Who doesn’t love a good screensaver? I’ve been a fan of 3D Pipes going all the back to Windows 95, and I hypothetically might possibly have hacked my computer at Diamond using a Linux live USB to put 3D Pipes onto that Windows 10 machine. Possibly. I can neither confirm or deny. On Linux Mint,Continue reading “Customizing XScreenSaver”
Live from New York… it’s Cookie Monster!
Fifteen years ago, Cookie Monster made an audition tape to be a guest host on Saturday Night Live. It still hasn’t happened. Let’s make it happen, world! Cookie Monster, on Saturday Night Live. The world needs this.
A Case Study
I’m getting better at backgammon, winning about half the time I play now. Sometimes I can even demolish xgammon pretty thoroughly. This morning’s game was like that… until the moment that it wasn’t. I thought I was going to have it in the bag, until I didn’t. Let’s go through it. Here’s an interesting position.Continue reading “A Case Study”
“I Need to See Mountains Again, Gandalf”
I’ve been down in Virginia recently, and I stopped on occasion to take photos of mountains. A little too late in the year for the fall foliage, unfortunately, but still, there were some lovely vistas.
Looking for a Priest
I have a weird habit. I can go to a cemetery and take photographs incidentally of something that I will go back later, sometimes years later, and deliberately search for. Yes, yes, the human mind is good at finding patterns in the chaos. But it has happened often enough that it’s weird. Case in point.Continue reading “Looking for a Priest”
Excitement in Yoe
Some excitement in the apartment complex this morning. There were massive, howling winds last night. I mistakenly opened the door to see what was happening, and my living room filled with leaves. (I decided that could wait for morning. I wasn’t throwing leaves back into the wind.) This morning, drinking my coffee, there came soundsContinue reading “Excitement in Yoe”
Five Below’s Peanuts Snow Water Speaker
I needed to go to the grocery store this afternoon, and after I went next door to Five Below to have a look around. Today being Halloween, they had their Christmas sections set up, and as I was on my way out the door, something caught my attention. The Peanuts Snow Water Speaker. Snoopy inContinue reading “Five Below’s Peanuts Snow Water Speaker”
A Hard-Fought Victory
It seems unlikely, but I won this game of backgammon. Look at that. I have four pieces pinned in white’s home quadrant. I would have to roll a seven — an impossibility on a D6 — to even get one piece out, let alone four. But things developed quickly. White began consolidating his pieces intoContinue reading “A Hard-Fought Victory”
A Sign on the Mountain
When I was a wee lad, from the carport of our house I could see the Endless Caverns sign on the side of Massanutten Mountain. Driving home today, I stopped at the rest area near New Market, crossed the truck parking, and from the hillside took some photos. Things don’t change much in forty years.
Fun with Virtual Machines
Normal people do not run Emacs or build XMMS, a multimedia player, from source in a Linux Mint 5 virtual machine, but, my friends, I am not normal people. FWIW, I’m listening to WFMT’s “Vince Guaraldi’s Christmas Gift to Jazz,” an hour-long program with some Guaraldi music and covers of his music for A CharlieContinue reading “Fun with Virtual Machines”