the art of writing is discovering what you believe
on the idea of a clothing line to be worn during labor and delivery:
I mean, if a woman still has to worry about her appearance when pushing a bowling ball through her vagina, what hope is there for us to escape an appearance-focused sexualizing and objectifying society?
More on Craig’s (un)resignation:
[Senator] Craig is like a senatorial Wile E. Coyote. He’s fifteen feet out past the edge of the cliff on the criminal procedure front. The only reason he hasn’t fallen yet is that he hasn’t looked down.
In response to my mention of a hankering for a bass, my neighbor hauled the four-string version of this (think: longer and without a whang bar) out of his archives and bestowed it on me.
It plays well enough for me, that’s certain. It’s a tad quiet and I suspect the electrical innards need cleaning up, but it seems to hold a tune just fine. It’s ridiculously light, being a hollowbody, so no risk of putting my legs to sleep while I explore what it can do. I’ll have to run it through an amp and see what it sound like: my cigarbox amp speaker is too cheap to handle those tones and plugged in to Garageband, it doesn’t seem loud enough. Time will tell.
Thanks, Josh.
And this is what it sounds like:
So the followup to this on networking issues is that I don’t think everyone involved is being honest.
As best I can tell, forcing hosts in full-duplex mode is a non-starter. The switch can be set that way on all ports
but the hosts seems to do fine in half-duplex or autoselect, depending on the OS involved, whether it’s OS X
or FreeBSD.
The source for these huge transfers is the first system shown above and the destination is on a wireless link. It would be nice to see better than ~10 Mbits but I don’t know what magic I need for that to work. I’ll just let it go for now.
I have been trying to copy a raft of files (iTunes files that have been massaged on a faster machine). I thought things were going too slowly (the data plotted over the Sat 12:00 legend) so I plugged both machines into the wired network and turned on 100 MBit full-duplex. That is shown over the Sun 12:00 to Monday.
Exasperated, I turned off full-duplex, dropping back to automatic/half-duplex on the source machine and went back to 54 Mbit wireless for the destination. That’s the much more impressive data you see far right. Following it in a terminal window and watching disk usage, it’s working a lot faster.
Doesn’t make any sense to me. I expected 100 Mbit full to outperform the mixed environment.
on soon-to-be former Senator Craig’s self-loathing:
Tom DeLay likes to insist that he hates criminal behavior, which is like the staff of The Simpsons announcing that they hate people with steady jobs.
In the much-linked story about Robert Draper’s interviews with President Bush, this passage:
In response to Mr. Draper’s observance that Mr. Bush had nobody’s “shoulder to cry on,” the president said: “Of course I do, I’ve got God’s shoulder to cry on, and I cry a lot.”
Um, Laura? Heck, Condi?
Also, why does anyone believe the President when he says he’s just not sure how the decision to disband the Iraqi Army got made? The passage that follows, about how Bush wished diplomacy “had worked” in Iraq is clearly dishonest. I bet the one about Bush not knowing the details of the disbanding the Iraqi Army is a crock too.
I see a whole of lot classifying and shredding going on before he’ll let himself be found accountable for that mess o’potamia . . . .
This marker commemorates the life of a young man who was born 10 years after me and lived just over 20 years, giving his last full measure of devotion in Gulf War I.
I go to a military cemetery, a small one like this, and I don’t expect to find names of people younger than I am.
