November 2006

11 Nov

A Minor Detail

Posted by Jeff in geekiness, memories

21 years and who knows how many viewings later, I just now realized something new about Back to the Future with the help of the TiVo. I never noticed before that one of the consequences of Marty's first trip back to 1955 was that Twin Pines Mall became Lone Pine Mall (as a result of Marty knocking down one of old man Peabody's pine trees with the DeLorean). :)

06 Nov

Lots to catch up on

Posted by Jeff in geekiness, life events/news

Though it may seem so, I have not dropped off the face of the earth since last Thursday. I had a near data disaster with the house server that morning: the system drive decided it wanted to die. Fortunately, the SMART diagnostics caught it before it went under (yay smartmontools and nightly automated testing!), so I was able to get backups. I had a replacement drive that day, but I'm just tonight getting the system back to about 90% running. Part of what went away while that was happening was my feed reader. It's back up now, but I see I have a LOT of catching up to do (especially since I just added a couple of friends' feeds).

So, bear with me as I catch up. :)