Creamy Arty

I find some commands far less cryptic than GUI solutions. Extracting zips and tarballs for example. The first time I double-clicked a .tar I actually got nervous, closed the application, and retreated to a terminal. I've found it easier to let Windows take the MBR, put GRUB on my Linux partition, and point the Windows bootloader to it.

I thought hating dubstep was in vogue these days? And spaghettinoodles, I recently got on an industrial/EDM kick myself. That's not an unpopular position on the internet. What do the people you know personally think of him? I can't imagine a life without peanut butter. Do you mean just plain peanut butter or anything made with it too, like cookies and ice cream?

I watched it during its original run as a kid. A reboot is fine with me, and if it took on a more gender-neutral or adult tone I wouldn't object to that either. As a guy, I found some elements frustrating and trite, but there was something about it that kept me interested enough to watch it regularly. No, it had nothing to do with the skimpy sailor uniforms. I was only four years-old when it debuted. I probably saw in it a great amount of potential to appeal to traditional male sensibilities that it never quite realized. This could be Sailor Moon's opportunity to grab that near-miss audience and recapture the original fans too. At the moment the only thing that bothers me is that they apparently won't be using Moonlight Densetsu for the theme. That's something I wish they would retain. The English version of that song is so terrible that it's awesome. The original is just plain cool.

How has Trigun not come up yet? Behold. Have some Outlaw Star too. These two animes completed my childhood.

I used to work for a public school system several years ago, when Windows 7 was still in the release candidate phase, so we were still using XP. When I left I brought with me an ISO of a volume licensed copy, so activation is never necessary. Now I'm working for a university and can get pretty much every Microsoft product except Office for free, including Windows. Can't remember the last time I had to give Microsoft any money. I use Linux as my primary OS anyway, even at work. I've been using OpenOffice/Libre Office for years at home and work; I even use Evolution for my email there instead of Outlook.

Behold my bookshelf. Most of my books are Forgotten Realms D&D books by various authors, and I have plenty of Starcraft stuff too. I'm a huge fan of Drizzt and R.A. Salvatore. There are a few more such books on my floor that are waiting for me to put together the second shelf I recently purchased. All those books laying atop the neatly arranged rows are bothering me too, and will likely be moved to the second shelf once assembled. The tall, solid black book on the end of the shelf with the ponies is the concept art book that came with my collector's edition of Skyrim. A few of the "classics" are on the lowest visible shelf, and there's a shelf below that deliberately left out of the picture because all it contains are some boring, old reference books. As for some of the swag giving the shelf extra character: The phone belonged to my grandparents long ago. I intend to hang it on my bookshelf and start using it; I miss rotary phones. Next to the phone are my collectible Highlander medallions from the TV box sets. The ponies are all blind bags, and behind the ponies are a set of chopsticks somebody brought me from China. The bell is just an old school bell. The dagger is a cheap, stainless blade I bought at the state fair because I thought it would look good as a decorative piece. The blue shell is made of wax, the Rubik's cube is self-explanatory, and between them is a row of multi-faceted dice, the kind of which is commonly used in D&D and similar games. edit: I just noticed Twilight is pointing and smiling at my bookshelf. Awesome.

Nobody has posted this yet? It's been pretty cool in Virginia all year I would say. All this winter we had spring-like temperatures, but it hasn't gotten terribly hot very often. I do think it's funny though when one of the states in the far north has a "heat wave" comparable to an average day here. One time when I went to Canada a lady commented on how the heat was "making her blood boil." It was around 80 degrees with about 60% humidity. I was so comfortable there. All last week we had rain. Every day. Weeks like that are enjoyable from time to time. Sometimes it's nice to come home in the evening and listen to the rain on the roof while watching it from the couch in the living room, sipping on some warm tea or coffee.

It somehow feels wrong that I'm posting in this thread from Windows: I've got a triple boot configured. Windows 7 for most of my games and Steam library, a very small Windows XP partition for some much older stuff that won't run on Windows 7 (or not well), and Linux for everything else that isn't gaming related, unless it's a game that I can get to run efficiently under Wine. You know, the whole GNU/Linux thing is interesting and a good thing for people to learn in order for them to understand the spirit of things and how some designs by Microsoft and Apple really originated. When it comes to people's common vernacular and discussions about the operating system, it should just be called Linux. I love Ubuntu, Debian, and all their derivitives, but when talking to people online within the Debian community I've frequently been accosted by people and seen it happen to others, that whenever I or somebody else simply says "Linux" another person feels the need to correct us and say it's "GNU/Linux," and tactfully or otherwise tell us to start calling it that. As I said, it's technically correct and a good thing to know for the sake of understanding history, but when it comes to plain conversation it's just terribly irritating. I'm one of the many who don't care for Gnome Shell/Unity, but to each his own. It's amazing the amount of fighting I've seen over it. My only complaint about Gnome 3 is the fact that it's Gnome. It shouldn't be. It's not Gnome in any way. What we have now should have been a fork of the Gnome project or something new altogether, rather than replacing Linux's most popular desktop environment. So my only complaint with Ubuntu really has nothing to do with Ubuntu. With the destruction of Gnome I started exploring a bit. I was already familiar with XFCE and LXDE but saw this as an opportunity to try out KDE. I fell in love with it. I like what the Mint team has done with Cinnamon. It's polished and easy for anybody to use, and it's easy to theme. The "Mint Menu" has been brought over from Gnome, something else I really love about Mint. Mate is also very good and a worthy replacement for Gnome 2. There are still some customization problems I don't like, especially related to Compiz, but nothing I couldn't live with. I think the Mint updater and software center are both more intuitive and useful than the Ubuntu counterpart, but it's really just a matter of personal preference. Both are excellent distros. What I really love about Ubuntu, Mint, and Debian - which are all the same at the core, as Ubuntu is built on Debian and Mint is built on Ubuntu, with the exception of Mint's Debian Edition - is their simplicity. When I was new to Linux the impression I got from some vets (read: elitists) was that you aren't a "power user" unless you use a distro that frustrates you and most others. That's stupid. The aforementioned three are great because they simply get out of your way. Their package manager is very simple to use, they ship with almost everything anybody would need with much more in their repositories, and a large enough user base that help is always available. Some might have needs or desires beyond those simple things but it's designed in such a way that the noobiest of noobs can jump right in and experienced users can also find plenty to work with. I'm surprised KDE is doing much better. In fact, I would think Unity would slightly outperform KDE on a netbook. Given the small size of... well, everything on a netbook, perhaps a tiling window manager would be better than a stacking one. DWM is easier to install than many others, is fairly extensible, and still supports mouse usage. Thinking about putting that on my laptop as well because I tend to eschew the trackpad when a mouse isn't available.

A revolver chambered in .45 Long Colt.

Sarevok?! Nobody would enjoy that... or survive.

I'll give it a shot sometime soon. I want to run through Doom 3 again. How does Doom make you feel?

My first was PegasisterTaco. She must have seen something in me she liked because the day after I joined (maybe the same day) she friended me. I felt so warm inside.

My favorite hero is Drizzt Do'Urden, and my favorite villain is Artemis Entreri, from whom I copped this user name. Although later on Entreri seems more like a normal guy who just got burned too many times and used decided to use his talents for selfish purposes - more to defend himself from further grief than anything - but he made it apparent on many occasions that he did have his own set of morals by which he faithfully adhered. As Drizzt observed, he easily could have become just like Entreri had he not escaped from Menzoberranzan. I've never been a contract killer or thief, but Entreri's semi-redemption is something with which I can personally identify in my own way. Something about him reminds me of Jafar. If Jafar wanted a cat instead of a bird, he would have gotten Scar.