They really get into it too. It is a great example of engaged and excited kids. Great work.
deprecated blog
18-Dec-09Naraku, the blahog, has pretty much been dead for awhile now. I finally figured out what I want to write about and keep up on. Stuff that’s Fun To Think About. The name leaves me so much wiggle room I’m virtually guaranteed to fit in no matter how many tangents I take.
As for naraku, I’m not entirely sure what to turn this domain into yet. There’s a lot of history here and a decent number of visitors still for the archives. So it’ll probably continue to “live on life support” for now at least.
Head on over to Fun To Think About to keep up w/my daily Internety antics. Or follow me on twitter here and funtothinkabout here. Thanks for visiting!
resizing a Virtual Box hard disk
21-Oct-09Here’s a “quick & dirty” way to resize that Virtual Box .vdi hard drive you made too small. (Yeah, I did too.)
1) Get a “rescue OS” iso, System Rescue CD is the one I used
2) Create a new hard disk in Virtual Box by going to File -> Virtual Disk Manager
3) Update your current Virtual Machine settings to use the new disk image as a slave hard disk
4) Mount the rescue OS iso file in the CD-ROM settings
5) Make sure the boot order will boot off the CD
6) Once booted, type startx
7) Once in X, type gparted in the terminal
8) In gparted, select the primary partition you wish to make bigger and choose copy
9) Use the drop down menu to select the new second hard disk
10) Right click on the representation of the disk and click paste
11) gparted will prompt you for the size of the disk, drag the slider to the new size, leave space for a swap partition if desired then click apply
12) Once complete, right click on the disk and choose Manage Flags, check Boot then Exit gparted
12.5) If you’re Guest OS is Linux, you’ll need to reinstall grub; if not, you can skip the next two steps
13) To reinstall grub type these setup commands in the terminal:
- sudo mount -t proc none /mnt/root/proc
- sudo mount -o bind /dev /mnt/root/dev
- sudo chroot /mnt/root /bin/bash
- sudo grub
14) In grub, type these commands:
- find /boot/grub/stage1
- root (hd0,0)
- setup (hd0)
- quit
15) Shutdown the rescue OS and update the Virtual Machine settings to use the new disk as the primary master
16) Make sure you Unmount CD iso
17) And now you’re done, go ahead and Boot the VM and you’re new size disk is ready to go
Supposedly you can use vditool to do something like this but I think the preceding is the method most people will find easiest.
ze frank’s The Show is “back”
24-Jun-09…in it’s new & permanently sponsored form, “That makes me think of”, the first of which is here at time.com.
as a fan of the original “The Show”, I see that Time has essentially allowed Ze to exercise his presentational art form to it’s near fullest. while I doubt very much we’ll see anything as awesome, like “fingers in food” (see vid below,) coming out of this new venue, I am excited for the world at large that once we again may bask in his comedic and insightful interpretation of current events.
wordpress new user SPAM
17-Apr-09this blog gets about 3-5 new *spam* users per day. I imagine they are trying to post comments post-login but I have that function cleverly spam-trapped. anyway, since *real* users don’t need an account to post comments I’ve disabled user creation.
I have been using computers for damn all my life and never had too much trouble with the repeditive stress injuries that are so common for folks like me. finally though, it turns out I am not immune: my hand and wrist have been aching like hell almost all the time for about a week now. other than complaining, I’ve done some research and have set out to change my otherwise passive-prevention ways.
while IANAD, and have not yet seen one, I believe conforming to basic ergonomics (the passive ways I personally have always abided by) can help a lot. But on top of that, and possibly more important is stretching frequently. I hope that doing some simple exercises will help me and possibly you avoid similar and annoying pain while ultimately preventing carpal tunnel and/or other equally unpleasant syndromes.
first up is this guy, who demonstrates some simple, quick and (likely) effective stretches:
and then for more, mostly full body, including some bad ass animated gif action, is this link to Preventing and healing Carpal Tunnel Syndrome & Repetitive Stress Injuries and exercises for RSI tendonitis.
LED SHEEP! very cool indie ad
23-Mar-09this brings a smile.
the credit catastrophe clearly conceptualized and manifest by clever little animations.
while no solution is offered, the purpose is elegantly achieved – a clear outline of the cause of and contributing factors to the problem our global economy contemporarily faces.
of course, the latter only applying to the geekiest among us as it is the digits represented by the unix time stamp as of today (Friday, February 13 3:31PM) for systems in the pacific standard timezone.
so today, thank your friendly neighborhood developers, who work feverishly deep in the underbelly of modern-day-internet-society, and share a drink. maybe a scary story, too.
[via 1234567890day]
funny, was just talking about this. questions like, do women actually have to track their cycle? can’t they just feel it coming on? apparently there are many who keep a record on a calendar. (fortunately for me, this is not an issue, my lady is as cool as a cucumber.)
while the site is targeted to men, perhaps the ladies too, could saddle up to a new e-pal – for the good and civility of a peaceful relationship.
related links: pmsbuddy pms stories, pmsbuddy tips!
When all else fails, flowers will always do the trick. They are kryptonite to PMS.
[via slantback]
took way too long to find this; we have certainly entered an era where “traditional search” engines are fail. I finally found a link for Pres. Obama’s inauguration speech on twitter search after going through countless pages on y!, goog’ and utube. the reality is clear: news publications and search engines are too slow for news, now.
crooks and liars has the speech for download in wmv and mov formats.
enjoy and be humbled by our 44th president’s speech, which was written 27 year old, Jon Favreau.
indie sitcom The Remnants pilot episode
13-Jan-09Very happy to see Ze in something.. anything. seriously, I guess I still miss the show.
The pilot for The Remnants, written and directed by John August. Starring Justine Bateman, Michael Cassidy, Ben Falcone, Ze Frank, Ernie Hudson, and Amanda Walsh.
It was shot during the WGA strike in February 2008, using the SAG internet agreement.
The project is currently in development with 60Frames in association with NBC/U, so it could in theory become a series at some point. Either way, we had a good time making it.
watch below, or go to vimeo for the hd version.
The Remnants from John August on Vimeo.
via the writer’s blog, john august. here’s wishing him and all involved luck in bringing the series to fruition!
