nadirbyte

downloading a bunch of bytes over a slow pipe -- man, it sucks.

as for what I'm downloading: It's only a small few of the packages available with Cygwin. I'll be getting the aspell spell checker, the BASH shell, an XEmacs one minor-version more up-to-date than the windows-based one that is already installed here (cough), and some other crap, mostly just some minor shell utilities. I guess. it's going to take a hell of a long time to download -- been going for about five minutes, and is just now about three percent done.

making a list of "top tracks" from my local MP3s collection, in the while. Sure, it ain't a bedazzling collection, but it will have to suffice. Some of the tracks from the playlist, up to now:

• 4 U - Korn
• River Hip Mama - Charlie Musslewhite
• My Road Lies in Darkness - Charlie Musslewhite
• Ol' Red - George Jones
• Ain't Talkin' - Bob Dylan
• Sleep - My Chemical Romance
• Hardset Head - Skinny Puppy
• sober - Tool
• Schism - Tool
• Parabol - Tool
• Parabola - Tool
• Jambi - Tool
• Wings for Marie (pt 1) - Tool


• 10,000 Days (wings pt 2) - Tool
• Seven Nation Army - The White Stripes
• In the Cold, Cold Night - The White Stripes
• Ball and Biscuit - The White Stripes
• Catalyst - Slayer
• Supremist - Slayer
• Look Out Below - One Block Radius (I bet you ain't heard of 'em, before)
• Up In the Hills - One Block Radius (they fucking rock -- would kick the ass of a mix of sublime and eminem)
• Wake Up Tomorrow - One Block Radius
• World On Fire - One Block Radius
• Red - Sister Machine Gun
• Burn - Sister Machine Gun


• Ponderosa - Tricky


• Black Steel - Tricky (could hold some special meaning, to someone in the Army)

That's actually most of the tracks.

In other shytte:

• Lateralus wasn't the strongest album from tool


• The game Fate is not a bad a time-killer, but the fucking combat-engine in the thing is a balky piece of crap, some fucking cheap point-and-click shit.


• Sprint's "PCS Vision" service sucks, when it's in an area without high-bandwidth support. (I still need to write to that Sprint HQ, about that -- Fort Nowhere sure should have a high-bandwidth Sprint station installed, hereabout.)

Not much to say, otherwise. Waking up for the fucking 5 AM barracks inspections that the lug-nut NCOICs in the unit that I'm in have been -- pretty-much, stupidly -- subjecting us to, every day is gone to shit before it's really begun. If it a day ends on a high note, but that motherfucking stupid shit is waiting in the fucking morning. Hurrah, I'm in the fucking Army -- what a fucking wise decision it was, to enlist into this shit.

Off-ramp for the reader? Vivid is hhhottttt.

and I'm a long fucking way from Detroit. Life just makes some pain-in-the-ass coincidences, sometimes.