ITEM 1!!!
I returned to the lovely apartment of one of the profs in the UC program to work my magic on her and her husband's computers again yesterday evening.* This is a good deal for everyone: they get free computer repair / configuration and I get to be around other human beings. I was fed foods including:
- Green vegetables!
- Shallots (which are so much better and more interesting than onions! Who knew?)
- Steak!
- Beer!
The thing that really frustrated husband was that his reliable old workhouse of a printer doesn't work with Vista, either. And no one has or is going to write a new driver for it, so now he and prof have to think about buying a replacement, on top of the money they just spent on the new laptop.
ITEM 2!!!
While making the rounds on my usual news sites this morning, I came across THIS charming fellow:
Per this BBC article, this is supposedly the military leader of the Basque separatist movement the ETA. At first I thought "my goodness, what a dashing swarthy rogue is this!" But then I noticed something: the fashion mullet. He's sporting what appears to be a teased and product-using party in the back with a fashionable close-cropped deal in front, all held together by the George Michael facial hair scene.
He was probably captured because it was so easy to track him down by the smell of hair gel and the moans of disappointment from the ladies as they realized he had a mullet. Unless Basque separatist girls are into that kind of thing.
Anyway, I'm back to the BNF this afternoon after trudging over to the Monoprix to deal with the checkout ladies this morning. I am out of wine, pesto, and cheese, you see.
* By "my magic" here, I mean magic comparable to a primitive card trick. Or anything that GOB would have done on Arrested Development - say the Aztec Tomb.
4 comments:
I love the Aztec Tomb.
I also kinda have a mild crush on the mullet terrorist... You can't judge Europeans (or terrorists for that matter) by your anti-mullet standards. I mean, he's a freedom fighter! (Or something. To tell the truth, I only have the sketchiest understanding of who he is and what he stands for. Even so, I think I love him.)
The ETA has always been one of my favorite bands of rag-tag terrorists/freedom fighters, as they endorse a whole mish-mash of leftist politics on top of wanting a Basque state in the Pyrenees.
And you're right: who am I to judge a mullet that carefully crafted? If I allow Australians to do it, I should welcome the Basques, too.
Shallots! Yes! Perhaps you don't want to start substituting them everywhere you'd normally use an onion, but there are many places where they are quite superior!
Vista! No! Vista blows! As of Sunday evening, I think I'm not far off in saying that my most recent Linux installation (Kubuntu 8.10) was easier than my most recent Windows installation. No command line stuff. No nCurses stuff. All-GUI, two or three questions. Though I did have to figure out why I had no sound. (Strangely, by default in 8.10 the PC speaker and PCM sound are turned all the way down, and are by default not visible in the mixer widget). And KDE 4 is purty.
You know how to do the Aztec Tomb! Maybe you could teach me and I could perform it... on Newport Beach... do draw human contact. (I may be in the heart of en famille, but my stage of professionalization is lonely).
No mullet. No way. He can pull this off in Europe, but geography cannot overcome my opposition.
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