The Blasphemous Bicycler

I have been keeping detailed records of my holiday weight gain this year.

I’m up 5 pounds since Thanksgiving.

New year’s resolutions:

1. Take off those 5 pounds
2. Take off 25 more
3. Ride my bike 100 miles in a single day.
4. Upgrade bonius.com to WordPress 2.0

The Linux meeting happened last night, and I think it went pretty well. We had 5 people turn up (including me), and we had some nice food and some geeky conversation.

We are thinking of rotating the meeting to more than just indian restaurants, so we will probably change the name to something more generic than curry.

I have hacked up a prototype logo for the group. It’s Tux wearing a chef’s toque.

I installed WordPress 2.0 on the LUG website. I’m running WP 1.2 here on Bonius.com, and things have improved considerably. I will have to make another attempt at an upgrade when I have the time.

I have tracked down the source of my final MythTV obstacle: Nvidia drivers. The motherboard I got for this project uses the Nforce chipset, and those drivers haven’t trickled their way into Breezy yet. (Version 1.0.8178 last seen in Debian unstable) To further complicating things, Brandi gave me a game for Xmas that requires more horsepower than my desktop PC has.

So, the logical next step is to perform a double motherboard transplant. I am going to swap the cases/harddrives between the two boxes. Hopefully I will end up with a MythTV with fully Linux-compliant hardware, and a Desktop PC with enough power to play games on.

I am now in the process of tracking down and backing up all the various and sundry data on my desktop. So far, I have found 40GB of stuff I want to keep.

Brandi and I both had the day off today, so we decided to go check out Indian Echo Caverns. Sadly, my feeble photography skills were no match for the lighting conditions in the cave. So, I took the shotgun approach. I took a billion picutes, and about 5 of them were actually worth a damn.

Hear ye, Hear Ye!

The very first ever, virginal meeting of the Harrisburg Linux cUrry Group will commence at 6:30PM on Wednesday, December 28th at Passage to India in Harrisburg. If you are at all interested in Linux, and like Indian food, drop me a line or stop by.

Every autumn, the days get shorter and shorter until eventually the people tire of the darkness and set out to do something about it.

A few nights ago, a few friends and I made our way to the shores of the mighty Susquehanna. There, alongside the liquid soul of Pennsylvania, we prepared to awaken the sleeping sun.

The plan:

1. Build a bonfire big enough to warm the toes of the almighty goat-lord
2. Drink large quantities of mead for inspiration and warmth
3. Hoot, holler, carry on, and dance in a foolish way around the aforementioned fire
4. Hope that all the above activities will awaken the sun

So, we build a fire

And we stoked it to insane proportions

And we chanted in arcane tounges and drunken slurs

The goat-lord responds!

_{DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME: We are professional idiots.}

For a limited time (until I run out of bandwidth), you can download a video(23MB), wherein the goat-lord announces himself with a powerful explosion from the ceremonial bonfire.