{"id":1883,"date":"2012-10-17T19:32:03","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T01:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=1883"},"modified":"2012-10-17T19:36:32","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T01:36:32","slug":"to-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=1883","title":{"rendered":"To the FUTURE!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cue scientifical music.<\/a><\/p>\n

That’s better.<\/p>\n

This post is the first post written on my “writing laptop” since I dun reformatted the hard drive since I dun got me a rootkit on it.\u00a0 See below for the horrid, treacherous details of that.\u00a0 Sordid?\u00a0 Yeah, add sordid to that list of adjectives too.<\/p>\n

Am I making any sense?\u00a0 I don’t know.\u00a0 I have a cold.\u00a0 I got a fucking cold from one of the cretins I work with.\u00a0 And I just ended a sentence with a preposition.\u00a0 OH GOD HAVE MERCY UPON MY SOLE!<\/p>\n

I clearly need medication.\u00a0 What a wonderful coincidence!\u00a0 I was just visiting my Doctress today (that’s not a word) and she recommended doubling my dosage of Topiramate.\u00a0 So I’m taking 50mg twice daily to try to prevent my lovely wonderful migraines.\u00a0 I prefer getting migraines to people I have to work with now.\u00a0 Okay, I better not go into an angry rant again.\u00a0 The stress of being unemployed is probably greater than the stress of dealing with people who don’t know right from wrong.<\/p>\n

DAMN IT!\u00a0 I was trying to stop ranting.\u00a0 Okay, some pictures will help change the subject.\u00a0 Remember how I had the Linux side of this laptop all set up to look all goofy and corny like a cross between Windows 3.1, Windows 95 and Windows 98?\u00a0 Well, I got tired of that look and decided to make it look a little Mac-like.\u00a0 Though I’ve never used a modern Mac, so I don’t really know how close it is.\u00a0 This is Lubuntu by the way.<\/p>\n

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\nFancy!<\/p>\n

Anyway, I originally booted up this laptop because I was determined to start properly reviewing albums, and I was going to review a Deep Purple album, which was the original purpose of this blog, but I got distracted by the fact that I can’t really think straight and that I’m getting a fucking cold again and that my laptop gave me hours of computer geek shinyness playtime OS install fun to have….<\/p>\n

What was I saying?<\/p>\n

Oh, on the Windows XP side of this laptop, I didn’t reinstall XP home from the Compaq reinstall disc like I dun done before… and I instead installed XP Pro.\u00a0 And wouldn’t you know it, all of my video game emulators work.<\/p>\n

JOY!<\/p>\n

Now back to hard-core geek stuff.\u00a0 I had to install xcompmgr to get transparency on Cairo Dock, and Cairo Dock doesn’t like LXDE, so some of the file manager options aren’t really in use.\u00a0 Meh.\u00a0 If you understood that last sentence then you earn ten bonus points!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cue scientifical music. That’s better. This post is the first post written on my “writing laptop” since I dun reformatted the hard drive since I dun got me a rootkit on it.\u00a0 See below for the horrid, treacherous details of that.\u00a0 Sordid?\u00a0 Yeah, add sordid to that list of adjectives too. Am I making any […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4,7,6,38,26],"tags":[27,254,169,429],"class_list":["post-1883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-linux","category-lxde","category-ubuntu","category-video-games","category-windows","tag-cold","tag-geekdom","tag-nonsense","tag-rant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1883"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1887,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1883\/revisions\/1887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}