Dirk Gently's Hollistic Detective Agency

Because, quite honestly the BBC TV show isn't even close. I know now what people mean when they look at say, Lem's Solaris and say "why did Clooney's Solaris remove all the thinking parts?" The BBC tv show has turned Adam's book into some bizarre Doctor Who-meets-Coupling. Quite stupid, and even worse, bereft of any sort of philosophical meaning. They couldn't even costume the lead character correctly.

So if you must have a modern adaptation of Dirk, and weren't able to go to the play, then try the radio show.



Thankfully, I have the audiobook, read by the author himself.

2010: There is No First Contact

What we were promised:

What we got:
- Worldwide Economic Depression

Smallest ubuntu system.

grab the iso from here:

http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/mini.iso

md5sum is:
bb73e6cb4789cbce4a408e1bb1fc4780 ./netboot/mini.iso

from here:
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy/main/installer-i386/current/images/MD5SUMS

Frisco Sucks.

I suppose this was intended to be a parody, but in reality, it's quite the documentary. Sigh.

It's definately gotten worse with the web2.0 emergent crap cascade.

The local fake indie radio station just flat out lied right now and said Frisco is full of "thin girls in sundresses." I guess Frisco takes the idea of thin as an ironic adjective defined not only by Reuben and idealized by the people who crafted the Venus of Willendorf.

What I am saying is that most of the Frisco women are FAT. Which is why the facebook photos are shot at oblique angles. And why, for that matter, they hide on facebook, or wear baggie jeans and hoodies out to upscale clubs. To be fair, how can you not expect anyone living in a year round 60 degree F temp to not put on weight?

This is not to say all Frisco women are fat. Some of the women, of course, are on cocaine.

- PRSF resident since 2004.

Agenda
cost is externality

flight attendants object to security change
passengers are in favour of

pirate cat radio on itunes

here's the actual url for the stream you need to listen to pirate cat radio:

http://mega5.radioserver.co.uk:8220/

install e17 on debian

insert this into /etc/apt/sources.list

http://us.repository.elive-systems.com lenny main elive drivers tests efl ports

this is how to get the key for apt:
sudo -s
gpg --keyserver hkp://wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net --recv-keys 1C79A27CD5E81909
gpg --armor --export 1C79A27CD5E81909 | apt-key add -
apt-get update
it will (oddly) upgrade iceweasel (firefox) and libkrb53. Hrm why does it do this.

Then aptitude install e17
I also don't like why it wants to install reiserfsprogs so much, well I guess it is because native elive is in bed with THAT MURDEROUS NERD. Honestly his bigger crime was inflicted a filesystem that when the power goes out commits first degree murder on your data and your filesystem.

Next modify your .xessionrc (don't even get me started as to why it's not .xsession anymore) to start up with enlightenment_start (not enlightenment).