Jon's Notes
An afternoon at the Denlers’
This morning I woke up feeling slightly lousy but went to help set up for some dog agility trials on behalf of our 4-H club. Afterwards I went with the Denlers’ to their house to attempt to fix Emily’s computer (which was acting strangely, the network interface (onboard and PCI card) would receive but not send packets). Robert and I played C&C Renegades together while waiting for her to burn things to CDs, once this was accomplished I wiped the disk and installed Windows XP and in the process made a mistake and had to start over (all this occurred between the noon and evening meal).
Once WinXP was installed the network interfaces were still notwork interfaces so on a lark I went into the BIOS and set everything to the default “Optimal settings” setting and suddenly the network interfaces started working. So having three computers around and still being 45 minutes before dinner we (Robert, Emily, and I) played Renegades until we were called to dinner. At the table while waiting for Mr. Denler to appear, we discussed the game, Robert said we should look out because he had a tank and Emily said we did not need to worry because we had a humvee at which point I laughed quite heartily which would have been fine except I had just drunk ¼ of a cup of apple juice and had yet to swallow thus creating a mess everywhere. Such an embarrassing way to end the evening :-( / :-)
4-H Lock in and the decreasing quality of kids
Yesterday night and this morning I was at the Tazewell county 4-H lock in, it was an interesting lesson on kids today with lots of games.
The games were your typical games and “Team Building” activities so I watched the kids instead.
Kid watching proved to be a sad commentary on American kids today. The minimum age to attend was 13 but I kept thinking most of the kids were 8-12, I.e. they were running around harassing each other and in general acting like they were 4 years younger then they actually were. In addition, their abuse of the English language was horrible and not in a funny way, they would twist almost everything anyone would say into vile tripe. This group of youngsters not only has their collective minds in the gutter, they have rigged a scoop to their mind and are dragging it through the gutter.
I'm going to college
Concordia University Wisconsin (
CUW) called yesterday evening and Mom talked to my admission counselor because I was not home. Not only was I accepted but they are going to give me academic and church member scholarships.
My first OpenBSD port
My port of
Perforce Jam was
committed to the OpenBSD ports CVS tree today.
Everyone on the OpenBSD ports list was very helpful, even on things that I really should have read in the documentation.
The Jam people did some really weird things that I had to patch out of Jam, for example they overrode the C compiler optimization flags that were used when building a C program.