ljplicease | Mission Accomplished (Reply)

No, I didn't win the war in Iraq, but I did achieve my objective for today. In unrelated news:

I was talking to e's friend at the lake today and she the subject of talking cars came up (when doesn't it?) and apparently she was too young or too Russian to have ever heard of Knight Rider. Now I want to watch Michael Knight ride into action with KITT and fight crime. It's weird because the last crime fighter that I wanted to watch was the corrupt and brutal Vic Mackey.
According to Wikipedia the air foils used in KITT's Super Pursuit Mode were actually unnecessary to make a Trans Am drive 300 MPH. And I was about to super glue some wings to my hybrid!!! Also: apparently KITT is also a Cylon.
The spaces in Word are all messed up today. I hope it rights itself soon, because it is annoying.
For some reason I was thinking about nin as I was driving back from the lake today. This is weird because I was listening to my "happy mix" which doesn't have any Trent on it all. Anyway, sometime back Brian claimed that some cover of hurt was way better than Trent could ever do. I know it's lame to like nin now [1], but my favorite version of hurt was the duet version Trent and Bowie sung on Bowie's Outside tour.
Tyler mentioned a "the pig" totally unrelated to the "the pig" in his LJ entry today, which also contained clues as to how to defeat dodongo. Damn it. Now I have to go massacre some Moblins (which, incidentally, I love the smell of in the morning) because I am too cheap to shell out twenty rupees on bombs (everyone who is not Tyler, please forgive the densely packed series of in-jokes).
I installed PPC version of Fedora Core Linux on my iMac last night, and I was feeling pretty good about it. Unfortunately when I tried to install it on my PowerMac it used the wrong monitor sync rate when it went into X11. Configuring X11 in Linux makes me irate, and is more or less the reason I refuse to use Linux as a workstation anymore. Fuck you RedHat.
According to the UNIX-HATERS Handbook chapter on X11, a "server is the remote machine that runs the application." While I agree with him that X11 is an example of very poor design, he clearly knows nothing about the terminology. A Server is a "computer software applicationthat carries out some task (i.e. provides a service) on behalf of yet another piece of software called a client" [2]. Hence it is perfectly reasonable to call an X11 server a server because it provides a service for the client, and it is totally irrelevant where either of the processes actually run. The "remote machine" after all is a relative concept.