Friday, January 23, 2004

Pondering the Imponderable -- 8:38 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

I can't believe that I'm about to type tar xvfj linux-2.6.1.tar.bz2. I must be insane.

Well, I got everything compiled and it did boot. Unfortunately, I didn't have it compile the tulip driver for my NIC (oops). It also pukes on iptables and with my UPS monitoring stuff. Relatively small hurdles.

This has nothing to do with anything, but since my fantasy football team is named the Fightin' Wombats, I enjoyed it. It's a little poem that is a part of the Fortune program:

THE WOMBAT
The wombat lives across the seas,
Among the far Antipodes.
He may exist on nuts and berries,
Or then again, on missionaries;
His distant habitat precludes
Conclusive knowledge of his moods.
But I would not engage the wombat
In any form of mortal combat.

(N.B. A bit of further web searching reveals that the author of this poem is, in fact, Ogden Nash.)

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