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I almost forgot just how good things could be. Since we moved back at the end of August, I really didn’t have the time (read into this, I’m too lazy) to pull out my Shuttle system along with all of the stuff that went with it to reinstall it somewhere. I’ve been “happily” running my Macbook for the longest time. Oh yeah, my Macbook was free from work, and IT ONLY RUNS GENTOO.

Ahem. Anyway.

It works. It does what I need it to do. I really don’t do an awful lot these days anyway. It doesn’t take a $3000 desktop to surf the web and run ssh to my colo.

It has been a long time coming. I’m almost done with powerful personal computers. The faster and more expensive they get, the less I seem to care about it. Let’s face it, more and more people are spending more and more money on faster and faster systems. Luckily, I want no part of it.

I run Linux. Not only do I run linux, but I run fluxbox. I’ll make this short. fluxbox has no frills. No graphical wonders of the world. The thing runs and you hardly know it is there. I don’t want frills and fluff. I want something that is easy to use, easy to change, and does it without a whole lot of guff. fluxbox is the same reason that my work machine is about 4 years old. That machine hasn’t has a major upgrade in that time, other then a RAM upgrade. And the best part? It runs as well today as it did 4 years ago.

Try that Windows OR OS X users. I bet it will last another 4 years.

Wait, what was I talking about? Oh yeah. My Shuttle. That thing is really fast too. It feels good to be back on a desktop at home. Everything is unpacked an hooked back up. It took a long time. There are still too many boxes in this place…

Wow I am rambling. What do you want, it’s about an hour from New Years and the Old Number 7 is a flowin. See you next year.

Thanks Penn State. It’s about time I have a team to cheer for that actually wins something.

I also upgraded all of the WordPress installs on the server to 2.3.2. As always, it only took a second and worked flawlessly.

It’s been a long time since I was a netflix member. A few years I believe. I just re-started the account. There just are very few movies that I want to buy these days. Most of the stuff that has been coming out is total rubbish. The good news is that Netflix has quite a Blu-Ray selection, so I will be sure to make good use of that.

I also have a few plans up in the area. I need to get back to blogging. It really has been far too long….

See you next year.

Happy Holidays and stuff.

Enough is really enough. the word ridiculous doesn’t even begin to describe this. I mean really, come on.

If you don’t want to read the whole article, I’ll give you the short, short, version. The new local Phillies minor league baseball team, the Iron Pigs decided to have a contest to name the new mascot. A 5 year old from Easton came up with the name.

PorkChop.

I rarely use the C word, but really, that’s Cute. Apparently not every one thinks so. “Members of the Puerto Rican community” protested and said the name is racist and offensive.

Read that line again. A name thought up by a 5 year old. Racist. What the heck? That doesn’t even make sense. What’s next? I’m of German decent and I find the word Kraut offensive. Change anything with the word kraut in it immediately. That makes just as much sense as this PorkChop nonsense. Enough is really enough. I’m tired of everyone being far to oversensitive and far too politically correct. Ugh. Just ugh.

Anyway, the name was changed to Ferrous.

It is now official, it’s a girl! Pictures are here!

It didn’t take long until the youngest cat decided to use the Christmas tree as it’s own personal jungle gym. Check out the pictures here.