Her cruddy chin is gone!
 by in Animals & Nature, Cats, Health, The Netherlands |
As mentioned earlier, one of our cats had ‘cat acne’, or ‘cruddy chin’ a while back, and my girlfriend came home with two homeopathic fluids, one for internal and one for external use, which we started to apply.
These fluids I guess are only available in the Netherlands, as its home page suggests.
The internal stuff, a [...]
I hate cripple-ware!
As I mentioned in an earlier post, I have now got an Apple MacBook Pro to work on, which obviously has its pros and cons. Sure, the machine supports X11 to a certain extent but I don’t want to basically run 2 different window managers that look and act a bit differently. I have been [...]
LMAO! Minister must explain how a guy, with Joker-style make-up job, got a passport an ID-card
My girlfriend just called me about this hilarious bit about a guy that had gotten a passport with his picture made while he looked like The Joker from the Batman series.
Apparently, after stating that ‘this was his way of life’, the municipal office didn’t see no problem with it, and issued a passport an ID-card.
This [...]
Poor little rabbit :(
| by in Animals & Nature, Bunnies, Health |
Last night, at about 22h, we had a scare, again: one of our rabbits wouldn’t eat. Having a history of ‘gastronomic’ problems, we always keep an eye on this lil’ fella and noticed that he couldn’t lie down comfortable — twisting and turning, not being able to find a comfy position.
And it really hurts to [...]
Quote Of The Week #44
| by in Quote Of The Week |
Dr. David Bruce Banner, incredibly played by the late Bill Bixby in the Incredible Hulk-series, says the following in the episode Married (this story, I believe, is actually an old Buddhist wisdom):
I once heard a story about a man being chased by a tiger. He came to a cliff. He fell, but he grabbed a [...]
Fuck The Police!
No justice no peace, motherfuckers.
When do this idiots get it into their thick heads that they are there to serve the fucking people, and not to attempt to keep up their appearance?
See, over here in the Netherlands, a 16 year old (!!!) girl was arrested and fined (and her jacket was taken) because her [...]
And then… there was a power failure
| by in The Netherlands |
The weather is shitty as hell today, storms and rain and shit. Pretty rough. So, I noticed the lights going off and on. Two times. All the machines are OK — just my internet connection isn’t.
Heh, as I type this the lights went again. I hope I still have juice later today.
Oh yeah [...]
Quote Of The Week #43
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Chuck D, as quoted in the song Can’t Hold Us Back, referring to todays music industry:
Clear the madness, and put the message in.
Quote Of The Week, QOTW
Yay I got a new Mac!
| by in Computers & Hardware, General |
First post from my new Mac!
Stranger things have happened: a proprietary operating system has entered my household once again. I didn’t pay for it, mind you, my boss did.
*sniff* It may be some weird fetish, but the smell of new hardware is just… well… there is just something about it..
So I’m all happy discovering [...]
Quote Of The Week #42
| by in History, Quote Of The Week |
William of Occam, the English philosopher known for stating that, if you have multiple theories explaining a phenomenon the simplest solution with the least assumptions has to be the best one. It was only in 1852 that a Sir William Rowan Hamilton first used the term Occam’s Razor to refer to this principle.
The original line [...]
Flash player v9.0 for Linux (oh yeah, beta)
I today incidentally discovered the Penguin.SWF blog, which details the development of version 9 of the Flash Player for Linux.
Lucky, because I was just beginning to feel like a handicapped person not being able to reach some information over the last few weeks so.
Shows you how much I care about plugins — this [...]
myth_system(): Error, fork() failed because Cannot allocate memory
| by in Computers & Hardware, General |
Something tells me I need some more memory in my MythTV machine — it was happily transcoding earlier recorded programmes when suddenly all queued transcoding jobs seemed to fail. Checking the backend’s logfile I noticed a lot of these errors:
myth_system(): Error, fork() failed because Cannot allocate memory
There’s 512MB in it at the moment — and [...]
Quote Of The Week #41
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This time, I’m quoting Paul Simon’s the Boy in the Bubble. I was listening to it the other day and realised I never understood the song better than I did then.
These are the days of miracle and wonder — this is the long distance call
The way the camera follows us in slow-mo, the way we [...]
Linux distro timeline
I just discovered the linux distribution timeline.
Cool graph…
Terrorists celebrate Christmas & New Years’ Eve
| by in Random Rantings |
So, last weekend, with the image of the Saddam Hussein getting hanged fresh in the memory of many, the ever-so-useless act of celebrating the new year started.
We can’t let our children play ‘Killzone’ or games in which they have to kill people — but it’s alllllllright, (no it’s almost obligatory), to show an anti-american dead [...]
