On the heels of what was Tropical Storm (and briefly Hurricane) Humberto, Tropical Storm Ingrid is now churning towards North Carolina. My guess is that Ingrid will turn north before getting to us, but I Am Not A Meterologist (IANAM). I sure wouldn’t complain if Ingrid stopped by just long enough to dump a bunch more rain on us, though.
September 14, 2007
Buckets of rain!
After months of no significant rain we finally got a drenching today, and boy is it wonderful! By my estimate we’ve gotten at least 1.5 inches so far with more to come tonight.
Remember that big honking tank I purchased a few weeks ago? When I heard the rain was on the way, I slipped out to Lowes this morning and bought a flexible downspout pipe. I then spent 15 minutes attaching it to just one downspout, thinking I’d attach the other downspouts later.
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cat /dev/funkywhiteboys
This may be the funniest geek humor I’ve ever seen. I was building the OSX plugin for the XMMS audio player just now when I got this ‘error’:
checking pthread.h usability… yes
…checking for GTK – version >= 1.2.0… yes
checking for xmms-config… /opt/local/bin/xmms-config
checking for gawk… (cached) awk
checking for XMMS – version >= 1.2.0… yeschecking for white_boys in -lFunkyMusic.so… no
Warning: You may not have enough white boys to play your funky music.
Please obtain additional funky white boys.configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile…
Kudos to Bob Dean! We’ll see if it will work in spite of these limited resources. 🙂
[Update] Must not have enough funky white boys: the plugin segfaults. 🙁
They Might Be In Derm
They Might Be Giants announced this week that they’ll be playing Durham’s Carolina Theatre Friday, October 26th.
The last show I saw was at Raleigh’s now-defunct Ritz Theater. Must have been close to a decade ago. Anyhow, its worth a drive to Derm to see TMBG.
On a related note, I’m kicking myself for not seeing Elvis Costello last night. PTA meeting took priority. I was glad to see that Paul provided the setlist. Thanks, Paul!
Opposition mounts to Butner pathogen lab
Greg has alerted me to opposition forming against the BNAF, the Butner pathogen lab I wrote about earlier this summer. I can’t find any other links to the opposition, though. Bummer.
According to Greg’s post, the DHS will hold a public meeting at 7 PM on Tuesday, September 18th at South Granville High School. Wouldn’t it be great to see biohazard suits in the audience?
It all makes me wonder … is Ebola drought-resistant?
Removing old Drupal redirects today
I’m removing the old Drupal redirects today, the ones that make old, old, old links work. I’ve been using WordPress now for months so I figure its time.
If you don’t see new entries after September 17th, chances are you need to update your feed address. Get with the program, you lazy slugs!
[Update:] For the benefit of the extremely lazy, I’ll provide my new feed link here.