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Well, that seemed to be the longest possible way to have a four day period. I had Friday and Saturday off, due to work Sunday - so I worked with that, planning on doing some work on the Gemini, play poker with the boys, go to a house party, then work Sunday and keep going as normal, getting a normal amount of sleep.

The best plans always go wrong, damn that guy Murphy.

An interview with Dr. Bradley Edwards, a big proponent and really smart guy on space elevators. I really hope that I see the development of these in my lifetime, and the jump in technology and innovation that’ll come with them to benefit society. The world will be an amazing place when you can spend a couple of days in transit and end up in space!

I got my fuel pressure and oil pressure gauges yesterday, from Lee’s Spare Parts & Performance - a great little place down on Kingston road, near me. I ended up just buying two oil pressure gauges, since that’s all they had, and they were cheap - they are the same gauges anyway, just with different labels 🙂 They are Speco brand 2″ white face gauges, nice and small, and easily readable. They ended up being $59.95 each, which was a steal since they are electrical, and include the sender and all mounting hardware.

Well, that royally sucks, all their history is destroyed 🙁 These guys make some seriously cool animated shows and feature films, incorporating good english humor and hilarious visuals.

Found from a slashdot article here.

Oh well, so that failed, there’s no wireless access points that I can see from where I sit at this desk overnight. I’m at work, starting at eleven PM. It’ll probably be so boring that I’ll just jot down notes and rambling whenever I think of something.

23:00 The overnight. It’s a really boring shift from what I’ve heard, only about one call an hour when things on the network are running fine, or completely crazy if they are not. Let’s hope that it all goes well, I’ll just put up a recorded message begging people not to talk to me if it goes awry.

(Update 30/4/15 there WAS a ) Great review of John Romero’s “Dead” series of movies on K5.

But the site’s gone and they refused the Internet Archive’s services. http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/10/25/6750/9089

My funny friend Jessica’s a bit of a goth. Well, a fair bit of a goth. She’s also just out of high school, so she’s funny and cute and stuff. Get her a corset. I’ll probably donate. Maybe. You better too!

Finally I found something told me how to fix my problems with the STUPID compilation issues of late. Delete the file path_dps.m4 from your filesystem!

This page tells you to run this command:

rm /usr/share/aclocal/path_dps.m4

Delete the file, and no more stupid compilation issues. Hooray! Here’s the gentoo bug report if you want more information.

I’ve been invited to a poker game in a week and a bit, so I decided to learn how to play Texas Holdem Poker. Mitchell’s playing on holdempoker.com at the moment, and the interface seems nice, so I decided to log on and have a go. It’s an interesting game, based on the fact that you get two “hole” cards which are your own, and then there’s five cards that gradually come out on the table, once they are all out, then you make your hand. I had a look at the holdempoker.com tutorial, and some other tutorials at about.com. They’ve got some basic info on how the game works, some tips on the strategy while playing holdem, and a page on what hands beat what in poker rules.

Duct Tape Bandaids! That’s entirely cool!