Where are all the squeaky wheels?

The mismanager.sourceforge.net page has been pointing at the wrong blog for as long as I've been in this relaxing bath! Sponge, somebody!

Imprecise Pangolin

For those running Notebox Mismanager: it will run on 64-bit Ubuntu 12.04, but with a hitch: at least as of 4 May 2012, Ubuntu's new ia32-libs-multiarch package does not install the 32-bit version of libjpeg62 -- the absence of which will prevent Mismanager from running even though it doesn't know what a jpeg is, and indeed produce a completely incorrect error message if you run it from the command line. Hie thee to said command line and do a sudo apt-get install libjpeg62:i386 to solve this problem.

Useless Fragment #57

"It's a perfectly nice house."

"Those...things on the roof..."

"The architect was a little hard of hearing."

"So they actually are cupholders?"

Useless Fragment #56

Blackness impenetrable...
I looked into the abyss, and it looked into me.

I added three sugars and two caps of creamer. They didn't help.

Useless Fragment #55

It didn't take the House of Representatives long to realize that they shouldn't have jumped out of the plane without a parachute -- twelve one-hundredths of a second seems about right.

They immediately took up a resolution of condemnation, but the rushing wind made exercise of proper procedure difficult to impossible, and the whole business might have collapsed save for the realization by one of the subcommittee members that a quorum's worth of members were carrying cellphones with noise cancelling circuitry, and so proceedings continued in that venue by means of conference call -- briefly.

Useless Fragment #54

"As you know, Towson, Mr duPlace wrote this note in a disturbed state of mind -- or rather, being Canadian, province. Inspector lePlod correctly dismissed as insignificant the fact that duPlace was listening to Abba's 'Dancing Queen' on infinite repeat; I myself indulge in the same pastime. What he overlooked, however was that duPlace's headphones had been tampered with in such a fashion as to induce a variable-cycle phase differential between the channels -- such that could induce a hypnotic trance over time!"

"But Moules -- what about all the ducks?"

"Perhaps he just liked ducks, Towson."

"But Moules, there were over seven million of them..."

"Why must I account for every niggling detail?!"

(Useless?) Fragment #53

"In a suitably curved universe, everything we leave behind lies ahead of us for rediscovery."