Ksysguard - the panel applet - would be better if it put current values in the tooltip. It would also be better if it were documented how you get stuff onto there - by opening ksysguard - the app - and dragging "sensors" from the left tree panel thingy. Reordering the sensors on a given display also doesn't seem to work.
Saw her walking down the street. High heels, odd clothing. Kinda stripy pantsuit thing with big billowy legs and weird, garish pattern on top, wraps around her neck, upper back bare. She started telling me how she was going to volunteer with a vetinarian [maybe because I heard something on TV like "Anyone know where I can finda vetinarian? I'm taking care of my grandmother" with no explanation of what that was supposed to mean]. She claimed the strange clothes was her vetinary uniform. Later she was in the strange multi-bedroom circular plan house - sort of a grungy dormitory with a hallway running around the outside - and she started falling asleep standing up, then falling asleep on me, and I tried to find a place to settle her on the couch next to my sister. Somehow she was paler now. She did not want to be put down.
Thought later about my lack of natural defenses. Others assert their id, their reptilian brain of aggression and need, without ever being aware of it. Many people who would never admit to aggression are in fact the worst reptiles (story of the 80s, hippies gone yuppies). The question is, do I want to take care of myself by engaging in my reptile brain, or do I want to live in a higher place and let me reptile brain take care of business by itself. In other words, is learning about reptile brain why I'm here?
Saw myself trying to stop thinking about something. Reminded me of once wearing sunglasses watching a tennis match in afternoon sun. I saw in that moment the trick of "letting go". Part of the problem is having enough confidence to see the whole situation, rather than the onrushing brick wall of danger. Then I visualized myself speeding towards a brick wall and stopping inches away from it. Then I visualized myself watching myself do this, then me the watcher watching the watcher, and so on, quickly leafing off into mandelbrot hall of mirrors receding to infinity. And a quick series of other revelations speeding off into self-reflections. Is this my fate? To watch enlightenment, and never to be in it? Where is my brain? Which part is really me?
I know I'm not the reptile. But I'm not sure he's visible and doing his job, either. I don't want the dragon sleeping, but I don't want him shooting fire out my nose, either. So I know about this: why can't I see others having the same struggle? Are my sudden intuitions about the mind of others always blind to what mirrors me?
Farking Hi-larious. Nothing funnier than watching nerd trolls and regular old under-the-bridge trolls go head to head over whether the MD5 crack constitutes a legitimate defense against a traffic camera, spar over what black men and others do on a typical day (and this being the internet, it's not easy to tell who among the commenters might be), and, let's face it, any conversation that invokes "TCP/IP drinking game" is worth your... uh. Well it's good for... uh, well it's as funny as it is stupid. Or useless. Whatever.
So... wtf? pastafarianism. I approve, even though I approve of many contrary things. But the weird thing is, I distinctly remember a late friend talking, in the sixth grade, about the virtues of the cult of the flying spaghetti. The crawling sort were also in the mix. So, being a generally hip a-hole - you can't make some casual python reference and expect me to go "duh", or a thousand other things - I have to wonder - what is the origin of the flying spaghetti stuff? I'd love to credit Ben L&emdash; with the whole deal - I heard about the flying spaghetti deity/deities from him in, oh, 1982 or so. But since he died (RIP) in the early 90s I have to wonder who has been carrying the torch. And who lit it. It's weird.
:wq
Thu Sep 15 22:19:39 EDT 2005
Government failures at the federal, state and local levels are being widely blamed for the anarchy and loss of life in the early days after Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast on Aug. 29.Baffling indeed. Let's rephrase: "The fire department showed up an hour late and the house burned down. And the now homeless victims think that munincipal services are the answer to their problems. It's baffling!"."Yet now everybody says government is the answer. It's baffling," said Ronald D. Utt, who studies federal public works spending for the conservative Heritage Foundation.
