Tents, music and Linux in the same day
More and more often, I find myself booting up in Linux instead of Windows, and each time I come away a little more impressed with the efforts of the Mint team. After years of riding on the bicycle known as Slackware (biking is fun, but not always stable), I’ve found that the four-wheel comfort of the Mint distro works. This afternoon, I watched a bit from the DVD version of American Graffiti that I’d purchased from an eBay supplier. None of the problems with Linux not playing a movie I’d heard about. I just put in the disk and it worked. Like other things I’ve done recently. Wireless and printing and webcams and multiple language profiles. No kernel recompile, but some things aren’t necessary.
A bit more and I’ll be loading Mint on the OLPC XO – a complete green package, perhaps by the end of the summer.
This was also a day for practicing bass guitar. The TV carried two concerts: Feist and Mika. I made myself comfortable for two hours, playing along as the uncredited member of the band. Sometimes you just find the groove.
The tents are ready for vacation. We’ve had a few dry days, so I put both tents up with the able assistance of son #3, and then gave the UV a chance to kill the accumulated bacteria of a winter in storage. What we used to call “airing things out”, before we learned about life through a microscope. We even put them away at the end of the afternoon, before the dew fell. Dry tents; something rarely experienced in this new monsoonal world.
