Done yesterday (20101010 Su - 42base10)

[mdlbear]

1010 Su - 42base10
  * awake 6:30; snuggle
  * up 7:30; W=194.4; drugs, nose; dishes, coffee.  
  * breakfast: scrambled eggs with ham, garlic, and chili flakes
  * There's nothing wrong with the YD's external box; the drive has errors.
  = a 500GB hard drive in an external box eats 13-14 W; the power brick takes
    1W.  The *meter* takes 3W!?
  @ Celebrate The Biggest 10.10.10 Day (AKA Eames Day) Ever : TreeHugger
    Powers of Ten  (River post on perspective, here)
  * backups:  2010-10-10T11:08:27-0700 - 2010-10-10T11:56:04-0700
    /dev/sdc5            1349854392 461242136 820043628  36% /media/bak
  * added DOS partition to 1TB xfer disk.
  @ Blogging tactics - 10 things to put on your "Don't do this" list
    via ysabetwordsmith
  @ SnowCat Design «
  @ Learn2hear - Online Ear Training - intervals, scales, triads and tetrads
    via peteralway
  * walk: 3 miles on Los Gatos Trail
    Saw a really cool vehicle: a bike with a wheelchair replacing the front
    wheel.  Looks like a lot of work to pedal, but great fun for the rider.
  * buy: doorknob for green door
  & phone call to N.  I don't think well on my feet, do I?
  <- one good reason for wanting a multichannel rig is recording live gigs.
     Another is experimentation -- seeing whether N's scheme will actually
     work.  (I'm dubious, if only because of guitar bleed-through.)
  * buy: pantsu, 
  @ GDM/2.22/Configuration - GNOME Live!
  = nova appears to have an eth2, presumably the one on the MB.
  * several unsuccessful attempts to figure out why I don't have an xsession
    option. 
  @ steampunk knitting patterns
  * dinner:  kielbasa with cabbage and black and red pepper - yum!
  % Why do I keep forgetting my nose spray??  I'm doing it more and more lately.
  * upgrade Trantor to Ubuntu 10.10 - seems to have fixed the gdm problems.
    (font on console window is broken, but...  better.)
  * install doorknob
  * a little singing for Colleen
  * bed ~11:30

Not a bad day by any means, but a little frustrating in spots. No recording to speak of, but I did manage to upgrade my desktop machine to Ubuntu 10.10, which fixed the problem I've been having (and wasted many hours on) persuading gdm to give me a user-defined (.xsession) session. It wouldn't matter so much if I wasn't trying to save power by turning the machine off when I'm not using it.

A good walk -- three miles by Los Gatos Creek. Along the way I saw a truly marvelous vehicle -- basically a bicycle with a wheelchair replacing the front wheel. Looked hard to pedal, but the kid in the chair was obviously having a blast.

A phone call pointed out once again that I really don't think well on my feet, especially when distracted by driving. It wasn't really much of a success. I did figure out what I should have said, about half an hour later. *shrugs*

Much was made of the fact that 101010 in binary is 42 in decimal. Treehugger pointed out that's it's also the day the Eames Office celebrates the wonderful film Powers of Ten by Ray and Charles Eames.

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