People trying to run both together may find that unlike peanut butter and chocolate, there is less deliciousness. Specifically, a bunch of keys (like arrow, insert, etc) may stop working.

There’s a fix for the lost keys here.

I also had some issues making the virtual network connection between the host and virtual machines. I think that may have been more of upgrading from 6.05 to 6.5. Ultimately I saw the error message on the VM was complaining about a missing vmnet8 and went ahead and manually created a new vmnet8 - and that seemed to fix it. But what a lot of pain and manual troubleshooting for something sooo easy.

I’m going to spiral into a deep deep depression now.

I really wish HST were around to cover this year’s election crazy time.

At one point I point to the GSA guy and say, “I don’t need to talk to that guy” at which point he yells, “Fuck you” I say to him, “I’m gonna need your name and your supervisor’s name.” and I snap off several pictures of him to record the event. He again explodes and comes at me.

GSA Vigilante Assaults Photographer.

Sorry Zinger… no amusing tale of me working at the Family Fun Festival at the Pre-School this year.  Less than an hour from coming home from a birthday party that had a Batman Ice Cream Cake, Lorelai was sick every 1.5 hrs from 7pm ET to 9:30am ET Sunday morning…. Let’sjust say Batman Returns has new meaning to me.

and.. yes I brewed myself a pot of coffee Sunday just to function.

Epic Win: Goodbye, schadenfreude; hello, fail.

Why is everyone saying “fail” all of a sudden? - By Christopher Beam - Slate Magazine.

My favorite quote:

It’s as if LOLcats coincided with a global outbreak of some feline adorability virus. The financial crisis also fits neatly into the Internet’s tendency toward overstatement. (Worst. Subprime mortgage crisis. Ever.) Only this time, it’s not an exaggeration.

One anecdote out of science fiction’s history that almost everyone has heard of is the tale of how Cleve Cartmill, a competent writer of middling abilities, published a story describing the workings of the atomic bomb in a 1944 issue of John Campbell’s magazine Astounding Science Fiction, fourteen months before the first successful atomic explosion at the Alamogordo testing grounds, thus causing a Federal security agency to investigate both Cartmill and Campbell to see if there had been a leak of top-secret military information.

“Reflections: The Cleve Cartmill Affair: One” by Robert Silverberg.

Ibex comes out in two weeks, I’m excited.

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New Features since Ubuntu 8.04

8.10 Technical Overview | Ubuntu.

The Bush administration issued a pair of secret memos to the CIA in 2003 and 2004 that explicitly endorsed the agency's use of interrogation techniques such as waterboarding against al-Qaeda suspects — documents prompted by worries among intelligence officials about a possible backlash if details of the program became public.

CIA Tactics Endorsed In Secret Memos - washingtonpost.com.