Jesus statue: (Happy Easter)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There is this Jesus statue at the Catholic church next to our house we pass by when we walk the kids. Whenever I see it, I can’t get this image out of my mind of Jesus, arms outstretched, just like the statue, trying to calm a restless crowd.

“Calm Down, PEOPLE! Calm Down! There’s plenty of fish sandwiches and wine to go around! Please don’t push each other! Form a line over here and over here! Yes, we have plenty of fish sandwiches, everyone who wants food will get their fill! Calm down peoples!!”

 

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Maybe I should keep these thoughts to myself..

Now, Live from Denver!

The transfer to Denver is mostly complete. We haven’t unpacked completely yet, so we have lots of boxes, piles of random belongings looking for a place to be, which makes our home look like there are hobos with a severe case of hoarding living there. We are enjoying our transition to the front range way of life.

Denver is a good size city, and has lots of the same services and features that Houston has. There are some differences though. Since most everyone wants to know what is different, I’ll focus on those instead of what is the same as Houston, and compile that list here.

1- That big angry day moon is out everyday. seriously. Everyday-FREAKING-DAY.

2- Like Portlandia has DJ’s There are burritos EVERYWHERE. They are much smaller too. I haven’t seen a Freebird’s or Taqueria Arandas Super burrito size burrito… yet.

3- Speaking of Burritos, there is a difference between ‘tex-mex’ and what is consdered mexican here. Less cheese here, and they favor a green chile sauce. It’s pretty tasty. If you’ve ever had a hatch green chile sauce from lupe’s or arandas, you know what is going on here.

4- There are little roads on the side of the actual road for people to walk on, and they are everywhere! I am so used to dodging this girl when walking the dogs I’m not really sure what to do with this path.

5- Everyone is very polite. *REALLY* *REALLY* polite. I submit for your review the following examples..

  • I forgot my poop bags on a walk. A lady behind me was walking her dogs, and I asked if she had a spare bag, as I didn’t wanna be *that* new neighbor. She apologized to me, that her dog was a bit excited, so she didn’t want to approach my dogs and said she would pick up my dog’s poop for me. SHE PICKED UP MY DOG’s POOP. A complete stranger… poop.
  • Every time I turn on my signal to merge onto I25, They let me in. And I don’t mean they were busy updating facebook on their iPhone so I snuck in, They actually give a few car lengths of space and wave you in. In Houston, this is grounds for permanent license revocation and possible felony charges for impeding the natural flow of traffic.
  • We live in what Denver considers “transitional” All the kids in the neighborhood are polite and nice. No BB guns, no saggy pants, no tagged walls. They didn’t say sir and ma’am though, so I guess they are lost souls… In our Houston “transitional” neighborhood we had people trying to sell us downy and using the empty lot for the same purpose our dogs used it for. I suppose the meaning of “transitional” is relative.

6- Denver is very dog friendly. Dogs are EVERYWHERE. Most shops have water bowls. tiedowns and free milkbones.

Tea time with doggies
Dog treats are everywhere

The weather does change quickly..

This was Saturday in the mountains at 8300FT(2600M).

 

Birthday Hike

This was Monday morning in the city 5200FT(~1600M)

 

Snow Drive

More to come…

this video is how I feel tonight…

Punk Rock…

I usta listen to a lot of Punk Rock. Punk Rock is all but dead. I miss those days. I miss the great angst filled names. (My mind’s eye pictures a punked out version of Dana Carvey’s Grumpy old man on SNL.. “in my day… rock bands didn’t have stupid names…”)

I think we need some new retro-hipster bands to take on the punk rock era style of names. So in a gracious, selfless act to better the world, I offer, without license, these names of great punk rock bands to-be. Feel free to add your own, or use one from the list for rocking out in the garage… Just remember, accountants make great drummers. They can keep count.

Canker Sore
Blistering Canker Sore
Festering Canker Sores
Angry Possums
Raccoon Fight
Rotting Tunafish
Infectious Hangnail Wounds
Raging Vegans
Rage Against the Bakery (a cover/tribute band, of course all dressed in baker’s clothes, hat mandatory)
Puss Dog
The Granny Tramps
Feral Aunties
Jewgazi (another Cover/tribute band, only all the players are Hasidic Jews, so no concerts on Friday nights.)
Homeless Parakeet
The Moldy Muffins. (An all girl punk band)
KALE

Merry Christmas

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Pragmatic or just fucking crazy?

This has been weighing on my mind a lot lately. When is the cure worse than the disease? At what point do you say both options are bad, but that one is less bad.

¡Amigos! ¡Ayudame!

Necesito a alguien que me acompañe a una cena para mi clase de español. No vas a pagar por cenar ni refrescos.
La reglas:

1- Necesitas hablar en español de temas varios con los alumonosl. No te puedes hablar en íngles durante la cena.

2- Necesitas estar en Houston, el Martes, el 9 de Agosto. El evento se llevará a cabo de 1800  a 2100

3- La regla más importante: Te necesita gustar comida mexicana y hablar con gente simpática.

Si gustaria ayudarme, mándame un mensaje pronto!
¡gracias!

kickstart via cfengine

The topic came up again recently, and it seems that a lot of people don’t realize this is possible, so I thought I’d post it here for all the interwebz to enjoy.

you can boot up into an install enviornment for kickstarts and custom installs, without using CDs, pxeboot or usbdisks.

You can reinstall/kickstart by editing the /etc/grub.conf and copying the vmlinuz and inird.img files (assuming rhel/centos) to /boot. All the fun linux boot options work in this enviornment, such as ip= and vnc=

This short writeup explains how to reinstall or kickstart using cfengine.

assumptions

  • Linux is already installed
  • Linux is installed NOT they way you want it. This is why you are trying this right?
  • you have network connectivity.
  • you are using cfengine v2.x and are familiar with the workings.
  • you have an install tree somewhere. In our example it will be on path /repos/distros/centos/5.5/os/x86_64/isolinux/

 

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I know this feeling…

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muppets..

I’ve had this in my head since I saw it a few weeks ago. It has sticking power. You have been warned…