The Captain’s (B)log

If you haven’t visited “Rifftrax”:http://rifftrax.com before, check it out!

It’s the guys from Mystery Science Theater 3000 doing their thing again — they’re not in space, and the two guys who did the voices of Crow and Tom Servo are just playing as themselves, now (trademarks and all that), but let me tell ya; they’re just as funny now as they ever were. They were obviously the writers and well as the actors back on MST3K, and it shows.

How their stuff works now: you get set up at Rifftrax.com, and you buy an MP3 audio track directly from them (they’re usually about 3-4 bucks). Then, you sync it up and play it along while you’re watching the movie (don’t worry, it’s easy) — just play it on anything you want: an MP3 player, your stereo system (Nina and I played it on her laptop).

And, let me tell you… they haven’t lost it, not one bit. I swear to God, I thought my sides were going to split open at times.

I don’t mind paying them the three or four bucks to download it, either — this is the world of “new” media I’ve been telling people about, and I don’t mind helping it out.

If you’re using Ubuntu on your laptop, do the following:

Go to “*System > Administration > Services*” in your menubar, and then enable “*Hard disk tuning*”.

Then (and this is just a bit more complex, but not very), type “*Alt + F2*” to bring up your “*Run Application*” dialog box, and type in “*sudo gedit /etc/hdparm.conf*”.

Then, scroll all the way to the bottom, and type in:

/dev/sda {
apm = 254
}

Save the file and then restart your computer. That is all.

[ "Source":https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acpi-support/+bug/59695 ]

Almost 50 years ago, a man who was running for President of the US gave a speech about how he wouldn’t let his religious beliefs affect—in any way—his functioning as president:

!http://i.l.cnn.net/cnn/2007/POLITICS/12/06/romney.speech/art.kennedy.jfk.jpg!
I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute–where no Catholic prelate would tell the President (should he be Catholic) how to act, and no Protestant minister would tell his parishioners for whom to vote–where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference–and where no man is denied public office merely because his religion differs from the President who might appoint him or the people who might elect him.

“_John F. Kennedy, September 12, 1960_”:http://www.beliefnet.com/story/40/story_4080.html

!http://i.l.cnn.net/cnn/2007/POLITICS/12/06/romney.speech/art.romney.speech2.pool.jpg!
Today we have presidential candidates saying things like “Freedom requires religion” and that “Freedom and religion endure together, or perish alone.”

Yeah… and what if you’re an atheist? What if you want to have nothing to do with religion at all?

Guess there’s no place for you in this country, eh?

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Shite. There. I’ve done it, I’ve become political again. May whatever God, G-d, or higher power you believe in have mercy on your soul.