awful. Also spent a goodly amount of time running around on the roof of the school (it was a nice roof-garden-place) trying not to think about all that stuff. Finally ended up running all around the building trying to find my shorts (of which I have two pairs; one I was wearing, but I needed the other one so I had something to wear when the other pair was in the wash, so it was urgent I find them!). I basically stayed in that dream some time longer than I should've because of those pants, and only "popped" out once I realised that - as a dream - it didn't matter, and both pants were really with me anyway.
Good heavens. And when I came back from the washroom, can you imagine what time it was? 10:42am. But, you know. Of course.
Labels: bad dream, horrible start to a day
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So:
On the whole, life is good. On the whole - some of my friends are having problems. Also, I'm going to feel horrible if I waste this weekend like I wasted Wednesday. But damn. It feels good to be alive, and you get to feel that only so often.
Labels: feeling good, happy
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We have toilet problems. I hate toilet problems - with my digestive system, I can't afford not to. Grr, argh, and other uncomfortable sounds, in any order you please.
In other news: finished Portal, the "Water Hazard" chapter of Half Life 2, and (yesterday) Act III of Gears of War. Productive holiday? Nup. Fun? Except for the toilet issue - hell yeah.
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Hello, there. As with all conversations in the future, it's hard to know exactly what to say, and what you'll want to know - what's important to keep, really. But this being my blog and all, I feel a little entitled to say what I like. So here goes.
I first heard about you around April 7, 2008. You were born, I hear, on September 29, 2008, at 7:05pm CDT (Central Daylight Time), which corresponds to Sep 30, 12:05 midnight at UTC, and 8:05am SGT in Singapore, where I was at the time. I didn't find out about it until I got an e-mail at 10:29am SGT.
September 2008 will probably be a nice time to be born - things are bad, but will get better, I hope. Global warming is all the BBC talks about - will all the horrific predictions come true by the time you grow up? The credit crunch is worstening, as America's economy slowly slides backwards. A global recession might start up soon. Voting has begun for the next American presidential election: will it be Obama or McCain? We'll know in a month and a week, or something like that. J. B. Jeyaretnam, a Singaporean opposition stalwart, died yesterday. I hope to be able to fly to America and meet you sometime next year.
There have been bomb blasts in India all through 2008. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan continue, with Iraq getting slightly better and Afghanistan getting worse - but Pakistan is getting worse and worse. Russia invaded Georgia last month, and now everybody's worried about them nibbling at NATO's eastern edge.
I'm bored, so I'll stop; if there were any decent newspapers in Singapore, I'd've kept copies, but this - and, maybe, the rest of this blog - is all I've got. So there.
Labels: ramblings, the unnamed gupte
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"A beach house," he said, "doesn't even have to be on the beach. Though the best ones are. We all like to congregate," he went on, "at boundary conditions". "Really?" said Arthur. "Where land meets water. Where earth meets air. Where body meets mind. Where space meets time. We like to be on one side, and look at the other."