flagrantdisregard

Archive for November, 2004

That’s my boy  

Where to begin. The Boy. Because he’s still relatively new and shiny, The Boy is fascinated with just about everything. He hasn’t yet reached the jaded heights from which my four-year-old daughter looks down upon me when we have conversations like: “Hey sweetie, let’s watch something educational!” “Dad, that’s SO booorrrrrring.”
Today while [...]

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Printing from Linux to a Windows XP shared printer  

After upgrading my daughter’s computer to Mandrake 10 official, I found that I could not print. No matter what I did, I always got the NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED error message even though smbclient could see the shared printer (you can see the logs by running tail -f /var/log/messages /var/log/cups/error_log). The problem is that the configuration [...]

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Rebel Billionaire  

I used to work with Heather, a contestant on Rebel Billionaire. So weird. She won’t talk so I have to watch the show to see how she did.

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The Darth Vader of poop  

We’ve been teaching The Boy to use the toilet and, while he does have a keen interest in doing so, his timing needs improvement. He usually tells me, urgently, “Daddy, me need to use potty,” much too late to be of any use. Much too late.
Tonight he informed me of the situation and [...]

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Serious playtime  

My daughter and I were playing tonight and I guess I was being a little too silly because she admonished me to “Quit goofing around and play, Daddy!”

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