Originally, I had planned to write a long article/post on my ohio trip…but looking back on the trip there is just too much content, so I’ll summarize:

• Bushbashing is NOT cool at DFW. It was nice to not see those fucking hippies.
• The people that walk around the Columbus airport at 11pm are about 12x more strange than the Tucson equivalents.
• If you’re thinking of vacationing here, don’t.
• White Castle is fucking awesome. I must have eaten at least 30 slyders while I was here.
• Little Kings go down extremely smoothly…and fast.
• The Amish are *exactly* like they are on TV.
• Parts of my family are a walking trainwrecks. Yes, the family I can verify. I’ll still take trailer trash over waterhead retards and “big heads” as we so aptly call them.
• Dover, OH is a breeding ground for freaks. This includes areas surrounding.
• Ohio has fewer minorities than anywhere I’ve been. I won’t render my opinion on that.
• Ohio, believe it or not, sucks more than Tucson in terms of what there is to do. I never did find the time to go cowtipping (or put dolphin guts in anyone’s mailbox ^.^).
• This place is infested with Bible-thumping post-menopausal old bitches. It’s funny how old people find faith when they’re about to buy the farm.
• Even in Ohio, most hotels (and CMH) have free wireless internet. It’s how I maintained my sanity.

All in all though, it was a fun trip.

so, after struggling with fc5, and hating it, and struggling with suse 10 (and hating it) i decided to just bite the bullet and install gentoo on my work linux box like i should have done in the first place.

i now have a fully operational gentoo (optimized) system compiled completely with gcc 4.1 and i couldn’t be happier with it.

once again, gentoo has proven itself the best distro for performance freaks. suse, fedora…you guys suck.

So AMD is gonna play the Wintel game and optimize it’s processors for linux (and help make linux work faster on AMD chips). W00t!
http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/72169

Being a solid AMD64 AND a Linux user, this has to be the best news I’ve heard in awhile.

this is the email i just received back from delorme tech support regarding the inability of street atlas 2005 handheld edition to use the windows mobile 5 bluetooth serial ports:

Dear Tom,

Win Mobile 5.0 update for SA2005; I don’t know if they play to or not. We haven’t heard word of an update. You may want to check on our website, but I don’t believe they plan to update the older versions. Sorry.

Thank you

Best Regards, David

DeLorme Technical Support

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What the fuck??? So basically, if you want a pda that is actually FAST enough to run the software (i.e., any recent PDA running WM5) you have to shell out another 50 bux or so?

Sorry Delorme, but I am never buying something from you again. You should at least offer people who paid for 2005HH a upgrade to, or at least a hefty discount on 2006.

so after about 3 hours trying to figure this thing out (and finally learning by sifting through pages and pages of mailing list archives) it turns out that the fedora maintainers have removed the “all” and “minimal” install options from the fedora core 5 (fc5) anaconda setup. the “all” option i’ve never used because i’ve never seen more bloat than trying to install every package in a distro like that, but the “minimal” was a tragic loss to me.
now, i don’t know about anyone else on this, but i like to set up distros like fedora by using the minimum install and setting up anything else i need using yum via the network. the result is a lean (as lean as fedora can be, heh), mean, linux machine with minimal crap that i don’t use.

thanks alot jerkoffs, im now setting up suse oss 10.1 in a virtual machine, and my work machine is next. i used to love fedora core, until you guys went and ruined it for those of us with a head on our shoulders. even if you get wise and bring back “minimal”, i still may not ever use fedora again…you pissed me off >:(
p.s., to those of you asking “wait…tom, don’t you use gentoo!?” yes, i do…on my personal computer that i have the time to maintain and run emerge often. my work machine i just don’t have time to do that with, so i use a binary distro. it’s not perfect, but it’s a hell of a lot better than windows.

this one starts when i was a kid…long ass time ago. anyway, when i was a kid growing up in Thousand Oaks (that’s in California, for those of you who don’t know where i grew up) there was this great sushi bar/japanese restaurant called “Cho Cho San” on TO blvd. they had this sushi roll there called a “rock n roll” which was basically baked scallops, rice, and a sauce, baked so it was crispy on top. when i moved to tucson, i was shit out of luck for finding it one…and i really wanted to, because it was really fucking good. tottemo oishii datta!

so, i was at lunch today at sachiko sushi at speedway and wilmot, and looking for something different, i picked up the sushi menu and actually read it. now, bear in mind i’ve tried this approach to finding the infamous rock-n-roll at other sushi restaurants, finding anything from scallops slathered in mayo and deep fried at sushi hamma, to baked scallop, er…soup at sushi cho. i figured “what the hell” and just ordered the spicy scallop roll at sachiko. i was shocked when it got there…”it looks like a rock-n-roll…” i thought to myself, picked one up, ate it. it was a rock n roll!

Here’s a Google Earth map (.kmz) of the 2 sushi places I’m talking about.

i switched the blog theme again. the old one was just too hard to read, and i liked the design of my original (blogger) blog, so i went back to the design. black on black is bad though, so i used the white variation of it. it’s easy to read now, so i’m happy with it until i get the new theme up and running.

again, this is just a temporary theme until i get the theme to match the site written and ready to load. it’s almost done, it’s just being tested on my home webserver until its ready to go.

okay, now, this is gonna come off as me being a total asshole, but whatever. i am a total asshole. im not being mean, but sometimes i see something that is so utterly nuts i have to share it. anyway…

so i was having lunch at pei wei and (like every restaurant) there is a morbidly obese woman (read: fat to the point where you get imagery from jurassic park’s t-rex paddock) who had to weigh at least 400 lbs. at lunch with her was what i can only assume was her daughter, who, looking to be under 12 years old, was morbidly obese herself, though in lesser proportions. no suprises there, but i saddens me to think that some day she’ll, as her mother did, breed spawn that will be just as fat…but that belongs in another rant.

anyway, as she gets up to leave and her fly is open. yes, ppl…her zipper is down. now had this been some some fat dude i’d have just told him to close the downstairs curtains and this wouldnt have been interesting, but i just couldn’t find the right words to tell this woman to fix it, so i just let her go on her way. now where the topic comes in: she was wearing denim shorts that, because she (like many other ppl in fat denial) wears clothes that are too small, we’re gaped open revealing an extremely large pair of purple panties. if you’ve ever seen an anatomy book, remember the page with the woman on her back with the anatomy of the repro system detailed? that’s the mental image here…it was just *that* disgusting.

weird shit…