Stuff: December 2005 Archives

Unclean

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I spent the holidays with my relatives in Houston.  My brother-in-law used to be a staunch conservative, but over the years as he has earned a law degree and then gone on to PhD work, he has become a liberal.   He reads the New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Village Voice and blamed "Big Oil" for at least two different problems with Houston's transit system.  He even thought Bono would be a great pick for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Fedora, dora dora the Explorer...

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And lo, on the thrid re-install did Fedora Core 4 install, and it was good.  And lo, did the Apache Web Server run, with FTP, SSL, and MySQL, and that was good.  And lo, were the ports open and pinging and packeting, and that was very good.

And then the RPM of Firefox 1.5 was found lurking in the garden and tempted the penguin with the power to surf the internet better.  And the penguin ate of this fruit and it wasn't YUM(my)..

Next time, don't use the development RPM, stupid.  At least I didn't force the YUM install!

Damn it's Cold

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It has been really cold around here the last two days.  The temperature is coold enough make anything you do outside statutory!

I have two dogs which usually stay outside wile the wife and I are at work where they terrorize our back-yard.  However, they have been kept in their kennels or in the house becasue it is so freaking cold.

So why Ospurt?

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So if my online nick has been Opus for a long time, why do I use Ospurt?

Well first off, being content with my internet existence, I neglected to log on to every free email/blog site de jour and gobble up the name during the dot.com boom.  Heck, I'm lucky my name is obscure enough that I was able to get my first initinal last name at Hotmail... (but not Yahoo, Gmail, etc...)

So I resorted to my dark username: Ospurt.  Which was courtsey of a community of VMS FORUM / mIRC addicts, malcontents, MUD Players, and assorted characters.  I was the non-drinking member of this rag-tag band.  At a particular Friday the 13th Party they decided to spike my normal IBC RootBeers with Everclear and proceeded to get me hammered.  At some point during the party I blew chunks and the name Ospurt was born.

Deadpool..

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OK.. so it is a little morbid, but I think it will be great fun!  I have now sent in my deadpool roster!