April 2009
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A Century of Bipartisan Tyranny →
This article describes perfectly why we need to ditch the two-party system if we want any chance of getting our country back:
It should be abundantly clear that the left-right, Republican-Democrat dichotomy that we have been divided by over the past century has been one, vast Jedi mind trick. Over and over, the political ruling class has divided us with acrimony over meaningless, fringe issues...
Just enjoyed the Short’s Brewery Beer Dinner at the Melting Pot with Jenny!
I’d like to propose a moratorium on using the phrase “stay in the game” in TV ads. I’m looking at you, Levitra/NutriSystem/Just For Men.
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WatchPut down the swill and pick up something delicious…American craft beer!
RT @YouQuotedQuotes If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month. -Unknown
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The 10 Coolest Foreign Words The English Language... →
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High-Fructose Corn Syrup is Poisoning Everyone →
It’s nice to see that Holland can party when people make a concerted effort to do so.
Groove walkin’ at CityFlats.
Out on my deck in shorts and no shoes. Yesterday morning, it was 26F. Only in Michigan!
Leinenkugel’s Sunset Wheat…not quite as good as Oberon, but almost as cheap as Miller. A fair compromise, in my opinion.
“The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.” -T. Jefferson
Just posted some Ubuntu tips on my blog: http://blog.toddboss.com/ (You don’t have to do all this geeky stuff in the 32-bit version).
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Ubuntu Tip: Install Citrix Client in 64-bit Ubuntu...
First, go www.citrix.com to download the client (this page is current as of 23 April 2009).
Then, follow the instructions here.
If you receive an error regarding “echo_cmd” when you run the installer, see this page and then run sudo ln -s /usr/lib32/libXm.so.3 /usr/lib32/libXm.so.4
Now you can run wfcmgr and set up your connection!
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Ubuntu Tip: Install Adobe Flash Player 10 in...
This stuff is way easier in 32-bit (normal) Ubuntu…
Grab the Flash 64-bit pre-release here.
Open a console (Applications>Accessories>Terminal).
Unzip the file: tar -xzf libflashplayer-10.0.22.87.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz (edit this line if your downloaded filename is different).
Copy the file to the plugin location: sudo cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
Restart...
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Ubuntu Tip: Install Nvidia Driver in 64-bit Ubuntu...
When I started up my brand new install of 64-bit Ubuntu 9.04, the Nvidia drivers didn’t show up in the “Hardware Drivers” (aka “Restricted Drivers”) menu. Here’s what I did to get the driver installed:
Go to nvidia.com and download the latest version of the driver to your desktop.
To install the driver, you’ll need to quit the graphical display:
Log...
Downloading the new Ubuntu! I’ll finally be using it as my main work OS and relegating Windows to a VirtualBox VM. http://www.ubuntu.com/
Catching up…slowly but surely.
Just downloaded Pandora for my BlackBerry. Goodbye, terrestrial radio (except you, NPR)!
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Your TV can grind to a halt: Flash comes to the... →
Hulu on my big-screen sans PC? Giggity.
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Oracle buys Sun; Now owns Java; Becomes a hardware... →
Just think of all of the products this will affect: MySQL, OpenOffice, Java, VirtualBox, and the Oracle DB are included among the ones that I use personally. This will also give Oracle the opportunity to provide a complete stack for their Oracle Database and Applications. I can’t say that I’d mind buying an Oracle Database that runs on an OS and hardware that are tweaked for database...
I’m loving the “small ball” that the Tigers are playing these days.
RT @DanWahlin Tea Party time….we should’ve been holding these for the past 20+ years. Any system that punishes hard work is a bad system.
Anyone who still hasn’t figured out whether or not they are ready for the digital TV conversion needs to be reading books instead.
I was so busy working that I didn’t realize that we’re having open-windows weather!
RT @Foodimentary “If more of us valued food and cheer above hoarded gold, it would be a much merrier world.”~J.R.R. Tolkien
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Ron Paul: Fewer Taxes for Real Economic Stimulus →
RT @jamierowe Thomas A. Edison - “Discontent is the first necessity of progress.”
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Children on a Leash →
There’s something about this that just makes me uneasy.
RT @GRPress Former All-Star Tigers pitcher Mark ‘The Bird’ Fidrych dies in apparent accident at age 54. http://bit.ly/162xmC
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Former All-Star Tigers pitcher Mark 'The Bird'... →
What a bummer. I was just watching an interview with “The Bird” on MLB Network the other day. He was a really cool guy.
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Amazon responds to queries, blames a 'glitch' →
As someone that is very familiar with computer glitches I can tell you that dropping all gay-related books from the sales rankings as “adult content” while leaving erotica untouched is not a glitch. It’s censorship. Amazon’s scurrying to cover their tracks now that it’s blown up on Twitter.
RT @sheeplescareme Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us. -Leo Tolstoy
The homework seems less daunting and the furnace will make it until tomorrow…things are looking a bit better.
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WIndows Tip: Verbose Boot Mode
If Windows is taking its time to start up or shut down, there might be a problem. To find out what’s going on, go to ‘HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System’, create a DWORD value called ‘verbosestatus’ and set it to 1. Restart your PC and Windows will tell you what it’s getting up to.
(via 20 Registry Hacks to Make Your PC More...
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Rainn Wilson bongos his way into a jam session... →
This video combines two of my favorite things: The Office and Weezer! It looks like SoulPancake is about to release a full interview with Rivers (see the second video for a teaser).
Tons of homework and a broken furnace…Happy Easter!
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Kurt Cobain’s been gone 15 years now…man I’m getting old.
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Playing for Change →
Check out the “Stand By Me” video. These guys are doing something pretty cool here…
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Libertarian Party urges Americans to join the Tea... →
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The Beginner's Guide to Creating Virtual Machines... →
I cannot say enough good things about virtualization in general, and VirtualBox in particular (VMware ESX rocks in the server room, but that’s another article). If you’ve ever wanted to try out another operating system (Ubuntu Linux, perhaps) without reformatting your machine, or just want to be able to run apps from multiple operating systems simultaneously, this is for you.
Oh, how I wish I was in Detroit for Opening Day…14-1 in the seventh. All I can do is listen to the radio.
RT shellyrocheMIAC redux? VA ‘terrorist threat’ doc leaked, names slashdot, anti-abortion, green, sovereignty grps http://is.gd/rMvk
RT C4LibertyStates’ Rights: progressives mock the 10th amendment at their own peril http://tinyurl.com/cc4hqz
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States' Rights and the Left →
Since Franklin Roosevelt, the Federal Government has grown far beyond the reaches of its constitutional authority. States are starting to react. Under the tenth amendment, the Federal government is only allowed to meddle in the affairs of states where that authority has been explicitly granted. Unfortunately, for the past 80 years, Washington has been slowly and steadily creeping into more and...
Deciding whether to plow forward on homework or go to bed…
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How to Spend $14 Billion to Improve U.S. Rail... →
In class, listening to a talk about the CodeIgniter PHP framework.
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