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Pon'far: What if Spock hadn't made it to Vulcan in time? (NSFW)

Can this possibly be real?  One of the commenters is right, all it's missing is Ricky Gervais.

Favorite election quote: From the Somerville Police chief regarding Question 1 (to allow the sale of wine in food stores): "Vote no on 1. In Somerville alone, it would allow the number of liquor licenses to double, from 26 to 46."

Vote early and often

Registered Voters 278127 - Cards Cast 311936 112.16% ¹

Along the same line, this has been a long time in coming. But, heh

"Candidly, I have no desire to micromanage the Boston Election Department," he said. "It's about as appealing to me as taking over the Baghdad Election Department. But as this situation made clear, we're now talking about the rights of voters. And now, we have to deal with it."

¹ I have since been informed that "cards" means the number of pieces of paper, not number of ballots. This ballot had two double-sided "cards", so 112% is actually a 58% turnout. Still pretty high, though.

I'm having equipment trouble.

Yesterday, I bought an external hard drive case for the 300mb drive I had sitting around. I’d originally bought the drive for an NAS, but couldn’t find one that wasn’t crap, so I got a plain old USB external case instead. The server box is always on, so why not? I’ve been backing the desktop machine up to the server, but I didn’t have anywhere to back the server up to except itself. I’ve been growing increasingly uncomfortable with that.

“Something” happened during installation and it screwed up my system. After reboot, services weren’t started. Services like “server” and other things that are sort of necessary. I tried to start them manually and they’d shut down immediately. I tried to start “Windows Firewall and Connection Sharing” service, and got “Error 5: Access denied”. WTF? This was also after starting Nero (a DVD burning program) and it said “Your executable has been altered. You may have a virus.” Well, I don’t have a virus, of that I’m certain. My Czech protection is fantastic, I recommend it to everyone. But since the services wouldn’t start, there was no network. The server could access the internet, but the internet couldn’t access the server. Not good. I’ve got work to do, and it is my production machine after all.

Well, I turned it off overnight, and it seems to be working okay this morning. All the proper connections have been restarted and I was able to back up the system. Now I’m seeing tons and tons of errors in the system logs. Controller parity error on Harddisk0D. I don’t like the sound of that.

Scandisk showed no disk errors, but I’m still getting controller errors. These are the two errors I’m getting:

• Error 5
• Error 11 [troubleshooting]
• Warning 51

Was supposed to go for a bike ride today but this hardware problem has thrown a spanner in the works. I guess I'll go run a couple of errands instead.

Have a swell weekend.