Eriq’s Blag

I’m on my tablet because I don’t have a cable or adapter for my laptop yet so I’m going to keep this brief. The flight from SF to Atlanta was uneventful. From there to London was also uneventful except for the old guy who couldn’t breath for a bit causing mild panic among the flight attendants. When we got to customs it turned out my dad fucked up and we couldn’t legally stay until the date we has planned because my mom and I weren’t on the visa and guest visas are only six months (we would be going two weeks over). The woman kept telling us how fucked up and that the British were very disappointed with us. I can’t legally get a job. We’ll see what happens in terms of deportation. The internet here is a bit fucked. There’s a modem and a wireless router, but the modem is also a router which I think prevents the wireless from assigning more than one IP address so only one device can use it at a time (others have to use an ethernet cable). Possibly three times daily Jack the Ripper tour groups of fifty plus people go by outside. There’s a group down there now with a rather loud guide. I haven’t gone out yet as I hadn’t slept much in the past twenty-four hours. I took a nap. Oh yeah, there’s an HDTV; it’s shiny.

It’s that time of year again…school starts tomorrow. Still odd to think I’m a senior and it’s depressing to know that it won’t make a difference. Though seeing all my friends again will be nice; this was possibly my least social summer to date.

So I haven’t posted for (wow, just looked, I started the last 3 post “So…”) a while, not that anyone reads this. Facebook is helpful for staying in touch with people I suppose, though i wasn’t able to find any of my friends from England. The last few days I’ve been trying to get Ubuntu running on my laptop. Ubuntu is actually a really great distro, it recognizes almost all your hardware out of the box (ok off the live cd) and is ready to go. However, my laptop is also a tablet and Ubuntu requires some configuration to get it taking advantage of this fact. I fucked up big time once and reinstalled (though it may not have been necessary, but it did get dvd playback working). Today, I finally managed to get it all working, except for the accelerometer (for which no driver exists). I then promptly fucked it up again somehow killing my keyboard. After a good deal of copying and pasting I managed to discover the problem and right it. The only problem is, now that I’m done setting up, what do I do now?

If by some chance someone trying to configure their tablet with ubuntu happens upon this post, I’d be happy to point you in the right direction.

So I sold out today and got a Facebook account. I feel so ashamed…oh well.

To me, Facebook seems just as bad as Myspace, but slowly, all my friends have been sucked in by it. Today I found out that Souvey got a Facebook account. Well shit, it looks like I might have to break down and join the herd.

Yeah, so the US History AP was today, it sucked, but it’s over…that means that the workload in the class goes *poof*…HELL YES!!!

This guy is annoying. He’s actually complaining that I haven’t bitched/sworn in a week…WELL FUCK YOU SOUVEY! Happy now?

Yeah, so I missed the fact that DirectX 10 only works with Vista…oh well, I can still play Portal!

I thought that my computer was coming tomorrow because that’s what the UPS tracker says. However, my dad failed to mention he got a second email telling him that the OTHER parts had been shipped, so all I’m getting tomorrow is my case and LCD. I guess I can play around with the screen, but I was really looking forward to putting my computer together tomorrow and not on the 12th.

That didn’t go well.