The Design and Implementation of laffer1

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6464095.stm

Some company Stan Lee co-founded in 1998 believes they have the rights to Spider-man. 

Well i've been working on setting up mediawiki at work. So far I've got mysql 5.x server installed, mediawiki is on disk but needs configuration and phpmyadmin is installed.

As of yesterday afternoon, my grandmother was doing OK. She was still in a lot of pain.

Haven't heard a thing from my father. Its still quite early though. I got through my first class OK. I was six minutes late and only two students were present! Half the remaining missing students came about ten minutes into class as a group. I don't want to know what they were doing. She made us compute CRCs for IP today. How fun.

I've got to demo the assignment yet. That's scheduled for lunch time. I've got a class at 1PM so I couldn't do it later. I actually got caught up (and ahead) on my reading for my lit class in terms of this week. I've got some back reading to do. At least I know today and friday are covered.

I still need to look at "shousho"'s assignment. I can't spell chinese names correctly.

At least stargazer is still up. I did an os update on it this morning in a rush to get the new SSH and remove the debug crap from the network stack. I hope its peppy.

A week or so back, my grandmother fell taking the dog out to shit.  They put a cast on her and told her that if it didn't look good they'd do surgery.  Well it doesn't look good.  She has surgery tomorrow.  That in and of itself isn't good.  The dog "apparantly" had a serious health concern and my aunt decided to "put it to sleep".  These things happen except that I'm skeptical.  I think they killed the dog as vengence for ila's injury.  They justified it with some crap about the dog's health.  We've known the dog is sick for a long time.  I don't see why else they'd use this opportunity to put it down.   While I spent time with that dog when it was a pup, I haven't been overly attached to it.  I was closer to her sister.  I guess I'm pissed they didn't admit they killed the dog because Ila got hurt instead of this bullshit about its health.

Also, the news of this surgery was a little bit of a surprise. My father left a vm on my cell.  I was having an OK day before this too.  I haven't exactly been happy lately and this was the first upshot.  MBSD was going well aside from one bitch mail. 

So I am not surpirsed my grandmother wants to be at home.  My aunt apparently likes to put things to sleep once they get old and have health concerns.  Sure, people and dogs aren't the same thing.  I get that.  I just think its incredibly lame.  Lame doesn't describe it actually. 

My father is taking her to the hospital tomorrow.  Most people would think wow that's nice.  Nah.. I can't think so highly.  See he just got a car out of her (she paid for it) and I bet he's either 1. feeling guilty or 2. Realized he needs gas money.  I remember when I thought highly of my father.  WTF happened..

My family pisses me off. 

I didn't sleep a wink last night.  I think I might have got to sleep around 3-3:30 but I kept waking up.  I ended up with like 2-3 hours sleep when the alarm went off.  It was not fun.  Then i fell back alseep only to wake up with the FedEX guy banging at the door.  I'm glad I answered it or caryn would have smacked me.  Her Mac came.  Its not too bad, but I can't run MidnightBSD on it.  Just get a blank screen which sucks.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/EDUCATION/03/09/textbook.costs.ap/index.html

$644 annually? LOL. I've spent that in one semester before. KVCC was known for that. $450-$550 is very common a semester for me. I think the government needs to wake up. I do hope Michigan is on the list. If not, they need to be.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/03/10/elderly.robbed.ap/index.html

Why the hell would this dipshit go after old people on fixed incomes. This guy lives in New York and could hit someone with money. I hope they arrest him soon.

I think its time companies started firing Pharmacists who refuse to fill prescriptions or worse yet not sell over the counter drugs.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/03/09/morning.pill.ap/index.html

Kroger should step up and say they've fired this person. I wasn't aware the morning after pill is over the counter now.

Kroger can state that they "feel" its appropriate to fire the Pharmacist since that is the bullshit Pharmacists use to deny drugs. Perhaps if it starts happening to them, they will understand the problem.

I got a copy of justice league for xbox yesterday.  I know its got a childish theme, but its a very fun game.  It gives you an overhead view of the action.  It reminds me of old SNES games in terms of the layout and style.  I've gotten very far on the easy setting in just a few hours time.  Its nice to work well at a game for a change.  My reflexes aren't what they used to be. 

I also got a copy of GTA3.  While its old, I have always liked that game.  It actually runs on Vista too. 

Compusa is selling everything at 10 to 30 percent off as the store is closing.  Some things are still more expensive than newegg or other vendors but software is a good deal.  I also got 7 dollars off on a UPS. 

I was thinking about openssh today.  I've been using it for years and I thought I'd give back.  I just gave a small donation to their project.  Every little bit helps.  With MidnightBSD benefiting in addition to my personal uses, it just seemed like the right thing to do. 

I wish I could generate a revenue stream with MBSD to pay for development, servers, colo, hardware for testing, etc.  It would be nice to get some additional kernel developers and GNUstep developers to work on the project.  I'm at a point I'd pay for it if I had the money.  We need to move forward. 

http://wireless.ewashtenaw.org/

They're almost done with the pilot program.

http://openbsdbinpatch.sourceforge.net/

This is a script to create binary patches for OpenBSD.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070307/ap_on_en_ot/captain_america

How do you do that? Its captain america... getting shot is VERY lame. After hearing the character was created to fight Hitler, I find myself wondering in this time of terrorism why marvel did that. You'd think they'd have lots of material.

First they screw up spiderman and now captain america. What's next?

As for the movie.. just skip it. Most of the other ones have sucked aside from spiderman 1 and 2. I could stand watching fantastic four but it wasn't right.

My grandmother fell this morning taking the dog out. I guess there was some "black ice" on the porch and she put one foot out to pick up the dog and slipped. She broke her arm and had a gash above her eye which was bleeding prefusely.

After going to the hospital and waiting some time with 100 other people who fell, she was treated and then my aunt brought her home to collect her belongs. I think she's staying with my aunt tonight. I really hope she feels better.

My father got a new used car today. Its a 1999 Buick LeSabre with 100,000 miles on it. He had a 1991 so I guess its an improvement. I personally would have bought something with less miles and cheaper to fix in his position. A Buick is very expensive to repair as I know from previous experience. I had a 1990 Buick LeSabre for a year. It was costing me 400 a month in repair bills. Generally Saturns and Chevys are cheaper to fix. Some other brands are also cheaper. Its very strange how many people in my family are attached to Buicks because of relatives who liked them. My father, Grandmother, and both Aunts have purchased Buicks. My cousin Katie has a Regal last I knew. I found my Buick to be slow accelerating, expensive to repair and a bit quirky. I suppose if I had more money to spend, I might end up with a more luxurious car but more likely I'd go for a sports car. Frankly, I'd rather have a BMW if I had to go expensive and somewhat luxurious. If I were to buy a car today, I'd probably try to get a G6 or an ION. If I had more money, a Ford Mustang. Instead I'm stuck with a beater 1996 saturn.

I don't know how my rant turned into talking about my car. I guess I'm just pissed that my father got a newer car than me. Its not that he has a new car, its how he got it. Its not like my grandmother bought me a car recently. My grandparents did buy my first car and half my second car (as a wedding gift). Thinking about it, my grandfather never saw my saturn (my third car). I drove Ila home from the hospital one day when he was in there before he died in it. Maybe that's part of the reason I was so weird when I got hit. Not only the timing but also that it was the first car I bought on my own and he wasn't able to share that with me. He loved cars.

My NeXT drive is installed but I'm having trouble getting it on the network. I went through this before but I don't remember how I resolved it. I should check my journal entries and see if i can figure it out. I need a search feature on JJ. Tagging would be nice too.

Caryn's jamming on her ipod.

We went out to dinner tonight. It was nice of her to offer. It did help my day a bit. I spent about 4 hours playing video games today. All of them on my sega. Its been years since I did that.

Oddly just journal has been getting a lot of signups lately. I'm not sad about it but surprised. I wonder what sparked the sudden attention. I also wonder how I can improve it.

My homework isn't done for Monday yet. I dont' know whot to do about this homework assignment. The requirements are very confusing and I'm not in a position to ask about it. I'm probably going to implement a string based protocol and try to get the file format and server piece done tomorrow at least. The client is about 1/3 done already. Its mostly repetative code anyway. Some functions should be shared.

73.25% of the site traffic is from India! It seems they are spidering the site including all the files on the site. They are downloading isos like crazy.

Figures in parentheses refer to the 7-day period ending 02-Mar-2007 21:19.

Successful requests: 136,540 (2,982)
Average successful requests per day: 563 (425)
Successful requests for pages: 54,383 (1,211)
Average successful requests for pages per day: 224 (172)
Failed requests: 31,513 (716)
Redirected requests: 1,955 (120)
Distinct files requested: 11,836 (645)
Distinct hosts served: 13,698 (468)
Data transferred: 4.33 terabytes (2.11 gigabytes)
Average data transferred per day: 18.28 gigabytes (308.18 megabytes)

August 2006 and last month were the busiest months.

Just in case I need it later...
http://download.info.apple.com/Apple_Support_Area/Apple_Software_Updates/MultiCountry/Enterprise/

This is the patches for NeXT related technologies from apple.

The UPS guy dropped the NeXT drive off about half an hour ago. I put the drive in and am waiting for it to warm up a little before I power on the NeXT. I did a little cleaning while I was in there. I also took a picture before I installed the drive. I'll post it up somewhere soon. There is no heatsink on the CPU and the memory chips are the smallest I've ever seen in any computer. They are smaller than the simms in the old sun I have. (sparcstation 2) Its amazing how memory chips have gotten bigger over the years. I don't mean capacity, I mean in dimensions. Lets hope this works. It would be the NeXT best thing :)

My NeXTstep drive has not come. I just opened a ticket with Paypal for their claim process. I'm angry the guy hasn't contacted me. I've got 20 days to escalate it. I'm not a happy camper.

NeXTSTEP preinstalled , compatable 4Gb SCSI hard drive (8814258871)

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2000/09/20

Their customer service rules.  See above.

http://www.compusa.com/locations/store.asp

I only see lansing.. is this the open list?  All Detroit stores?