Done yesterday (20100710 Sa)

[mdlbear]

0710 Sa
  * up 8ish; W=194.6; drugs, nose; coffee
  @ How to Access the Internet (A Guide from 2025) - scary @saffronroses
  @ 10 Most Alien and Weird Places on Earth @saffronroses
  @ more on the talking guitar via ysabetwordsmith
  @ Hello Schröddy T-shirt from ThinkGeek via wcg
  @ The Real Life Social Network v2 slideshow, via firecat
  @ would rather be taken for a pervert than a scrapbooker (NSFW)
    via naamah-darling (also NSFW, especially the title)
  @ Noise-Cancelling Headphones Review
  @ HTML and XML character entity references
  @ Selfishness and Narcissism in Family Relationships (from locked post)
    I know people who grew up in this environment.  Not me, fortunately.
    Site looks like it has good info on anger management.
  @ flower_cat: Food for Hungry Cities (a rare post by Colleen)
    Village Harvest - Harvesting PDF flier
  * fix internal DNS for thestarport.org
    * thestarport.org fails with error id: "bad_httpd_conf".  .net, .com ok.
    * push to dsl
    ~ make sure dsl uses the dns config in /users/starport/.../thestarport.org
      and NOT gc.thestarport.org, which is obsolete and should be removed.
      (actually, it uses outside dns, and only recognizes the few local
      machines it has in /etc/hosts.
  * Stanford Shopping Center and Cosentino's with Colleen
    over an hour of (admittedly too-slow) walking.  Fish for dinner.
  ~ I really want a rolly I can sit on comfortably (0531)
    x http://www.walkinbag.com/cases/sitting-pretty
      GOING IN STYLE 609 Stanford Shopping Center, Palo Alto, CA 94304 
      -> seat way too small for comfort, bag too deep and narrow.  No.
  * broiled snapper, Szechuan green beans, rice for dinner
  @ How BP Gulf disaster may have triggered a 'world-killing' event 
    via siliconshaman via ysabetwordsmith 
    Maybe only region-killing.  But looks like baaaaaad news.
  x http://gridlore.livejournal.com/1561990.html - help needed by Gridlore
  * get lp (nova-w:631/printers/lp) going on YD's desktop.  Windows 7 doesn't
    have generic postscript drivers, for gnu's sake!  H8H8H8
    Wrong driver, but appears to work.  Too old to have win7 drivers on disk
  & added Purple (YD's desktop) to DNS
  ~ sing for Colleen and N. (N not online)
    Desolation Row
  * bed 11ish?  snuggle.  Colleen wakeful.
  % bit of dream: I was at some software conference, possibly OSCon, but in an
    unfamiliar venue.  My paper had been accepted, but wasn't in the
    proceedings because of some screw-up.  Filking broke out; I recognized
    Kathleen Sloan and someone else.  Then there was dancing (no telling where
    the music was coming from); I was next to a pretty woman in her late 20's
    (?) with curly, strawberry-blond hair, and asked her to dance.  We waltzed
    somewhat clumsily, and exchanged names.  Hers was Barbara, IIRC.  She did
    art/music projects using Perl, and was about to show me one of them when I
    woke up.

A lazy morning (you can tell by the number of links), but a good afternoon and a reasonably productive evening. Went to the Stanford Shopping Center with Colleen, in part because I knew she'd enjoy it, and in part because I wanted to get a look at some luggage - a carry-on bag one can sit on. The seat's way too small and too low for more than a few minutes' sitting, and the bag is one huge deep compartment that would be impossible to get anything out of without massive re-arrangement. So, no. Amounted to a decent, if rather too slow, walk.

Colleen found body butter on sale at the Body Shop. They still don't have replacement bodies, though. Come on, people!

On the way home we stopped at Cosentino's and got fish for dinner. Red snapper, three fillets coming to about 1.7 pounds total. Maybe overdoing it -- 1lb would probably have been enough. But tasty. Also string beans done Szechuan style in the wok with red pepper, garlic, and ham. A very nice Beringer moscato to go with it.

After dinner I fixed the internal DNS for thestarport.org (broken after the move to a new server at Dreamhost), did a little work on its index.html page, and got printing going on the YD's desktop machine. (But didn't have the right drivers, nor does Windows 7 appear to have generic postscript drivers. WTF?) Got the laser printer working with a built-in driver that was close enough. And Windows 7 doesn't appear to let you connect to an arbitrary SMB workgroup! What's with that? Or browse for IPP printers. IDIOTS!

Lots of links this time, including a rare post by Colleen and an article on Selfishness and Narcissism in Family Relationships that I think describes several of my friends' family backgrounds. The parent site is mainly about anger management, which I'll probably find helpful.