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Light Bloggery 0
It’s 72 Fahrenheits here in mid-December (after temps in the 20s two days ago–who says climate change isn’t real?), and I’m taking it easy.
Break Time 0
Off to drink liberally.
The Art of the Con 0
The Charlotte Observer observes:
The Observer and a majority of the voters saw through the con before the election, but they don’t get to attend the Electoral College.
More observations at the link.
Drinking Liberally Virginia Beach Thursday 0
When fellowship is needed, join us . . . .
When: Thursday, December 8, 6 p.
Where:
Croc’s 19 Street Bistro
620 19th Street (Map)
More here.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Give thanks with politeness.
The children appear to have been playing with a gun at the 2-year-old’s home in the 3500 block of North 9th Street on Thursday at about 4:23 p.m., police said. The 4-year-old boy was handling the gun when the weapon discharged, shooting his cousin in the chest. The victim’s mother and her boyfriend were home at the time of the incident, according to police.
Make TWUUG Your LUG 0
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.
What: Monthly TWUUG Meeting.
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. See directions below. (Wireless and wired internet connection available.) Turn right upon entering, then left at the last corridor and look for the open meeting room.
When: 7:30 PM till whenever (usually 9:30ish) on Thursday, December 1.
Directions:
Lake Taylor Hospital
1309 Kempsville Road
Norfolk, Va. 23502 (Map)
Pre-Meeting Dinner at 6:00 PM (separate checks)
Uno Chicago Grill
Virginia Beach Blvd. & Military Highway (JANAF Shopping Center). (Map)
Join the forums.
Meta: Don’t Bother 0
If you post a spam comment here at my place, it will be deleted and no one will ever see it.
Go annoy somebody else.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Must have been the little white tail . . . .
Searcy County Sheriff Joey Pruitt said the 29-year-old woman died Tuesday in an “apparent hunting accident.” Her name was not released.
She wasn’t wearing hunting orange, so it probably was her own fault.
Light Bloggery, Contd. 0
Holiday happenings for the next few days.
Light Bloggery 0
Out and about.
And Now for Something Completely Different 0
You can hear a lengthy interview with Francois Rautenbach, the narrator, at Hacker Public Radio.
(Errant tag fixed.
In the close link notation for the embed, there was an errant “i” tag.
i./a
In HTML 4.0, em is the new i. I didn’t know that “i” tags still worked! I thought they had been, as the geeks say, “deprecated.”)
