We Take Care of Our Own

Social Spider Web

Steve — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 23:51:02 +0000

I am deluged each day with people (irl) re-living their lives in the social spider web. You see, I call it a spiderweb because once you get trapped – facebook kills you. Then you turn into one of my friends (who will remain nameless) and post at least 10 pictures of herself, talk about having sex one night and then going to the hospital the next for a urinary tract infection. Sadly, this lady has been trapped by the social spider web, and has been slowly killed.

The other tell tell sign of the spiderweb is the gang signs. Spiders love these gang signs – so be on the lookout for { @, #, !, ♻ }

That is all – but please be my friend:

http://www.facebook.com/steve.stalcup

http://identi.ca/vorian

http://twitter.com/vorian

now for a funny movie

Best Fails of 2009 – watch more funny videos

Even Sci-fi authors love us!

Steve — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 15:05:08 +0000

I’ve been waiting to get my hands on a copy of N. D. Melander’s book ( Icarus Falling ), and reading his blog to keep track of when I can.

Tonight I came across this post and thought I should pass it on. Enjoy!

http://www.parkingorbitpublishing.com/2010/07/writing-in-open-source-world.html

An opensource created Sci-fi book…. what could be better?

I am tired

Steve — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 04:28:21 +0000

I am tired….

Well, what started out as a test of a new blog function turned into a mistaken post on Planet Ubuntu. I have to say thanks for all the cheery responses.

Why am I so tired? Camping with my wife and 5 kids – burning up during the day and freezing to near death at night. The grounds were beautiful, and generally the sun wasn’t so bad.

to sum it all up, I’m tired

Dear lazy web ….

Steve — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:23:57 +0000

Does anyone know of an application that will convert PDF files into posters?

I have a blueprint that is a one-page PDF, and my attempts at converting it to a multiple page poster haven’t turned out like I would hope.

Thanks as always!

Package Training

Steve — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 22:51:32 +0000

This almost feels like a “Hello Planet Ubuntu” post, because it’s been so long (but Hello Planet Ubuntu anyways)

Daniel has a way of reaching through the fiber and really getting people to commit to the hardest things, I am in awe of how he does it.

I hope to accomplish two things in this post, one is inform prospective Ubuntu developers on training available. The second would be the need for folks in the Ubuntu Development community to step out and help these prospects out.

To the prospective Ubuntu Developer:
There are a number of resources available to get you started with packaging. One of which is live instruction via IRC on freenode.net channel #ubuntu-classroom. These live sessions are very informative and typically have you see a task from start to finish. The package training coordinators are working on getting these weekly sessions started back up. So until these classes start up again, here are some great links to help you get started. Of course, as always, #ubuntu-motu on freenode is one of the best places to get questions answered in real time.

MOTU/GettingStarted – Take the first steps in becoming a Master Of The Universe!
MOTU/Videos – Links to MOTU video tutorials and interviews
PackagingGuide/Recipes – Some small recipes explaining basic MOTU tools.
PackagingGuide/HandsOn – Some hands on packaging tutorials.
The Ubuntu Packaging Guide – The complete guide to packaging for Ubuntu.

To our Developers:
Please consider taking the time to teach one class. These classes are once a week, and are roughly an hour. Get in touch with someone in the Package Training Coordinators team if you are interested.