The driver lineups on DirecTV for tonight’s running of the Sharpie 500 from Bristol Motor Speedway are faithfully recorded here yet again:
795 – Carl Edwards, #99
796 – Kevin Harvick, #29
797 – Jeff Gordon, #24
798 – Denny Hamlin, #11
799 – Dale Earhhardt Jr, #8
Bristol – Racin’ the Way it Oughta Be
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Technorati: NASCAR DirecTV HotPass
Someone Googled “claude balls” and found my humble weblog.
I couldn’t be more proud.
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Tomorrow, after the rainout of today’s race. The green flag drops tomorrow at noon. But I’ll have to Tivo it. I need to pick up the stinking on-call pager from the poor sap systems administration professional who currently has the duty, and soldier on. This is the worst part of a SysAdmin’s job.
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Was Adobe Acrobat Reader ever a stable product? My memory is short, but I seem to recall raving about it in years past. The honeymoon is now over. I was researching coffee makers from the Linux laptop the other day, and Fedora’s document reader wasn’t up to the task of displaying Bunn’s PDFs. No problem; I’ll just head off to Adobe and snag the reader for Linux. Great; it’s an RPM; even better.
So I download the 43M bloatware beast, do my rpm -ivh, and fire up acroread. Or try to; on Fedora 7, it spews out a constant stream of “expr: syntax error” from the 20+ K shell script that starts the reader. I’ll be switched if I’m debugging their bloatware script to start their bloatware product. So, an rpm -e and an rm of the RPM later, I’m in search of another PDF reader. I’d heard good things about Foxit, so off I go to download their free reader. Man, the download blazes, the file is compact, and I’m loving life. Then that reader segfaults trying to open a PDF. Back to the rm game.
And I’m now using evince, formerly known as gpdf; it’s been stable so far. The only thing it lacks is a PDF search function, which if it were implemented in the lumbering, slow style of the Adobe product, is an omission I can live with.
If you have to debug free software to make it work, it ain’t free. My time is worth something, not much maybe, but there are better uses of my limited time than struggling with freeware crap that just doesn’t work.
SWMBO’s and my aging Melitta coffee maker made its final pot last Friday. Half of its final rendering leaked out onto the kitchen counter, along with a liberal portion of grounds that bubbled up end over the basket. We determined that the pot was unsafe to operate, and was decidedly going to be unreliable, even if it were safe. So the Melitta is now in a bag, awaiting disposal. I think it holds the tbbs-land record for coffee maker longevity, and it certainly didn’t owe us a thing. It’s still sad to part ways with a piece of equipment that had provided years of reliable service.
I went to Target yesterday, and came home with a Bunn, the flagship coffee maker of finer truck stops and diners everywhere. It brews a 10 cup pot in 3 minutes; this is a good thing, since the Bunn has no automatic programming features. So, I’ll be crabby for three extra minutes per day, whilst the Bunn renders its first caffeine dosage of the day. I’m enjoying a cup of it’s first efforts as I type, and I’m compelled to say it makes a great cuppa’ joe.
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Picture posted with “Click to embiggen.”
[tags]bunn[/tags]
The latest version of the Search for America Tour has wound down; the credit card bills are in and paid, and we’re left with the memories of a good time, and anticipation of where we’ll head next.
Regrettably, we’re also nearing the end of a magnificent 2 pound bag of salted in the shell peanuts that we bought at a convenience store in the Richmond area. The bag prominently identified the peanut company, and thanks to The Google, we found the website of The Good Earth Peanut Company of Skippers VA.This is in RoVA, the Rest of Virginia, which elevates it in my mind. And joy of joys, you can order their products on-line. I predict we’ll have some excellent goobers in our future.
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[tags]goodearthpeanutcompany[/tags]
For today’s 3M Performance 400 from the Michigan International Speedway, the channel-driver-car matrix loads up like this:
795 – Jeff Burton, car #31
796 – Greg Biffle, car #16
797 – Jeff Gordon, car #24
798 – JJ Yeley, car #18
799 – Dale Earnhardt, Jr, car #8
Maybe Junior should drive car number 799 next year.
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[tags]daleearnhardtjr, directv, HotPass, NASCAR[/tags]
Well, they say if you’re blogging about Getting Things Done, you are not in fact Getting Things Done. And that’s the truth. I have 3×5 cards out the wazoo, a Fisher Space Pen, and all the trappings and tools that I need. There is also a myriad of things I need to accomplish.
My problem is lack of follow-through, and a lack of discipline in reviewing the status of things. So, I lurch from perceived crisis to perceived crisis, never sure if my efforts have been applied in the proper spot and with the proper amplitude. And it’s not the fault of any tool; I see the weak link in the system every time I look into a mirror.
Hence, even though I’ve checked off lots of miniscule and mundane items, overall, I’m Getting Nothing Done. It’s therefore time to get on the GTD horse yet again, and try to regain some semblance of control.
Wish me luck.
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[tags]GTD[/tags]
Vital TV statistics for today’s running of the Centurion Boats at The Glen1 look like this:
#42-Juan Pablo Montoya, 795
#7-Robby Gordon, 796
#24-Jeff Gordon, 797
#29-Kevin Harvick, 798
#26-Jamie McMurray, 799
It’s proper that road course mavens carry the in-car cameras while traversing the Watkins Glen International road course.
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H/T: Jayski.
[tags]directv, HotPass, jayski, NASCAR[/tags]
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SWMBO and I were up far too late last night, or far too early this morning, depending on your point of view. We’re big fans of the TV series 24. We bought DVDs of the early seasons that were aired before we got hooked on the show. Last evening, we watched far too many episodes in succession.
We complain that the weekly hour-long episode of the show is not long enough; 6-8 episodes back-to-back may be a little too much.
We had a blast though; we enjoy the show, and more importantly, each other’s company.
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[tags]24[/tags]
