You know, while there was a large farm returning to forest on the fence line of the house I grew up in, and legends of a barn of caged cats and a pack of wild dogs under the control of the old lady that owned the former farm, I cannot say I ever once just ran into some sad-sack alkie living in those woods.

What the hell does that tell me?

My own off the cuff interpretation, predjudicial as it is, is that Indiana is simply a much more violent place than Washington, and that persons like the homeless guy living in the woods near my house at the moment were just murdered, specifically to protect property values.

This is surely incorrect, uncharitable as it is. People in Washington are no less tribal and violent than those in Indiana, despite Indiana’s long heritage of legally sanctioned state violence against minorities. Washington has a heritage that includes Indian wars, Indian massacres, Chinese expulsions, and, of course, Japanese internment camps. I must disabuse myself of the notion that I have escaped the culture of violence of my childhood.

The old PowerBook is no better than the Mini at HD. Jailbreaking an ATV seems like the way to go.

A is for action, T is for Time. V is for vision and the four minds crack.

It has been one heck of a long wait!

http://scott-lynch.livejournal.com/269876.html

No, really. Big Bird kicks Osiris’ ass to save some little kid’s soul. At the Met in NYC. Like, at the Temple of Sekhmet. With Snuffleumphagus.

Now, mmmmaybe Osiris is being stood in for here by James Mason, and lacks green skin and all, but still. Any Big Bird bedominated reborn king can only betoken the fundamental truth of Osiris Claus.

My ankle seems nearly better. At the moment I am planning on starting to run again next week.

Viv bought me an ankle brace, something like a foot girdle, yesterday and it has felt great all day today.

On my dog walk today I ran into a homeless guy I have seen around on and off since November. He smells of formaldehyde but seems harmless, kind of sweet, and horribly, terminally lost. He seems to be moving to to the underbrush of a greensward in the neighborhood.

He told me it has been a very cold winter for him and that he was excited about this new toy he’d just bought, a small plastic model of an airplane.

Not counting iOS devices, I have around seven conventional computers I use daily around the house for this and that. Two are media-oriented, three are utility machines, one’s a spare, and maybe I actually only have six machines I use daily.

I have at least ten retired or non-functional machines, going back to a Power Computing Mac clone circa 1992. I may have an older PPC tower as well, but nothing prior to the PPC event horizon, although I do have a no-HD pre-486 laptop.

Not too long ago, sometime around 2002, I jettisoned some pre-PPC Macs and monochrome silver-and-blue LCD display 8086 laptop built by Zenith, apparently from the Senate or the Congress or something. I have no idea how it came to me.

Including nonconventional computers in the house (iOS, dedicated media, and programmable networking) the total potential IP count for roughly current devices adds six iOS devices, two media devices (yes,in addition to the other media units) and eight networking devices.

I’m pretty sure this is overkill.

The Mini in the basement is faltering under the latest prerelease version of XBMC, and it looks like I’m gonna have to pull the unit in favor of an equally decrepit MacBook (wait, it is so old it might actually be a PowerBook) with a more powerful GPU and more RAM.

However, doing so crosses the C-note boundary, and I will be looking into other options for configurable playback devices. The jailbroken Apple TV 2, running XBMC, is a clear contender.

I am pleased to report I was able to access live EyeTV streams via Beenje’s XBMC add on, EyeTV Parser. The add-on only features live streams under the Eden prerelease, though.

By god, I think I am beginning to grok this vast space of useless knowledge. For fuxache, it should not require an experienced computer person to tax the sum of their networking and hardware knowledge to accomplish this stuff, which amounts to watching TV.

Boeing Clippers and Matthews Beach Park.

Matthews Beach is at 97th and the shore on Lake Washington. There is another seaplane base at the north end of the lake as well, which is used by Kenmore Air (hence the name).

UPDATE: an aerial shot of the base, with Clipper docked.