Eric Covener’s Journal

I really want this Biggie / Frank White / Hitchcock silhouette t-shirt

As seen on Making the Band 3!

Jay and Silent Bob Do Degrassi (Unrated) (2005)

Snoogans! What are Jay and Silent Bob doing in Canada? Rewind….what are they doing at DEGRASSI! One major perk to being a diretor is that you can live out your fantasies. Kevin Smith’s fantasy? To be featured in a three episode arc of Degrassi: The Next Generation! Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes (Clerks…nuff said) head north to film their next movie in which their alter egos are forced to go back to high school, called “Jay and Silent Bob Go Canadian, Eh?” And what better high schoool to shoot at that Degrassi Community School?

http://www.snopes.com/movies/films/dynamite.asp

LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO

Fifty-eighth Legislature First Regular Session – 2005

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 29

BY WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE

A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION STATING LEGISLATIVE FINDINGS AND COMMENDING JARED AND JERUSHA HESS AND THE CITY OF PRESTON FOR THE PRODUCTION OF THE MOVIE “NAPOLEON DYNAMITE.”

Be It Resolved by the Legislature of the State of Idaho:

WHEREAS, the State of Idaho recognizes the vision, talent and creativity of Jared and Jerusha Hess in the writing and production of “Napoleon Dynamite”; and

WHEREAS, the scenic and beautiful City of Preston, County of Franklin and the State of Idaho are experiencing increased tourism and economic growth; and

WHEREAS, filmmaker Jared Hess is a native Idahoan who was educated in the Idaho public school system; and

WHEREAS, the Preston High School administration and staff, particularly the cafeteria staff, have enjoyed notoriety and worldwide attention; and

WHEREAS, tater tots figure prominently in this film thus promoting Idaho’s most famous export; and

WHEREAS, the friendship between Napoleon and Pedro has furthered multiethnic relationships; and

WHEREAS, Uncle Rico’s football skills are a testament to Idaho athletics; and

WHEREAS, Napoleon’s bicycle and Kip’s skateboard promote better air quality and carpooling as alternatives to fuel-dependent methods of transportation; and

WHEREAS, Grandma’s trip to the St. Anthony Sand Dunes highlights a long-honored Idaho vacation destination; and

WHEREAS, Rico and Kip’s Tupperware sales and Deb’s keychains and glamour shots promote entrepreneurism and self-sufficiency in Idaho’s small towns; and

WHEREAS, Napoleon’s artistic rendition of Trisha is an example of the importance of the visual arts in K-12 education; and

WHEREAS, the schoolwide Preston High School student body elections foster an awareness in Idaho’s youth of public service and civic duty; and

WHEREAS, the “Happy Hands” club and the requirement that candidates for school president present a skit is an example of the importance of theater arts in K-12 education; and

WHEREAS, Pedro’s efforts to bake a cake for Summer illustrate the positive connection between culinary skills to lifelong relationships; and

WHEREAS, Kip’s relationship with LaFawnduh is a tribute to e-commerce and Idaho’s technology-driven industry; and

WHEREAS, Kip and LaFawnduh’s wedding shows Idaho’s commitment to healthy marriages; and

WHEREAS, the prevalence of cooked steak as a primary food group pays tribute to Idaho’s beef industry; and

WHEREAS, Napoleon’s tetherball dexterity emphasizes the importance of physical education in Idaho public schools; and

WHEREAS, Tina the llama, the chickens with large talons, the 4-H milk cows, and the Honeymoon Stallion showcase Idaho’s animal husbandry; and

WHEREAS, any members of the House of Representatives or the Senate of the Legislature of the State of Idaho who choose to vote “Nay” on this concurrent resolution are “FREAKIN’ IDIOTS!” and run the risk of having the “Worst Day of Their Lives!”

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the members of the First Regular Session of the Fifty-eighth Idaho Legislature, the House of Representatives and the Senate concurring therein, that we commend Jared and Jerusha Hess and the City of Preston for showcasing the positive aspects of Idaho’s youth, rural culture, education system, athletics, economic prosperity and diversity.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that we, the members of the House of Representatives and the Senate of the State of Idaho, advocate always following your heart, and thus we eagerly await the next cinematic undertaking of Idaho’s Hess family.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives be, and she is hereby authorized and directed to forward a copy of this resolution to Jared and Jerusha Hess, the Mayor of the City of Preston and the Principal of Preston High School.

Statement of Purpose / Fiscal Impact

STATEMENT OF PURPOSE

RS 15236

The purpose of this resolution is to recognize and commend Jared and Jerusha Hess for their cinematic talents by which they have increased the nation’s awareness of Idaho.

Allegedly this is like kill -SIGSEGV

Force a crash dump
1. REGEDIT
2. Locate HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\i8042prt\Parameters
3. Create a new DWORD value and name it CrashOnCtrlScroll
4. Right-click on this newly created value and click on Modify
5. Enter 1 in the Value data field and click on OK.
6. Close regedit and reboot your system.
7. Now you will get a blue screen (crash) your system by holding the right CTRL key and pressing “Scroll Lock” twice.
8. The bugcheck code is E2

One of Marjories roomates set their apartment up with DSL, and bought a little linksys AP to go with the 2wire DSL modem (that actually includes an AP already)

The 2wire includes NAT support and wireless, but the roomie who setup the password on the thing forgot it and moved out. She took the linksys with her, leaving just the 2wire device.

It turns out these things ship w/ some very crappy WEP enabled, and the default WEP key is on a sticker on the bottom of the unit, enclosed in brackets. The old roomie hadn’t changed it, and our laptops were able to associate

I had been using the aoss wrapper to start firefox, so things like flash would play their sound via alsa instead of the OSS pcm devices (which won’t allow 2 streams). (/etc/libao.conf points to alsa09)

I’ve been getting some weird hangs recently, and a backtrace reveals:

#0  0xb7d7a518 in raise () from /lib/tls/libpthread.so.0
#1  0x088ced79 in nsIDirectoryServiceProvider2::GetIID ()
#2  
#3  0xb748ad49 in poll () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
#4  0xb7f0f758 in poll () from /usr/lib/libaoss.so
#5  0xb7238e3c in snd_pcm_wait_nocheck () from /usr/lib/libasound.so.2
...
#10 0xb730f2b0 in lib_oss_pcm_close () from /usr/lib/libalsatoss.so.0
#11 0xb7f0eecf in close () from /usr/lib/libaoss.so
#12 0xb3fd02b9 in PlatformSoundMix::UnlockAudioCallback () from /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so 

Flash… check. aoss LD_PRELOAD, check. Alsa backend, check. So why the hang?

Who the hell knows, I switched to pointing aoss/libao at artsd instead of directly at alsa09 and it goes away.

Like many urban areas, Raleigh has prostitution in its working class neighborhoods. There are several red light districts in Southeast Raleigh. It is rare not to find prostitution on the various intersections of Bragg St, for example.

Okay, what disgruntled wikipedia-er got dumped by their girlfriend from Bragg St.

The Prisoner To Be Remade On U.K. TV