mdlbear | Done recently (20110313 Su

0313 Su
  * up 7:50; W=199.8; drugs, nose, teeth, light; coffee, dishes
  % right shoulder still hurts
  : suspend-to-disk (acpitool -S) works, but takes a long time to wake up from
  @ rynvndrp comments on Japan: trying to fix nuclear plant cooling problem 
    via wcg - A nuclear engineer explains the Fukushima Daiichi reactor situation
  @ Depressive personality disorder, Avoidant personality disorder 
  % shoulder pain likely due to trackball.  Grumph.
  * Lamplighters -- Presentation.  Kids don't want to go (no surprise)
    At least they didn't get in any trouble this time.
    (play by Gilbert) Engaged, with Trial By Jury.  Fun!  (A couple of
    slightly painful bits in Engaged, since the main male character is an
    idiot.  But still...  Nicely resolved, though pretty obvious.)  Trial is
    half an hour of pure fluff, and still a honk.
  @ Potassium Iodide (KI) (if needed, which is Highly Unlikely)
    Radiation Network - realtime counts - very cool.  Note lack of alerts
    Frequently Asked Questions on Potassium Iodide (KI) dosage, sources
    via ryuaja in alexanderfans 
    All Things Nuclear -- good info on what's really going on.
    Is anything nuclear ever really super safe small and simple? - Cringely
  ~ 8:30 or 9pm - call Naomi for music (went to voice mail)
  % 10:30-11 drifting

0314 Mo Pi day!
  * up 7:30; W=199.2; drugs, nose
  @ YouTube - What Pi sounds like. via filkertom
    YouTube - HOW DOES PI SOUNDS LIKE this one's prety cool.
  @ scary first-person video of tsunami 
  % not particularly awake this morning
  @ Support for the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami | Ricoh Global
  : power out at 10:45.  Nova died at 11:13; dsl stayed up until 11:35
    (times from TTY transcript off stargate)
  : power back 1:40; stargate up but Colleen reports no WiFi.  No nova.
    is it possible that the smartups didn't come back up??  Is wap2 on the
    wrong UPS?  
  : 3:20 no connection to nova?  wonder whether WAP is horked.  Lights on,
    but not reachable.
  @ AllThingsDigital.com 
  * wap is indeed horked.  Putting out a signal, but neither bridging nor
    dhcping nor responding to its proper address.  Which makes it kinda hard
    to talk to.
  @ Satellite Photos - Japan Before and After Tsunami via lapislaz
  & wap2 needed a 30-30-30 reboot and reconfigure.  :(
  ~ really need nova to autoboot on powerup -> probably does - wap2 died.
  @ Tutorials - DD-WRT Wiki
  * bath; bed ~11:30

Sunday was good. Not productive, but good -- Colleen and I went up to San Francisco for the Lamplighters' production of Trial By Jury and a condensed version of Gilbert's play Engaged. Trial was unmitigated fun -- pure musical fluff. Engaged was... mostly amusing, but my vicarious embarrassment kicked in at a couple of points. It was raining hard on the way home, and I had a nasty skid coming down the offramp onto Woodside Road -- we had dinner at Buck's.

Oh, yeah; Sunday was my 64^th birthday. I didn't notice any hill.

Monday was also very unproductive, without most of the good part; I slept late, and spent the day at work mostly catching up. Some progress, but not as much as I needed. And there was a power failure at home that, for some weird reason, knocked out our WiFi router. Which had also been serving as the gigabit switch, ever since my 8-port switch croaked last year. Fortunately, all the router needed was a very hard (30-30-30) reset to factory settings and a reconfigure.

I think I'll abandon my idea of making the Netgear our main router -- I want the power saving, but not at the expense of an hour's worth of fiddling every time the power goes out. The routers stayed up for 50 minutes on UPS; that's pretty good. The fileserver only stayed up for 30 (it's on a separate, smaller UPS); that's probably ok.

Links, as usual, under the cut.