The man known only as 'Stine' speaks here

Hanging 'em up

2009-07-27T00:46:14Z

This'll be my last post, however I'll still check my friends list for those who haven't given up on LJ and head for greener pastures.

Anything interesting I have to say will be on Facebook.

-- Stine

For posterity

2009-04-23T02:22:53Z

The trick to running dual sound cards on a K8S-LA is setting the onboard audio to "enabled" rather than "auto".

Hells yes

2009-01-15T01:12:45Z

THURSDAY NIGHT
MOSTLY CLOUDY IN THE EVENING
THEN BECOMING PARTLY CLOUDY.
LOWS 5 TO 10 BELOW. WEST WINDS 10 TO 15 MPH.
WIND CHILL VALUES AS LOW AS 20 BELOW.

For those who are not privy, due to a very loose dress code at work, the goatee is approaching record length.

HDTV Ahoy!

2009-01-08T23:59:48Z

So. PCHDTV card took awhile to configure. It took going to #debian on freenode, but I got it working somewhat. The problem is that the old girl can't take decoding most of the HD streams. The Radeon lacks XvMC support, so there is no MPEG-2 hardware acceleration, which means I'm stuck with the textured video via xv. Looks like that system upgrade is coming a little faster than I thought.

In addition, the antenna is rather good, but is way too bulky. I might try a cheapie from Meijer or something. Otherwise there's a nice flat one on Amazon.com. So, I have a TV antenna for sale...

Come on gnash...

2009-01-07T00:27:27Z

stinerman@stine-1:~$ vrms

               Contrib packages installed on stine-1

flashplugin-nonfree       Adobe Flash Player - browser plugin

  1 contrib packages, 0.1% of 1354 installed packages.

What am I doing today, you ask?

2009-01-04T17:59:02Z

Patiently awaiting the time when music (and hair) like this is back in style.

The Letter

2008-12-28T21:08:34Z

A few people asked about the letter I gave to my cousin in lieu of a gift that was on backorder. Since so many people liked it, here it is in its entirety:

Dearest Master Saylors,
You may be wondering why there is a paltry sum of only $10 in this envelope. I have an
explanation for this most meager of monetary tender.

You see, as I was trying in earnest to find a most splendid and thoughtful gift for you, the
person for whose name I drew for this year’s gift exchange, I did have some trouble. Do
not despair, sir, for I did find the most exquisite of gifts to convey to you during this
Christmastide season. However, as I attempted to procure this gift, the shopkeeper
notified me that this particular item had been in the greatest of demand and hence, his
stock was completely diminished. He explained that the best he could do was send word
by way of electronic mail when his next consignment of goods arrived and ship me this
gift of the utmost quality by professional courier. I was downright dejected to say the
least, but being that this was a man of repute, I took him at his word and made
arrangements to have this gift delivered directly to your domicile forthwith.

Now as to the bill of credit contained in the parcel accompanying this communiqué,
consider it only as a down payment and a way of showing my most sincere apologies for
the tardiness of my gift.

Most very truly yours,
Sir Nathan Alan Stine, 5th Duke of Northland

GTA:SA

2008-12-28T17:18:03Z

Of the games I put on the SGE list was GTA: San Andreas. Partly because I never really played that when it came out, partly because I was under the impression it ran well under Wine. Unfortunately it doesn't at the moment, but the soundtrack brings back some memories. Oh, how I enjoyed the R&B of the early and mid-90s.

Special thanks to Radio Free San Andreas for the nice work on ripping the audio streams.

Who knew I liked lentils?

2008-12-13T23:56:29Z

Best meal I've had in awhile:

Spicy Chicken with rice and lentils from Nazareth Restaruant & Deli.

Going Silent

2008-12-12T22:46:44Z

Sharon at work the other day mentioned my prolific online presence. This reminded me that those of you (especially Diana/Randy/Dad/etc.) who aren't on my friends list don't get to see quite a bit of what I write. I'll have to start manually emailing you anything below board that I locked-up.

The rather amusing thing about the "google" policy at IntraVet is that some people haven't been hired based on their cypersploits. I'm not someone who's overly exciting (the worst I do is the odd cream soda at new year's), but then again I'm pretty open on the web. I don't have much to hide, I suppose.

Kill the economy

2008-10-14T17:50:34Z

I filled up for $27 yesterday.

Sweet Zombie Jesus!

Its about time

2008-10-09T20:31:15Z

Finally!

That ends a search of over 6 years.

Why are there ads on my LJ?

2008-09-19T07:28:08Z

Fight Back.

~~I'll be moving soon.~~

Apparently there was some sort of glitch. Nevermind.

Sorry, this just reminded me a bit of Engrish

2008-07-23T21:32:10Z

Thank The Consumerist for the bandwidth.

Who'da thunk it?

2008-07-21T17:10:24Z

My LPIC-1 book arrived from the library today. That's the Linux Professional Institute Certification book.

The software that came with it? Yeah, it doesn't run on Linux.

Heh.

X-Bender: Yes! I got the most! I win X-Mas!

2008-07-16T18:26:31Z

I'm too stupid to remember if I posted this previously and too lazy to check, but here it is:

#!/bin/bash
while [ true ]; do
lwp-request -m HEAD http://slashdot.org | head -12 | tail -1 >> futurama_quotes.txt
done

I'm sure some of you already know about X-Bender and friends, but this is the most compact and fastest way to generate some that I've found. I have noticed they've added quotes from Bender's Big Score and possibly from The Beast with a Billion Backs, but I don't know for sure since I try to block most of that movie out.

Hopefully after I finish reading my bash book from the library, I can add some pattern matching to remove duplicates. If you know how to do this, please don't tell me. I'd like to figure it out myself. :-)

2000th comment on slashdot

2008-07-03T21:02:39Z

I've been spending a lot of time doing nothing.

Fuck

2008-06-23T17:23:04Z

RIP, George.

He's tempting me

2008-06-20T21:34:21Z

Mr. Nader to the white courtesy phone, please.

I was hoping Obama wasn't going to make the customary lurch to the right that all Democrats do once they've sewn up the nomination. I'm very slowly coming to the conclusion that Obama's shtick is just that. All hat and no cattle as they say.

No kidding

2008-06-17T13:59:56Z

The new Firefox/Iceweasel is exceedingly awesome.

Read the resulting files

2008-06-08T22:00:29Z

#!/bin/bash

BEGIN=11
END=41

for((BEGIN; BEGIN <= END; BEGIN++))
do
wget -r -l2 -nc -nv --no-parent -A.tif http://memory.loc.gov/ll/llac/0$BEGIN/
done

Note that I downloaded 1-10 manually.

Another Celebrity E-Mail

2008-04-28T14:47:23Z

From: "Nathan A. Stine" <nathan.stine@gmail.com>
To: votemaster08@yahoo.com
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Mr. Tanenbaum,

Sen. Mark Pryor (D-AR) is not facing major party opposition. Rebekah
Kennedy of the Arkansas Green Party is his only opposition. I mention
this because you have Pryor as "Weak Dem" based on what I assume is his
victory margin in 2002. Needless to say he's going to win this
election.

Best regards,

Nathan A. Stine

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Yes, the "weak" is from 2002. In the absence of any polls I don't know what else to do.
If the filing deadline is past and no Republican filed, I guess I can change that.

-- The Votemaster

Now who is more popular? Andy Tanenbaum or Bruce Schneier? (if you recall, I once got a response from Bruce Schneier)

The Last Silent Minority

2008-04-09T11:56:33Z

Listen to this Illinois State Rep. tear into a guy because he doesn't believe in Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny. She asserts that the gentleman doesn't have the right to testify at the hearing because he doesn't believe in the Magic Man in the Sky. The jaw-dropping moment was this:

"[I]t’s dangerous for our children to even know that your philosophy exists!"

No shit. Because rationality is the enemy of all religion.

This is ridiculous on so many levels. And Christians think they're persecuted? Could you imagine if she had said the same thing to a Jew or Muslim? She'd be out of a job by now.

We're making inroads on helping out our GLBT friends get their rights (and thankfully we already have ours), but we need to work with them on acceptance as well.

Roll Call + The Wrong Lizard

2008-03-14T13:31:31Z

Friends and the odd parent or two who reads this,

I'll be doing political blogging over at The Wrong Lizard. If I can roll 7s consistently for the next 2 or 3 years, I might be able to make a small living out of it. Desperate times, etc., etc. There isn't anything up yet, but I invite you to throw it in your RSS reader in case I say something interesting.

I'll do my best to keep this LJ account mostly about personal stuff, which means it'll be behind the lock more and more often.

And just to amuse me, post something here if you regularly read my journal.

Going Emo

2008-03-13T21:04:51Z

Who wants to see Emo Philips?

November 6 - 9, 2008

Wiley's Comedy Club
101 Pine Street
Dayton, OH 45402
(937) 224-5653

In?