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A Quick Update on my use of btrfs and snapshots
Because of grad school, my work on Snap in Time has been quite halting – my last commit was 8 months ago. So I haven’t finished the quarterly and yearly culling part of my script. Since I’ve been making semi-hourly snapshots since March 2014, I had accumulated something like 1052 snapshots. While performance did improve…
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Fedora Unleashed: My 2003 Gateway into Linux
I was happy to be interviewed for Fedora Magazine about How [I] Fedora and I mentioned that there was a Fedora book that led me to pick Fedora. (I also mentioned that on this blog here) Recently I’ve been cleaning up my bookshelves as I have run out of space for physical books. While I’ve…
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Review: I, Zombie
I, Zombie by Hugh Howey My rating: 5 of 5 stars That was extremely intense. I don’t think I’ll ever look at zombies the same way again. I got this book as part of some pay what you want bundle. I never would have bought it on its own – I’m not a big zombie…
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Visiting Walt Disney World with a 2 Year Old
For a while during Scarlett’s second year Danielle and I went back and forth on whether we should take Scarlett to Disney just before her second birthday or whether we should wait until she was older. On the one hand – she’s not going to actually remember this trip. Or rather, any memories she has…
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Last.fm 2013 Listening Trends
This year I bought LOTS of albums. I don’t know if it’s the most albums I’ve purchased in one year since writing these blog posts or even since keeping track of Scrobbles. I do know that while I listened to my music randomly, in general, I did also listen to entire albums whenever I purchased…
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Dec 2013 Video Games Report
Civilization 5 (5 hours): Still haven’t caught up on the blog posts. Still entirely consists of games with Dan and Dave. Dan gifted me the latest expansion pack during the Winter Steam Sale, so I may fire up a solo game. Time will tell – I still have a ton of indie games from Humble…
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Three Female Pin-up Artists
Boing Boing linked to an article about three women who worked in pin-up art. (While most of the images are tame enough to view at work, there are at least three drawings of fully nude women in the article, so it’s up to you) I was fascinated by this because it seems odd that women…
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I Fight Dragon’s Project Atma Interview
My first ever Kickstarter! I just backed Project Atma – @IFightDragons Creates An Epic New Album on @Kickstarter http://t.co/Bo5XglkChl — Eric (@djotaku) May 5, 2013 Back on 4 May I backed a Kickstarter project for the first time ever – I Fight Dragon’s Project Atma. Anyone who’s been following my last.fm posts knows that I really…
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July 2012 Games Report
The Walking Dead (7 hrs) – I had no reason to play this game. I like point and click adventure games, but I don’t read The Walking Dead or watch the TV show. I don’t really care much for zombie games although I’m not opposed to them. But the same was on sale during the…
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Mid Sept Photojojo
Here it is – it’s computer-heavy this month.
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Incredulity and Learning in Las Vegas
It’s my second time in Vegas and I definitely think that the best way to first experience Vegas is arriving at night, as I did this time. The city really looks wrong and ugly during the day. Like a bar where they need to keep the lights dim so you’re 100% sure what that person…
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July Video Games
Mass Effect (2 hrs) – Dan tells me that if I don’t go for the optional quests, I could be near the end. After the next major story beat I’m probably going to write up my next Mass Effect blog post. I’m really enjoying the fiction. Team Fortress 2 (60 hrs) – I didn’t think…
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Comic Reviews: Batman and Superman, Batman and Robin, X-Men, FF, X-Men: Legacy, X-Factor
Falls off so quickly The Batman Chronicles # 7 – The first story is pretty neat – you get to see differences in how Batman and Superman interpret the law and due process as they fight to save a woman who may have been falsely put to the death penalty. And Batman and Supes even…
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Last.fm Listening Habits 2011 Q2
I started off this quarter ending my random listening. I wanted to listen to certain artists I really enjoyed. I figured I could go back to random once I got bored of choosing the artists I was listening to. Additionally, in between picking certain artists if I wanted to hear a certain song, I started…
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Ubuntu to the Rescue: A Tale of Broadcom Wifi Drivers, Prerelease Software, and a new Acer Aspire One Netbook
note: I wrote this on 17 April, a full week before it is published on the blog Nearly six years ago I bought my first laptop. I’d never seen the point of laptops over desktops – the value per dollar just isn’t there. But I was going to be traveling for work now and again…