I’m rebuilding Zero once again. This time she has a lot less hard disk space, but I can live with that because I’ve given up attempting to do video-capture under Linux. I’ll be putting an All-in-Wonder Radeon into Ryoko soon as well as a bigger SCSI hard drive. Then I’ll use the plethora of Windows-based video tools instead of wrestling with the inadequate and incomplete Linux options.

Having done a few Linux From Scratch installs now, something has finally occurred to me that I should’ve thought of months ago: I’m keeping a log of various quirks and “undocumented features” as I go through the process of building all of the software parts I want. Every time I do this I get hung up on the same things. Maybe if I have a document to consult from the previous run-through I can save myself a lot of time and aggravation.

Wish me luck.

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Thank you, Cosmic Babe, for bringing up the good old “Geek Codes.” And you’ll note that I got the link right this time. What you see above is my updated Geek Code. (a- became a, and E—- became E—.) I was surprised to find that I still had my old sig file laying around. I never throw ANYthing away, do I?

Thanks to the Cosmic Babe, however, I now know about the Blogger Code. Far be it from me to miss out on a good blogging meme, so here goes:

B6 d t+ k s+ u- f i o x e l c--

To celebrate the fact that Ben sent me an email today, I hereby post a little bit of MST3K-related funny he sent me a while back…

Here, for your edutainment, is the canonical list of all the various nom de plumes given to the big dumb bodybuilder hero from the MST3K classic, “Mutiny In Space”. The canonical list was compiled by Constance Crain, who is not, repeat, *not* a fangirl of any kind at all whatsoever. Really.

Some of the first names are quasiduplicates of each other. Complain to the MST3K people. They wrote ’em. 🙂

Slab Hardcheese
Butch Deadlift
Bolt Bigflank
Splint Chesthair
Flint Ironstag
Bulk Vanderhuge
Thick McRunfast
Blast Hardcheese
Buff Drinklotz
Slab Hunk
Trunk Slamchest
Fist Rothbone
Stump Beefknob
Smash Lampjaw
Punch Rockgroin
Buck Plankchest
Stump Chunkman
Dirk Hardpec
Rip Steakface
Crud Bonemeal
Brick Hardmeat
Rip Slabcheek
Punch Sideiron
Gristle McThornbody
Slate Fistcrunch
Buff Hardback
Bob Johnson
Blast Thickneck
Crunch Buttsteak
Slab Squatthrust
Lump Beefbroth
A Big Brave Brick O’ Meat
Touch Rustrod
Beef Blastbody
Big McLargehuge
Smoke Manmuscle
Beat Muchbeef
Hank Blowfist
Roll Fizzlebeef
“Ol’ Chunkhead”

After a couple of days spent tinkering, breaking, unbreaking and tinkering some more, I can happily display the new journal-entry layout I’ve devised. What’s so great about it, you ask? The most important breakthrough is something you can’t even see: no longer is the layout of journal entries done by table code. The only table left is the calendar.

This is simply one more step along the path to a fully CSS-driven layout scheme. The page should also render just a little bit faster in most browsers. Not to mention that I just plain like the way this looks better than what I had before.

Pardon me while I bask in the dubious glory of my own accomplishments. Thank you.