The Caffeinated Penguin

musings of a crackpot hacker

Book stack update

matt | October 29, 2007

(Note, I've started tagging these, so you can look them up at http://mattcaron.livejournal.com/tag/book+stack)
(* = denotes recent addition)
Currently Reading:
The Gun Digest Book of Combat Handgunnery, Massad Ayoob
Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower, Stephen King
Serenity Found, Jane Espenson*
Currently on the stack:
The Official Handbook of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, Mark W. Smith*
Supreme Court Gun Cases – Two [...]

Some quick thoughts on things Linux related

matt | October 27, 2007

On Gutsy:
- Compiz-Fusion in blingTACULAR
- They appear to have fixed my wireless issues
- Haven't tried suspend resume
- Openoffice 2.3 basically can't print (I have a 20 sheet spreadsheet. It prints one page. Not the first one, or the last one, just a random one in the middle)
So…
I can't upgrade my desktop to Gusty, because openoffice [...]

Fundamentalists

matt | October 26, 2007

Folks like these give people of faith a bad name
(Liz says: folks like these give intelligent society a bad name. I'd argue that they're not part of intelligent society..)

A short movie review

matt | October 17, 2007

Liz and I watched The Village. What a retarded movie.

Kittens!

matt | October 13, 2007

A gallery of photos of a couple of kittens which are staying with us for a few weeks until they find homes

Kitties!

matt | October 10, 2007

(I'm channeling a little bit of here.)
Today, Liz and I adopted two kitties from Helping Paws Rescue. This is a volunteer animal rescue just down the street from our house. It's kind of heartbreaking, because they have so many Cats and Dogs which need homes. If you are in the area, feel free to [...]

Ecosystems

matt | October 7, 2007

I've started adding vegetable-based kitchen refuse to the lawn clippings pile in an attempt to “balance” the pile a little more. Just lawn clippings doesn't break down as rapidly as one would like. So, I've been adding vegetable scraps and spoiled bits, tea leaves, coffee grounds, eggshells, etc. to it as well. I've been skipping [...]

Retarded programming fads

matt | October 5, 2007

I pontificate about fads like EXXXTREEEEME Programming and Agile Development and also wax poetic about Object Oriented Progamming – and how it is a fad similar to these others (read it before you criticize).

Software programming fads are created when someone takes an otherwise good idea or technique and builds a whole mythology or management technique [...]

Photoblog post

matt | October 5, 2007

I have some pictures, so I figured I'd share.
Oh, folks have been asking for an update on Arthur. He has not returned. However, there is an old picture of him behind the cut.

Mikey and Toby on the couch. This never happens. I think they miss Arthur, and have made peace with each other lest they [...]