Penguins taste like chicken

broderic on December 19, 2008


Dad and Penguins
Originally uploaded by skrishnan37.
The penguin movie, not Happy Feet, the other one. Not the surfing one, but the documentary starring Morgan Freeman. Yeah, that one. It’s got the classic Bugs Bunny Merry Melody where he takes chilli willie home except he’s from the circus. Yeah. You remember. Funny, right? Ha ha. Penguins, they’re the rulers of the world. When aliens come, they’ll all fly away. Urr. Sorry, that’s dolphins. Penguins will something, something, something. They’ll claw your eyes out. Penguins.

Link of the Day [12.16.08]

broderic on December 16, 2008

I’m sitting at home waiting for the right time to head on over to the post office to pick up a package. I wish they would open at 8 am rather than a half hour later. I have to stay at work later than I would want to just because of the opening time.

In this day and age, the US postal service is a throwback to earlier times when letters were all important. Now, it’s just email, text, or IM. When will it be e-packages, text-packages, or IM-packages? Send my figures to my 3D printer so that I don’t have to wait so long.

Anywhoo, with the holiday coming up (9 days of shopping left), you better mail out those packages if you need them to get to their destination before Christmas morn.

http://www.usps.com/

Quote of the Day [11.24.08]

broderic on November 24, 2008

“The chown command changes the owner of the file specified by the File
parameter to the user specified by the Owner parameter. The value
of the Owner parameter can be a user ID or a login name found in the
/etc/passwd file. Optionally, a group can also be specified. The value
of the Group parameter can be a group ID or a group name found in
the /etc/group file.

Only the root user can change the owner of a file. You can change
the group of a file only if you are a root user or if you own the
file. If you own the file but are not a root user, you can change
the group only to a group of which you are a member.”

man page for ‘chown” command

Link of the Day [11.02.08]

broderic on November 2, 2008

Daylight savings time is over. I hope you’ve changed your clocks. There’s a lot to change. Luckily, my computers are pulling from some time server somewhere, and my cell phone gets it from the carrier.

The others I have to change.

Like the one in my car. And in the other car. My wristwatch. The other wristwatch. My workout wristwatch with the heart monitor. The stove. The microwave oven. The alarm clock. The other clock in my office.

Keeping up with time is exhausting.

http://www.time.gov/

Quote of the Day [10.22.08]

broderic on October 22, 2008

"My friend, you have seen this incident, based on sworn testimony. Can
you prove that it didn't happen?"Criswell, Plan 9 from Outer Space