I did not get the chicken pox vaccine. My wife, born one year after me, did. I got chicken pox. All I remember was being ready itchy. No scars. A few years ago, got shingles. Noticed it too late to get pre-emptive meds. Stupid chicken pox. I wanted to cut my arm off. There was no relief. Arm and hand scarred. And it took a long time for all the feeling to come back to my fingers.

Genius of Love by Tom Tom Club.

Lazy Town - Cooking by the Book ft. Lil Jon

I had to recreate a dream I had in Snagit one time. It was about me, back in college, but I was part of a frat. I had to take care of the house’s dog. It was a brown scruffy looking thing, in the dingy basement of the house. He came up to me wanting pets. The whole back half of the dog was missing! Just spine and organs falling out the back. I’m sitting there trying to shove everything back in. He’s just happy, enjoying the attention. I was freaking out. Thankfully, I woke up. But the memory of Scruffy still sticks with me.

Lucille Bluth should really be nicer to Shrek.

This is Ziti.

She fell asleep during a game of fetch.

She didn’t think we would notice her antics in the mud.

Waterworld is amazing. I ordered the Arrow blu-ray release the day it came out. Having an HD, official release of the Ulysses Cut is pretty cool.

I really liked Pandorum. It was weird.

Another trip to the meme cellar.

Here are a few from my meme cellar. They are of a fine vintage. I have plenty more.

Oh, that sucks. I have not run into any instruction set issues with my Precision, but all I really do with it is stream video and game up to Fallout 4 era. I actually wondered if I would run into problems since the Xeon 5355 is from freaking 2006, but all seems well so far.

OpenRCT2 runs great on here! The crappy Intel graphics can even handle the OpenGL setting. Ok, this thing is officially revived now. Internet, a couple of games, and an office suite? What more could I ask for. This is going to be my coffee shop device again.

I seriously loved this thing when I was using it. It was my only laptop for years. I have desktops wherever I need a computer in the house, this was just a little thing take around. Then, the Windows updates really started slowing it down… Windows was bloating to take up most of the 32GB of internal storage. I tried replacing it with a 11" Android tablet, but Android is not a PC. Even with a keyboard and mouse, and the Taskbar launcher, it felt like it was just LARPing as a laptop.

Well, I couldn’t wait. I tried a lot of distros. Some lightweight, some not. Including Fedora LXDE, which ran great but was not very pretty. I ended up settling on Lubuntu LTS. It was a very nice balance between performance and looks. Only uses about 500 MB of my precious 2 GB of ram. Even with Firefox open, it only hits 1 GB. LXQt seems pretty nice so far! This is so much faster than Win10 on here. Man, this thing is so weak. Ok, I’m tired. Here’s some pics. I am posting from the Flexx now.

Added 35% transparency to the terminal to match the sombre-et-rond theme for LXQt

Also, don’t need Minecraft. Luanti works just fine!

Ring-a-ding-ding, baby.

Where have I seen this before? Was it Star Trek TNG? Fringe? X-Files? Man, this is really familiar. I seem to remember it not turning out well for the courier.

Well, I’m glad I looked at this again! It seems there has been progress! I know what I’m doing this weekend.

https://github.com/burzumishi/linux-baytrail-flexx10

I would love to on my cheap-ass Nextbook Flexx 10. But the last time I heard anybody tried Linux on it, there was almost no driver support for it. I love how small it is, I don’t care if all i can do on it is browse the web slowly and maybe run LibreOffice.

This chonky boy is 19 this year. He has dual Xeon quad cores, and 32gb of DDR2 and a 980Ti. He streams 4K videos with ease and plays most of my Steam library. He’s running Mint. And he eats about 425W while he does it.

Probably between 200-300mg. I would never do caffeine pills, as I enjoy my methods of caffeine consumption.

Typically, I’ll either drink a 2-cup moka pot, or some espresso. I never drink drip or French press coffee. Too bland. Turkish coffee is also good, but I don’t get that too often.

If not coffee, it’s usually Monster rehabs or Celsius. Tea is more for enjoyment than the caffeine content.

I have had Crohn’s for 22 years. I am now on medication that has it controlled, it’s wild. But I feel like I don’t have the bowel strength for formed poops anymore! It’s pretty exhausting going once a day. It’s a whole event. Like a sloth.