Reminder: Party at theStarport tomorrow (6/12)

Knowing how fast things tend to drop off my friends page, here's a reminder: we're having a party this Saturday (June 12th) at the Starport (directions and map at the link). The usual potluck bash; kids, friends, and musical instruments welcome; nominal times noon to midnight. The seasonal excuse this time is Flowers by Colleen -- after 23 barely profitable years in business, the flower_cat is finally reclassifying Flowers as a hobby and moving on to, as they say, "pursue other interests".

Gadget lust

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/11/iriver_linux_video_player/

Runs Linux, apparently.

Fry'sday

Two trips to Fry's (the local geek emporium) today -- one of my coworkers calls it Fry'sDay because it's the day their 8-page weekend flier shows up in the newspaper. First trip was at 8am, to find a USB keyboard so we could fix chaoswolf's laptop. ( debugging details )

Worked great. Homework printed, just in time.

Second trip was at noon, with the aforementioned coworker, to get a small Linux box to use as a portable server that JB could take with him on his upcoming vacation. Got a nice little shoebox system, but it didn't work when we put it together. ( debugging details )

Should've known there was a catch to it.