reasons to be happy

[sistawendy]

I complained a while back about a lack of working browser plugin for audio on 64-bit Red Hat Enterprise that I can use with KEXP. This turns out to be unfounded. Sure, the Real plugin comes up with 40% of the linear dimensions it should and it's completely illegible, but if I click the correct vestige of a button, it plays. O frabjous day!

I made expensive but spiffy laminated signs for various kinds of solid waste.

OK, this is a reason to be amused: you know your bike is old when a toe clip breaks due to metal fatigue.

Nun plan: Since this is my last unallocated weekend before Burning Man, I'll be haunting the Usual Haunts, i.e. Merc & CHAC, on Friday. I hope to see lots of you out. Honorable mention: Battle of the Mega-Mixes Saturday at Baltic.

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[draggonlaady.livejournal.com]

How old is your bike?

I am about to the point of having to buy a new one... the 10 speed I currently have, I got second hand (papa rescued it from the scrap metal heap) when I was 8 years old...

[randomdreams.livejournal.com]

Y'know, I've had three-year-old components fail from fatigue. Toeclips get a lot of hard use: they flex a lot and get hit into things, neither of which does anything much for their lifetime. It might even be brittle fracture following stress hardening.

I don't know what RHEL is running these days. I've had great luck streaming using Kaffeine (except that it does a terrible job of reconnecting if it loses the stream.)