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Movie: The Laramie Project
The murder of Matthew Shepard in my hometown in 1998, even though I was in Chicago at the time, is a bleak spot in my memory. Even if it makes me bristle a bit to see good actors poorly portraying Laramie citizens, the movie brings back some of the beauty along with the ugly sude…
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Database comments may only be applied to current database
pg_restore: [archiver(db)] could not execute query: ERROR: Database comments may only be applied to current database This message was waiting for me from something I left running overnight. These are the kind of errors that really make you want to scream – a process runs for hours then fails at the end for some trivial…
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Failed dependencies
error: Failed dependencies: libXm.so.2 is needed by RealPlayer9-9.0.7.151-4 Clearly I had not taken enough abuse from the RealPlayer. This is a common error from the RedHat Package Manager (RPM). I found a package to install, but alas something is missing. Not too bad an error, as it makes it pretty clear I need to find…
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Segmentation fault
Not at all surprising that this is error #2 in the collection. In unix-like operating systems you see this error when a program tries to access memory that doesn’t belong to it. It’s like getting the bird from a car speeding by, there’s not much you can do without going to absurd lengths. Forget whatever…
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KLauncher could not be reached via DCOP
This is the first error in my collection! I’m not sure why it inspired me. It is a pretty typical error message. This specimen is of the pop-up error message variety, when you click something and get it instead of what you want. In this case I was trying to start a terminal program in…
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When Things Go Wrong
Working with computers, things often go wrong. When creating software, things go wrong far more often than they go right. Error messages have been a way of life for me for many years. I’ve appeciated the humor in error messages, written many good and bad, and been faced with thousands. It never occurred to me…
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Alabama Hills
Getting out for a climb is a challenge in this heat, especially if you don’t have time to wind your way up high into the mountains. After hiding in the house during the day Saturday, we decided to see how the Alabama Hills felt. We left about 5:30pm, pulled into Lone Pine around 6:45, and…
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Movie: Scent of Green Papaya
This movie has great cinematography, and that keeps it going for a while. But the slow pace, combined with some poor acting, storylines that don’t go anywhere, and a lack of much historical feel (of 1951 and 1961 Saigon) eventually flatten it.
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Granite Knob
It was one of those trips where we pack up the car, take off, and then decide to go somewhere else. We were headed for Alabama Hills, but I just couldn’t let the turnoff up 9-mile Canyon go by. So we went to Granite Knob, a somewhat remote, lush, meadowy spot in the northern Domelands.…
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Good Life
I was poking around a bit looking for pages on the Moon Goddess Arete, which Ted hiked to the base of over the weekend and is eager to climb, when I found this simple homepage, which struck me as an example of life lived well.