Awake.

I woken up a bit earlier than I had planned, due to the sound of ice pellets hitting the window pane in the bedroom with a loud rattling noise. I had planned to try and sleep in till 8:00 am (for 10 hours sleep total) but it was not to be. So now I am awake, and I go in search of coffee.

WTF Theatre Presents...

I've spent most of the day doing various maintenance tasks on Webigail, the Linux box. Today, thanks to _sps_,  I started using screen whenever I login via ssh. I was hoping that this would, among other things, stop emacs from occasionally dieing on startup. Well, it didn't work. One in every 5 or 10 executions, emacs still comes up but refuses to accept any input. I decided to do an strace on it, and got the following:

read(0, 0xbffd13b4, 3) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted)
--- SIGTTIN (Stopped (tty input)) @ 0 (0) ---
--- SIGTTIN (Stopped (tty input)) @ 0 (0) ---
read(0, 0xbffd13b4, 3) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted)
--- SIGTTIN (Stopped (tty input)) @ 0 (0) ---
--- SIGTTIN (Stopped (tty input)) @ 0 (0) ---
read(0, 0xbffd13b4, 3) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted)
--- SIGTTIN (Stopped (tty input)) @ 0 (0) ---
--- SIGTTIN (Stopped (tty input)) @ 0 (0) ---
read(0, 0xbffd13b4, 3) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted)
--- SIGTTIN (Stopped (tty input)) @ 0 (0) ---
--- SIGTTIN (Stopped (tty input)) @ 0 (0) ---
read(0, 0xbffd13b4, 3) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted)
--- SIGTTIN (Stopped (tty input)) @ 0 (0) ---
--- SIGTTIN (Stopped (tty input)) @ 0 (0) ---
read(0, 0xbffd13b4, 3) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted)
--- SIGTTIN (Stopped (tty input)) @ 0 (0) ---
--- SIGTTIN (Stopped (tty input)) @ 0 (0) ---
read(0, 0xbffd13b4, 3) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted)
--- SIGTTIN (Stopped (tty input)) @ 0 (0) ---
--- SIGTTIN (Stopped (tty input)) @ 0 (0) ---


I am no further enlightened than I was before. Anyone have any idea what the above means?

Dr. Who.

There's a brand new 90-minute Dr. Who episode on TV tonight. Its some kind of Christmas special staring the new, new doctor. Its on at 8:00 pm on cable 13 -- and I plan to watch it.