From the blog not known as Machete but instead called Something New Every Day, I have both the link to that absurd kitten-masturbation photo and now a really weird follow-up image.
If you understand what’s going on here, you’re a smarter person than I am. Maybe. Or maybe you’re just weird. Or both.
The machine named “eng3” that sits in my office is a test-bed for a fully from-scratch Linux install. It’s currently based on Linux From Scratch version 3.1, and today I succeeded in building enough Gnome components to be able to install the Evolution email/groupware client.
This is a big win, but the bigger win will be in making my new Palm Pilot sync with Eng3. I’m going to prove or disprove my theory that the current Zero hardware configuration is utter garbage, and is the reason that pressing the HotSync button makes Zero crash.
Hell, I might even turn Eng3 into the new Zero if all goes well.
Of all the things I could have gotten for my birthday, I think I’m glad I didn’t get an asteroid impact.
Turns out that on the 8th of March, a Tunguska-calibre asteroid passed close to the Earth, almost as close as the Moon is. Scientists didn’t know about it until after it had passed because it came from the direction of the sun, a literal blind spot in the effort to catalog near-Earth objects in space. Follow the link below to the CNN article and related information.
CNN – Asteroid near miss
