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Now that they’re planning on auctioning off all the firefly costumes, does this mean that there will be no more movies? Ever? I thought that a second or third movie was sort of on the to-do list if Joss could manage it…
Did I miss some kind of statement from Joss about the official demise of firefly?
Can someone help catch me up? Stupid school has been stealing my life away… :(
From a trivia page for the tv series LOST. Someone writes:
The polar bear [on the island] is white. It is a known fact that a polar bear’s fur is not white but it is hollow and clear. A polar bear is white because of the refection of the snow on itself. If it was a real polar bear it wouldn’t have been white
Then why are bears white at the zoo? Do they spray-paint them? hahaha.
(x-posted in my new and improved blog.)
From a trivia page for the tv series LOST. Someone writes:
The polar bear [on the island] is white. It is a known fact that a polar bear’s fur is not white but it is hollow and clear. A polar bear is white because of the refection of the snow on itself. If it was a real polar bear it wouldn’t have been white
Then why are bears white at the zoo? Do they spray-paint them? hahaha.
If you feel like having your heart break, watch It’s All About Love. But that review link doesn’t help explain it.
Take my word for it. It hurts. especially if you drink it in with wine.
Synaesthesia research quiz:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/mind/surveys/synaesthesia/see/
More information after the quiz about synaesthesia:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/mind/surveys/synaesthesia/see/further.shtml
Thanks to for posting this link to .
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….for the benefit of other people who might find totally jargonized help-files or howtos or documentation completely opaque, I’m posting in PLAIN HUMAN LANGUAGE about my amarok problems and how I finally solved them.
I’m using ubuntu breezy, and I installed amarok from synaptic package manager, which pulled sqlite and the kde binares/files that it also needs.
At one point, I tried to delete all files from my amarok collection so that I could re-load them to solve what I thought was a problem with it missreading some id3 tags. After I tried to uncheck the folder for my music library, amarok was unable to rebuild my collection successfully. I suspected that this was a problem with the sqlite database, but I couldn’t locate the database file itself and didn’t know how to interact with sqlite through the command line, so I tried to uninstall everything and reinstall everything from scratch to try to solve this problem. (Also, i didn’t want to take the time to learn how to configure mysql and switch to that database instead.)
I ran into problems locating all the hidden files to successfully remove them after I uninstalled amarok and sqlite from synaptic.
The following are the two major locations of amarok references that you have to manually remove in order to completely uninstall amarok and sqlite:
~/.kde/share/apps/amarok/
~/.kde/share/config/amarokrc
In nautilus, go to View and choose “show hidden files” and browse to the .kde directory.
Another step I took was to install Deborphan and use it in synaptic to create a custom filter to find all orphaned dependencies. Also, DON’T FORGET TO EMPTY YOUR TRASH.
I also used sudo updatedb and then sudo locate amarok and sudo locate sqlite in the terminal to locate references to the name (once I learned about these commands).
I tried using the application called Beagle to search for instances of keywords in my filesystem in nautilus, but it never found a single file I was looking for so I consider it useless.
I also rebooted for good luck before I reinstalled but I don’t know if this is necessary.
I consider this kind of thorough manual search-and-destroy method a good technique for uninstalling most user-installed applications and programs in linux (presumably debian based OSes like Ubuntu… since that’s all I’ve ever used.) Use synaptic or apt-get first, making sure to tell it to remove it completely, and then manually go in and destroy all config files.
Anyway, after all instances of amarok were gone from sudo locate amarok output, I simply reinstalled Amarok from synaptic and it pulled sqlite and all the other missing dependencies just like normal and just as if it was a fresh install.
To Do:
I just went to my weekly writing center meeting… and was immediately pulled aside and dragged into Dennis’s office to talk about something “serious”. Wayne couldn’t stop smiling so I knew it wasn’t too bad, but I was still a little scared.
But… holy shit.
I’ve just been named the student representative for this year’s Pacific Northwest Writing Center Association. I’d link to a website or something, but it seems that the association doesn’t have one yet. But the association encompasses Oregon, Alaska, Washington… the whole region. Lots of people. (hundreds?) The conference invites hundreds of centers, and since OSU is going to be the host for this year’s conference, they get to pick the student representative.
I’m literally sort of beside myself. I think I actually had a little OBE for a second in Dennis’s office. I was sitting on his couch, and then for a minute i was sitting about 2 feet in front of myself. I’m still a little in shock, but this is going to wear off soon… like when i start getting emails and learn what I need to do. Come April 29th (30th?), there will be lots to do to help prepare for the conference, and before that I guess I might get to vote on some things.
This is… exciting. And a big huge boost to future grad school applications and career.
I’m so gratful.
Felt like writing a poem. It’s crap, but maybe I’ll do something with it. Plus, today is the poetry slam, so I guess it makes sense.
There’s a hole
in my head.
It stinks inside.
Stupid.
There’s a hole
in my mind
where eyes and lies and thighs
used to pair up
and fill me up.
There’s a hole
in your face
and a cigarette
in my head.
There’s a hole
in this thing
called …
There’s a hole, and
using only words,
I try to fill in the blanks.
There’s a hole
in my head.
And my thoughts tumble out
like dead tuna.
There’s a hole, and
with your hair and skin still stuck
under my nails,
I try to paint them back.
Asking for help from my journal readers too. :)
I upgraded to breezy a few weeks ago, and mostly everything has been working fine for me. There are just a few things that for some reason didn’t “show up” on my machine after the update and I know they are supposed to be here.
I’m missing the ability to edit my gnome menus. What would be the command to open the editor that lets you add custom things to the entire menu so I can check if it works at all? If it’s not there, what would be the first step to fixing this? I’ve googled “ubuntu missing gnome editor” without luck…
I’m also missing the spiffy-hawt startup splash screen. I’ve tried googling also, but I can’t find a solution.
Can someone point me in the right direction so I can try to solve these minor problems?
cross-posted to .
log of advice from other post:
nabbyfan
Smeg, a GNOME menu editor, is included with Breezy. It should be in System Tools, as Applications Menu Editor (or something like that). And to the get the splash, just type in sudo dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-`uname -r` in a console, then reboot.
ouij
you might want to try running # apt-get -f install.
As for gnome menu editing, that is a constant annoyance (it makes me long for GNOME 2.8, sometimes). The interim fix for now is smeg, which is gettable via # apt-get install smeg
kazriko
You might try installing the “ubuntu-desktop” package. Sometimes when upgrading distros some packages will get removed. This should reinstall many of the default packages. (Use Synaptic under the System->Administration menu.)
What I did: reinstalled ubuntu-desktop. This fixed the missing smeg. I ran dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-`uname -r` and got this:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-`uname -r`
Not touching initrd symlinks since we are being reinstalled (2.6.12-9.23)
Not updating image symbolic links since we are being updated (2.6.12-9.23)
Searching for GRUB installation directory … found: /boot/grub .
Testing for an existing GRUB menu.list file… found: /boot/grub/menu.lst .
Searching for splash image… none found, skipping…
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-9-386
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.10-5-386
Found kernel: /boot/memtest86+.bin
Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst … done
Not sure why it can’t find the splash image… :(
