Heard Mark Shuttleworth last night as well as r0ml. Great speeches, and r0ml has pointed out about the parallels of software development to Quintillian’s five canons/stages of oratory. “There is no new thing under the sun.” I’m trying to remember the guy who gave that odd Perl/timespace humor talk.

Finally, a sad note: Estelle Getty, also known as Sophia from the Golden Girls, passed away yesterday. Watching the Golden Girls was part of my family’s television viewing, and we would get a kick out of Sophia’s tactless wiseacre tough Sicilian persona. She will be remembered and missed.

BTW: If you can, drive down to Pine State Biscuits and get yourselves a Reggie sammich.

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In the Midwest, the humid warm weather can cause insect eggs in food to hatch. Flour, grain products, and even candy are fair game. This is precisely why we have to freeze out bags of rice and flour before use. The manufacturers would have dump pesticides on the grain if they want a truly pest-free product.

Last year, I got my Sanyo rice cooker…and this year, I’m planning to get a rice dispenser from Japan so the rice is fresh and bug free. For those in Japan, a dispenser is necessary as the weather over there is humid during the summer.

Here is the story plot: Woman has to choose between older but wealthy man or the young and handsome sawmill owner. Basically, it’s a choice between duty (the older person) and love (the younger guy). The way the story is set up, I would not be surprised if Ms Copeland would portray Silas Sterling as aloof, indifferent and frightfully unromantic– and Tucker Gray as this headstrong, passionate romantic man of her dreams. How stereotypical.

I will be impressed if Ms Copeland writes the novel so that Sterling turned out to be the most kindest, loving man despite his age and/or riches…and Gray turned out to be a total loser. Either that, or both men rejected her because they do not care for flighty, indecisive and superficial women. I’m not holding my breath.

Many of the entries featured homemade dishes, others were made in a restaurant.

I spent 8 hours Tuesday at the internship and on lunch break, picked up Shrimp Alfredo for the prof. She loved the shrimp, but the pasta was lackluster. If only Mopsy had a restaurant in Fort Wayne so I can serve Ms Heise this instead:

Here is EveryoneLovesCleanUndies’ breakfast pic of cinnamon bread french toast with apples and caramel.

And this is what I feel like eating right now, this steak and potato dish by Alyna_jf …it will clog up your arteries, it will add meat to your ribs, but your taste buds will thank you for it:

(ACHTUNG: Contains some cursing by an angry girlfriend. And a dude who failed at getting pre-marital sex, but that’s another issue entirely. The late night burrito place, being under the Kingdom of the Left Hand, does not care about the nature of your sins and errors BUT it cares whether you have enough cash to pay for your meal.)

Last week, the on-board Ethernet card on the server was not detected and we looked for the drivers. We had the disk that came with the motherboard. Upon using the disk, the dialog box told us that the disk will only work with ME, XP or Vista…but not Windows Server 2003. Then, we could not find the drivers for the other Ethernet card that was installed. Eventually, someone removed the extra Ethernet card and then the onboard card was recognized. It turned out that the installed card caused a conflict.

My lappy has experienced 4 kernel dumps before I installed SP1. It is unknown whether I would get another BSOD. But I know this: it’s time for a RAM upgrade. It only has 1 gig. But the challenge is whether the lappy can tolerate the new RAM.

Yesterday, I spent 3 hours at the classroom with moving around the equipment and configuring the Smart Technologies’ Sympodium with the Vista machine. It worked great with the XP, and according to recent articles, the driver works with Vista. I installed the drivers on Vista and…nothing. The screen is on, but the stylus did not respond. I did see that it was detected as an “unknown device”. Hopefully, there must be a way to get the stylus configured.

You guys remember him as the dude who can recite the Seven Dirty Words with gusto; I remembered him as Cardinal Glick from Dogma and Mr Conductor from Shining Time Station.

At Concordia-Irvine, a prof noticed that I worked way too hard and advised me to play hooky that day and watched a flick. It was on that day I had one class and I bicycled my way to the Irvine Spectrum. I heard that Dogma has plenty of fire and best of all– Jay and Silent Bob– so I purchase a ticket for the matinee.

I recognized the pop Christianity that the slick Cardinal Glick touted. Glick was Tetzel as a 21st Century American crypto-Protestant. In real life, Carlin knew that this happy clappy form of Christianity will never offer decent comfort to anyone suffering. The cheerleading, the psychology and the positiveness of such programs will not cover the stupidity and evil of man. The confessional theology crowd at Irvine recognized the Buddy Christ all too well; many of us were spiritual refugees saw the changes on campus as the beginnings of CUI’s loss of Lutheran identity.

As for me, I enjoyed that subversive tweaking when Carlin played the kid-friendly Mr Conductor in Shining Time Station. Here is one delightful episode in which he counseled a kid about facing a bully.