Those glittering abstract nouns aren’t sufficient, but they can be damn useful. They aren’t accurate descriptions of this country right now, and probably they never have been, but a lot of Americans are sincerely attached to them. And sometimes, when presented with a stark contradiction between the bedtime stories we learned about this country as [...]
Entries from February 2008
Quote of the day: bedtime stories
February 20th, 2008 · No Comments · Wordswordswords
Tags:bedtime stories·obsidian wings·quote·usa
An important moment
February 18th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Politco Schmolitico
My life has been, well, busy doesn’t quite have the muster for describing the recent quotidian plodding of The Chad, and I haven’t been blogging nearly as much as I would like. But in a really, really bizarre way I found myself stumbling across these two videos. The first is a spur-of-the-moment interview done [...]
Outgoing traffic with IP aliasing
February 2nd, 2008 · 2 Comments · Computer-schmuter
I recently ran into an issue that, while it had a simple solution, stumped me for a while. I don’t know if said stumpitude came from my waning mental faculties or what. In any case, it took me longer than expected to track down the answer, and since there weren’t too many pages [...]
Tags:alias·interface·ip address·route·ubuntu