Eriq’s Blag

Slept till five something. Spent a couple hours trying to clone my tablet’s OS. Failed. Got out of bed at seven.

Stayed up till five. Woke up at two. Sat up at two thirty. Messed around with my tablet for a couple hours. Got out of bed at five. Went to  a pub for dinner. Heard “I Kissed a Girl” playing there. Reminded of Emma’s ringtone. Stayed up till five again despite my mom telling me I have to get up before two PM. Oh well.

Today we went to the Thames Festival which is essentially a large street fair along the Thames; go figure. There were a lot of people selling things that I wasn’t interested in like baskets that smelled like reed because they were made of reed. We arrived at a stage just in time for the last fifteen minutes of some sort of Korean dance/song/theatre thing. It looked Asian so I felt obligated to film it. I have about ten minutes after which I gave up. At some point I’ll upload it somewhere. After a lot of walking we eventually reached a section that was like the Santa Cruz County Fair, but didn’t seem quite so disgusting in general. I got a cheeseburger. It was pretty good. We walked a little further and found a man walking on a cylinder attached to an arm that swung it around while he walked on the outside. At this point we didn’t feel like walking all the way back so we caught a bus home. Just now while I was writing this, I managed to semi-brick my N810 tablet and had to restore it. It just finished and is booting. Shit, I have to find all my programs again.

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.

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.