I'm back in The Village again.
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We are now in southern Michigan, the land of the Big Three and ...
well I can't say we've been out and about much yet to see what else
is around here yet.
However, I recently mentioned[0] that in New Jersey they're so big
on ketchup use that they offer it to you with breakfast (at least
for drive-thru McDonald's they do). Well it turns out that they
often offer you ketchup for your breakfast at drive-thru windows in
Michigan (experienced consistently multiple times at a Burger King
near work). Please update your programs.
So I wonder: is breakfast ketchup really that necessary?
And why, if it is, do they not ask if I want ketchup when I'm
buying lunch - only for breakfast? It seems the bean-counters need
to recalibrate or something. Why do they trust you to ask for
ketchup if you want it with lunch - but assume they have to remind
you about it for breakfast?
My NetBSD system fell victim to the shenanigans on where pkgin
stores the database of installed packages information. I got the
'split- brain' version where some packages were recorded in the old
location and others in the new location. I am engaged in the
process now of manually unfucking them. I am down to one stupid
library-package - gdk-pixbuf2 - that refuses to yield to the
solutions that worked for all of the other packages. It just says
cruel things like
pkg_add: Conflicting PLIST with gdk-pixbuf2-2.42.6nb1:
lib/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0.4200.6 pkg_add: 1 package addition
failed
That is why I cannot currently have nice things like a functioning
firefox or gimp or gqview. But hey, at least X is running again and
I can have two terminals side-by-side to work on fixing it. All
hail Window Maker who cares not for the new shiny of gtk and its
hellish mutant offspring! And xdaliclock is there in the corner
once again, morphing and morphing and changing colors to distract
and to comfort me.
In other news I passed my online ASME NQA-1 course for work and my
truck once again has working, reliable brakes that don't squeal
like a m10r.
A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the
picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described
with pictures. --Alan Perlis
Preach it, Alan.
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gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space:70/0/%7elosthalo/nusuth/nusuth-20220227.txt
