Femaissance Theory

Thesis: That the shift from engagements arranged by the bride's father to engagements chosen by the individual damsels being wooed by their swain or swains was both a fundamental cultural sea change in its own right & a major evolutionary quantum leap in action - one whose ensuing net benefit to humanity has been on a par with germ theory.

New Kind Of Thing I Did Ahoy!

My very first DIY animooted thing!

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Quizzickal Querie Quizze Tyme

Having read* that at scales approaching Planck Length dimensions, space turns granular:

 - are space-granules' surfaces & interiors of different or identical composition?

 - what inhabits the areas of discretion between space-granules? _______________________________________________________________________

* ... no, NOT on someone's blog on the Interwebs, in a science book from a library.

Interwebz Adventure Time!!!

 

















4/20: N3VAR F0RG3T

Today I got a bouncing baby imgur account.
GREAT GOOGLY-MOOGLY!

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2014: Year Of Teh New Shape

Platonic Solid Porn ahoy!

Cultural Petrie-Dish Sample

The Economoronicon

Psybourg Lulzabye

eve of squelchageddyn (Depravity-As-Virtue Remix)

Muzak Of The Damned

Kevlar Suppository

Debian: A Parable

As someone who habitually hops from one Linux distro to another, I've had a wide variety of experiences, to put it mildly.

For example Crunchbang is a sweet dream: easy to install, most everything I wanted was there already, wireless worked right from first boot, crashless & fast - a real treat.

On the other hand, Fedora was a real nightmare of a bitch in heat - when I finally did get it running on a USB, the 300+ updates promptly ate the entire memory on a 16GB system, rendering it unusable. Nothing more frustrating than not even being able to remove cruft because your system is frozen solid with it. I even went to the trouble & expense of getting a 32GB stick instead ... with exactly the same sad result.

From my prior encounters with it, I assumed Debian fell into the latter camp - but I really really REALLY wanted it to work. For one thing, that dreamboat OS Crunchbang? Yeah, it's basically Debian. I'd seen other Debian derivatives that were also pretty sweet, so surely there must be some kind of trick or angle by which to make the parent distro not eat a big bag of ass.

Sooooo ... I did something a bit weird: burned Debian onto a flash-drive & did the installation from one USB onto another one, because hey, what the fuck, why not? Those last few shards of sanity aren't going to exterminate themselves, amirite?

It was a tedious & excruciating slog getting every little parameter set up, with many a red progress bar slower than hillside erosion ... but by Gog & Magog I bloody well did it - & the bugger actually works!

Hell, I even got the Xfce desktop to handle the eldritch mystery of recognizing touchpad taps (which not even Crunchbang's Xfce desktop would let me solve).

The moral: stubbornness is its own reward.

Oh, PooTube, UP YOURS.

Apparently, merely trolling the shit out of me to change the name given on my YouTube channel wasn't QUITE enough to get Google's pudding-dick to keep twitching ... now I seem not to have ANY of all the subscriptions I made up to now, either.

OPEN RAEPTIEM.EXE

You smarmy fucking shills still believe your POS video site has some kind of magical immunity? I just got done genociding Microsoft cruft from my living-space (first Xp, then Vista - second time's the charm!) so since you're a brain-dead corporate ziggurat made of FAILURE this means it must be channel-deletin' time.

WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

RUN RAEPTIEM.EXE

Dead Letter File Fun

Dear Abby,

Does a rule govern the influence of functional paradox, & if so is this rule a paradox?

- Asinine In Abbotsford


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Dear Abby,

Is absolute dialectical synthesis possible, & if so is it predicated on violating discretion?

- Droopy In Drumheller


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 Dear Abby,

Is the cybernetic parsimony of a correct thesis valid as a benchmark of its utility?

- Turbid In Toronto


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Dear Abby,

Can a theory of sets produce a total simulacrum of reality?

- Swooning In Spuzzum

O The Good Old Days ...

Some wag inserted this gem into a BSOD screensaver.

21st Century Hunter-Gatherer WIN!

Got into the impending feudalism vibe over the long weekend: gleaning (& gladly gobbling) wild blackberries along the fence at work ... & now have a box of the sweet little buggers chilling at home to boot.

A lip-smacking 10/10 for good wholesome medieval deliciousness!

Cacophonius Polysimplex Ultra

Wheels Within Wheels Ahoy!

I got VirtualBox to run a different virgin distro inside my Precise Pangolin on a virtual machine today. A computer inside a computer that I can nuke without so much as mussing the hair on my real one. All the little hard-drive-children of Jimville are filled with joy because at long last, their potential shelf-life is looking up. 

A very satisfactory end to a day, eh?

WE HAVE TO GO WEIRDER... (BONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGG)