Recently I’ve been going through my old analog photos and scanning them in.  This is the oldest picture I have that I took.  I took some pictures earlier in our first vacation to the Smokey Mountains.  But those prints and negatives were lost by the time I started putting together photo albums.  I’ve been remembering so much about my childhood and it’s been so much fun.  I’m still deciding which photos to upload to flickr, but keep up on my Analog Set which covers up until the middle of my Freshman year in college.

Instead of the usual Top 20 most viewed photos, I wanted to indulge in my geek side and show only prime numbers from my top 200 most viewed photos.

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So I did a test and found that as long as I save the metadata to the file, Adobe Bridge (even with CS2) can correctly read the changes.  So I decided to work in Lightroom to see if it was worth buying.  I can say that I am really loving it!  I’ve been able to adopt my usual RAW workflow with only some small changes.  Now I can’t see how I could ever work without LR!!  (It’s no wonder why Adobe gives a 30 day free trial!)

Here are some great quotes I’ve heard/read recently:

“It’s like asking for a rollercoaster when you want wasabi” - C.P.

Eric: “So what was your role in the musical?” CP: “I never had a role” MK: “Oh, you were mailbox #2”

“Antonio Banderas should not be doing bee commercials” - MK on Nasonex

“They’ve declared a jihad on clothes” - Dan imagines a terrorist porn tagline

“I was dreaming about cake” - Danielle

A lot of people have been warning that rules/laws that everyone considers stupid are a very dangerous thing.  Essentially, what happens when every single person you know is a “criminal”?  It begins to create a sense that rules are pointless and if everyone’s disobeying this rule, why not disobey that one and so on.  These people see the current problems with copyright infringement as potentially being the catalyst to the end of civilized society.  I’m not sure I would go that far by a long shot, but it is an interesting question.

A few days ago it was announced that the Ubuntu release after Jaunty Jackalope will be known as Karmic Koala.  The funny thing is that a few months ago my friends and I were racking our brains for a K adjective and all we could come up with was Keen.  I was sure it would be Keen Koala or Keen Kangaroo.  The most interesting thing about Karmic Koala is that they will supposedly be considering getting away from brown.  Then again, they’ve been going on and on about a new art style for a few releases now.  We’ll see what they actually do.  I’m mostly excited for the new notification style in Jaunty and to see if/how this will be implemented in Crunch Bang Linux.

(ed note:  I actually ended up reviewing Crunch Bang Linux 8.10.02 due to a problem with my 8.10 disc)

I discovered Crunch Bang Linux (#!) through Linux Outlaws.  Fab kept talking about how awesome it was.  Then more and more podcasts and people on the tubes started talking about it.  So I wrote to Linux Format Magazine about having it on their cover disc.  They said there was a lot of clamor for it to be on a cover disc, but they couldn’t because it comes with multimedia codecs potentially covered by patents.  So why am I breaking my self-imposed rule to only review distros on LXF cover discs?  Because one of the most attractive features to me for #! is that it is supposed to load up a lot faster and run faster than Ubuntu.  Right now I have Ubuntu 8.10 installed on my laptop.  I pretty much only use my laptop for travel (although I do use it in the apartment ever once in a while).  So if it boots up and runs faster than Ubuntu, it will leave me with more battery power for when I travel.  I already ran the #! liveCD, so I know the wifi card will work.  So first off, I boot up Ubuntu to time it and see how much of a savings I’ll be getting.  From power on to GDM login screen is 1 minute 1 second.  And it’s 40 seconds from login to a useful desktop.  (Gnome)  So then I install Crunch Bang Linux.

I already tried installing Gento o.  Twice.  The other Linux distro for the hardcore, for whom the Ubuntus and the Fedoras is too easy, is Slackware.  Slackware is, of course, the oldest surviving Linux distro.  I’ve already reviewed some distros based off of Slackware such as Zenwalk and Slax.  Along the way I’ve come to learn about some of the appeal of Slackware and why people would base distributions off of it.  However, it does have a reputation as a very hard distro to install.  Fab, of Linux Outlaws, refers to it as the distro for those who “love the pain”.  But Slackware has always held a special place in my mind for the quirky reason that I almost selected it as my first distro ( as I recount here).  I had no idea that the Slack in Slackware was a reference to the Church of the Sub-Genius.  (that’s why the Slackware Penguin smokes a pipe)

There’ve been a lot of people recently on the MythTv mailing list talking about Boxee as a convenient way to was content on Hulu.  However, the Boxee developers have blogged that Hulu has nixed that idea.  ( And here’s Hulu’s side of the story)  I read a bunch of comments as well as both of those blog posts (I also read this great blog post) and the only conclusion I can come up with is that the TV execs that license their content to Hulu are braindead.  Here are the best reasons I read in the comments (summarized for brevity) :