Finding Momentum

I have noth­ing earth-shattering to report, only that today in lec­ture I man­aged to miss the “d” key and typed out “emoc­racy” — a word which cer­tainly expresses my full sub­con­scious wit (oh come on, don’t tell me it hasn’t ever hap­pened to you). Usage: Hun­dreds of kids wear­ing Keds–this Dash­board con­cert is such an emocracy.

I also man­aged to get sick on the very last day of break and it seems like my health is on a neg­a­tive tra­jec­tory. The opti­mist in me sees it as a chance to build up those anti­bod­ies. And a chance to stock up on candy.

In geek news, I nearly man­aged to wipe out all of my data yes­ter­day night, thanks to a botched Ubuntu instal­la­tion that appar­ently messed with my par­ti­tion tables and didn’t have the man­ners to put things back where it found em. After sweat­ing bul­lets and doing a few good hours of research, I slapped together a Sys­tem­Res­cueCd and res­cued three par­ti­tions from the big bad jaws of Entropy.

I did man­age to get that Ubuntu install fin­ished. I’m cur­rently run­ning a dual-boot XP/Linux OS con­fig­u­ra­tion on my desk­top, with an addi­tional copy of XP run­ning in a VMWare vir­tual machine in Linux. The plan is to use Linux pri­mar­ily for school+work+email, with a vir­tual instance of XP for things like my Yahoo Wid­gets and Palm con­duits. Hard­core Win­dows apps (such as Adobe Cre­ative Suite apps) will require me to log into the native instance of XP (I hope to do this as lit­tle as possible).

And finally, we at the Pork­buns Ini­tia­tive have a slick teaser for you to look at, thanks to Hsiufan’s tin­ker­ing last night. What do we actu­ally do? That’s for you to find out.

This will be the most aca­d­e­m­i­cally rig­or­ous semes­ter I’ve ever taken. Bring it on, Powers-That-Be.