Before:
Kevin was born on the mossy hills of Scotland and lived for a while in West Lothian before the mores of pre-Thatcher and REALLY pre-Oasis Great Britain sent his family across the ocean to North America. They moved here and there and Kevin did the same when he was old enough. Now he lives in London with his family and a Dog.
Kevin Wardrop is an amateur writer, amateur photographer and professional pain in the ass. He has worked in the PC support business for most of his adult life and has been accustomed to simply answering technical questions as a matter of fiat, it was his career choice after all. Now he herds cats and puppies for a living as well as babysitting the web enterprises at the heart of western industry.
What books did you love as a child?
Submitted by hearts.
One Book was my absolute favorite: “Adventures with Hal” about a boy who visits his Grandparents house for the summer and ends up having to spend the whole time with his unfamiliar cousins. It was just a fun little book about being young and having fun out in the forest (getting lost and stuff)
Don’t ask me why I liked it so much.
I’ve been fighting with XGL and Beryl on my Ubuntu box for ages, the other day there I tried out the Live DVD for Sabayon linux (a Gentoo Distro) and it just “worked” with Beryl. I plotzed after so many failures, here it was, working!
The problem was that it was on the spare computer (belonging to NiteCat) damn.
Anyway, NiteCat was so taken by the 3D desktop and graphic stuff that she asked to go over to Sabyon on a permanent basis. After a few false starts I installed it (and dual booted it with the existing Windows installation)
Sadly, Beryl didn’t work.
Shit.
Some forum diving got me to the point where I was installing a new driver (which didn’t seem to work)
A reboot later and it all works (even after more reboots)
I’m so happy, NiteCat can still play her games and can get into using Linux!
Good for her!
What’s the most klutzy thing you’ve ever done?
Submitted by Jecka.
I think every injury I’ve ever had was due to my own klutziness, but here is the best:
Have you seen “Mary Poppins”? I have, tons of times; it was on “Disney Sunday” or whatever that show was over and over as I was a kid, so I’ve head the damn thing over and over. Anyway I’ve seen That movie a ton, and when I was younger (under 8 I think) I’d seen it enough times to make me believe that the whole Umbrella thing was a workable plan for flight.
One blustery and windy day I took a big umbrella and with a weary look over my shoulder at the poor grounded people; ( who wouldn’t be flying that afternoon) I opened up the umbrella and felt the wind pull me. It Pulled me right off my feet , and in a moment of joyous flight, right onto my knees. Right onto my knees on a broken bottle. In fact, in a moment of cosmic kismet right onto the thick upturned bottom of a glass bottle, waiting hungrily for young knees.
Initially it didn’t even hurt, or bleed. I looked down into the innards of my knee and saw the off-white goo inside. Then it bled. It bled like crazy and so I cried. I cried and yelled and got hustled off to the hospital.
It sucked.
I still have a scar, but at least I got to fly for a little… like Mary Poppins. D’Oh.
The BatMobile (My Car) is a dependable vehicle, with some peculiarities. It has had a few major repairs and a few parts replaced; but it runs reasonably well for an 11 year old car. However, the locks freeze and seize in cold temperatures; and this morning they locked tight.
I ended up having to pour warm water over the locks to get them loose (there was a satisfying/scary “crack” noise when the water hit the lock).
After getting the car warmed up and the windows clean I was away.
I’m going to have to invest in lock-deicer and a better window scraper for this winter it seems.
The Clerks 2 DVD set arrived today, much to my joy. It’s a two disc set including a Mooby Hat, a funployee badge, a Mooby cup and the awesome Mobby’s Happy meal style box!
Check out my whole set at Flickr.
On your left, used RPG books and locally produced comics (mixed with various stuff) on your right the “new” comics.
Ahead of you, Anime and Manga (there be dragons)
This is in the same building as Smith Books on Campus in Eugene. Check them out sometime, tell them Kevin sent you. (from the Internets)
Last night we had the strangest little visitor, a cat!
When we were standing in the living room, deciding on a movie to watch in bed we heard a noise outside. It sounded like kodos had snuck out again, but I was sure he was inside. NiteGirl peeked out the door and in ran a little black and grey kitten. He (we checkd later) ran right in and used Kodos’ litter box.
Kodos was NOT pleased that there was another cat in the house; so he hissed, spat and pouted for the rest of the night. NiteGirl tried to find it’s owners, but we settled on letting it sleep in our garage (in a nice warm cat carrier) with food and water.
Apparently, when NiteGirl went to check on it this morning, it took off into the street. See ya kitten.
We’ve been cracking wise over Suge Knight over the past couple of weeks a la “Chuck Norris” and I have tried to lay it down on paper for others to enjoy, but they just never seem to be as funny as when they are said out loud:
We fell asleep watching Episode I and I woke up to Episode 4… We are such geeks. NiteGirl and I were watching the whole Episode 1 – Episode 6 marathon on Cinemax.
We broke it off during Jedi, or more exactly TheSpawn did. I went upstairs and had a nice shower, i-pod playing my “picks” play list in the background. It was just a great shower, I wasn’t thinking about work or money or anything, just getting clean and singing along with my i-pod.
Hmm, just confessed to singing in the shower, ah well. I sing quietly to myself all day, badly too.
I’ve been surfing the web and hitting political news sites and blogs since I got out of the shower. I made lunch and coffee for all of us (well, tea for TheSpawn) TheSpawn and I had breakfast around 9AM (French Toast Sticks and Tea)
It has been a nice lazy Saturday.
Like 007Ben I’ve found it very warm this AM. When I stepped out of my bedroom it was seriously warm in my living room area and I had to turn on fans to cool the area. Kodos was perched up in the bedroom areas looking down and meowing at me all morning while I got ready for work, I ended up leaving without giving him a snack today which is bound to make him extra friendly when the rest of my family got up.
I was so spaced this morning, I took a shower that seemed to take forever, but was only about 7 minutes. Just getting my shoes on was a long chore. Oh well.
I like the warm, it is a nice change from the cold cold cold morning’s we have had.