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I've decided to invest in Online backups (and I probably should have done that a LONG time ago.)
Anyhow, I checked out a few services. I was extremely tempted by Mozy and Carbonite. $5 a month for unlimited backup seems pretty cool. (Oh, Backblaze does this too.)
I had to rule out Carbonite. It doesn't backup external drives, and my Mac has a bunch of my media stored on an external drive because it's internal drive is only 160 gb. So, I need the ability to back up attached drives.
That leaves Mozy and Backblaze. Both seem pretty much the same, as far as I can tell . They'll both backup any mounted drive (which means that even though they will not backup NAS, they would probably backup a usb attached Drobo. wow.) $5 a month, unlimited automatic backups.
Is anybody using these services and if so, how has your experience been?Current Mood:  thoughtful Current Music: None |
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Take a good long look at this motherfuckin BUS! (I've made this joke twice today, and I still think it's hilarious.)
You GUYS! I'm CURRENTLY on a Bolt Bus. WHAT? As advertised, the Bolt Bus has free Wi-Fi (unlike AirTran, which makes you THINK it does, and then says you have to pay.) Bolt Bus, however, is made of lies and deceit, as it does NOT feature a funny, naive anthropomorphic dog voiced by John Travolta. FAIL, Bolt Bus, FAIL.
However! In the interest in having friends wherever I go, I randomly ran into my buddy Evan on the train over here. This is how our conversation went as we ran into each other:
Evan: "Yeah, so I'm on the 12:30 bus and I'm visiting friends in New York, and..."
Kev: "Okay, but I have to WORK when I'm on the bus! Just so you know! I can't talk and just hang out the whole time. I have to WRITE!"
Evan: "Um."
Kev: "You're really nice, though! You want to help me support corporate coffee?"
I stayed up late last night and ran out of social skills.
But! In a few hours, I will be hanging with my friends Marty and Barry on a whirlwind tour of NYC, and then tonight: BROOOOOOOOOOOOCE. Life is zesty!
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http://www.advocate.com/Arts_and_Entertainment/Television/Sex_Rehab_and_Shopping_Real_Hard/
In which I explain all about:
Sex Rehab with Dr. Drew
Monica: Still Standing
American Chopper (and, by extension, the "fag" episode of South Park)
The Suze Orman Show
Man Shops Globe
InfoMania
King of The Crown
I Didn't Know I Was Pregnant
Three Rivers
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LA Times: A new poll confirms that the Obama administration and federal health officials have failed to convince Americans -- at least those in the most populous state of California -- of the seriousness of a H1N1 swine flu pandemic. A majority of those registered voters polled by a new survey team involving The Times and the University of Southern California said they believed the new, delayed vaccine was safe. But a majority also said they had no intention of getting it. Well, that should ease those long lines. But shortages seem to be spurring interest in the rest of the country. And you need to know the baseline for comparison - 20-30% of the country gets the seasonal flu vax. The numbers: Only 5% of those polled said they already had been inoculated. Of the rest, 52% said they did not plan to get vaccinated. Of the 40% who said they wanted the vaccine, 12% said they already had attempted to find it but failed. Of those polled, 70% said they think the H1N1 vaccine is safe for most people, while only 17% said there was a strong chance the vaccine is unsafe. "Win" on the safety message, "incomplete" on the need, though more people are asking for the vax than usual. The losers are the anti-vax people.
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i've always had a buzzcut...well, since about 1989. (i was a bit rebellious my first 10 years i the Army). Everyone always says i look younger than i really am. But when i was doing my wig, the light was really reflecting off of all that grey/silver/white hair. i think it'll look really cool when it goes all white. And as stressful as this new position has been, it won't be long. Current Mood:  stressful Current Music: The English Beat: "Mirror In The Bathroom" |
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So today we looked at: Yaris, Terios, Sirion, Fun Cargo, Will Vi, Cube, Ist (XA), Will Cypha, Mazda2, 306, Micra, Echo, Will VS, Demio, Jazz, old Jazz, i30, Picante, Swift, Mira, Jimny, APV, Punto, 206, and Grande Punto.
The Suzuki Swift was nice but a bit long in the tooth, with the hard plastic interior in particular dating the car. It's telling that Suzuki's new Mira in base trim has as many airbags and toys as the Swift's top trim level. Overall a fine car that's retaining value well- but with a new model on the way, I'd expect resale values to drop sharply soon.
The new Jazz is awesome, with Prius-like fuel economy and the trickest interior I've ever seen. Seats appear and disappear into the floor, fold up and down and sideways, there are storage bins everywhere, and the dash sports all the toys you could want. Still, it's a touch expensive, especially once you start adding options. Still, a nice car.
The Mazda2 was a sweet little car, with great trim levels for a competitive price, and with the optional sports pack even fairly attractive. Nothing wrong with it- but nothing really outstanding either. The whole package is up to date and modern, and follows all the latest trends in styling- and in a couple of years it'll be just another compact car driving past.
The Grande Punto seems to be astonishing value. Gorgeous interior, plenty of luggage space, decent fuel economy and very pretty in black.
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i miss my mom terribly today. had a dream about her, in that dream she was whole again. woke up crying, went back to sleep hoping to see her again. wish i could call her back from the abyss.
ah! some days you feel such immense sadness you think you could waste a lifetime mourning. she deserves what's coming to her (and more), but i can't forget who she was before her illness took hold. wish i could, hate makes disavowal easier.
it's such a sad, sad story. the worst part is that it's such a singular tragedy, one with no hope of redemption through inclusion in some larger collective narrative, a fact that makes sublimation even harder. my family's history is one of voluntary and near-total isolation, a wholesale withdrawal from the world, a collapse into solipsistic illness, violence, dissociation/disaffection. it is not a story about collective violence or trauma, about a damaged social body we can collectively name. it is rather about the interweaving of a few deeply framented, deeply idiosyncratic and scattered histories -- of an uneducated orphaned girl from a small town outside bangkok (my grandmother) tossed around by relatives who didn't want her. it is a story about her arranged marriage to my grandfather, who was a textiles factory worker. it is about their troubled marriage, the violence that was passed along to their children. it is about my father, who was raised by a live-in cleaning lady -- a man who could not communicate with his uneducated immigrant chinese mother and father because he did not speak chinese. a man who graduated at the top of his class, went on to medical school, where he studied cardiology after his father died of a heart attack, and again graduated first in his class (he has a photograph of the king of thailand shaking his hand and commending him.) it is about my mother and father, who grew up in the same slum in bangkok only a street apart, eventually marrying and fleeing thailand for the U.S., excommunicating both their families in an act of willed forgetting, searching instead for the American dream of meritocracy and class ascension, only to find that dream bereft of happiness, love, community. and while my father hurled himself into his career, my mother suffered a miscarriage and two back-to-back births that shattered a presumably already fragile psyche. it is about a love for me, their firstborn, that dissolved into violence as we moved across the midwest and to/through a tiny coal mining town in appalachia. it is about my father's indifference and ignorance, about my brother and sister who have never known the mother i once knew, who once smiled and laughed and retained the capacity to love and reason.
it is not just about me screaming as i was locked up in closets and cellars, silenced, buried, kept in a state of captivity and isolation and fear that years later would cripple my own capacity to be a part of the world. it's not about the sadism, the mind games, the damage to my physical body, the loss of agency/causal efficacy. it is about a transgenerational transmission of anguish, the loss of history and memory, both of origins and of persons once loved. a doubling, a tripling of the originary wager, a folding into something like pure anguish born sui generis.
of course, in the aftermath of the things they did to me, i want them to suffer in kind. i don't pretend to be a being of spontaneous compassion. no, i want to believe in a fantasy of a world in which justice is served, right and wrong exist, and crimes do not go unpunished. i need that vindication. but this does not mean i do not also grieve, or that i do not still love my mother. even amidst an overpowering desire to secure her suffering, i am stricken by a desire for her return. i miss the person she was. i miss her with every fiber of my being. i wish i could fix her, because the memory of her when she was whole is all i have left of her. no one else knew that person. i wish i could make them know
maybe it's time i start to write about who my mother used to be, do some math on the few loving acts that countless therapists say sustain me even now, helped me survive the bleakness of what was to come. incredibly sweet gestures whose potency struck me even in the moment, rather than retroprojectively. the way she would draw a smiling face on my index finger when she had to go to work so i wouldn't feel so alone. her reading to me before bed each night. making sandcastles with me at the beach, snowmen in winter. putting presents under the tree and laughing at my surprise, saying, look! santa came while you were in the other room! leaving notes in my brown bag lunch that read 'have a good day! love mommy'
such a far cry from the woman who would drag me out of bed by my ankles and threaten to kill me and leave my body where no one would find me, because i had ruined her life, should have died in her womb. who would pick the lock while i showered so she could assault me, naked and cowering in a bathtub. the other woman, the UR-woman who used to sing to me as she clipped my nails, who taught me the words to cum ba ya. what happened to her? where did she go? i can't mourn her loss because physically she is not dead. she's still present in some form. she inhabits the same body, the same being i perceive as the light etches her into the few photographs i can stand to keep.
i loved that person very much.
god, it hurts to remember. how the fuck do i get out of this mess?
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Hi Pete,
I can't tell mom not to go to Hawaii but she might have to go without me. my priority is to buy a 1-2 bedroom apt. in Prospect heights. If she insists to buy a house in Hawaii I will sell this house she can have some money to buy a house of her own and live there. I will find a small place for me close to my office so I can continue to practice and stay close to you. She also can use the money by selling those properties in Thailand she can have it all I don't care she will not have me or any children who don't want to get near her any more. Pete, she knows no body wants her that's why she has to hold on to what she can have to survive when she gets old which is very sad but I can't help. all of you can think and decide for yourselves. One thing I know is Pum will take care of her whatever she can.
Pete, I never care about the money because I can earn it as much as I want. I am not worrying I will not have enough money to survive. I will spend money when it is appropriate. I don't want you to think who gets what. I know you disagree since she should not be rewarded. let's concentrate on what we are going to do to heal yourself. I will be here for a long time.
I almost got killed tonight when she drove her car back from the gym because she was mad at me. she made a wrong stupid turn and cut infront of 2 oncoming cars. one of them applied brake with squeezing sound all over. the driver was so mad he honk her for a long time. I asked her what she was doing why she cut the other cars in the front. she started to argue with me that she didn't when the other driver honk her so I told her to ask the other driver. she couldn't control the car and started to drive on the wrong side of the road. It is almost a disaster. I told her if she wants to die don't drag me with her!!. I am still very upset I am not going to get in the car with her for a long long time. she won't drive me anywhere. No more going to the gym with her. It's done. This is really stupid.
I have been watching a massacre 12 soldiers were shot and killed at fort Wood texas by a fellow soldier who is a major army psychiatrist, 31 wounded as well. this is a shocking news. I am watching things are gradually unfolded. It is unbelievable!!
I am on call this weekend. I forgot I have to be around next week since Eric will be deployed to afghanistan on Sunday 15th. Is it alright to come the following week end of 20-21st. I feel very bad on the incidence tonight I will go to bed soon. take care
love,
dad
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Recall the late '80s up until '96, when KERA-90.1FM did the World Music thing with Chris Douridas, Liza Richardson (before both landed at KCRW), Abby Goldstein, Paul Slavens,..?The programming on 91.7 FM will be within the public radio "Triple A" (Adult Album Alternative) music format with diverse, adult-oriented playlists covering a broad spectrum of music such as folk, acoustic, world music, alternative and indie rock and country. Among the programs under consideration for the new station are World Café (distributed by NPR), Echoes (from Public Radio International), Undercurrents (from Native Voice One), American Routes (from American Public Media), plus music specials. NPR news headlines will be broadcast at the top of the hour. KERA's own local programs will include interviews, studio performances and arts-related news and commentary.
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