It would seem I didn't do a bang up job with the disk partition so I re-installed Solaris on the U60 Monday night. What brought this about is the FREE (like NPR and office paper clips) download of Sun Studio which takes up about a gig and a half in the /opt directory, plus Russian Satellites need to log all their tracking data to /opt, so she needs to be pretty big. She's all fixed up now and I installed Sun Studio last night, although I'm not sure I'm going to use it, but I do want compare the Sun compiler with the smelly hippie tree-hugging gnu compiler and whatnot. Plus I got emacs installed, so the boxen is starting to finally take shape as a *real* UNIX box. Q.E.D.

The first thing I always do with a new OS is download the old RecipeBlaster²⁰⁰³ to see if it still works with the newer OS's. Well, I'm happy to report that it does, it does work with Solaris 10, although you have to make some changes in order to get it to compile. So, there ya go, you can now easily find out which OSS project was mine by downloading them all and looking for the one that won't compile on your computer - that gives it away. I think I may actually clean up the code (ie., fix it) and load it up so any rube that wants to use it will be able to do so. That said - it's pretty easy to fix it up and make it compile so most any dope who doesn't have a home in foreclosure should be able to do it.

How this Jandek bloke never made it real big is a mystery to me. I really dig his use of the minor pentatonics...

I've taken to eating raw Cheerios for snacks these days. Raw. 100% raw, with nothing on them. No sugar, no milk, no nothing. Just plain oats. I dig oats. I sometimes wonder if I wasn't cut out to be a horse, or perhaps I was a horse in a previous life. Update [2007-12-12 13:54:13 by Bob Abooey]: - It's come to my attention that Cheerios may, in fact, not be raw. I'm currently investigating this and will update further when more facts have been uncovered.

Speaking of oats, I read The Road which was alright, but not great. I don't know, I really like the All the Pretty Horses book (just terrific) he wrote, but The Road really didn't do much for me, except make me hungry. I snacked all the way through it for some reason.. Plus I had to explain to the librarian lady that I was checking it out despite the fact that it had a dopey Oprah (GIRLFRIEND!!) sticker on it. The librarian was either playing dumb or she really didn't understand my point but whatever. I mean really - if some dope needs to see a dopey Oprah (GIRLFRIEND!!!) sticker on a book in order to want to read it then this country has totally gone to hell in a handbag. The day I live my life taking advice from a TV talkshow hostess is the day I move to a bunker in Montana and check out from society.

Right. I've got to go call the weatherman for the CBS TV station in Dekalb South Dakota to see what book I should read next weekend.