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Hawke's biological logging, aka biolog, aka blog.
I'm still moving from the old broken coreblog2 blog to this scrawl implmentation, so pardon the chaos.
Reminder: Tolkien Music Show #1 tonight!
What: Show #1 of the series of music dedicated to J.R.R. Tolkien. Various music artists that have created songs/music inspired by J.R.R. Tolkien and his works.
Roasting chestnuts on an open fire... (motorcycle on fire!)
This may fit under the "life stories" category better than the motorcycle section, but since I've not been doing any adventuring on the bike in a long time, and this was a "mis-adventure", I figured I put it in the Motorcycles section. The short version is: My sport bag, with many possessions, slipped onto the exhaust of my motorcycle, while I was on the freeway, and caught fire. A portion of the motorcycle is ruined/melted/burned, and just about everything in the bag was scattered over a 1.3 mile area. To read the long version, click the "Read More" link at the end of this article for all the gory details of my stupid actions exacerbated by more stupid actions. At least I wasn't hurt, and no one else was hurt. At least, that's what I keep trying to tell my self. ;-)
Rondo March in A minor
Just this past Sunday I started and finished a full orchestral composition using the Harmony Assistant software that I've enjoyed so much on and off over the years...
Server move completed (mostly)
It's been a long haul, but this site is finally running on a new server setup at a new colo...
There be MOOSE in them thar yards!
Yesterday William and the other boys were FREAKING OUT about horses in our yard. ...
There's still SO much more, but no time...
Well, there's still SO much more of the family I want to post,
Thoughts in response to Khanada's Being Buddhalicious
Khanada recently posted in her article "Being Buddahlicious", about her and her sister Annette's frustrations with the rat race of this industrialized hyper world, and her desire to "get away" from the chaos, but instead, finding the inner peace and awareness to cope with it, and just "BE" wherever she is, after reading "The Bhagavad Gita" and some of "The Buddha's" teachings. So, reading that of course triggered a whole slew of thoughts from me, and I thought I'd post them here.
Tolkien Dedication Show #1 archived show available for download
I just made available for download in mp3 format, the entire J.R.R. Tolkien Dedication Show #1.
GRUB & LVM MBR recovery notes
This is mostly just as a quick reminder to myself, since this has come up twice in the past month while I've been testing out Windows 7 RC and Windows 7 RTM. At least on my (complex) multi-boot laptop setup with LVM, I keep forgetting some of the steps, and thought putting them all in one place, might help others too. They aren't very explanatory, so not for newbies, but hopefully helpful to some.
Virtual Reality for the Disabled - Creative Recreation Program Ideas and Trends
Goal Use Virtual Reality technologies to help those with various disabilities (except blindness) to engage, in a 'virtual' way in activities that would normally be very difficult, if not impossible for them in the 'real' world.
Vocal Jury Performance, Winter '06
I had to sing in front of several instructors, and the Director of the Music Program at EWU. I was very nervous, and it was very stressful leading up to the event. I had unfortunately missed a number of voice lessons over the quarter, and was ill prepared on one song in particular, but of course all areas were impacted by missing such sessions. The accompanist I was going to use ended up not being available, and I didn't realize that until only two weeks before this performance. So, I was scrambling.
Wandering Dream, Full Circle (lyrics)
Another one I'm not sure when I wrote. I'll again guess from 1989-1994ish.
What am I up to most recently these days?
I kind of have so much going on over the macro scale, that the day to day micro scale gets totally buried sometimes. I posted earlier more of a macro overview, now, I'll get down to what's more immediately going on for me, for those who've been asking (mostly via email).
Where do you stand (Politically)? aka Who will you vote for in '08?
This question is coming up from people more and more as the '08 general elections approach. Of course, I've been active on this topic every year, not just electrion years. I guess it's time I finally started to sum up where I stand on the man different political issues. Below is just the beginning with an overview. More details on specific issues will be posted later...
Where I stand on each issue.
I'm going to just make short bullet-listings of where I stand on each issue. Later I may explain why I stand there, if I can find the time, but this will help at least in my process of trying to figure out which presidential candidate for pencil in (if necessary) for November 5th, 2008 election.
William's Happy 12th Birthday.
Yesterday was William's b-day. And a happy one it turned out to be. It was a three-parter.
Workaround for Suse 10.0 on Toshiba m45 s355
In earlier articles I posted the pros and cons of Suse 10.0 on this newer Toshiba Satellite Laptop M45-S355. One of the only real gotchas (besides the memory leaks of some apps), is that the wireless and ethernet wouldn't work at the same time if acpi is enabled. Apparently it's an issue with Toshiba's buggy ACPI chipset in this (and some other) model of laptop. :-( That combined with certain NIC/Wifi Drivers included in the kernel distributed with Suse 10.0 (and many other distros) kernel version 2.6.13-15.7-default. I was getting by with acpi=off in the kernel load line in grub menu.1st, but of course that disabled all power management. At the time I couldn't find any other information to help out. Now I've found Novell's buglist has this listed for this specific model laptop, and someone found a work around there, but they went with a whole recompile anyway. There are several options to resolve this issue now.
My 2nd Prius - 2008 - a Lemon
I cover some of this saga in other postings (See links included at end of article), but I quickly copied the notes of all the things wrong with it here, it is just notes, so doesn't read easily, but useful information nonetheless (at least to me)...
Huge Supernova Baffles Scientists
