I Drink Hippie Blood

Them: And how do you know what eyes are made from? ick.
Me: The powers of Google! And I write horror. It goes with the territory. *grin*
Them: That's true. You write horror. I can describe an orgasm in 100 different ways. You know what eyes are made from.
Ne: ...Well when you put it like that I think you win.
Them: Yep. I usually do win.

Queen Birther running for Secretary of State in California on the Republican ticket accuses her opponent of, you'll never see this coming, not being eligible for the position.

snoopyh42 has sent me this fantastic piece of Taitz-y goodness.

Yes, I can use "Taitz-y" any way I want to.

I think that, even among the less disclosing members of my friends list, just about all of us like sex to some degree. Some like it just fine, some like it a lot, and others are particularly enthusiastic to the point of having to apologize in advance to their housemates upon moving in. *pointed look at certain ex-hausmates*

True story: Back in the days of the Marshmellow Circus Peanut Haus (or just Circus for short), one of my housemates was enjoying some alone time with her then boyfriend. Said housemate was, self-admittedly, "a screamer" and that day was no different. Only this time, due to it being a nice summer Saturday day, she'd left the bedroom windows open.

Now Circus by that point had been around at least ten years and our neighbors were very familiar with the particular antics of the inmates who called the Circus home. A healthy stream of free wifi from surlyone and occasional bribes of booze, along with invites to our parties, kept the goodwill flowing between most of our neighbors and so it was in that spirit of familiarity, upon hearing my housemate enjoying herself, one of our neighbors shouted, "Stop! Stop! You're killing her!"

Thankfully, the only deaths going on were of the Shakesperean "little death" variety but it appears that if a police officer had decided to stop by to investigate he wouldn't have needed a warrant to enter the premises and anything he found would be admissible in court.

So, just remember, it doesn't matter if you and your partner come to the door starkers having stopped in the middle of what you'd been doing to tell the police that those were "happy screams", the man doesn't care.

GOOD MORNING!

I have a bit of an odd setup right now, and I want to make the most out of my equipment.

I have an iMac running OS 10.4.11 with one video out display. I have two extra external monitors. And I have an Ubuntu box running StumpWM (it's an older machine) as the "window" manager.

What I would like to do is have one monitor plugged into the iMac (I already have that part actually), and the other one plugged into the Ubuntu box. I would like to have a way to then control the Ubuntu box using the same keyboard and mouse that are plugged into the iMac, but have the display show up on the monitor plugged into the Ubuntu box. I don't want to go buying any extra equipment to do this.

Does anyone have some suggestions on how I might go about this?

I have recently bought a new computer and installed Karmic on it. Within 10 minutes after the install I was faced with the burning question: "wtf did they do to GDM?!".

It looks like GDM was rewritten to take advantage of xsplash, Ubuntu's new X based boot, while losing every single useful configuration option. The reason this is important to me (aside from the annoyance of not being able to change the GDM theme), is b/c I used to run 2 GDM managed X sessions when I was running Ibex. One X session was using xorg.conf, configured for my dual monitor setup, and the other X session using xorg.conf.projector, configured to use a monitor and a projector. This way I was able to easily switch between the two modes by simply pressing Alt-F9/F7 keys.

Now that GDM can no longer manage multiple X sessions, I need to find a new way to do this. I realize that my approach of messing around with xorg.conf files might be outdated. I come from Slackware background, so I am usually much more likely to mess with config files rather than figure out GUI tools. This brings me to my question. Can anyone suggest some other ways to achieve similar functionality?

It is not that important that both X sessions are running all the time, which means that a solution which simply starts another X session with specific graphics configuration might be preferable.

So far I tried the following:

HIGHEST_USED_DISPLAY=`ls -al /tmp/.X* | tail -1 | awk -F 'X' '{print $2}'`
let AVAILABLE_DISPLAY=($HIGHEST_USED_DISPLAY+1)
su - valprj -c "startx -- :$AVAILABLE_DISPLAY -config xorg.conf.projector"

This looked like the perfect solution at first, but then I noticed that the computer would freeze (just input devices and graphics) all too often when switching between the X sessions. I haven't tried it w/o GDM yet.

So, can anyone recommend a different approach? btw, I am using proprietary NVIDIA drivers. Maybe there is something in NVIDIA tools that can help me?

Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks.

I've heard the term "bun in the oven" but this is just going way too far I think.

Thankfully, said oven wasn't on at the time and the baby was fine. Check out that mug shot photo, he still looks stoned.

This completely SFW link sent to me by jeffercine

GOOD MORNING!

I appreciate that you guys send me stuff because, sometimes, the stuff I find is simply boring and a number of really great links I've listed have come from the people I know. It show that people like what I do, want me to continue it, and enthusiasm in the project.

However, please let me make a request, whether it's for Morning Crazy or not: please let me know IN ADVANCE if the thing you are submitting is SFW or not. This will save me potentially "interest" conversations with Parent Company's Information Security (their more extreme sounding IT department) Department after I've clicked your link.

Thanks.

I heard a rumor that twinkle is dead (ie that nobody is working the project anymore). is that true, does anyone know?

If so, can anyone recommend a good linux softphone that is being updated?

Ren is once again on half power and a quarter patience.

Please, step lightly and we'll all get through today, yes?

I have been given a beta-test invitation to give to a friend.

If you are going to claim this invitation PLEASE USE IT.

Ok, first person to comment gets it.

 So apparently walking out of an office where you're being screamed at is construed as quitting. Even when you call the district manager before leaving the property to state specifically that you aren't quitting your job, but leaving an unsafe situation. Even when you've worked every weekend and every thanksgiving, christmas eve, christmas, new years eve, memorial day, fourth of july, labor day and your birthday for the last three years. There aren't fierce enough expletives for this situation. 

Had a dream where I was inexplicably bitten by a cobra in a college chemistry lab and spent the rest of the dream futilely trying to get to an ambulance or hospital while my tongue swelled up. Don't ask, I have no idea where it came from but it was singularly unpleasant. I only realized it was a dream and woke myself up at around 4:30 in the morning. The dreams that came after weren't that much better.

As a result the Ren Drone is currently functioning on half power and not yet up to speed this morning. Please, carry on.

It's not Paddy's day today (even though it is). He's laid up and miserable and can't even stomach the cheesiest cheese toastie I've ever made. I blame the stinky ferrets he plays with at nursery (I'm not being derogatory about other people's children here, they actually have pet ferrets there). He's caught ferret flu.

(I'm looking at you, my dearest midwestern SCA pals...)

I have this lovely navy wool. Not much of it - about a 60" yard, in two triangular segments. It's coating weight and begging to be made into... something. Any ideas? I'm sort of thinking a hood would be nice...

Perhaps struggling for a reason behind why Democrats would want the health care bill to pass Rep. Louie Gohmert declared that "demons" - yes, demons - have invaded the capital (and likely the souls of Democrats), forcing lawmakers to mislead the public about the content of the health care bill.

Challenging this as the most stupid thing said by a politician that I found out about today, we have J.D. Hayworth trying to tell people that the SSM bill in Massachusetts is wrong and could lead to hot man-on-horse action.

Take a wild guess at the political party of these two.

First link from ophymirage, second from flemco

I'm considering starting a blog solely for my writing and discussions regarding writing and I'm considering branching out away from LJ. I know that several of you have blogs on other services and was wondering if you could give me opinions on those other sites (Blogger, Wordpress, Blogspot, Dreamwidths, etc).