Still Awake.

I've been half asleep for ages, but I just needed to play one more round  of Civ III, and then another, and another, cause you know you can't stop at just one.

So, I think it is WAAAY past my bedtime, but if the strange countersomnolence theory of azrhey, is correct, that means she's been sleeping like a baby.

I guess we can consider this an unplanned test of said theory.

News update.

[[Editors note: There is just NO WAY to avoid double entendres in the following message, so I'm not even going to try.]]

First the background:
    There was a massive sausage munch over at my place on the weekend, and between myself, taxlady, _sps_, nancyrihakova, and denizsarikaya, many large and yummy sausages got devoured. Now, they were all supposed to be uniformly zingy, since they were all supposed to be of the Hot Italian kind, but in practice some were just not hot, and others most definitely were. (Enough so that we figured maybe one of the batches of hot italians we had bought were, in fact, mild italians.)  Anyway, by some statistical fluke, denizsarikaya didn't get any of the hot and zingy italians, and by the time she found out some were zingier than others, there were just two half sausages left, and it wasn't clear that either of them were zingy.

Well, at the end of the day, after everyone was groaning from the amount they had stuffed themselves with, there were two quarter sausages left, which I just had for breakfast. And let me tell you, one of them was mild and the other was VERY VERY ZINGY indeed! I'm wondering how there could have been any doubt at the time, because my mouth is currently on fire in that nifty-endorphin-rush kind of way.

So now you know.

Project Grizzly: For Sale!

For anyone who hasn't heard of it before, Project Grizzly is a Canadian Wildlife Biologists strange dream to build a suit that will let him wrestle with live grizzly bears. These high tech combinations of titanium, rubber, and various high-tech components are the closest thing currently existing to a suit of powered battle armor. What's more, he is now selling off the Mark-VI and Mark-VII versions of the suit on EBay, probably to raise money to build the Mark VIII.

Man, wouldn't I love to own one of those.

Le Sigh...

So, the server is apparntly still borked (as is my spelling -- today you're just gonna have to live with it.) The last thing we did before _sps_ left on Sunday night was to install new versions of lots of the software, including X. Now it doesn't start. Or, rather, it sort-of kind-of starts, but not really.

I suspect that there are now two different X implementations or something running at the SAME TIME and its all gone monkey. The login screen is now text only (except for a light-gray mandrake background -- WTFFFFF?) and I can't run anything that wants X. If I say something like startx then it hangs for 10 minutes and finally says something like :0 is already in use, should I try :1?

If I say Yes, and do an Alt-Ctl-F1, I get a normal login screen that sometimes boots me into ICE, and sometimes runs Gnome.

Yeeeesh.

I'm sure this mess would only take 10 minutes to fix for someone who had even the vaguest notion of what the software stack looks like from the hardware up to Gnome, but I don't.

For today, color me defeated.