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Spinach Pesto Grilled Cheese Sandwich by Kevin Lynch

PESTO!!!!!!!!!!!

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Got the rest on vinyl, but am determined to find ALL of them on CD… eventually!

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Trying to find the now defunct A&R site, came across this. I’m scared. Kinda looks like Mr Greedy, gone wrong.

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authenticdenim:

SORRY THAT OBAMA COULDN’T CLEAN UP EIGHT YEARS’ WORTH OF GEORGE W. BUSH’S BULLSHIT IN JUST UNDER TWO YEARS IN OFFICE, AMERICA. BY ALL MEANS, GO CRAWLING RIGHT BACK TO THE PEOPLE WHO GOT US IN THIS MESS IN THE FIRST PLACE.

Some pictures are just so epic they deserve a mention, despite the fact they have nothing to do with the content of the blog upon which they're being published. In this case, the photo is of a Sydney suburban Tangara train, and the blog in question is the one you're reading right now. See what I did there?

G30-G28 bursts through the ‘wall’ as the first official train on the new ‘Y-Link’ between Harris Park and Merrylands [in Sydney]. 2/11/96.

There are so many puns I could break out with this, but I can't bust out any good ones. You'd think I'd be able to make light work of the walls surrounding this picture, but I'd probably crumble at any attempt. No breakthroughs here, I'm afraid. Herp derp. Hey look, a train!

Just grabbed the latest release of Fedora for my adorable ThinkPad X40 from their tracker. Apparently I'm late to the download party though, I'm not seeding for anyone ;).

The background is the bongily dengy diggy diggy

For those who don't know, my MacBook Pro runs Snow Leopard, my primary desktop runs FreeBSD 8.0 RELEASE (used to be -STABLE, but RELEASE works just fine for me now) and my ThinkPad dual-boots FreeDOS and Fedora owing to some stability issues with FreeBSD issues on that hardware, and it works a little better with closed wireless dongle dengy deng diggy diggys.

Why does it also run FreeDOS? Because its the only system that will allow me to run that creaky old software for my giant purple particle accelerator downstairs, that's why. Sorry you asked?

I used to use the Xfce spin, but going back to the default GNOME one for a while. Don't tell anyone, but I've been secretly using Gedit for some stuff, the syntax highlighting is really quite pretty :).

Why does issues need all those S’s?

Now apparently certain models of ThinkPads still have suspending issues, which is a problem because having never been suspended from school I'm not sure how to take it. I also hope they fix that nasty GTK graphics bug, for some reason it didn't affect my desktop when it was installed on it, but my ThinkPad looked downright awful.

Link arms, don’t make them

• Fedora Project
• Fedora bittorrent tracker
• Fedora Xfce Spin
• FreeDOS
• Rubenerd.com post on Fedora 13’s GTK graphics bug

Want Ruby 1.9's default regular expression library in your existing Ruby 1.8.x series code?

# gem install -r oniguruma

According to the project's site, its mature. Wish I was.

s/Ruben is super witty/Ruben probably isn't/

According to the Federal Court of Australia registry website for tomorrow, the ACCC versus SingTel Optus case has advanced to a directions hearing… whatever that is.

The quote is the quotey quote quotey quotey

9:30 AM Directions

3 (P)NSD776/2010 BRIDGETTE REBECCA STYLES v CLAYTON UTZ

4 (P)NSD1157/2010 AUSTRALIAN COMPETITION & CONSUMER COMMISSION v SINGTEL OPTUS PTY LIMITED

5 (P)NSD1343/2009 RODMAC HOLDINGS PTY LTD & ANOR v ROTRIC HOLDINGS PTY LTD & ORS

Come again?

According to the Glossary of the Legal Services Commision of Rigel 7 website, a so called directions hearing is:

A hearing of directions

While arguably accurate, this description is entirely pointless. According to the far more useful Glossary of the Legal Services Commision of South Australia website, a directions hearing is:

[…] held before the full hearing so that the court or tribunal can give directions to the parties about how the action should proceed.

So, have we made any progress determining whether or not Optus intentionally mislead consumers with their unlimited advertising that I spoke tongue in cheek about last week?

Link arms, don’t make them

• FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA, Tuesday, 2 November 2010
• Glossary of the Legal Services Commision of South Australia
• Simpsons Wikia on Rigel 7
• Rubenerd post: Optus Message #Fail

Just won an Arty-ZIF to Compact Flash adaptor card on eBay, and was quoted this interesting table from the seller showing the percentage statistical liklihood of my item arriving depending on what part of the world I'm residing in.

	5-10	11-15	16-20	21-25	26-30	40
US	5.20	50.00	29.70	10.40	4.70	refund
UK	9.90	63.20	19.10	3.40	4.40	refund
Canada	2.00	45.10	31.40	17.60	3.90	refund
Australia	21.40	52.10	14.30	7.20	4.00	refund
Germany	11.10	22.20	30.30	20.90	15.50	refund
Brazil/Russian	0.50	8.60	43.80	28.10	15.00	refund
Pluto	Undeliverable, no longer a planet					refund
Rigel 7	Now we’re just being silly					refund

According to this hard data, I'll most likely have my new adaptor in 11 to 15 business days, because I'm not a Brazillian Russian.

Another one of our beloved Rubenerd Fun Facts. Put the brick down.

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood. I took a plane.

And a related fact:

Ruben should never attempt graphic design.