A while ago Dr. Bacchus posted a short blurb about Say Anything... It was on FX's DVD on TV last night so I had to stay up late and watch it. I hadn't seen it in well over twelve years. (And wow - I had forgotten how mind-numbingly bad Corey's songs were.) Here are some of my favorite things about it.

First the quotes:

"You must chill! You must chill!" (A favorite because I did that to someone in the college Grill once. Much fun.)

"I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don't want [……]

It gets really frustrating trying to track down problems that don't really exist...

What seems like months ago, I installed RedHat on a box to use as a dial-on-demand/firewall type thingy for my home network. No GUI. No unnecesary stuff. Pretty much as basic as it can be. I checked the Modem HOWTO and all was well with my modem save for setting up a decent symlink to it in /dev. Then, I worked my way through the PPP HOWTO and all was going swimmingly. Until, that is, I got to the part where you start testing. I dialed out with [……]

Two great men died this week. Each changed the world and left it a better place for his being here, although in drastically different ways. Unfortunately, I don't have the time at the moment to write a nice bio of each as I usually do for these posts.

In the case of the first, Ronald Wilson Reagan, the 40th President of the United States, I can't add much that hasn't already been said many times this week. Look at his legacy. Look at his writings. (His Letter to America announcing his Alzheimer's diagnosis is typical of his optimism [……]

When the toast has burned
     and all the milk has turned
     and Cap'n Crunch is waving farewell

It's pure fluff, but that song always makes me giggle.

I'll be following this case and I suspect that Dr. Bacchus will too.

Kudos to Bill Cosby for saying in no uncertain terms what white people can't say without being called everything from a Klansman to a slave owner to a Nazi and what far too many black people won't say.

Cosby was speaking at a Washington gala to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, the U.S. Supreme Court case which declared that racial segregation in education was unconstitutional.

[aside]
While no one argues with the intent of the Brown case, it's unseen ramifications are another matter entirely. See these three articles for a better treatment of the subject than [……]

I have little use for money grubbing nitwits.

As I write this, the central Kentucky landmark known around here simply as "The Castle" is in flames and the prognosis doesn't look so good.

It has been a fixture on US60 between Lexington and Versailles for years. It was started in 1969 by Lexington home builder Rex Martin after honeymooning in Europe where he and his new bride, Caroline, fell in love with castles. Six years later, however, they divorced and The Castle was never completed.

At that time, not much was known about who owned it and why it was being built. Mystery surrounded it for [……]

Now I've gone and done it. I finished moving all of our stuff from our old farm this weekend. (OK - I still have one more shed to empty out, but...) In doing so I realized that, other than one car, I no longer own anything of significant value. That's mildly disturbing. Of course, I now have a HUGE balance in my savings account representing the equity (and slight profit :-) ) from the sale of our place but liquid assets just don't seem real somehow. I like being able to put my hands on something and know that it's [……]

After a long wait - (refer here for background) - she showed up. And she had the decency to do so at a reasonable hour. Pics and more details in comments below as soon as I get around to it.