Alabama vs. Texas for the National Championship

And Coach Saban is ready...

The Official Barcode of RandomHumans.com

Thanks, Gretchen!

O HAI

This is a test. Nothing to see here.

Alice in Chains

For some reason, I've been really feeling like some Alice in Chains. Perhaps it is early anticipation of the album next year, and finally seeing how the new guy does. Perhaps it is some twisted introspection brought on by the holidays. Perhaps I just want to hear cool music that, for whatever reason, still means something. Perhaps I'm just feeling all "emo" and feel drawn to the music I used to listen to when I felt that way back in the day. (Hey, that rhymes!) Perhaps I just needed an excuse to make a blog post and a playlist.

Ahh, yes...that's probably it. Enjoy, if you feel so inclined.

Yes. We. Did.

We just took our country back.

Let's make this count.

How Colin Powell Got His Groove Back...

Welcome back, Gen. Powell. We've missed you.

Aquamacs 1.5 and TRAMP 2.1.14

I was having some difficulty using tramp in Aquamacs. Aquamacs is a port of GNU Emacs to the Mac OSX Aqua UI, and tramp is an Emacs module that allows you to edit remote files. Specifically, I need to use tramp's /multi method to ssh to a remote machine, then sudo to edit the file I was interested in. Tramp comes with the standard Aquamacs bundle, but it seems to be out of date. It looked like the problem might be solved by installing a newer version of TRAMP into Aquamacs. Here is what I did:

1. Downloaded TRAMP 2.1.14 from GNU.org.
2. Unpacked it. Duh.
3. ./configure --with-contrib
4. make
5. cp lisp/* ~/Library/Application\ Support/Aquamacs\ Emacs/site-lisp/
6. add (require 'tramp) to ~/Library/Preferences/Aquamacs\ Emacs/Preferences.el

Yay! C-x C-f /multi:ssh:me@remotehost:sudo:root@localhost:/etc/something/nifty.file works!

Meme (me)

via Bertrand

1. Take a picture of yourself right now.

2. Don’t change your clothes, don’t fix your hair…just take a picture.

3. Post that picture with NO editing.

4. Post these instructions with your picture.

Oh, just look at the calendar

Its 8:41, and I'm already officially sick of April Fools. Sigh. I fear I have become a curmudgeon.

Rock Kept Us Alive

The handful of readers still left at this here corner of the online blogopolous are quite familiar with my love of webcomic Home on the Strange. Unfortunately, Ferrett and Roni decided to call it quits, and so my webcomic reading returned to the old standbys of PvP, Penny Arcade, and Dilbert.

So, Ferrett's got a new comic out called My Name Is Might Have Been. It's just starting out, but I gotta tell you, it's good stuff. Set in a post-apocalyptic world, the main character Pete comes to a monastery...and well you'll have to see the rest for yourself. The first comic is here. Start at the beginning and read the commentary from the creators. If you don't like it, well...it was free.

In other webcomic news, Scott Kurtz (creator of PvP) has launched Ding!, a comic starring his PvP characters in World of Warcraft. It's good stuff, and heavy on teh funny. You're probably going to need to understand WoW to get a lot of the jokes, but feel free to stroll by.

Speaking of WoW, a month or two ago, we started our own guild (finally!)—The Power of Pants! If you have a toon on the Gnomeregan server, check us out. We'd love to have such fine readership join us.

'Til next time...