The Rational Druid

I’ve just started playing around with fvwm-crystal on Ubuntu, and I’ve run into an issue that others may have, too. Out of the box, I didn’t have any application menus showing up. It turns out that fvwm-crystal is sensitive to what version of python you are running on your system. Once I changed the symbolic link /usr/bin/python to point to /usr/bin/python2.5 rather than /usr/bin/python2.6, all of the scripts to generate the application menu worked. This should be stated somewhere in the documentation. If you run into this issue, you can simply delete the old symlink with

sudo rm /usr/bin/python

and create a new symlink with

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/python2.5 /usr/bin/python

Hopefully this helps other people in the same boat.

OK. Now I know what to do for the next science fair, home made fusion reactor.

http://discovermagazine.com/2010/extreme-universe/18-do-it-yourself-basement-fusion

I so wish I had some spare money and time. Course with my luck, I’d actually get over-unity and blow up my house.

Well, I just deleted the first couple of spammer accounts on this blog. Yoohoo! Does this mean that I’m starting to get real traffic now?

This video is hilarious. But it does point out a serious problem. What will you do when the vampires come for you?

Well, Pat Robertson is now officially douchebag of the century. He should be ignored by everyone, and yet he is still on TV, still sucking money out of gullible people, simply because he claims to be a man of god. Well, hopefully Zeus strikes him down soon for such blasphemy. Oh wait, is he talking about a different god? Maybe he’s talking about Mithras.

If you want to see what I’m talking about, check the YouTube video below:

Feel free to ignore this test. I’m trying to make sure all of my social networking stuff is working the way I expect them to. This should go to Twitter, and from there to Facebook. Let’s see.

What if all urban legends were true?

The Voynich Manuscript is one of those things that seems to take on a life of its own. Wikipedia has a pretty good summary of its history here. I can’t remember where I found this, but you can download a PDF of the pages of the Voynich Manuscript here. Be warned, however, that it is ~53MB in size, so be ready for a bit of a download.

I seem to be reaching a tipping point in my personal beliefs/actions. I think I’m coming to the realization that my time here really is limited, and that I need to prioritize the actions I take in my life. Maybe, even start taking actions?

Listened to: The Geologic Podcast: Episode #120 from the album “Geologic Podcast” by George Hrab

I came across the site Chivalry Today. The legends around medieval knights have always interested me. The romantic legends surrounding King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table have always pointed to a code of behaviour that I think we would be well put to bringing back into use in our world. According to the above web sites, a modern version of the knightly virtues is

• Courage
• Justice
• Mercy
• Generosity
• Faith
• Nobility
• Hope

These virtues are all things that we should strive to acting out in our lives and our interactions with others.

Knighthood is not the only place where we can get virtues. The Druid group ADF has a concept called the nine Druidic virtues

• Wisdom
• Piety
• Vision
• Courage
• Integrity
• Perseverance
• Hospitality
• Moderation
• Fertility