Dylan’s Rants

Wheew. It’s been a busy two weeks.

I didn’t mention this until now, but we (Spoony and I) had to move rather
quickly, as our landlord lost his mortgage.
This ended up being a good thing, as we found a house (rather than a duplex)
with the same monthly rent. We have a bit more space, and rather big front and
back yards.

This past weekend we also visited Spoony’s family, which was (as usual) pleasant.

I really wish I had more to write about, but I’ve not had much time to do
anything fun.

Last night I managed to get openc2e
building with cmake. It seems to work on gentoo and debian, and it mostly works
on OS X. My current goal is to allow hassle-free building on OS X with macports.

In addition, there are a few problems building on FreeBSD. I have not really
attempted that yet, since the only person likely to use a freebsd build right
now is me.

Windows building should be greatly simplified.

After the main part of the convention, we talked about Futurama, and somehow I became possum’s father.
Also, Mary got possum pregnant, and I threatened to get me shotgun unless Mary made Possum an honest … alien.

Leaving the anime convention, we went to the hotel’s pool. Nobody brought bathing suits, and nobody felt like swimming since the water was warm.
Still, we tried to trick possum into the water. When that failed, I tried forcing him into the water.
The only problem with that is Possum has been doing lawn care over the summer, and is in a lot better shape than I am.

I was able to lift him up, since he’s only 120lbs, however he thrashed too much.

I harassed a poor man that happened to remind me of a RedHat Linux
/ Fedora mascot at a recent Anime convention. I was not alone in this, either.

First, Possum and I followed him into an exhibition panel, and confronted him.
We both stated: RedHat Sucks. Then we went on to explain that gentoo/portage and
debian/dpkg were superior.

Visibly confused, he said “I don’t know what you’re talking about”.
He left the room. Apparently Mary saw him exit, and approached him saying:
“RedHat sucks!”. He reportedly said “Why does everyone keep saying that!!???”.

This past weekend Tina and I went to an anime convention in Orlando.
Full blame for this rests on Possum and/or Mary.
Alex, another good SLUG friend was also a member of our party.
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I forgot to mention this, but Helen visited us last month — on July 14-15 (Saturday morning ’til Sunday evening).

We played some DS games (Mario Kart, and Worms), went to the movies (the new Harry Potter movie), and convinced Helen of the absolutely necessity of using GnuPG.

Since then I’ve had strep throat (again!), and lots of stuff has been going on, but I wanted to record (and remember) the fun we had.

I learned quite a few things:

1. “I’m not fast” means “I do not feel strongly about it”
2. Australians in the movie Undead do not talk funny, they “talk right”

I also remember Helen remarking about strawberry pop-tart flavored cappuccino: “America is so funny”.

Fuzzie prompted me the other day to start archiving / mirroring Creatures community websites, so their content will be preserved for future generations.
I have around 600M of stuff downloaded so far.

Please feel free to add to the list of things that need to be archived.

I have a new job as a perl programmer for a call center / telemarketing place. Yeah, that’s kind of eew,
but the environment there is a lot more open.

I do indeed mean open; both their in-house asterix dialing program and their HR system are on source forge.