Category: Life in General

This is pretty deep and insightful for a Thursday afternoon… “What’s fascinating to me is that I grew up in a time when my friends related to Luke and now, my kids relate to Anakin. There is an interesting social comment there — that when I grew up the hero was an optimistic young neophyte who becomes this hero and the new generation’s hero is a strong-willed, ambitious and ultimately vilified protagonist who is misled and, for reasons of ego and heartbreak, literally becomes the very villain that my generation fought against.” — Director JJ Abrams From this starwars.com page, found on the ubiquitous binarybonsai.

SFAC WTF? Originally uploaded by vanRijn. How in the world can “pez man 81” manage to be on Xbox live 3 times at once? Mind you, he is really good (and cheap as all get out), but that just seems odd to me. =:/

Merry belated Christmas wishes all! =:) One of my presents this year was this amazingly sweet Logitech VX Revolution mousie. It is really cool and uber-geeky. The spin-wheel scrolling thing just gets me all excited. =:) I have yet to get all the buttons working in Linux/X, but Button8 and Button9 (the buttons near the thumb) are recognized out of the box. What I want to get working (without having to futz around with recompiling stuff) is the back/forward mouse motions (tilting the scroll-wheel left or right). A virtual beer, oh LazyWeb, to the lucky soul to point me in the right direction! =:)

As if I didn’t have enough time for all that I already have going on, I had to go and find myself a new addiction. And find it I did and quickly. I think the twin causes for this new addiction are: Searching for Bobby Fischer (a really great movie–how on earth did I manage to not see that one yet?!!!) Weird Al’s “White and Nerdy” video (after I got done laughing my tuckus off, I realized that I actually do identify with about 90% of that video!!) I’ve always loved Chess. My Dad and I used to play it as I was growing up and some of my fondest childhood memories are of my Dad and I playing Chess. Read more…

I found Jerry’s SeinLanguage book in my bookshelf a while back and I’m reading through it, here and there.  This made me laugh tonight, so I thought I’d share… I love to exercise, but I still have to laugh at it.  You go to the health club, you see all these people and they’re working out; they’re training, they’re getting in shape.  But nobody’s really getting in shape for anything.   In modern society, you really don’t have to be physically strong to do anything.  The only reason that you’re getting in shape is so you can get through the workout.  So we’re working out, so that we’ll be in shape, for when we have to do our exercises.  That’s Read more…

Family Force 5 Originally uploaded by vanRijn. I cannot tell you how cool this CD is. You’ll just have to go check it out for yourself. I just thoroughly dig these guys. They’ve been criticized for not having an overtly Christian CD, but I’m not buying that just yet, I don’t think. Their music is a thoroughly refreshing mix of punk, rock, techno, and eclectic funk. They’ve sweetened their appeal by throwing in big heaping helpings of self-deprecating humor and manage to poke fun at the last 20 years of musical genres. But all throughout, they are a really refreshing sound and a TON of fun to listen to and enjoy. My current favorites are (this is expanding daily): – Read more…

I wish I would have found this very helpful post a long time ago, but such is life, I suppose. I’ve been trying to figure out a good way to do server-side filtering on my cpanel-based IMAP server for quite a while now, but hadn’t found anything official. I wrote some custom exim filters that my last web host was gracious enough to let me put in place, but that was a little hackish, since it required a good-natured web-hosting admin. But following Pda0’s suggestions from his post seems to be working quite well thus far. I’ll quote him below… I’ve been able to set up procmail in a per-user basis, not globally! The .procmailrc is global to a domain Read more…