soapbox

Check out this argument – the academically elite schools need to take pride in their football teams. Two quotes:

(1) just b/c it’s JoePa… As Joe Paterno once put it, losing a game is heartbreaking. But losing one’s sense of excellence is tragic.

(2) “Dartmouth and company simply need to see big-time football as a point of competitive pride, as opposed to the work of Beelzebub. Southern Cal is ranked No. 1 in football and No. 30 in U.S. News’ academic rankings. Harvard is ranked No. 1 by U.S. News and, well, probably below USA Today’s top 10 high school football squads. For a school that helped invent the game, that has to sting. Just a bit.”

I had a couple thousand dollars to throw around. Some of those dresses are pretty kick-ass.

Firefly Costumes for sale!!

And to tide us over until the DVD is released:

The Hand Puppet Movie Theatre Presents: Serenity

We have blue skies now, but that’s only after about 7 inches got dumped overnight and this morning.

Shoveling driveways is so much fun.

I recently fixed two things on my computer that might be of use to y’all and figured out one very simple thing that’s amazingly handy.

The handy thing first, typing a command like
ssh someuser@somecomputer program
will execute that program on that computer! This is a super-basic part of ssh and I apparently missed it for a long time.

Fixed thing number one:
I can make my bash startup work correctly. Here’s a hint, just get rid of your .bash_profile and .profile and put everything in your .bashrc. It might not be exactly the right way to do things, but it works.

Fixed thing number two:
In your .bashrc put a line that says export DISPLAY=:0.0 and you’ll be able to run X programs from the regular terminal program.

Bonus Fix:
I found a piece of software to do ssh-agent stuff so you never have to type a password to log into a remote computer again. (Which is especially handy with fix number one)