Done yesterday (20111010 Mo)

[mdlbear]

Mumph. No walk -- both the weather and my left foot were a bit dicey. Grumph. I spent most of work reading documentation, and most of the evening looking for things. Which I eventually found -- more on that below -- but I spent too much time on my knees and bending over, and ended up pretty wrecked. Went to bed early, and wound up spending the hour between 3:30 and 4:30 reading. Thank goodness for Science! It's complex enough that it can grab the hamsters in my head away from their wheels and thwap them until they stop moving. (The next move would be to feed them to the snakes, but I don't think I have snakes in my head right now.)

The one really good thing is that Plink's new bag arrived. It's a Wilson BLX sling bag originally intended for tennis racquets. Plink fits nicely with only her head and an inch of neck showing, along with my songbook (a 1.5" binder). The secondary compartment will hold Minnie, with a little finagling. The obvious name for him is Max Wilson. I think he's Minnie's big brother.

I posted a signal boost for Alan Grayson's Where's Your $50,000?, but it was pointed out in comments that the GAO report shows that he's playing fast and loose with the numbers, counting repeated short-term loans as multiple transactions. There's currently an outstanding balance of about a trillion, and the Federal Reserve is actually making money on the deal.

On the other hand, there's still plenty to be angry about. I believe it's fairly certain that if we still had the tax and regulatory structure that was in place pre-Reagan, the government would have a budget surplus and banks would not be too big to fail.

More links below.

1010 Mo
  * up 6:30; W=198.4; drugs, nose, teeth, laundry, exercise
  * install nagios (on nova)
    apt-get install nagios3 libcrypt-des-perl libio-socket-inet6-perl \
    	    nagios-nrpe-plugin nagios3-doc
  : Columbus Day - I still work, but traffic will be reduced
  @ 4 Stupidly Simple Social Media Mistakes That Novice Musicians Love To Make 
  & no walk: weather dicey, left foot dicey.  Do Not Like.
  * the new bag -expected to- arrive_d_ today.  Name:  Max Wilson (obvious)
    out for delivery at 5:48
  @ No Reservations: Narnia A foodie in Narnia
  @ Crowdfunding for Readers: The Power of Patronage (Part 2)
  @ Exclusive: Computer Virus Hits U.S. Drone Fleet - Wired.com (wcg) 
    virus + keylogger in the control center.
  @ osewalrus: A Few Reflections on Occupy Wall St.
      In any event, the key takeaway here is that a movement does not have to
    be coherent to have a significant impact. It is enough to get a lot of
    people angry and thus create openings for others. 
  @ Daily Kos: Where's Your $50,000? Alan Grayson via N.
    Signal boosted:  mdlbear: $16 trillion 
  : Putterng:  trying to find some missing items.  They just about have to be
    on the desk someplace.  But where??
    ! very frustrated.
    -> the micPort was in the audio adapter box, but tucked away in front
       where I couldn't see it.  Colleen's phone was way toward the back under
       her chair.  The other tips for the Kensington power brick are still
       missing.
  | I have spent far too much time on my knees and stomach, and I hurt.
  & found the spare tips falling out of their baggie in the little pile of
    unfiled stuff on top of the manuals.  Duh?  
  * 11:05 heading for bed
  % slept badly; awake ~3:30-4:30