Carol Rutz’s Annexe

This song has been in my head. I might as well pass it along to you.

Cherish your freedoms, and most of all, read the Constitution.

From the DO NOT WANT files of the Consumerist, one woman’s discovery of unwanted critters in her box of Goobers:

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Just got the newest CBD catalog…and browse through the latest pulp theology and Christian novels. I came across the blurb for Lori Copeland’s upcoming novel Twice Loved for her Belles of Timber Creek series.

Here is the story plot: Woman has to choose between older but wealthy man or the young and handsome sawmill owner. Basically, it’s a choice between duty (the older person) and love (the younger guy). The way the story is set up, I would not be surprised if Ms Copeland would portray Silas Sterling as aloof, indifferent and frightfully unromantic– and Tucker Gray as this headstrong, passionate romantic man of her dreams. How stereotypical.

I will be impressed if Ms Copeland writes the novel so that Sterling turned out to be the most kindest, loving man despite his age and/or riches…and Gray turned out to be a total loser. Either that, or both men rejected her because they do not care for flighty, indecisive and superficial women. I’m not holding my breath.

This week’s Farktography is a very good one: the theme is about food on a dish or plate. The results are stunning.

Many of the entries featured homemade dishes, others were made in a restaurant.

I spent 8 hours Tuesday at the internship and on lunch break, picked up Shrimp Alfredo for the prof. She loved the shrimp, but the pasta was lackluster. If only Mopsy had a restaurant in Fort Wayne so I can serve Ms Heise this instead:

Here is EveryoneLovesCleanUndies’ breakfast pic of cinnamon bread french toast with apples and caramel.

And this is what I feel like eating right now, this steak and potato dish by Alyna_jf …it will clog up your arteries, it will add meat to your ribs, but your taste buds will thank you for it:

You are a guy (or an Honorary Male)…and there will be times when you are not at your best. You need something comforting and cheap. And chocolate won’t cut it. That’s for the fluctuating estrogen crowd. Booze gives you a hangover and maybe more trouble. Guys in big cities (especially in California and the Southwest) know where to go.

(ACHTUNG: Contains some cursing by an angry girlfriend. And a dude who failed at getting pre-marital sex, but that’s another issue entirely. The late night burrito place, being under the Kingdom of the Left Hand, does not care about the nature of your sins and errors BUT it cares whether you have enough cash to pay for your meal.)

The 2003 Server, the Vista lappy, and now the classroom Vista box has issues with their hardware.

Last week, the on-board Ethernet card on the server was not detected and we looked for the drivers. We had the disk that came with the motherboard. Upon using the disk, the dialog box told us that the disk will only work with ME, XP or Vista…but not Windows Server 2003. Then, we could not find the drivers for the other Ethernet card that was installed. Eventually, someone removed the extra Ethernet card and then the onboard card was recognized. It turned out that the installed card caused a conflict.

My lappy has experienced 4 kernel dumps before I installed SP1. It is unknown whether I would get another BSOD. But I know this: it’s time for a RAM upgrade. It only has 1 gig. But the challenge is whether the lappy can tolerate the new RAM.

Yesterday, I spent 3 hours at the classroom with moving around the equipment and configuring the Smart Technologies’ Sympodium with the Vista machine. It worked great with the XP, and according to recent articles, the driver works with Vista. I installed the drivers on Vista and…nothing. The screen is on, but the stylus did not respond. I did see that it was detected as an “unknown device”. Hopefully, there must be a way to get the stylus configured.

The Fark servers has imploded upon the news of Carlin’s passing. He was more than happy to see mankind fail miserably and chances are, he was happy to leave the human race.

You guys remember him as the dude who can recite the Seven Dirty Words with gusto; I remembered him as Cardinal Glick from Dogma and Mr Conductor from Shining Time Station.

At Concordia-Irvine, a prof noticed that I worked way too hard and advised me to play hooky that day and watched a flick. It was on that day I had one class and I bicycled my way to the Irvine Spectrum. I heard that Dogma has plenty of fire and best of all– Jay and Silent Bob– so I purchase a ticket for the matinee.

I recognized the pop Christianity that the slick Cardinal Glick touted. Glick was Tetzel as a 21st Century American crypto-Protestant. In real life, Carlin knew that this happy clappy form of Christianity will never offer decent comfort to anyone suffering. The cheerleading, the psychology and the positiveness of such programs will not cover the stupidity and evil of man. The confessional theology crowd at Irvine recognized the Buddy Christ all too well; many of us were spiritual refugees saw the changes on campus as the beginnings of CUI’s loss of Lutheran identity.

As for me, I enjoyed that subversive tweaking when Carlin played the kid-friendly Mr Conductor in Shining Time Station. Here is one delightful episode in which he counseled a kid about facing a bully.

That newest Ubuntu edition has not only affected my desktop, it also made the interns at Ivy Tech throw conniptions. (But not as bad as the Windows Server 2003 not recognizing the onboard Ethernet card.)

I’ve been putting in my hours at the Hardware Room, helping set up a network and installing some operating systems in the boxen. One of the boxen was installed with Ubuntu Server…the Hard[l]y [Working] Heron edition. First, we were unable to get the X Window System to run correctly. The X Window System deals with monitor and graphics configuration. If you want to see the file that configures your Linux computer, you go to “xorg.conf”. We did get to see the GUI. Alas, it was at low resolution. We installed new drivers. Nothing. What was a huge pain was that there was no manual for the Batesias brand monitor…and that their webpage was “blocked by Multiwave internet usage protection policy.” And I thought of copying and pasting a new “xorg.conf” file. Not even that worked. The funny thing that the Live CDs of Gentoo, Ubuntu Dapper Drake and OpenSUSE did detect that graphics card and monitor, but not the recent Ubuntu Server.

In frustration, we decided to install OpenSUSE…and the Linux box was running. At that point, it was time to install Apache. The last time I touched Apache was for an online Web Administration class. I had to refresh my memory and got my textbooks out for reference. First I had to download it, then I tried to compile it. Did not work, and tried again. After some attempts, I realized that I needed two things in order to get Apache installed: the Gnu Compiler Collection, and Make. I used SUSE’s package manager to download them, and then got Apache set up and installed. Yay!

Tomorrow, I will set up the rest of Apache. So far this week, this is how many hours served:

Monday: 3
Tuesday: 4
Wednesday: 5
Thursday: 5

Friday morning…I’ll inform the boss about my success.

First off, congratulations to Mr and Mrs Uvulapie on the birth of their daughter on Father’s Day. Blessings and let me suggest bubble wrap so she can be safe and sound on the way to the baptismal font.

And now…here is my plan for the next several weeks of internship: I’ll be writing my journal entries on the Annexe and share what I’ve been doing so far. That way, I have a paper trail and I can use these entries for notes.