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Hey Ben,  Thought you would like to know that your uncle dale came through his surgery with flying colors and will probably go home tomorrow.  should I send some good WI cheese?

Ben, just when I think I'm starting to get a little too nerdy I can always come here and feel better about myself.

Wine and Cheese party at our house Saturday April 3, 7:00.  Bring some wine and/or cheese.

For a while now, one of my oft repeated phrases when people ask me about computers is "*NIX if for getting shit done, Windows is for games" And the corollary, "I use OS X and Linux because I enjoy them, I use Windows because I have to". Well, maybe sometime soon I'll be able to strike that first favorite phrase of mine: Steam is officially coming to the Mac. And the source engine has been ported to OpenGL. Time to look into hackintoshing my home computer again. And assuming they ever get that screen issue straightened out, maybe I will get that 27" iMac. Too bad I just did that upgrade 6 months ago.

Speaking of Linux, I've been using the Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) Alpha for the past couple weeks. I initially actually liked the new themes, I'm still using Radience. But then came the button move. It's really bizarre. And not terribly popular. They moved the window controll buttons (maximize, minimize, close) to the right side, which is OK, I can deal with that. But left the button order unchanged. So the close button is not in the corner. It's really odd. I left it like that for a few days, just to see if I could get used to it, but I just couldn't. Fitt's law and all that probably. I've moved the buttons back to the right, and put them in the "correct" order. But now they look kind of funny due to the button background graphics. Lucid Beta comes out next week or so, so maybe Cannonical will pull their heads out and either fix the order on the left, or move the buttons back to the right. Either would be fine, but the current default is stupid.

Must. Resist. Using. Catchphrase...

This is a triumph!

I... I couldn't do it. 

Oh well. Try to keep your lunch down while watching this:

We hear the death metal rooster most mornings as Matthew uses it as an alarm clock. 

. sure you all remember death metal rooster, but did you wonder how it could crow for so long? Found this explanation from the Discovery Channel just now:

and now you know.

I also got two, yes two threadless shirts in the mail. First one was a replacement for a too big christmas gift. And the second was wrapped around a book that now has me going nuts driving the google-mobile all over madison. Thanks. Guess what I'll be doing at work for the rest of the week.

Also got a second issue of Rider in the mail yesterday. As if I wasn't already tired enough of winter. Thanks Dad. Now I just have to figure out a good time to go ride around Hawaii. And which of the bikes they reviewed to take. I really kind of liked that Moto Guzzi V7 Cafè Classic, until they got to the part about the 40 HP. The effective speed limit out here is ~85. I'd have worries keeping up with traffic on that. The Kawasaki Z1000 looked pretty good too. Except for the 150 miles on a tank of gas. That would barely get me to Ft Collins and back. Oh well. By the time I get my CC paid off, I'll have made up my mind I'm sure...

Ha!

A 40 degree sunny March day makes me wish I were a runner or had a bicycle, and didn't have to work today.

We had some Fat Tire on the weekend.

As it appears I will never get around to getting this site fully functional again, I've yielded to my innate laziness and installed TinyMCE so at least you won't have to remember BBCode off the top of your head anymore. It will still work, but you don't have to use it.

I been drink'n agin. I picked up a six pack of New Belgium's Mothership Wit. Their "organic" wit beer. The first bottle I had was almost overpoweringly yeast-y. And hence, nasty. But I don't know if it's the couple weeks the now five pack spent mellowing in the fridge, or the fact that I followed the pouring directions, but I'm rather liking it now. You should try it if you get the chance.

I didn't end up go to either the LAN party of Japanese film festival this past weekend. I just didn't feel like lugging my rig over to the Union, especially since none of my usual gaming buds were going. And instead of spending a couple hours watching a movies I really don't care to see, I had my own Japanese film festival with an exclusive (only in my living room! ONE NIGHT ONLY!) showing of Kurosawa's The Bad Sleep Well. It was good, but at 2.5 hours, I had a hard time paying attention for the whole thing.

Wow. Now we probably won't hear from you for a month! :)