I was listening to some Sublime on the way to work this morning. The band’s self-titled album from 1996 is such a great disc with the “What I Got” single making it to number one. Lead singer Brad Nowell never saw it happen, though: he died of a heroin overdose two months before the album was released.
I can only imagine what kind of music the band might have made if Nowell hadn’t been so self-destructive. What a shame.
This month I will have gone without wearing a watch for one whole year. While that may sound like some sort of personal goal it was really an act of laziness.
It began when my watch band broke while biking to work. I managed to scoop up all the parts but have not gotten around to getting a new pin put in my watch band. In the ensuing time I found that I really didn’t need a watch.
I suppose I’ll take it in sometime this week, if only to have some nice jewelry to wear every now and then.
Let’s see:
Thursday: Conn Showcase
Friday: march and Zydecopious at Seaboard Music
Saturday: Sailing at Lake Gaston, Halloween, and hanging out with our cool neighbors.
Sunday: cleaning, lounging, MythTV-fixing, game-playing, bread-making, Trader Joe’s-shopping
That’s a pretty full four days! As for this week, tonight I go to a Parks and Rec committee meeting and that’s all there is on my schedule for the week. Next week I have a Mordecai meeting and the following week I have my East CAC, Raleigh CAC, and Parks Board meetings.
Hip hop, ya don’t stop.
For the past few weeks I’ve been puzzled by the significant load shown on my MythTV backend generated by the kdvb-fe-0 process. The server was running at 50% load or higher even when there was nothing being recorded.
I poked around and found that the kdvb-fe-0 process is created by the Linux DVB drivers, which is the driver used for my TV capture card. Because this driver is running so close to the kernel I am not quite sure how to troubleshoot it. The software tools I would normally use may not work at this level.
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Today is the anniversary of the deadliest, bloodiest, most devastating military invasion that never happened. It is the day during World War II that Allied forces were to invade Kyushu in the start of a full-scale invasion of Japan – an invasion that would have cost untold millions of lives on both sides.
Fortunately, it never took place.
