Elanor Rigby

Ah, look at all the lonely people
Ah, look at all the lonely people

Eleanor rigby picks up the rice in the church where a wedding has been
Lives in a dream
Waits at the window, wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door
Who is it for?

All the lonely people
Where do they all come from ?
All the lonely people
Where do they all belong ?

Father mckenzie writing the words of a sermon that no one will hear
No one comes near.
Look at him working. darning his socks in the night when there's nobody there
What does he care?

All the lonely people
Where do they all come from?
All the lonely people
Where do they all belong?

Eleanor rigby died in the church and was buried along with her name
Nobody came
Father mckenzie wiping the dirt from his hands as he walks from the grave
No one was saved

All the lonely people
Where do they all come from?
All the lonely people
Where do they all belong?

This song was written in 1966. Times have not changed.

Knights of the Round Table

Boys and Girls Club Safe House

Had a eye opening time at the Boys and Girls Safe House in Calgary over the past several weeks. Every year as part of a United Way drive we pick a project to have the team work on to make a bit of a difference in the community. This year we chose the Safe House:

Safe House is a nine bed shelter facility that provides short term housing and basic needs for youth who are homeless or at risk of homelessness.

The place was really run down when we found it. Old, moldy showers, stinky furniture, that kind of thing. We painted the entire house, replaced the couches and dining room chairs, put in two computers and a printer into the office so that the kids can work on their resumes, replaced much of the bathroom cabinets and fixtures, put in a TV... generally spruced up the place to make it more inviting.

Working with the kids were great. These are kids that go through more in a day than most of the bad stuff that we experience in a life time. Drugs, prostitution, poverty, homelessness, violence... you name it. And for the most part they are very sweet kids, but very suspicious of authority and rebellious. Shortsighted too -- it's hard to think of going back to school so your life can be better next year when you don't have enough to eat or a place to sleep.

One of the kids affected me deeply: a young girl, perhaps 15. She could have been Maya at 15. We gave all the kids blankets and she spent all day wrapped up in it huddled on the couch watching us work.

http://www.calgaryboysandgirlsclub.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=45&PHPSESSID=f9f189e2ab24df94fe6cb8c6ebf63d1e

New Trek Movie Trailer

The new Star Trek movie trailer is here. I have to say that I'm very disappointed.

They made Star Trek into a teen action movie. Complete with an angsty teen whiny Kirk. I'm trying very, very hard to keep an open mind on this one but given the shoddy job they've done on the Enterprise I have my doubts.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/startrek/

Viva La Vida

Solid disc. "Lost" and"Violet Hill" are very good tracks and by no means are they the only ones. Good chill out tunes.

http://www.amazon.com/Viva-Vida-Coldplay/dp/B000RPTQ1C/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1225398893&sr=8-1

Brad Cooper Indicted for Murder

This is freaky.

Brad was a friend of mine. A friend of my ex's more but I did go through university with this guy. Spent many classes together, many late nights in the compsci bunker underneath math sciences.

Pissed him off more than a few times, and man was he a hot head. I remember one time we ordered pizza together at our place. The pizza was an hour late and of course it ended up being free. The pizza guy finally showed up and Brad freaked on him when he complained about it being free. Brad actually pushed the guy out of my apartment, throwing him into the wall across from the door.

Another time we were playing a video game together to blow off some stress from school. He was very competitive and had the very much upper hand in this round of playing command and conquer by virtue of where he started on the map. Knowing I couldn't beat him in a fair fight, I threw my meager troops against his front door while I snuck in a bunch of engineers through the back gate and took over his main buildings and immediatly sold him off -- so he couldn't win. The line went "click" (we were playing over a modem) and he didn't speak to me for days.

Another time he threw me off a project we were working on together -- not because I didn't deliver but because I didn't put in the same amount of time that he did. I was working full-time at the time writing C code, which we were using on the project which meant that I could bash it out pretty quickly and reasonably bug free and faster than he could. So of course, I got it wrapped up by myself anyway in a few hours and got an A, which pissed him off even more. We didn't hang out after that.

Now I find out that after he split with his girlfriend at the time, he got married and moved to the US. He cheated on his wife (just like he had cheated on his girlfriend repeatedly when I new him) and she was going to leave him with her two kids back to Canada.

So apparently he killed her. Remember this is a guy I've had in my home many times.

http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=5e298fc7-cd30-449b-84d0-a2b5b21de9b3

Painless Upgrade to Mandriva 2009

Upgraded to Mandriva 2009 a week ago. Tried it on my EEEPC for a few days before I upgraded the main household PC/server.

Completely painless... new KDE 4.1 desktop , upgraded kernel, and a revamped Mandriva Control Center. Everything's a lot faster (see, with Linux upgrades things typically get faster not slower).

Only one issue: VMWare doesn't yet work with the new kernel (2.6.27) so I shifted over to Virtualbox for the one windows app I still use.

 

 

http://www.mandriva.com/en/download