for my sweetheart – SIX OF SWORDS: SCIENCE — Intelligence that has realized its goal. Labor. Work. Success after anxiety. Passage from difficulty. Journey by water. Progress towards solving a problem. May show that there is an open passageway that leads away from troublesome situations, but the destination is unknown.

souds pretty good…I hope that the passage runs well. 🙂

for myself – EIGHT OF PENTACLES: PRUDENCE — Intelligence applied to material affairs. Agriculture. Building. Skill. Cunning. Industriousness. Successful use of creative skills and craftsmanship in the job. The completion of tasks is indicated as well as the reward of completion.

I hope that mine means the system I’m working on will be done today…I’d like this project to be finished.

Walkies this morning were truncated. I was out for perhaps 20 minutes before heading back in… strong sun and heavy gravity drove me back into my cave. I preferred to just shower and shave, and I’ll to some walkies later tonight, to knock me out before bedtime. I just didn’t have the interest in doing the hour walk after waking up… the morning was too heavy.

57 ELM STREET
BETHLEHEM, PA.
11:51 P.M., DECEMBER 24TH

Mulder: We’re too late! It’s already been here.

Scully: Mulder, I hope you know what you’re doing.

Mulder: Look, Scully, just like the other homes: Douglas fir, truncated, mounted, transformed into a shrine; halls decked with boughs of holly; stockings hung by the chimney, with care.
Continue reading X-MAS… from the holiday archives… →

Getting Evicted For Snoring
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Bruce Menia’s wife calls the noise her sleeping husband makes snoring, and she usually doesn’t notice it.

Menia’s landlord calls it a violation of his lease, and has asked him to leave Carpenter Village Apartments — or face eviction.

Hey! You Got A Your Tooth In My Meatloaf, I Have My Meatloaf In Your Tooth?
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Ed Halayko struck gold when he served his ailing wife meat loaf. But he’s not very happy about it.

His wife, Marjorie, spit out a small golden object when she was eating the meat loaf Monday. It turned out to be a dental crown.

Halayko said that since his wife has no crowns — which are permanent artificial replacements for a decayed tooth — the crown must have been inside the ground beef and pork he purchased earlier that day.

Fishermen Can’t Help But Open Stinky Bag
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Human body parts have been found stuffed in industrial bags in a river on the north coast of New South Wales.

Police say two fishermen made the grisly find late yesterday afternoon on the Hastings River at Wauchope, near Port Macquarie.

soi-disant (swah-dee-ZAHN), adjective:

Self-styled; so-called.

From the French, from soi, “oneself” + disant, “saying,” present participle of dire, “to say.”

pendulous (PEN-juh-luhs, PEN-dyuh-, -duh-) adjective

1. Hanging

2. Undecided.

From Latin pendulus, from pendere, to hang.

soi-disant (swah-dee-ZAHN), adjective:

Self-styled; so-called.

From the French, from soi, “oneself” + disant, “saying,” present participle of dire, “to say.”

pendulous (PEN-juh-luhs, PEN-dyuh-, -duh-) adjective

1. Hanging

2. Undecided.

From Latin pendulus, from pendere, to hang.

The H.P. Lovecraft Library is now available online. Unabridged texts of most of his short stories, poems, and essays, as well as biographies, photos, and even wallpaper.

Now, I’m a goin’ home.

The status of LiveJournal:

At 8:46 am EST on Monday, November 26th, Admin dormando writes :

We are coding like madmen in an attempt to hammer out speed related problems with the new database system, and speeding up every database query we make. There is now a second DB server up with the new DB system. It seems to be doing very well.

LiveJournal is currently being slow. I see lots, and lots of people hitting the reload button far more than they should. This does not help, as I am sorry to say. If the site will not load for you, please only try once every fifteen minutes.

Here is a pretty graph of our current goals.

from – http://www.antispin.net/~martine/cgi-bin/insanity.cgi?scottobear

Argh!

redfinition of struct iovec… compilation complaint. *pbbbts* at the compiler.

This is a conflict between my C library includes and my kernel includes. I need to make sure that the versions of both are matched properly. There are two workarounds, either one will solve the problem:

Remove the definition of struct iovec from your C library includes…

or, Add -DNO_WRITEV to the EXTRA_CFLAGS line in my Configuration and reconfigure/rebuild. (This hurts performance and should only be used as a last resort.)

Well, then… A-removing I shall go!

Update – All fixified! yay! 4:00pm

Did the Celts really celebrate a holiday by building a huge, hollow man out of wicker, filling the man with prisoners, then lighting the thing on fire? Or instead are they the victims of really bad Roman press? If true, this really sets a high bar for judging a tough family holiday.

The Answer…

Did the Celts really celebrate a holiday by building a huge, hollow man out of wicker, filling the man with prisoners, then lighting the thing on fire? Or instead are they the victims of really bad Roman press? If true, this really sets a high bar for judging a tough family holiday.

The Answer…

Last night, I was pleased to see that The Wicker Man was on television, so I had something nice to play in the background as I read. (I had some trouble drifting off, and it really did the trick.)

Set and made in the 70’s staring Edward Woodward (Equalizer) on an Island owned by a wealthy Christopher Lee (Gormanghast/Sauruman LOTR 2001). Woodward is a English police officer responding to a murder. Denial, cults, a tavern set – it was great! The only difficult item was the message music similar to 70’s movie Silent Running. That’s all I am going to say, except rent it on a dark, rainy night when you’re by yourself. Doesn’t get much better than that.

Ah, my. Monday again. What happened to the long weekend? Back to work, soon… this morning’s walkies were nice, a light cool rain came down and made it even more comfortable. The urge to get a digicam tugs everytime I go outside… I really want to add more images to my entries and my general collection, too. I hope this week goes well… Dale’s taking off on Friday for 2 week in Jamacia, leaving Karen and myself to pick up his slack in the meantime. (He certainly deserves the break, mind you. He works hard…. I’m just not looking forward to doing more work while he’s gone.) I think this week will consist of him training Karen in what he does, and my getting a refresher, since I haven’t diddled with it since his last time away.