Get your ABC's of Linux right

A is for awk, which runs like a snail, and
B is for biff, which reads all your mail.
C is for cc, as hackers recall, while
D is for dd, the command that does all.
E is for emacs, which rebinds your keys, and
F is for fsck, which rebuilds your trees.
G is for grep, a clever detective, while
H is for halt, which may seem defective.
I is for indent, which rarely amuses, and
J is for join, which nobody uses.
K is for kill, which makes you the boss, while
L is for lex, which is missing from DOS.
M is for more, from which less was begot, and
N is for nice, which it really is not.
O is for od, which prints out things nice, while
P is for passwd, which reads in strings twice.
Q is for quota, a Berkeley-type fable, and
R is for ranlib, for sorting ar table.
S is for spell, which attempts to belittle, while
T is for true, which does very little.
U is for uniq, which is used after sort, and
V is for vi, which is hard to abort.
W is for whoami, which tells you your name, while
X is, well, X, of dubious fame.
Y is for yes, which makes an impression, and
Z is for zcat, which handles compression.

This is the triumphant moment I have been waiting for!!

So I thought it would never happen, but finally I got the one thing I have been trying to get my hands on forever in order to ruthlessly and mercilessly make fun of Whitson!!

Here is the unedited, unaltered image of the great destroyer of minds:

Happy (Belated) Birthday Chelsea

As you now know

The Senate and House are both under Democratic control, so boo!! or Yay!! Depending on how you look at it.

I just hope Mr. Bush starts using his veto power!

I would like that.

Besides that, politically not much else changed that I know of, oh well Rummy resigned. Some guy named Yates or something is supposed to take his place.

Of course things are looking worse in Iraq too, something about a bunch of people kidnapped and apparently we're supposed to be leaving in "4-6 months" according to some guy I saw on the news. That is going to be good!! Yeah!! Woo!! (Please note the preceding was sarcasm).

Post Election Day

So apparently we have the Democrats taking the lead in the House.

The Senate is still split 49/49.

Apparently Montana and Virginia are the two still debated Senate seats.

In Montana the vote difference is 1735.
In Virginia the vote difference is 7847.

If it goes the way it is still leaning the Senate will be split 50/50!!

However, as I had predicted to my friends the House was taken back by the Democrats!!

Senate

PARTY	NOT UP	TOTAL	GAIN/LOSS
Republican	40 seats	49	-4
Democrat	27 seats	49	4
Independent	0 seats	0	0

House

PARTY	TOTAL	GAIN/LOSS
Republican	195	-27
Democrat	227	28
Independent	0	-1

Governorships

PARTY	NOT UP	TOTAL	GAIN/LOSS
Republican	6 seats	20	-6
Democrat	8 seats	28	6
Independent	0 seats	0	0

Montana

STATUS	CANDIDATE	VOTE	VOTE %
KEY RACE
	Tester	194,914	49%
	Burns (Incumbent)	193,179	48%
	Jones	10,166	3%

Virginia

STATUS	CANDIDATE	VOTE	VOTE %
KEY RACE
	Webb	1,170,564	50%
	Allen (Incumbent)	1,162,717	49%
	Parker	26,048	1%

Yesterday was my birthday

I am telling you today, because I didn't want people to know.

Either way, I had a good day.

I went out with my lovely girlfriend.

I got nice gifts.

=B=

I don't have a job or a car

So, yeah I am pretty much just complaining here.

I need a job. However I have no real job experience. To boot, I don't have a car. Oh and I can't drive. I have a permit, but I need more practice.

I need money to get driving lessons. I don't have money because I don't have a job. I don't have a job because I don't have a car. I can't drive anyway so even if I had a car I couldn't drive it.

Of course, because I don't have job and therefore no money, I have no ability to buy a car or if I had a car pay for insurance.

I don't know.

I need to find a genie and get three wishes.
1) I wish I knew how to drive excellently and had excellent skills on the road.
2) I wish I owned a car that had extremely high gas mileage, is totally comfortable, reasonably fast, and still large enough for 4 people, groceries and a spare tire.
3) I wish I had enough money to pay off all of my current expenses and any regular expenses for the next 10 years.

That would be very nice.

=Ben=