The car behind us was parked so bad today that one of the city’s sidewalk snow-remover got stuck and the only way to get it out was to move our car. So we got to work, helped by the city’s employees. I wish they got stuck every winter morning, it’d be so much easier/faster to get the kids to school. ;)
This is ME! Guessing you have to be from or living in Quebec (and speak French) to really understand that one. But if you do, then you’ll know exactly what he means. Well, unless you’re a bear.
Tsé c’est wooooooo…
There’s nothing like watching an Afghan woman go down a ramp for the first time and she’s achieved something that she never thought she would.
Visit skateistan.org for more information, and please give generously. And if you need something to “show for it”, they have some nice t-shirts. Always makes a great holiday present. :)
See also: Skateistan, the Movie
Taken from our living room, through the window, no post-processing.
I’ve upgraded our household netbook to GNU/Linux Ubuntu Maverick Meerkat (10.10, from 9.04), and the latter is now the default boot-time option instead of Windows XP.
Twenty of the drive’s 160GB are dedicated to Linux, as ext4. The rest is divided between the legacy NTFS partition for Windows, and another partition (~5GB) with Acer’s eRecovery tool, so I can reset the machine to factory defaults if ever needed. Since I was able to resize the partition dynamically right in the installer, I didn’t even need to move the files we had under Windows. The NTFS partition mounts in full read/write mode, so why bother for now?
Teagan (11) has been using it for a few days now, with Chromium/Chrome as his default browser and VLC as his default media player. The latter two being the apps he spends 99.9% of his time in.
For the record, I did try Ubuntu Netbook Edition, but I couldn’t get used to the dashboard-type UX, being a long-time Gnome user… The rest of the family would have probably been fine with it, but I figured I’d stick with the original for now. We can install the netbook remix interface on top later anyway.
