June, 2018 archive
Make TWUUG Your LUG 0
Note: This month’s meeting is being held on the first Wednesday instead of the first Thursday because of a scheduling conflict involving the meeting room.
Learn about the wonderful world of free and open source. Use computers to do what you want, not what someone else wants you to do. Learn how to use GNU/Linux and its plethora of free and open source software to get stuff done with computers.
It’s not hard; it’s just different.
When: Monthly TWUUG meeting at 7:30 p. m. on the first Thursday of the month (June 6, 2018). Pre-meeting dinner at Chicago Uno, JANAF shopping center, 6:00 p. m. (map)
Who: Everyone in TideWater/Hampton Roads with interest in any/all flavors of Unix/Linux. There are no dues or signup requirements. All are welcome.
Where: Lake Taylor Transitional Care Hospital in Norfolk Training Room (map). (Wireless and wired internet connection available.) Turn right upon entering, then left at the last corridor and look for the open meeting room.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
Trumpling the luxury hotel pool.
You realize, natch, that the Trumplers believe that Trump’s some-would-call-it-an-“administration” has given them a license to Trumple and that they believe themselves to be reel Amurricans.
And Now, a Musical Interlude 0
Despite what the rock group, “The Animals,” would have you believe from their version, the House of the Rising Sun was not a gambling den. It was a brothel.
Here’s Leadbelly with the original lyrics.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Exercise courtesy while traveling in your automotive conveyance.
Suffer the Children 0
One more time, it’s not scripture. It’s policy.
Nor Any Drop To Drink 0
Thom interviews a reporter who thinks the decision to approve the water Flint, Michigan, to be questionable, especially as lead water lines are still in place.