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Chugworth! is back

jax — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:46:46 +0000

In college, I was a fan of a comic called Chugworth Academy. It had good art, interesting stories, and whatnot. Like all webcomics, it eventually started to miss schedule, and even skip weeks. There was even a point in which the server just failed to exist, and yet I still tried to read it. I eventually gave up on it, but added an RSS feed into Liferea just in case it was ever to come back.

Well, the RSS feed I had is still broken, but I happened to stumble upon Chugworth!. It turns out that the authors just completely archived the old comics, and started the site fresh. The new comic picks up around 6 months after the end of the old series, but is supposed to be separate enough that readers do not need to read the previous series. There are only 5 posts up, but it’s looking good. Welcome back guys!

Check out Chugworth! and flip through the old Chugworth Academy archives when you get a chance (warning: some old posts can be NSFW)

Week of catch up

jax — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:03:20 +0000

I am not at work this week, being out in Illinois for Jasig’s Fall 2009 Unconference. If you’ve glanced at my twitter feed you can tell I enjoy collaborating with people in this group.

Mostly for myself, but my goals for the week are:

get some fixes to CAS out for testing
start playing with CAS 3.3.x
personally implement uportal
work on the Glade presentation for next week’s LUG

I’m sure there was more but I am at a conference, and between that and flights that’s still an aggressive list.

New server, new theme

jax — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:40:11 +0000

I finally moved my main site to a server in New Jersey (thanks Linode), which took me way too long to get to. Other sites will just have to wait.

Along with the move, I finally got up to date with Wordpress too. With so much change I felt it time to get a new theme as well, so enjoy.

Suspend is back…too well

jax — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 03:35:21 +0000

To clarify last night’s post, the laptop had no problem suspending….resuming on the other hand was odd. If you google for “fedora 10 resume” you see plenty of people have been having similar problems. Upon resuming, all I would get is garbled video for a few seconds before the system would lock up.

This was bothering me enough on the drive home that I contemplated dropping down to Fedora 9 for now. Luckily I ran across Fedora’s Common F10 bugs and added nomodeset to my kernel parameters in /etc/grub.conf. I did not have high hopes for that to work, but it does….and then some. The boot process is not as pretty but I’m suspending and resuming, I could not care less about what the boot process looks like. So now I successfully suspend, but the fun comes with the resume. When I open the laptop the system just about resumes, then suddenly suspends again. This would continue the sad panda moment, but resuming again works. So I just have to resume twice, I can live with that.

Fedora 10

jax — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 06:05:37 +0000

Sunday called for a format of the work laptop to accommodate Fedora 10. I am quite pleased that gnome-rdp is now included, but I miss suspending.

*sad panda face*

Sad Kermit and Hurt

jax — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 06:44:32 +0000

I was listening to my iPod at work today when Sevendust’s cover of Nine Inch Nails’ “Hurt” came on which started a good run of Wikipedia crawling….which resulted in Sad Kermit. While I am a Muppet fan, I thoroughly enjoy this parody. Check it out when you get a chance, you can see the video here.

Side question, what covers of “Hurt” do you like? I heard Johnny Cash’s version before all versions of the song and still love it, but many bands have covered it (Wikipedia has a good list here). So far I’ve only heard the versions by NIN, Johnny Cash, Sevendust and now Sad Kermit, but need to hear more. I wonder if Cake will ever cover it…

Impressive numbers

jax — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:27:00 +0000

I’m sitting around at a conference, and just to share with you some of the pain I feel I figured I would post this:

PING google.com (72.14.207.99) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from eh-in-f99.google.com (72.14.207.99): icmp_seq=1 ttl=241 time=2190 ms
64 bytes from eh-in-f99.google.com (72.14.207.99): icmp_seq=2 ttl=241 time=1470 ms
64 bytes from eh-in-f99.google.com (72.14.207.99): icmp_seq=3 ttl=241 time=1467 ms
64 bytes from eh-in-f99.google.com (72.14.207.99): icmp_seq=4 ttl=241 time=1195 ms
64 bytes from eh-in-f99.google.com (72.14.207.99): icmp_seq=5 ttl=241 time=985 ms

— google.com ping statistics —
5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 3999ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 985.984/1462.167/2190.931/407.187 ms, pipe 3

Doug’s palindrome of the day

jax — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 23:27:34 +0000

Seeing as how today is PI day I found this particulary good, but requires you to drop the last ‘e.’

I prefer pie

Trip report: Tempe, AZ

jax — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:15:18 +0000

I’m stuck in an all day conference call of a sick person telling us what we already know, so I might as well get around to posting about the trip I just got back from. All around it was a great trip. I enjoyed Tempe but the workshop itself was more management than technical so that was a bummer but I made some good contacts and had plenty of side conversations. Some points though:

Flights: I don’t mind flying, but being stuck three people in when you want to go to the bathroom and you have incredible heartburn for 5+ hours is not fun. However while flying out we were chasing the sun as it was setting which was amazing. I had the window on the south facing side so I got to see some incredible gradients and such. And if anyone ever has to pick up baggage in the Phoenix airport, I feel for you.
Mr. Pibb: There’s a Coca-Cola bottling facility in Tempe so most of the place offer Coke products, including Mr. Pibb!! Something I’m not used to seeing since I’m in the northeast, but it’s amazing.
Weather: The first day out, the weather was phenomenal, it was like a perfect Spring day. Thursday and Friday however there was some rain or just the feeling of pending rain but not too bad. However, we were sitting outside at a Happy Hour talking about CAS Thursday night, and got hailed on thrice.
The Big Bang: Thursday night I went out looking for a bar. Being only three blocks away from ASU this was not a difficult task, but which bar to go to first. We walked into a basement bar called “The Big Bang” which advertises itself as a dueling piano bar. Holy Cow! If you are a fan of live music and find yourself in Tempe go to The Big Bang. We had an amazing time. The “I’m only going out for 1 drink” night turned into a night in which we had t o leave at 2:00 because Tempe closes down at 2:00.

So it was a good trip. I was completely exhausted Saturday night when I got back to Albany, but with my love of live music I went straight to Mahoney’s to see Replica. Just a couple more days of not working on projects then I fly down to Orlando for another conference.

Hooray A/C

jax — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 05:15:48 +0000

That’s right A/C. I walked into my hotel room tonight, and the priorities were 1.) turn on A/C 2.) Scan for wireless networks. I guess more to follow but I’ve been traveling for 12-13 hours so I’m going to go relax.