Thought of the Day
In England, muffins are referred to as “American muffins” and English muffins are just called “muffins”. It makes perfect sense, but it’s one of those facts that you just don’t ever consider.
Urban Finch Attacks
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While walking to the Glen Park BART station today, I saw a couple of finches perched atop a don’t-walk signal. Some Asian lady was standing beneath the signal, and wouldn’t you know that finch flew down and angrily pecked at her head. So, after that, she crossed the street, and I noticed another finch zoom down right behind her and nail some elderly lady’s noggin. What the flip is going on with all these ghastly finches attacking the good townspeople? |
Alistair Cooke’s America
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Allistair Cooke’s thirteen-hour documentary “America” was first aired on the BBC in 1973. This is a tour-de-force in American history and should be required viewing in every public school in the nation. In the first hour, he reveals his own friendship with H.L. Mencken, waxes notstalgic about Fatha Hines, and then investigates his Imperial Majesty Emperor Norton I, Emperor of The United States and Protector of Mexico. I only wish I’ve heard of this series earlier. I rate Alistair Cooke’s “America” up there with James’ Burke’s “Connections”, Jacob Bronowski’s “Ascent of Man”, David Attenborough “Life on Earth”, and Kenneth Clarke’s “Civilisation”. It’s just that good. |
Setxattr Errors
So, old hudge was kicking up a helluva fuss about setxattr errors this morning.
I was getting the following errors, over and over and over again in my syslog file.
hudge kernel: post_create: setxattr failed, rc=28 (dev=sda1 ino=8339458)In fact, I got so many of these errors that they filled up my root partition. The full disk caused mysql to stop working altogether and the corruption of a couple of tables in my wordpress database. Question is, with SELinux disabled on my box, why would I get 50GB worth of setxattr errors?
