Like most non-comic viz, it seemed like a good idea at the time. The time being one of those magical fun fluffy happy times in which your options have tunneled down to (a) Find Something To Do or (b) lapse into unconsciousness. I need the consciousness thing in a bit. So.

[im]perfect definitely sums things up.

20:58 <@xeno> Io++
20:59 <@solios> fagbot: jupiter?
20:59 <+fagbot> solios: do i look like the Encyclo-fucking-paedia Britannica to you?
20:59 <@solios> fagbot: jupiter is big. Clarke has a hardon for it.
20:59 <+fagbot> OK, solios.
21:01 <@xeno> wasn't rama set around it?
21:03 <@solios> no, 2010 was.
21:03 <@solios> 2001 was originally off to saturn but got retconned. o_o
21:03 <@solios> fagbot: rama?
21:03 <+fagbot> solios: no clue
21:04 <@xeno> ah
21:04 <@xeno> i just wikied it
21:04 <@xeno> i've never read it apparently
21:04 <@xeno> sounds good too
21:04 * xeno puts it on his To Read list
21:04 <@solios> fagbot: rama is god checking up on his creation. (now you don't have to waste your life getting to that HORRIBLE ENDING)
21:04 <+fagbot> OK, solios.
21:04 <@xeno> you're a goddamn assbag.
21:04 <@solios> that's the explanation in the last book.
21:05 <@solios> I didn't spoil the good one at all. :)
21:05 <@solios> the first one is ++
21:05 <@xeno> you need a fucking tattoo, right on your head, that says CAUTION: SPOILERS and then in wee text below it, "also, I'm an assbag"

Since the entry in question seems to suffer from the problems that plagued the previous version of the blog*, here's a bit my dad tried to insert as a comment:

Thought I'd go ahead and insert this one here for the benefit of DCR patrons. This is where Jen is at the moment....

As of 7-19-08.......

http://www.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=38478

I'd already relayed this to various people via IRC - though not everyone who reads DCR is in the channels I'm in, and not everyone in those channels reads the backscroll. So.

* if this persists I'll consider DCR to be Unfixable and will then have to take other measures. Measures that'll probably be some kind of serious pain.

20:37 <@solios> boiled down to the basics, re: the election:
20:37 <@solios> Obama wants to [push back] mars and give religion more money.
20:37 <@solios> McCain claims he'd like to balance the budget.
20:37 <@solios> who would you vote for?
20:38 <@xeno> me.
20:38 <@solios> well, yeah.

I'm liking McCain more and more - he's slinging the same old shit dressed up as the same old shit. There's a certain understated honesty to the fact that his campaign is owned by special interests and up to its neck in the cronies of the Republican Sith Lords. I expected that. Obama promised hope, the (overwhelming) disenfranchised swallowed it, and now that he's got 'em, Obama's back to Business As Usual. His backflip on FISA, which would have lost me all together if I hadn't read about the Constellation and Faith Based Bullshit first, is another prime example.

The man has proven through action that he has no interest in fixing this country. At least he's had the decency to do it before the election.

Unlike some people.

After what Bush has done to the place, the next president needs to be a miracle worker. Not a standard issue Say-Anything-To-Get-Elected type.

Bleah.

Perian is a multi-codec package that enables Quicktime to play back a host of file formats that most people use VLC and MPlayer for.

Unlike current VLC and "current" MPlayer builds, the Perian package correctly downsamples the irritating 5.1 (or 3.1 in the case of the file that done pissed me off so much I had to find a solution for it) AC3 audio codec to something that actually gives me voice on stereo speakers.

Without - I hasten to add for those of you who'd otherwise be all "$App can do that! Just do this, that, edit this, use the CLI for that, etc" - an enormous amount of undue hassle.

As one who strongly believes that things should just work, this makes Perian pretty spiffy in my book.