- Went to the South Nashville planning kickoff meeting last night. I feel so civic and responsible and stuff. This can’t be good for my street cred. Anyway all they did was give us a little presentation talking about sustainable urban development & tell us a bit about what the meetings are for. The real work apparently starts at the next meeting in two weeks.
- Farewell, Mr. Gates. I’ve got an HTPC (think homebrew Tivo for nerds) at home that is my last machine running Windows. Well, something hosed one of the hard drives last week — couldn’t boot, couldn’t even boot the rescue disk or run chkdsk. Spending the better part of the weekend, I was able to salvage about 40 gigs of material off the drive using a Knoppix live CD, and finally got it reformatted and was able to boot again last night. Only problem is that now Windows doesn’t see that drive (actually 2 SATA drives in a RAID array) at all. Well, it looks fine in the device manager, but there’s no F: drive anywhere to be found otherwise. So I think the machine is not-so-subtly trying to tell me it’s ready for Linux and MythTV (maybe the KnoppMyth mash-up?) I’m afraid the drivers for my ATI All-In-Wonder may be a problem, but it *is* an older model now, so maybe that will work out. Otherwise I do also have a Hauppage capture card & would just need a new card for TV out. I’m sure I probably could fix the XP installation if I really tried, but I’ve been meaning to switch anyway, and this seems as good a time as any.
- I have to admit, I don’t get it. What’s with the whining about NPR/NPT pledge drives? Seems to me there are three types of people here: 1) those of us that pledge, we get to feel snooty and superior, so the campaign doesn’t bother us, 2) those who listen but don’t pledge — freeloaders with no right to complain, and 3) those who don’t listen & thus wouldn’t be affected. So which are you, Fabricator?
- On the subject of things I don’t get, why the hell must the local eateries turn the A/C down to 40 degrees as soon as the weather gets warm? Yesterday at Subway, I thought perhaps I’d mistakenly ordered a bag of hypothermia on the side or something, but then today at Moe’s it was the same deal.
- Another great piece from OnTheCommons on advertising’s invasion of noncommercial space.
- Oh! I remembered another thing I’ll have to do while in CA — yoga with Manouso (my teacher’s teacher, whose workshop I attended in January). Good stuff.
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There is actually a 4th kind of person. Those who contribute but are never in town anymore so they don’t listen to WPLN enough to even know there is a pledge drive going on.
Ahh, good point. Still no excuse for the Fabricator of course.
Yet, people look at me like I’m crazy when I wear and/or take a sweater to a restaurant. It’s cold!
I’m going to try to make it to the next S. Nashville meeting - couldn’t get to the first one in time. Any thoughts?
You didn’t really miss much in the first meeting, it pretty much was just a broad overview & presentation about general planning principles. The second meeting (this Tuesday, 4/10) is supposed to be where we start to get into things, so yeah, make it out if you can. After that one I suppose we’ll know if it’s going to be worth continuing to come for the rest of the process.