Seeing as I’ve posted more in the last week than I did during any 7-day period while the “original” devlogic.org was up (including the first week), I think this site will become the “real” devlogic.org, and the “Original” devlogic.org will go the way of New Coke: popular in Europe for a while, and eventually phased out of existence.

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just finished watching Gigantic: A Tale of Two Johns. If’s pretty good (with the striking exception of every single Syd Straw interview segment); I thoroughly recommend that you check it out; see the schedule for your local art theater for possible showtimes. If you’re in Austin, it’s playing at the Dobie Theater until the 7th.

And it’ll be out on DVD some time this fall. I’m definitely gonna pre-order it as soon as I can. And fast-forward through all the Syd Straw interviews.

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I’m going to have to devote some time to reading this. It looks interesting, and I’ve read the first chapter (and a bit of the second one). I found it nearly by accident; I was looking for logic puzzles, and Lewis Carroll wrote quite a few(including a bunch of syllogisms).

I guess google is both useful AND fun.

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jeez, I’m bored. it seems like I only put entries on here while I’m at work, too. I wonder why that is.

Anyway, on the board for tomorrow (once I get home and sleep):

• try out that Wacom/Xinerama fix
• go see Gigantic (A Tale of Two Johns)
• uh… I can’t think of anything else.

oh, yeah:

• burn off more CDs. my /opt partition (where /opt/news_download/burn lives) is WAY too full.

Tonight, I think I’ll watch a few episodes of Alias (assuming it stays slow *touch wood*). I’m about halfway through season 1, and season 3 starts in September.

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The fun stuff I’m learning to do in the gimp…

Now I just need to work on finding good backgrounds to replace the old ones.

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Have you ever taken a look at politicalcompass.org? It’s kinda neat; based on your answers to various questions, it tells you where you are, politically. Here’s my numbers; imagine it as a cartesian graph: Economic Left/Right: -4.50 (X-axis: Left = -, Right = +) Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.82 (Y-Axis: Libertarian = -, Authoritarian = +)

So basically (according to that site), I’m a left libertarian. I’m closer to politically neutral (center) than my good friend Paul. According to the sample graphs, others with similar political viewpoints include the Dalai Lama, Gandhi, and Nelson Mandela.

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I’ve decided that I need to use the GIMP more often, so I’m reading Grokking the GIMP. It’s online and published under a free document license (even though it’s also available as a dead-tree version). To aid in my education, here’s a list of web pages that have free images. http://mciunix.mciu.k12.pa.us/~spjvweb/cfimages.html http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/index.html http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/ http://nix.nasa.gov/ http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/ http://pictures.fws.gov/

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Found one.

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So one of my DVD players crapped out yesterday. Luckily, not the one that I actually watch DVDs on, but unlickily, it’s the one that I watch all my VCDs and SVCDs on. It still plays the video from VCDs and SVCDs, but the audio is really low (I’ve got the volume on the player and on the TV maxed out), and it won’t play any video or audio at all on DVDs. But since I paid less than $100 for it at Wal-Mart about 2 years ago, I think I’ve gotten my money out of it. Now the only problem is, what am I going to buy to replace it? I’m actually thinking I may just not buy another DVD player, and instead get a slimline DVD-ROM drive for my “test” computer; it’s in a slimline case already anyway (it looks like a PS2 when I’ve got it standing on end), and would probably fit the bill just fine. Now the only trick is finding a small form-factor, 9mm height DVD-ROM drive with a black bezel and a standard 44-pin IDE connector (or even better, a standard 40-pin IDE connector and a 2-pin floppy power connector) that I can fit into the case. Here’s hoping.

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I’ve been on the Atkins plan for about two months now (well, six weeks to two months, I lost count). I’m down to 251 pounds as of when I got up this afternoon. That’s down from over 280 when I started. My personal goal is 185, but I think I may settle for 200. I can’t remember the last time I was down that low, but I think it was some time in 1995. The hardest part (and the part that’s the REAL reason I’m not below 250 by now) is the fact that bread (actually, most foods that have starch in them) is essentially verboten. And bread is a major component of many of my favorite foods, like sandwiches and pizza. For example, I’ve lost 3 or 4 pounds in the last 2 days, but it’s all weight that I put on this weekend when I got a pizza and a sixpack. But I’ve got the willpower (I hope) to resist most of these urges. Now I just need to make myself start exercising.

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