Stan’s Obligatory Blog

Mandy gave me a digital camera to experiment with. I got it to mount on FreeBSD with:

camcontrol rescan all
mount -t msdos /dev/da0s1 /mnt
cd /mnt/dcim/100_fuji/

Added ‘deirdre [at] sokol.com’ and ‘owner-skeptic [at] listproc.hcf.jhu.edu’ to the whitelist for SpamAssassin in /usr/local/etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf.

Last Saturday, we found a large praying mantis in the back yard. We put it in a little cage and brought it in for Lucinda to see. She took it to school yesterday to show everyone. Last night, we went out to the garage and caught a large spider and put that in the cage with the mantis. This morning, all that was left was a small pile of legs in the corner of the cage.

I noticed that we are getting another surge of activity on the dead dot-com page. This time it’s coming from a Spanish site at www.putalocura.com.

We went to the Pasadena History museum today to see “Next Stop – Pasadena – From Red to Gold”. This presented the history of rail transportation in Pasadena. It was pretty interesting seeing the old photos and artifacts.

Then we went to see “The Weather Underground”. This is a documentary about the Weathermen and their attempts at overthrowing the U.S. government from about 1969 to 1980. Now they are pretty much all settled middle-class folks, so it was interesting seeing them now and how they were then.

Today was the Inkslingers Ball. This is the big event of the tattoo social scene. It was a fun time.

Upgraded sendmail and openssh last night. The sendmail wasn’t working for sending out. Got a ‘permission denied’ error. The fix was to get the ‘submit.cf’ file from /usr/share/sendmail/cf/cf and put that in /etc/mail.

To do multiple copies in Postscript:

%%Page: 1 1

<</NumCopies 9 /Collate false>>setpagedevice  <- Add this

Lucinda had a sleep-over at Aunt Maggi’s, and so we went out to a party on Saturday night. On Sunday, we hiked up Echo Mountain before heading down to pick up Lucinda.

Lucinda spent the night at Aunt Maggi’s, and today they had a baby shower for one of Aunt Maggi’s friends. Lucinda was very excited about the party, and she had a lot of fun.