Well I haven't posted in a while. Turns out it's because I forgot to post the last post I was working on. I stopped updating my blogger blog for some reason, I guess I got bored cheating the system.

There are a few things I want to talk about, I guess, though I don't know if anyone really reads these. So I'll just type as stuff comes to mind.

Sometimes I wish actually that I had an 'anonymous' blog. I shouldn't have spread this one around my real life, now I can't talk about people anymore. (Especially those on Facebook -- You rascals!)

I've been interested in journalism recently, and sort of half-heartedly toying with it via my new project. I haven't really done anything to learn about journalism yet, somehow I skipped that step. I've just researched some things that people were raving at me about, and posted the results of my prying there. So far there's an article on a bill proposed to the House of Representatives, and Influenza A(H1N1) -- Swine Flu.

On a somewhat related topic, I suppose it's time for me to suck it up and get moving with my life. I need to learn to drive still, having pathetically become bored with the whole concept. And more to the point, I need to start looking into college. I have no interest in RIT at the moment--I'm not sure why, it just doesn't grab me--and as I've said I've been planning on MCC for a while. But all of my planning is useless if I don't do anything with it.

I can get a highschool equivalency diploma there first--I need to read up on that again too, I should stop forgetting stuff--and then start working on interesting things. I still am moderately interested in psychology, more leaning toward sociology now.

And journalism and graphic design and theatre and music and and and...

The problem with this, as you can see, is that I have far too many interests. Not a bad thing in and of itself, but it means I need to focus, and I cannot focus easily. I'm sure it would be possible. A lot, I could research on my own, but classes would still be awesome. Like graphic design -- the actual implementation is a piece of cake, now that I've read the entire internet. I know how to do all sorts of cool things with Photoshop and The GIMP. But what I don't know is the theory behind it. What looks good and why it looks good.

I'm sure that if I had actually read the entire internet, I'd know all that too, but I guess the point of college is that it's easier. If it was easier to just research it yourself, then why would anyone bother? Ignoring the preference many employers have for a degree.

Oh what else. Little Mary Sunshine went fine, if I didn't say anything about it. It was awesome. Only three performances, sadly, but that meant that it meshed nicely with Yeomen.

As for Yeomen, it's going fine. I guess mistakes were made leading up to the performances, but if no mistakes were ever made then everything would be boring. One of our directors has had to leave for *static*, and I will miss her. (I miss her already, and I saw her just today!) But the show must go on, this next Friday.

It being Yeomen, we really don't have very large audiences. Seriously, the first night we had 19 whole people reserved, and a staggering 40 showed up. That's 10% of our audience for G&S Christmas Carol. That said, MY GAWD are these audiences awesome. The 40-60 people that showed up each night this weekend had a great time. Even this Sunday's audience was energetic. And that's the best thing ever.

I might have mentioned that I turned my old decrepit computer, GIR--don't tell Nickelodeon--into an awesome server, and recently an even awesomer alarm clock. (It's a word if I say so!) There's not much going on there, though. I installed Wordpress purely on a whim, so it's sitting there nice and blank. I have no idea what to do with it now.

When I installed Wordpress, I initially wanted to host that new project I mentioned, so that I could use javascript. But then I realized that we're paying for and using a home service, and that if I hosted a blog, we'd probably get a nasty letter from our ISP.

So I'm probably going to remove Wordpress for now, or shove it into a separate folder and use it to document what I learn about network administration, and anything else that GIR helps me with. I've been using Webmin a lot, although I can get by on the command line if I have to. But the tool is there, so why not use it, hmm?

Now I need to read a bit and make sure I know how to secure everything before I give people a link to GIR, or I would do that. I will do that, in fact, once I am sure.

Know what the really cool advantage to having a server in your bedroom is? Shell account + GNU Screen == lifeblood. I can just leave everything like TinyFugue (a command-line MUSH client) and Finch (Pidgin's command-line version) running, and start it up from a computer on the other side of the country if I have to, without it missing a beat.

So I can start a conversation at home, leave, and connect via SSH from the library for example--I have a Java-based SSH client installed too, btw--and pick up the conversation where I left off, as though I were still at home. Same with editing a text file or anything else...

Here's a dinky picture you can hopefully click on to see a big one!

From Drop Box

Obviously since I'm using PuTTY here, alsamixer does me no good at all, but it's neat.

Now, screen has a little trouble with UTF-8, or perhaps I just haven't figured out how to make it work properly, but hey. It's awesome, either way.

That's enough for now, I'm done...