Good luck and 660GB

FedEx came by with Plumtree earlier than anticipated, and I was still in bed. Nate, who overslept and missed his bus, happened to hear the knock and was able to sign for me. UPS showed up with the new hard drives soon after, miraculously catching me between my shower and my departure. So, by great fortune, I have my computer (mostly fixed!) and enough disk space to last me the rest of 2007. This seems good.

When running on full is more like running on empty

Last night I brought to the computer lab Iaroslav, an 80GB LaCie which was the first of my line of external hard drives and houses my photograph archive, including a couple photos I needed but were not on Saint Gleb, which, as my newest 250GB addition, houses most of my current work. Theo, a fellow Minnesotan in this Masters program, asked me why I needed two. I told him that my archives exceeded the size of either disk, and he seemed a bit dubious, having been able to get his work from many years onto a portion of a comparably sized disk.  To make sure that I wasn't deluding myself, I checked Saint Gleb's remaining free space, and unpleasantly surprised to discover that I was down to my last 550MB. A quick trip to Amazon.com became essential, so I'm expecting another pair of 250 gigabyters within the week.

All my hard drives are named after the children of Vladislav I, ruler of Kievan Rus. Iaroslav and Mstislav came first.  Saint Boris and Saint Gleb made the second pairing. I think these two will be Stanislav and Sudislav, since I'm not quite prepared to honor Sviatopolk.  Maybe these two will be the last of this family.

Black and red and white all over

Shield thine eyes before visiting The Daily Pork:  The appearance of the site is rather...intense, but then again, so is their passion for pork.

Der mächtige Ozean!

Martin and I are screening Ocean films this spring! Here's the line-up:

14 Feb – Jaws
21 Feb – The Endurance
28 Feb – A Night to Remember
07 Mar – Riding Giants
21 Mar – The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
28 Mar – The Sea Hawk
04 Apr – Yellow Submarine
11 Apr – Das Boot

Just missing the boat (so to speak), were the Japanese short "Glassy Ocean" and the pilot of the short-lived television series Fishing With John.

Return to the mother ship

Plumtree is travelling back to the manufacturer today for a new motherboard. Hopefully for real this time. Sigh.

Jôurneiing thrugh Sneue for Gōd Ale

Nate and I made a snowy trek this afternoon to Middle Ages Brewing Co., which is located just blocks northwest of the Warehouse. The place isn't much to see with it's grey walls and complete lack of pre-renaissance atmosphere, but there was a health mass of people at the tasting bar despite it being the middle of the afternoon on a weekday—almost as many people as were there when we first visited on a Saturday afternoon last month. While the place is lacking in ambiance, the beer is very good and reasonably priced, especially in the 64-ounce growlers that everyone at the bar had in tow. Nate and I filled up with Middle Ages Pale Ale and Wizard's Winter Ale, which will be making their way to the dinner table, livening up our meals in the coming week.