For those breathlessly awaiting an update… I had a kernel and libc patch applied to the Ubuntu install on my laptop — usually a kernel update and without fail a libc update would completely FUBAR my laptop and often meant it was easier to reinstall Ubuntu. Eight months ago I suspected it was my hard [...]

There’s a huge cicada on our porch. Hey, I thought I heard them outside, I just didn’t think they came this far north. Evidently they do on rare occasions. Of course, I sort of am repelled by it, feel bad for it, and want to feed it to the turtles. There you have it. Busted. [...]

Hey, guess what? I don’t have MS or a horrible brain squenching tumor made of tooth enamel! For some reason, everyone still thinks that sort of proclamation doesn’t sound completely lame to a patient in this boat. I know there are many patients in similar larger boats. Not me, it is clearer than day that [...]

So I’ve been meaning to update you fine folks, but the universe has been especially indifferent about things here. This means a couple of things: I feel crappy and most of the time by the time I boot the laptop I either make no sense or I can’t remember why I did so to start [...]