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Home, hotdogs already scarffed for dinner. Now I think I'm going to fire up some X Files episodes and play with ferrets for a few hours. They need lots of playtime, and I could sure use the mood life they give. So, if I don't log back in, I'll babble at you lot later.

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http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/georgia-inmate-spared/

A state pardon board in Georgia on Thursday nullified the death sentence of Samuel David Crowe, substituting a sentence of life without parole.  Crowe, sentenced to die for a 1988 murder and armed robbery of a lumber store clerk, had been scheduled to die by lethal injection at 6 p.m. Thursday.  He had filed a new appeal to the Supreme Court (07-11039) and an application to postpone his execution (07A924), but the Court had not acted on either before the death sentence was commuted.  His petition raised issues about the timing of his challenge to Georgia’s lethal drugs protocol for executions.  The Eleventh Circuit Court ruled that his challenge was barred by a statute of limitations.

The order of the state Board of Pardons and Paroles can be found here.  The Board gave no reason for its action, simply noting that it had been asked for clemency and citing provisions of the state constitution spelling out its authority to do so.

Advisory Board Elections
Today, May 22nd, marks the beginning of the Advisory Board Election process. Polls will be open through the 29th. Out of the following list, find the candidate you think is best-suited to provide the kind of input we at LiveJournal can use to better the site:

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This is for you guys, so cast your vote! The polls are waiting at lj_election_en.

New V-Gifts
Summer's finally here! The season brings warm weather, the spirit of apprecciation, and, naturally, a slew of new v-gifts. If you're looking to celebrate a special friendship, the spirit of theatre or a loved one's graduation, we've got perfect ornaments for the occasion. Take a gander at these fine options and get your celebration on.


L to R: daisy, theatre masks, tiara, diploma, graduation cap

TxtLJ
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LJ Dashboard
We've cooked up a new utility at LJ Labs, where we're developing a whole host of LJ side projects.

Introducing LJ Dashboard, a portal to the most popular communities, journals and entries on LiveJournal. Now there's a mechanism to help you discover new content and keep track of what's happening out there. Login to the Dashboard using your Open ID, which is exampleusername.livejournal.com. After you're asked to grant identity validation to dashboard.livejournal.com, you'll be all set to poke around and play with some of the things we've come up with.

Since we're launching LJ Dashboard for the first time, we encourage you to post some feedback at lj_labs.

We're currently running some house ads on the Dashboard. Soon ads for external businesses will replace them. But right now all users see them because, for the time being, we don't have a way of distinguishing between paid and unpaid users on the Dashboard. Have no fear: soon as we've got that worked out, paid users will be spared. Thanks for your patience!

We're having a lot of fun with some great ideas right now so keep an eye out for new LJ Labs releases!

Hello all,

Twenty-five years ago we opened as a small bookshop in a cramped office space just off University. Now, due to the support and general awesomeness of the Denton Community, we’re a respectably sized bookshop in a still-somewhat-cramped, century-old Opera House. Especially given the decline of independent and used bookstores in recent years, we aren’t taking any of it for granted.

To celebrate, we’re having a 25th Anniversary Sale this coming weekend, May 23-26, with 20% off books, records, VHS, and cassettes; 10% off DVDs and CDs, and 25%-50% off select collectibles (including collectible mystery titles, 45s, and more). The official Anniversary Celebration will be held from 11-5 on Saturday (the 24th), complete with door prizes, cake, readings from the winners of the Poetry Competition, and assorted other surprises throughout the day.

We’d love for everyone to come out and celebrate with us. It’s smart, warm, honest, wonderful, and often quirky folks like all of you who have made this place what it’s been for a quarter of a century, and for whom we’re going to keep doing what we do.

Sincerely,
Aaron

Recycled Books Records & CDs
Open 7 Days a Week, 9-9
200 N. Locust, Denton, TX, 76201
(940) 566-5688

In happier news, just bought my tickets for Indiana Jones on Saturday. Less than 48 hours til archaelogy time, I can't wait.

…take notice. NCSoft has reactivated all inactive accounts until Sunday night. Download, log in, see what the new Issue 12 is like.

As I told you 3 times already, and 4 times 5 minutes ago, no, you cannot have the part dispatched to you next business day. I don't care how many bazillions of dollars a second you're losing because ZOMG you can has no working AC adapter. I meerly push the buttons and flip the switches that tell the trained warehouse monkeys to package you up a new part. I don't care how many supervisors you insist on talking to, they can't help you either. Suck it up, buttercup, and next time save your work on a flash drive.

As for that frakking HP machine with the power supply problem? The one with the proprietary power supply that can't be found anywhere, even other HP machines? The one that has been a real pain to fix?




I've got four words for you:




Who. Is. Your. Daddy.

I'm reading The World in a City by Joseph Berger. It's nonfiction -- basically essays about the different ethnic neighborhoods of New York City. It's pretty interesting, but I'm getting frustrated with his, well, shall we call it poetic license?

For example: "succulent roasted baby lamb"
As if a lamb could be a grown-up.

Or: "I can . . . [get] on the subway for the price of a MetroCard."
A MetroCard doesn't have a price. As a native New Yorker, I know what he means, but I think it can give other people the wrong impression.

There are a lot more examples like this, and they're all small things, but they add up.

This is OT, but you're all smart. If I put up a website, is what I write and post copywrited, or do I have to do something special? I'll give more details in comments if people want them, but this is Ot, so I'll spare your F-list.

http://www.qwantz.com/archive/001227.html

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May 22st, 2008: Guys I will be at Anime North this weekend! I'll be there this Saturday, all day, at the Beguiling table. I will be selling my books and shirts and generally being AS HANDSOME AS I CAN MANAGE UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF MY BIRTH AND GENETICS.

Also: new Wigu comics! This is most excellent.

http://www.qwantz.com/archive/001227.html

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May 22st, 2008: Guys I will be at Anime North this weekend! I'll be there this Saturday, all day, at the Beguiling table. I will be selling my books and shirts and generally being AS HANDSOME AS I CAN MANAGE UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF MY BIRTH AND GENETICS.

Also: new Wigu comics! This is most excellent.

I work for an external IT company and some of our clients have their own IT guy onsite so we just handle things that are out of their realm of experience. We are also heavy into managed services. I have been helping out with monthly reviews of our managed clients and get to one of our customers with an internal IT.
When I come to the bit where we review their backups I start trying to look up how these are being done. I check the usual suspects... no veritas installed, not using our "backup server" solution, no scheduled NT backups. I dig deeper, trying to figure out how they are doing backups. I find an external hard drive and look around at the files...

Are you ready for this? I sure as hell wasn't.

Windows briefcases.

I kid you not, they're using windows briefcases on a USB drive for backups.

Hey Guys :)

Ok!

So I have a NIS environment running with autofs.

In one of my auto.foo files I have a share:

blah server:/foo

Now I am migrating the data from server:/foo to serverB:/foo
I will change that in my auto.foo file and push the changes out with a make.

Now for automount, a lot of server will have the old mount already mounted, will it automatically switch to the new mount without me manually umounting things? Or will it just try and remount the new share onto where the old share used to be (giving me an error of mount point in use) when someone uses a file in /foo

(I hope that made sense)

Also: If it will cause an error, is there an easier way to manually unmount all the old shares?

TWO FOR ONE

Find the word that fits the definitions below when it's 1) a whole word and 2) divided into two separate words.

1) Whole word: to require an employer to hire unnecessary union employees (10 letters)

2) Two words:
a. accomplishment (4 letters)
b. seasoned with parsley, sage, rosemary or thyme (6 letters)

Another morning, with nothing much to say about it. In fact, due to repetativeness, I won't even mention mood or whatnot. Just read the last 3 days to see a general gauge of my morning mood. Just ain't worth the typing.

Approx 14.5 hours of work remaining before 3 day weekend. Those hours include the annual Shoggoth Pit Crawfish boil, aka "Things Vulpine would rather not eat". But, I'll make an appearance, do the socializing with the coworkers, then bail for home. Home good, I like home.

Amusing ferret story, since people seem to like those. Got home last night from book raid, let the mob out and got on the laptop to post about said raid. Ferrets seem to now have an unholy fasination with the laptop. So I typed fast, shut down the laptop and hid it so they would stop trying to chew the cables, dance on the keys or try to nip my nose. Demanding ferrets I have. But they're cute as hell, so I'll deal. :)

Not much else going on, so back to the pit.

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http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/reply-brief-in-tyson-foods-v-de-ascencio/

On Tuesday, Akin Gump filed this reply brief in the case of Tyson Foods, Inc. v. de Ascencio.  The issue is “whether the time spent donning light protective gear constitutes ‘work’ under the Fair Labor Standards Act if the activities do not require a significant level of exertion.”  The cert. petition can be found here and the respondent’s brief in opposition here, while the opinion of the Third Circuit can be found here.  The U.S. Chamber of Commerce filed an amicus brief supporting petitioner, which is here.

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http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/deputy-sg-thomas-hungar-to-depart-from-sgs-office/

We have learned that Deputy Solicitor General Thomas Hungar resigned some time before General Clement announced his resignation, and he will be leaving the office soon.  He has not announced future plans. 

Prior to becoming the Deputy Solicitor General, Hungar was a partner at the firm Gibson, Dunn &  Crutcher.

#1 - What is the name of the restaurant in Downtown Dallas that is in the (high up) big revolving ball? I can't think of any other way to describe it lol but at night it rotates and lights up.

#2 - Has anyone ever eaten there before? If so, what kind of food do they serve? About how much would it be for dinner? Would it be inappropriate to take a 9 year old?

My daughter found out last night it's a restaurant and really wants to go so we're going to take her but I'd like to see what I'm getting myself into first! Thanks.

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