To borrow from a lamentable final chapter in a movie trilogy,1 every time I get out, they pull me right back in again. They being, in this case, general nerdish tendencies. Followers of this blog will know by now that I’ve restarted my usage of Linux, in Ubuntu form. I can’t begin to describe what a vast improvement Linux has enjoyed […]
Archive for August, 2009
Holy gorgonzola! Blogaversary!
It almost sneaked by, but Indigestible turned three years old this month. On the sixteenth, to be precise.
Math, truncation and why your teachers always insisted you show your work
Came upon a page via another Twitterer today (@blogofinnocence) that made me go a little cross-eyed. Here’s the site quoted in full: 0.999… is the same as 1. Not just very close, but precisely identical: a = 0.999… 10a = 9.999… 10a – a = 9.999… – 0.999… 9a = 9 a = 1 There’s no trick here. It’s […]
I thought some of you might find this amusing
The rest of you will merely find it baffling. Yes, that is Ubuntu Jaunty running in emulation via VirtualBox on my Mac Mini. Why? Because I could, that’s why.
My linux-fu is returning (a bit)
Welp, that was an interesting exercise in holy crap. After installing Ubuntu 9.04 (netbook remix) on my Acer Aspire One netbook, things looked great; I switched the system over to the full Gnome desktop UI — the remix has a simple launcher as its default — and everything just ran slick and stable … until I rebooted, and […]
I’m still just having a great time
The Ubuntu install was damn near painless compared to XP, or even OSX. And by contrast to the insanely recalcitrant Slackware I began with more than ten years ago, well, hell, there’s just no contest. This is actually an Ubuntu remix optimized to work on netbooks. It runs well, significantly faster than XP did on the […]
You know why the town hall meetings are being disrupted?
It’s because, unlike Bush, Obama hasn’t set up “free speech zones” to corral protesters miles away from where the events are actually taking place. There’s a lot this administration could be doing better, but only the most hardline Kool-Aid swilling Birthtard would disagree that this single change is, on balance, an improvement.
How Thomas Dolby kept me sane
Well, okay, it wasn’t just him; Douglas Adams had more than a little to do with it too, but that’s another story. It was 1982, and I was a freshman in high school. It was typically tough, as those years often are; but it was perhaps a little harder on me — not because I was a burgeoning pubescent, but because […]
These people.
These people are why I have this.
When entitlement attacks
I would like to think this represents the nadir of spoiled-brat behavior from the twentysomething crowd, but I fear it’s closer to being an iceberg’s tip. A recent college graduate is suing her alma mater for $72,000 — the full cost of her tuition and then some — because she cannot find a job. In other news, dead […]
BofD is late, I know.
Issues with the internet connection have kept me from my Friday update. Ideally they’ll be resolved today. Meanwhile, here’s a lovely cartoon from Cagle’s pad. Bill Day got it on the nose.
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