When you get a chance, people, please be sure to tune into our newest episode.  It's referenced below, and you can also hear it through the Audio link on this shares base.  But right now, the Heir wants to share a rare victory lap with Brooklyn beating Chicago *in* Chicago.  That just never happens.  And the Heir usually just whines and complains about his teams losing and not always with the best amount of fight.  Different deal tonight, though the Heir was thinking that he'd be content if Brooklyn only lost by 5.  But he got a 14 point win, a post-Christmas Santa rally.  Chris and Tim on audio did say that Chicago did have problems with one or two players not playing to their potential, but the Heir likes to think Brooklyn actually earned this win, like with their taking privilege on the other team's weaknesses.  So here's the Heir going :thumbsup:

"You can't see it, people, but I've got the :thumbsup: on this one.  We should probably get an actual :thumbsup: pic of me at some point.  Way to go, team!"

The Bachelor Has A Different Take On The Past Election.  This, nearly two months after that election took place.  Contrary to conventional wisdom, the Heir is skeptical that the election was necessarily a referendum on or a mandate against Funny Named Skinny Kid.  When the new Congress is sworn in the New Year, the Heir continues to see the most important issues in this country today being neglected, particularly the question of whether to medically require young adults who haven't been sexually active by a certain age to go to a sex therapist.  Two months was also enough time for the Bachelor to express regret over our One Percent Doctrine type response to the Ebola scare, including killing a dog without testing him for the virus, and imprisoning a nurse in quarantine who never had the virus.  They also stopped listening to the CIS full-time, particularly because of their contribution to the scare with their wrong downer claims that never got supported.  But the Heir relates his love of German radios he saw on that YouTube channel, available under the Audio link on this shares base.  He talks about how to look at the month of October (now that it's nearly January) in the context of hedonistic meditation.  On Audio (click on Play All) @ http://www.mixcloud.com/audiobachelor2/playlists/the-happy-bachelor-1/

The Great Walkup

Either today or tomorrow we plan to announce our last episode of the year.  Right now we haven't uploaded anything.  I the Mentor am inclined to believe that it's going to be tomorrow, amidst all the pre-New Year cleaning the Heir's doing, as per Scottish tradition.  Also the Heir keeps getting tired and having two hour naps to the point where not even Leeanna's able to wake him up, in her own special way.  I keep telling him to be careful with those sugared holiday cookies, which I guess he's not so used to, now that BSK has made agave-based whole-wheat pastries available for him (and the other patrons).  Stay tuned.

We do plan to get an episode in before the New Year.

Something we had linked from our old site.  We want to link it here now as a fun First Pillar link.  Nudesbay @ http://nudesbay.com/

Season's Greetings from the Bachelor!

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The Heir has made further strides on his Linuxtop.  We did record some more of the upcoming episode, so we made sure that the Heir's adventures in Linux didn't distract from that.  But the Heir actually got Wifi to work, and he was amazed that he got precise instructions that were spot-on.  These were files that didn't come with the distro but which he had to go out and find for himself, with help of the web address he saw in the startup and shutdown screens, and that's kernel.org.  He had to go to the distro's wiki for info he didn't get at kernel.org, but he installed what they asked him to, and it worked out of the proverbial box.  His first apt-get foray, and which stands him in good stead for when he gets clamz.  And I the Mentor am plugged through that Wifi writing about this that he configured.  He also tightened up Samba a bit on the security, and he wants to do research on some other good security tips on Samba that seem simple and low-risk enough and applies to his system.  The Heir will look again at what I shared here regarding his other Linux tasks, but he believes that the last task is the CD/DVD drive.  He thinks it's broken, and it's also not a blu-ray contrary to what he was led to believe online with his specific unit.  So he wants to see about getting a CD/DVD/Blu-ray internal drive that fits in his unit, and he hopes that getting drivers and/or firmware should be just as easy as it was for Wifi.  The Heir's also not surprised that Brooklyn dropped yet another one by getting ahead in the first quarter, getting tied in the second quarter, and staying consistently behind in the last two quarters.  They really need to work on damage control for when they get behind in the score, so they can regain the lead at least once per game, because they can't always count on always being in the lead.

"Brooklyn needs to work on regaining any leads they lost in a given game, and not always count on being in the lead the entire game.  That's my constructive criticism."

The Brooklyn Nets game tonight is apparently in rain delay.  Heir turned on the radio to the game, and it was raining so hard outside, it seems, that it caused drips to come off the ceiling in the main court area, and onto the court.  Game was suspended until either the drips will stop or the NBA approves of a postponement.  The Heir tried to find news online for any details, but he can't find any as of this writing.  Basketball is an indoor game, so you shouldn't have rain delays like you would in baseball.  But, people, you saw it here first, because the Heir's not sure whether on social media anybody thinks this is necessarily news.

This is a nerd share with the Heir's relationship to the Linuxtop that may go over the heads of non-nerd types, just as a warning.  He did get Samba to work on the Linuxtop.  Samba is a program that allows computers to connect with regular files listing type connections.  But here's the nerdy part.  The Heir edited smb.conf so that he can connect our Mac with the Linuxtop with at least some security (he wants to put in more).  The documentation he read online said to add a user to Samba by using the smbpasswd command, but he found out that the documentation was incomplete, because it didn't work.  He did some more research and found out that you first need to add a user to the system proper using useradd (at least this is what worked for him), and then use smbpasswd.  The way his config of Linux works is that it needs to know there's a user in the system, and it needs to know there's at least one password associated with that user.  These are all separate steps.  The Heir is used to "signup" as being one and the same, but apparently it's not.  He did assign a system password to the user just to be on the safe side.  So he got the user set up and was able to connect to the Linuxtop through the Mac, and see the folders he got set up on the Linuxtop.  So that's progress.  Next he wants to make sure his sound drivers are working properly, because he's wondering whether you can do Amazon track previews on Linux (another thing he couldn't find documentation on).  Those preview buttons don't seem Flash Player-based, so he thinks it might be possible.  And he also wants to get his head around mounting CD drives on Linux so he can watch his (equally nerdy) DVDs.  At some point he wants to get Wifi working, and at least pull down the files he thinks he needs from a web site the system itself told him about.  But the Linuxtop is meant to help the Heir cope with his addiction to YouTube enabled by the tablet, as well as offer functionality he does not see in the tablet.  And he is happy with the Giants' past two wins, even though it's easier for him to go after them when they're losing.

"I've got tape in the middle of my proverbial glasses."

We're about halfway done with our upcoming episode in progress, but the Heir wants to take a break from further production on everyone's part thus far (me the Mentor, our girlfriends, the Chef and Marco, and other good folk) to get his linuxtop done.  As in a share below/previous, the Heir's satisfied that he only has 80% of his linuxtop up and running, and that he wants to get to the other 20%.  He wants to get networking working, so that he can share a folder on the linuxtop that he can get to through our Mac we do audio on.  He wants to see whether there's a problem with his CD drive, so that he can get to watch DVDs using vlc.  He wants to get Flash/Gnash/Lightspark and/or Pepper Flash running, mainly to do song previews on Amazon (he deems that a higher priority than to spend time with YouTube) for when the time comes for him to buy more tracks in a couple weeks.  He wants to go to wireless.kernel.org to get those WiFi files the installer said he needs to do WiFi with.  And other things on his list include clamz, the ability to record online audio, being able to sync his radio scanner with that scanner site through the linuxtop, and to make turtleback style disc shaped panels for the back of his linuxtop monitor lid.  That last one will help get the linuxtop in line with the second pillar of classiness, even though two turtlebacks will be checkered-flag style (one with red squares and the other with black squares), and the other two will have sheens similar to his spaceplates for the aux jack in the car (one red with chrome trim, and the other turquoise with silver trim, both of which will have a trim seal in the middle).  So if he doesn't get the minimum of the above done by the end of next January, he'll consider that date we did an announcement here that he has 80% of the linuxtop to be when this Year Of Nominality ended.  Right now we're typing all this through that dang tablet the fetters of which he wants to get free of, with the linuxtop, so there isn't that excessive vanilla umbilical cord.

"I want to get the other 20% done with the linuxtop."

About seven years ago or so, the Happy Bachelor did an episode that criticized westernized media campaigns of The Year In Review, charging among other things such a campaign would take place in early December, and leave out at least three weeks that are remaining in the year.  Apparently Google on its search page has a YouTube link called "#YouTubeRewind: The videos, people and events that defined YouTube in 2014."  Heir thinks it's cynical that they have a pound sign in the link, because the link would still be OK without the hashtag.  How's this for a hashtag, he asks: #ThisYearIsNotOverYetSoItsTooSoonToDoAYearInReview?  Or how about, #ItOnlyMakesSenseToReviewThePastYearWhenTheNewYearIsRungIn.  As in the past, the Heir is sure that the YouTube campaign will completely ignore any events that will occur in the next three weeks or so.  He tried to point that out at the YouTube link in their comments section, but it was trying to force him to change our account.  Maybe he'll comment using a separate account, but he doesn't know if it's worth it.  It's just that there was a time when the Internet was a subversion against The Man, who would arbitrarily go on with Year In Review type coverage.  How can the so-called "new media" claim any kind of moral authority, the Heir asks, when it's just "old media" lite?  He encourages people to similarly complain about Year In Review type campaigns online, and keep the Internet subversive accordingly.

"Dang, people, the year's not over yet!"

The Heir has finally got his Linuxtop up and running.  That means this Year Of Nominality is coming to an end.  But the Heir won't consider it in the can until two things happen.  One is that he ensures getting apt-get to work without the Terminal telling him he's not supposed to do that.  The other is when he can get networking working so that stuff he downloads on the Linuxtop he can get to his music machine, and for our audio to go from that machine to the Linuxtop, so we can get it on Mixcloud.  All without futzing with an easily breakable USB flash drive.  Once that's said and done, he'll be able to kick the tablet Youtube/visual habit.

The Heir was at Bland Barns tonight, with its endless row of magazines no one will ever buy. He estimates that you can leave one rack each for magazines, newspapers, novels and Magic Books, and spare three and a half shelves for enough things like radios, old school mp3 players, sculpy clay, acrylic paints and smaller home decor. You will have enough shelf space for one set of bigger handle radios, and two sets of portables: shortwave/am/fm and weather/am/fm. There will be enough cables and accessories for music, Linux and basic electronics geeks. All at your local food store. The vanilla world: if they only knew...