I’m thinking about trying to replicate one of my favorite GHP mashups, Bus Stop Runner, as a karaoke song tonight. It won’t be an exact replica, since the mashup cut’s and jumps around, but I think I can make it work as a straight sing-along; the tempo of Bus Stop will have to be adjusted in parts, and there’s at least one part where Shoot The Runner is in a chorus, while Bus Stop is in a verse, but it’s all fixable.
I must be missing something obvious. AIX has a keyword, mkhomeatlogin, it seems pretty straightforward, and there’s nothing in the docs about having to do anything special to enable it, and yet when I try to turn it on, it fails:
chsec -f /etc/security/login.cfg -s usw -a mkhomeatlogin=true
3004-692 Error changing “mkhomeatlogin” to “true” : Attribute is invalid.
And the PAM alternative isn’t available either,
user:alert syslog: open_module: stat(/usr/lib/security/pam_mkuserhome) failed: No such file or directory
What’s more confusing, there doesn’t seem to be any widespread confusion over these keywords, or indeed Any difficulty that has resulted in the above error message within the context of merely activating the feature, which leads me to suspect I’m missing something obvious. I hate that feeling. But I’d rather feel foolish, and informed, that continue with the frustration.
Another part of the weekend’s nostalgia overload, a marathon session of Jason of Star Command. I had remembered the bad guy’s monocle, but there was so much I had forgotten that came back once I started watching. As a kid, I probably didn’t notice that they not only reused sound FX from Star Trek, they even reuse some of the musical cues. I’m certain as a Star Wars obsessed kid, the ‘evil’ wookie-alikes would have been notable. And now I know why the minister from Mom and Dad Save The World seemed so familiar; I was remembering him from Jason.
But the biggest ‘discovery’ was the do-anything-even-fly-through-space-yet-fit-in-a-fanny-pack robot, W1k1, aka Wiki. Wikipedia’s biography claims it comes from the Hawaiian word for quick, but obviously Jimmy Wales was a big Jason fan =p It’s a robot that is capable of interstellar travel, has a built in laser for freeing Jason from the inevitable chains in the dungeon scenes, and R2D2 like one-understandable-sided-jokes.
Experienced a bit of nostalgic dissonance this weekend, watching the blu-ray Star Wars I got for Christmas. I can overlook most of the little edits and ‘upgraded’ special effects, though Greedo is an annoyance still, but when you get to the final movie, its bad enough that they aren’t playing the proper Yub Nub song, and have a bunch of inserted views from other planets’ celebrations, but when they get to the final glowing trio of Jedi, they put Hayden Christensen in, which made me IMDB it…he was freakin TWO YEARS OLD when Jedi came out.
Where people will stop for you in the crosswalk, and then take the time to roll down their window and yell ‘fuck you’.
Just discovered that the Taj Mahal is the largest Lego set available at retail, so now where can I go from here? I sure as heck ain’t spending 2-grand on a collectible Star Destroyer.
I wonder how much it would cost to reproduce the set with the Lego Pick a Brick service.
Whatever the qualifications for “Field Supervisor” is at Cleanscapes, it doesn’t seem to include an ability to follow basic laws of the road, not to mention simple human decency. Just watched one of these gems of industry nearly hit a woman in the crosswalk at work. Lucky for the inattentive driving jerk, she was paying attention and quick on her feet, and literally jumped out of the way in the nick of time. We shall see just how seriously they take safety at the company; I called in and reported the guy. He had no excuse. The sun is out, there were no obstructions blocking his view.
UPDATE: I did get a call back from the safety manager at Cleanscapes, who gathered some more details and promised that he would track down who it was, and discipline them appropriately.
In addition to my Lego work over the holiday season, I also managed to finally get all my musical keyboards setup again, well 99% setup. I need to stop by the store for some more patch cables, in theory, but practically, I don’t pre-program enough stuff that I’d ever have all three machines making noises at the same time. And I could just multi-track the individual instruments in editing.
I do need to pick up some vertical support bars for the extra set of wire rack shelves, to build a little sound isolated zone in the room for recording vocals with. Thinking it’s quiet enough in that room, I just need a simple set of blankets to stop the fan noise from getting in.
I think I’ve finally reached the tipping point in the new place, where enough stuff is put away or gotten rid of, that there’s space to work on the projects that have been backing up for years.
Yesterday, looking through my budget, I’m seeing a very tight future without some sort of income boost, or cost cutting measures.
Today, my team lead announces she is moving out of state and will be a remote employee, giving up some of her current responsibilities. I of course am filled with the likely naive hope that whomever ends up with said responsibilities will end up with a commensurate bump in income, and said someone will be me. I guess I should figure out what kind of baked goods the managers in charge of deciding what happens next, likes. =)
