Day: April 1, 2016

  • I am defeated

    I have done many things today: Helped a friend edit the script for her show, made bread, started my sourdough, been to the shops. However, after 4 fruitless hours of beating my computer with a stick I pronounce this motherboard a fracking useless pile of shit.

    It’s always been unreliable when asked to move large quantities of data, but now it falls over reliably, within a few moments of being tasked. This means that I need to replace it.

    I’m sorely (*sorely*) tempted to replace the case as well.

  • There seems some debate

    In answer to all the annoying gimboids who say that mv deletes files as it goes, even if copying across drives or file systems – no, it doesn’t. At least, not on my system. It copies, then deletes. Which is a frigging pain in the arse because my system is 99% full, so there’s insufficient space for it to do that.

    Then it falls over.

    Which is the best outcome so far. Given the Gigabyte board’s general unreliability, it’s either that or it reboots randomly in the middle of doing it.

    Either of which is a bucket of cack.

  • The force was weak

    Clearly I wasn’t concentrating hard enough on keeping the media server up, because it crashed in the middle of moving a bunch of files. And now I have this fucking horrific mess of directories where one has some files and the other has some files, and mv is throwing a tantrum.

    Yay.

  • pacificnorthwestdoodles:

    Flower beds coming out of dormancy at my house

    Yay, vicarious gardening through friends :)

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    depressionlemon:

    tostadasheep:

    candycorned:

    pugnacious-behavior:

    vvhaleshark:

    what did this bird do

    I wish i had context on this 

    here u go

    I don’t think the contexts helps in this case.

    I’ve been collecting these for a while so here are all the ones you missed

  • himmelstizzle:

    Bernie vs Hillary: The Real Differences

    full version of the video by The David Pakman Show here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWRe0Qa0v8Y

  • GUYS GUYS GUYS GUYS GUYS

    baapi-makwa:

    mikecliffordd:

    THE WISCONSIN PRIMARY ON TUESDAY, APRIL 5TH IS WINNER TAKE ALL DELEGATES

    SO THAT MEANS IF BERNIE WINS, HE GETS ALL 96 DELEGATES

    THAT WOULD GIVE HIM A YUUUUUUUUUUUUGE BOOST TO BEATING HILLARY

    HE WOULD HAVE 1076 DELEGATES AND HILLARY WOULD HAVE 1243

    THAT MEANS THAT HE WOULD ONLY NEED 167 MORE TO CATCH UP TO HER PLEDGED DELEGATE COUNT

    IF YOU ARE REGISTERED TO VOTE, THEN FRICKING. VOTE.

    bring an ID when you go!!

    http://bringit.wisconsin.gov/do-i-have-right-photo-id

  • wherehipposdrome:

    becausebirds:

    Pretentious Flamingos.

    This implies the existence of non-pretentious flamingos.

  • Poke poke poke.

    So today we’re going to try turning off all the web-sharey daemons, and then see if we can shove the files back where they belong. Maybe then the media server will spend less of its time going spare. And maybe even start working enough that I can configure the network the way I want it, so I can then plug it in to our network here.

    Wish me luck*.

    * To be fair, I’m mainly just aiming to avoid this: https://xkcd.com/349/

  • knitmeapony:

    captainpeggy:

    egobuzz:

    egobuzz:

    canada’s pride and joy is a

    doughnut shop named after and founded by a hockey player in the 1960s 

    for all you non-canadian’s who think I’m exaggerating: 

    • “Tim Hortons holds 62% of the Canadian coffee market (compared to Starbucks, in the number two position, at 7%) 
    • “Canadians eat more doughnuts per capita and have more doughnut outlets per capita than any other nation“ 
    • “The company [Tim Hortons] opened twice as many Canadian outlets as McDonald’s and system-wide sales also surpassed those of McDonald’s Canadian operations as of 2002”
    • “The chain accounted for 22.6% of all fast food industry revenues in Canada in 2005.”

    there is more to this story and it actually gets better

    tim horton the hockey player’s signature move was literally picking opposing players up and hugging them. the guy was like 6?5 on skates, built like a tank, would have come out on top in every hockey fight except that he absolutely refused to punch. someone would hit him and he’d just pick them up in a giant, angry bear hug. 

    this one time he broke his jaw and leg in a collision and was off the ice for years, and this freaked him tf out, because dude bro do i like…….have value behind all this muscle? what if this like……happens again, bro? what if i can’t play hockey, bro? huh? bro. basically he broke his face and had an existential crisis. happens to the best of us.

    so he started a donut shop because he figured he’d need something to do when the next injury rolled around, seeing as oblivion lurks around every corner and none of us have a purpose. he started it in hamilton, ontario. coffee was ten cents. 

    anyways, when his face got better, he invited a police officer to come run his company so he could go play more hockey. which he did.

    so: canada’s pride and joy is a donut shop named after and founded by a touch-starved hockey player in the midst of an existential crisis, that was later run by a cop when the aforementioned hockey player left to play more hockey, that then somehow ate up 62% of the canadian coffee biz. god bless.

    Where. Is. The. TV. Show.