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Hawke's biological logging, aka biolog, aka blog.
Zaurus pics.
I don't have time to go into details, you can read about this WONDERFUL! Sharp Zaurus SL-c3100. When I get some time, I'll come back to this posting and add descriptions to the photos. Warning, the Zaurus SL-c3100 not for someone wanting just a PDA with "toys", this is a true handheld workhorse! This blows away just about any handheld out there. I had to pay to have it imported to the USA, you can only get it in Japan. For some reason, clamshells (with decent keyboards), just aren't popular in the USA, just everywhere else in the world. We're really falling further and further behind in the world with technology (wireless, media, handhelds, embedded tech, biotech, etc.). :-( Anyhow, it's running Linux, which, since I was always trying to get Linux to run on every handheld I've had (Jornada 680,690,720, NEC Mobilepro, Palm's, etc.) , it's nice to actually have what I prefer (and it's rock stable, much better than Palm OS or CE/PocketPC in recent years have been) or you can put other OSes such as BSD variants and other Linux distros on it. Click the READ MORE link for the many pics, and details... It's basically able to do what a laptop can do, but miniaturized (click on thumbnails for larger view)...
The whole power, transportation, and environment debate
My eldest entered into a rather heated debate this morning with the nanny. He was mostly just "parroting" what he's hear me say, so his arguments were not well founded and backed up with examples. She brought up a number of good (though stereo typical) points that he was unable to counter. For any examples I gave she wanted to see actual "proof". I've come across articles in many places "proving" my stance on the best energy, transportation, environmental, and even water solution is Nuclear power with electric cars, but I have failed to make note of most of them relying on my (admittedly spotty) memory to bring up the examples when this more and more frequently debated topic comes up. So I have setup this page to start quickly jotting down the links I find (or other notes) on each topic. All of the ones I'm writing down today, are ones I have heard/read in recent years, I just need to dig them back up from my bookmarks and such. I have to focus on other priorities right now, but by setting up this page, I can very quickly add them in the future until this is fully updated. I hope others find this enlightening and helpful as well.
Streetwalkin' (lyrics)
This was an amalgamation of thoughts, ideas, experiences, images, and people based on my multiple times of having to live on the streets and other generally homeless periods of my life. I really like this song, both the lyrics and the music for it, but my voice just can't do it the justice of what I hear in my head, and I hope some day I can find someone who can, who would be willing to sing and record it for me some day. I think I wrote it around '94-'95 ish.
The Final Tour (lyrics)
I wrote this when I was living in Villa Franche around Summer 1993. I had a lot of fun with "Special effects" When recording it, for example, the "boiling mud" was me holding a microphone over my mouth as I "gurgled" slowly some pepsi, and other such "Analog" special effects. The recording is less than perfect on the then new Yamaha M2HB 4 track (with 6 input) recorder, but it was fun anyway, though darkly humorous.
The Haunted House
Due to (not quite so) popular request. I finally opted to write down the experience I had with a haunted house my wife and lived in (rented) when we were first married....
Violent Skies (lyrics)
I have no real idea when it was I wrote this. Somewhere between 1989 and 1993/4ish.
Bullet list of hobbies.
Below is a quick bullet list of my hobbies. Some I'm doing currently, others I've not done in a long time, but hope to do again, and a few I hope to do some day (such as get pilot's license to fly a lot). ;-)
Canadians coming to US for health care because CA system failing them, including a Prime Minister and a Premier...
"Liberal MP Belinda Stronach, who is battling breast cancer, travelled to California" (though she still claims to be very happy with their Canadian system)
My favorite quotes...
I've occasionally been teased about how long my email signature is for some of my email addresses. But, they're excerpts of some of my favorite quotes (though certainly not all of them). I thought I'd post these here, maybe some others will find them as meaningful as I do. ;-) Also, you'll see my Instant Messaging contact information as well (hopefully it doesn't trigger a rash of IM spammers). ;-)
Role playing gaming
I have been role playing gaming (paper and dice type) since 1979 or so. I have played and gm'd/dm'd most gaming systems in a lot of genres, but prefer fantasy/Tolkien settings the most for long term campaigns, but will play just about anything if it's a decent group. I'm detailing my background in the [read more] section of this article in case you're interested. I'm planning to move to Spokane in 1-3 months and am hoping to either join or create a new gaming group for gaming in Middle-earth using "whatever" system. Click [read more] for details...
Summer of camps and travel. Maybe a little overload.
I didn't intend it, but this Summer ended up far too busy for the kids (and I).
Gone to MerpCon V Tolkien Moot 2009
Will be gone MerpConning from Thursday July 24th through Tuesday July 28th.
VirtualBox OSE, raw partition mounting
with already existing install of Vista (factory), XP, and SUse 11.1, use VirtualBox OSE to boot into them through raw partition access...
SuSE 9.0 on Vaio grt170
After spending many hours struggling to upgrade SuSE 8.2 to 9.0 on the Sony Vaio grt170, I gave up trying to upgrade, and did a clean install. I still had the XP Home [gack] that came with it, since, as usual, neither CompUSA nor MS, nor Sony will honor the MS EULA and give me my money back for not using the product (XP). So I used it as a reference point for driver issues and such, however that's about all the use that parition gets, and once I'm sure everything is working properly, it will be wipde to free up space for more Linux apps on this massive hard drive. So, fresh install, see the [read more] link below for the details so far...
So much to do, so little time...
Well, I've been super busy for the past 2 years with various business ventures of mine and working for others: Dev 2 Dev Portal (www.devtodev.com) Virtual Office and Information Security business The Computer Schools, (www.thecomputerschools.com) Computer training of all levels Hawke Studios (www.hawkestudios.com) photography and multimedia MaladNet Broadband Wireless ISP (www.maladnet.net) And various consulting and some public speaking work around the country...
Reminder. Timelines on this blog are all mixed up.
I originally ran my blog on a totally different web platform, and I did not bother trying to write scripts to export from the old system, and import into the new system (it's my bloody personal blog, it's really not important enough to me or anyone else to both I think).
February 2002 ride from California to Idaho, brrrrrrrr.
For various reasons, I had to move from the Bay Area in California to Idaho in the middle of winter. My bike certainly wouldn't qualify as an "adventure" bike normally, but I put it through an adventure anyway.
Huge Supernova Baffles Scientists
