Attn: Linux Laptop users

If you are not running powertop, and are not paying attention to LessWatts.org, you're probably not using your power system as efficiently as you could. By following the examples in LessWatts, I have reduced Chi's power consumption from 21W to 14W, and gotten an overall battery life boost from 2.5 to 4 hours. Some of the modes can have hefty consequences; in a worst-case scenario, power failure from a drained battery could result in the loss of upwards of ten minutes of work, as that's the write-cache interval in laptop mode. Combined with a working hibernate mode I can hack all day while being untethered. If only my iPod lasted that long!

Why must all good things...

This afternoon, after the gym, I walked up the street to the mid-Queen Anne neighborhood to restock my collection of protein bars, replace a pen I'd broken, and eat lunch at my favorite pizza joint.

I discovered, to my distress, that between last month and this, the Queen Anne Office Supply had gone out of business. Gone, kaput. Now where will I get my favorite pens?

I went to Paggliaci's only to discover to my horror that their "remodeling" had basically turned one of Seattle's most iconic pizza outlets into a corporate clone of itself. It's like an Invasion of the Restaurant Snatchers! The wicker seats, the avante-garde photography on the wall, the daily papers pinned to the bar for people to read... all gone. In its place was dull brown paint in a quasi-art-deco style pimping "eat more pizza and have a gelato!" Subtle as a brick and twice as depressing. The pizza tastes the same, which I suppose is a plus in their column, but the interior screams "fast food franchise," not "Seattle's best pizza place, evah." Not anymore.

Bleah.

Okay, I confess, I looked at Lindsay Lohan

Okay, I confess. I looked at Lindsay Lohan's nude photos, [NSFW] and I have to say that I'm convinced: she has every potential to be a very beautiful woman. I mean, if you happen to like big-breasted girls with hourglass figures, which I do (heck, I married one). Not a bad rump, either. That said, if you look at the third picture on the fleshbot sampler (again, dudes, [NSFW]) there's just something wrong with her eyes. It looks like she's exhausted, or stoned, or recently plastinated^[?]. Which is too bad.

Then again, as most people know, my taste in women runs more toward Camryn Manheim than the Olson twins.