Eric Mesa | June 30, 2008
I don’t recall if I’ve ever mentioned it on this blog, but I hate going to the movies. I’ve nearly given it up. The only exceptions are Pixar movies and the very few movies that I can’t wait until they come out on DVD to watch. So today I went to see [...]
Category: Disney, Movies |
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Tags: An Inconvenient Truth, WALL*E
Eric Mesa | June 29, 2008
You know who you are. I just didn’t want to give identity theives more info.
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Eric Mesa | June 29, 2008
Once again I was pretty excited to find that I had been aggregated onto LinuxToday for this blog post. The funny thing is that I almost didn’t make that blog post as I was contemplating it for over a week and usually if I wait that long, the blog post doesn’t get written.
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Category: Geek Love, Internet, Linux |
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Tags: LinuxToday, LinuxToday Appearances
Eric Mesa | June 29, 2008
For what I think is the first time, I was dugg for my Xfce article!
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Tags: digg, XFCE
Eric Mesa | June 28, 2008
A few days ago I finished The Fellowship of the Rings. Things picked up in the second half of the book and they accelerated in the last quarter. I’m enjoying The Lord of the Rings a lot more now that Tolkien has gotten Tom Bombadil out of his system. In the Wikipedia article, even Tolkien [...]
Category: Books |
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Eric Mesa | June 27, 2008
3/4ths of this XKCD strip explain exactly how I feel about having kids.
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Eric Mesa | June 26, 2008
I am just sharing this because it’s about my alma mater, it’s a little funny in a geeky way, and I like Mark’s blog.
Check out this story about CIT and Cornell labs.
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Eric Mesa | June 25, 2008
For the past week to two weeks I’ve done something I had’t done in years – I switched my default desktop environment in my GDM login screen. I’ve been logging into Xfce instead of my usual Gnome. There are basically three reasons why I’m loving Xfce over Gnome.
First of all, I love the [...]
Category: Linux |
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Tags: XFCE
Eric Mesa | June 24, 2008
Back in High School I got The W’s Fourth from the Last album and one of my favorite tracks was titled “Hui”. I thought that, like some of the other songs on the album, it was just a nonsensical song and that calling the thugs on the beach “The Hui” was just because it sounded [...]
Category: Music |
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Tags: Da Hui, Surfing, The W's
Eric Mesa | June 23, 2008
The top ten are mostly the same photos they’ve been for a while now, but the bottom ten have changed a bit. It’s very, very intersting (to me, at least) that every digital camera I’ve ever used is represented in the Top 20.
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Tags: flickr, Flickr Top 20
Eric Mesa | June 22, 2008
I’m uninstalling BitTorrent 5.0.9 from my Windows computer because every time the computer starts up, if I don’t exit from the program, all of my internet-related programs lose their connections. This is way too misbehaved and I’m sick of it. I’m moving to Transmission or one of the other ones that aren’t crap. [...]
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Eric Mesa | June 20, 2008
As I’ve mentioned before, although I think it was on It’s A Binary World 1.0, a Cornell education does something strange to you. Like seeing vectors when speeding up and slowing down your car. Or in the way in which you explain why Dan will be escorting two bride’s maids at Phil’s wedding:
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Tags: Cornell, Geek Humor
Eric Mesa | June 18, 2008
I’ve read time and again that the Lord of the Rings Trilogy (which is actually not a trilogy, but one massive book published in 3 parts) has all kinds of allegorical content and contains a lot of stuff Peter Jackson had to leave out of the movies. Well, they’re certainly right about Mr Jackson leaving [...]
Category: Books |
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Eric Mesa | June 17, 2008
I’m not 100% sure, but I think this is the longest I’ve purposely waited to upgrade to another Fedora release. I’ve been reading the Fedora user and developer mailling lists and what’s I’ve seen there has pretty much convinced me not to upgrade. First of all, there are a lot of answers to [...]
Category: KDE, Linux |
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Tags: Fedora 9, Fedora 9 Upgrade, KDE 4, upgrade
Eric Mesa | June 16, 2008
I found this online and I think it’s cute. Scientifically, however, I have a bit of a problem with the ending.
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Tags: Penguin, Vancouver Film School