The corpus colossum is restored, and Improv and Pat shake hands. In one blink, a twisted landscape, in the next, normalcy.

I'm back online at home. It'll be a little while until I fully catch up on my email, and pull everything together, but at least now it won't be long. My apologies to everyone who I haven't responded to in email yet. It'll be soon.

I also twisted my configuration a bit today. I got tired enough of the crappy sound quality on holly's new motherboard that I moved the speakers to forrester, and did lots of tweaking to get rid of the squeal that forrester normally continuously has when it uses its soundcard. I also fixed the odd shifting effect on the shared monitor that happened when holly was using it by using a shorter, more strongly shielded cable between the KVM and holly (forrester seems to do fine with the longer cable, despite it using it in higher res. Maybe it's the refresh rate that makes the difference).

The Senate is working on undoing some of the media control rules that the BushJr (pretzels be unto him) administrations have been undoing. In yet another step in my slow liberalization, I approve of those regulations, and see it as a good thing that the Senate is moving to rollback the changes. Libertarianism doesn't mesh well with Democracy in many of its stances. I have mixed feelings on each -- the masses are collectively very stupid, but Democracy both placates them and provides a way for them to stop the greatest abuses, a way that's hard to come by in other systems. Libertarianism has a purity I like, and doesn't intervene, and I do think most meddling is crap. However, in that same breath, I think there are some causes and areas where meddling is great, and neither the market nor notions of individual liberty are things that I think should be sacrosanct. Oh well. It's bedtime.

Music for now is Blues Traveler -- Hook