Happy Pi Day, Everyone!

I got my new hard drive that would replace my old, aging /home hard drive. As you read in part 1, I wanted to put btrfs on it. This is my journey to get it up and running. Plugged it into my hard drive toaster and ran gparted.

[caption id=“attachment_7889” align=“aligncenter” width=“421”] Gparted for new drive[/caption]

[caption id=“attachment_7890” align=“aligncenter” width=“500”] Gparted for new drive1[/caption]

This’ll be a semi-recurring blog post highlighting some of my work on other websites. (Most often, but not necessarily, other sites I own/run)

Race Flipping in Comic Movies over at Comic POW! in which I discuss Johnny Storm being cast with an African American actor in the new film.

Autobiographies: Swimming Part 1 over at I’m not Mad in which I take a stab at autobiographical comics. It’ll be a little bit until Part 2 - probably around May when this semester ends.

Daddy, you wearing glasses!

-Scarlett when she first saw me yesterday as she starts using sentences

I’ve both added and dropped some podcasts since last time around. Ever since I started using Doggcatcher on my cellphone I’ve been able to listen to more podcasts because, even without the pitch distortion my sandisk had, it plays the content a lot faster. Where I’m listing the same podcast as last year I may use the same description as in the past with slight (or no) variation.

Video Games

Giant Bombcast – This is a HILARIOUS podcast that is mostly about video games.  I say it’s mostly about video games because these guys often will go off on random tangents about what energy drinks they have, what they ate, what they did between video gaming, and other topics.  However, they always get back to video games and provide a really fun podcast.  Segments include What You’ve Been Playing, News of the World, and EMAILS!  My favorite parts are “What You’ve Been Playing” and “Emails”.  It can be a bit geeky in the same way that some of the tech podcasts I listen to are geeky. I miss Ryan since his untimely death last year - the guys do well enough without him, but he brought something very special to the podcast that isn’t there anymore. I felt like I actually knew him after about 200 weekly episodes where I spent almost 3 hours with him each time. (Approx 2.5 hours long)

Recently I once again came across an article about the benefits of the btrfs Linux file system. Last time I’d come across it, it was still in alpha or beta, and I also didn’t understand why I would want to use it. However, the most I’ve learned about the fragility of our modern storage systems, the more I’ve thought about how I want to protect my data. My first step was to sign up for offsite backups. I’ve done this on my Windows computer via Backblaze. They are pretty awesome because it’s a constant backup so it meets all the requirements of not forgetting to do it. The computer doesn’t even need to be on at a certain time or anything. I’ve loved using them for the past 2+ years, but one thing that makes me consider their competition is that they don’t support Linux. That’s OK for now because all my photos are on my Windows computer, but it leaves me in a sub-optimal place. I know this isn’t an incredibly influential blog and I’m just one person, but I’d like to think writing about this would help them realize that they could a) lose a customer and b) be making more money from those with Linux computers.

I Fight Dragons – Project Atma (music): Things are on track with IFD. They are posting awesome videos of the recording process. It’s already March so as long as there aren’t any more delays, the album will be here in a few short months! Also, they’ll be on the Van’s Warped Tour, so I’ll be attending Warped Tour for the first time to go see them (and quite a few other bands I really like)

I’m about as square as you can get - the only intoxicant I consume is an occasional mojito in the summer. (How could I not? My parents are Cuban!) But, given the fact that we’ve had two presidents now who smoked pot (and one who did cocaine), and seem to be OK, it’s nice to see that perhaps there’ll be less kids who have their lives ruined from doing something no worse than drinking.

Even Scarlett thought the girl from Frozen was Rapunzel….

Just read this. By the way, I Fight Dragons echoed the experience.