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...

Here's another radio the Heir enjoyed seeing on that radios YouTube channel.  It's a European LW/AM/SW radio from the early 1960s, which has city captions in what the Heir believes to be the longwave band.  It's of an Art Deco style, and the speaker grille has an elegant rhomboid shape.  The brownish colors of beige, brown and gold go together very well on this radio, but there's also black, white and silver for the grille.  This radio's able to bend the classiness rules of not using more than 2-3 colors per artifact, because the speaker grille is perceivable by the observer to be a separate artifact from the rest of the radio somehow.  1963 Schneider Troubadour Radio @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAZk1UBYikg

Please listen to our newest episode on audio, either in the appropriate announcement below this one, or the audio stream link on this handle.  In general, the bachelor points out the dovetail between the specific classiness of cigars, and general classiness at large.  That often includes Persianesque themes of medallion and damask designs in fabrics.  Here's a site that sells such fabrics FYI.  Fabric Guru @ http://www.fabricguru.com/

We've just recently made a new episode on audio, as per the next announcement/share below this one, so be sure to tune in.  The episode can also be accessed from the audio stream link on this announcements handle.  But from 1995 to 2005 we read Spectator Magazine each week, California's Original Adult Newspaper.  They really were the closest thing to something that pushed the pro-sex ideology, as opposed to porn mags which only wanted to make money, or what we saw in the Eighties and the early Nineties as hypochondriac sex columnists.  The one presence left of this second-to-none magazine, is a wiki on Wikipedia that we enshrine for the honor of Spectator Magazine @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectator_Magazine

The Bachelor's Concerns That Visual Is Starting To Corrupt The Developing World.  Even though the Bachelor acknowledges that the developing world has its problems, they do admire their enthusiasm for the radio medium with the information, something that the Western world has forgotten with its glut of tech.  But now, the Heir says he sees signs that visual is starting to corrupt the developing world, over irrational accusations on visual that a Ghanian soccer player had killed his best friend in a ritual sacrifice.  The Heir also takes psychoanalysis to task over the "dog test," whereby at least one writer he saw seemed to contend that because a dog does not know how to talk, he cannot come up with forensic arguments against his mistreatment, and therefore such is the case for a young child.  The Heir also doesn't know about this Isis raid in Australia a couple months ago, wondering why the CIS reported at least a hundred helicopters for only fifteen suspects.  The Heir believes we need to restore warnings in radio spots for nutritional supplements that they're not meant to treat, prevent or cure disease, particularly that brain one that claims EHT.  And to the dismay of both Sonya and Lucinda, he has decided not to go to that massage parlor after all.  On audio (click Play All) @ http://www.mixcloud.com/audiobachelor2/playlists/the-happy-bachelor-1/

The great walk-up.

The Heir walks away from both the most recent Bill Cosby scandal, and that of Woody Allen years ago, with the feeling that there are no good players in such scandals.  The Heir has a low vote of confidence in both Cosby and his accusers, as well as the gossip on visual for trying to put words into the mouths of both Lisa Bonet and Symone.  So his question is, here in a vanilla Western culture, generally deprived, that invests such a lofty hero worship concept in actually flawed human beings, as opposed to the sex itself higher than all of us, are there any celebrities who have never done anything wrong?  He came across an online article about a handful celebrities who are so unrealistically saccharine-goody, that they really should start acting out.  He also wondered, on Google, whether anyone else thinks it's okay to throw some celebrities and heroes under the bus, and he found an article about that too, but it didn't use the phrase "throw under the bus," so he added it in the share below.  He likes it better that way.  He's thinking we should talk about it on audio, even with the ugly nature of what Cosby did.  8 Celebrities Who Need a Scandal Already @ http://thestir.cafemom.com/celebrities/110517/8_celebrities_who_need_a.  It’s OK to Hate Your Hero [and throw them under the bus when the situation demands it] @ http://www.rookiemag.com/2012/02/hate-your-heroes/

It's deja vu all over again for the Heir.  Giants' fifth straight loss, complete with all the fourth down in four straight play turnovers the Giants are best known for.  So what the Giants need to do now is win at home against a weak team, just for the sake of not getting comfortable with losing games.  But next week it'll be Dallas, whom the Heir sees as a strong contender.  Since the Giants can't possibly make postseason at 3-7, and with Dallas it'll be 3-8, the Heir's pretty sure there will be major personnel changes in January, though he doesn't know if it'll be Coughlin or Eli or a tertiary coach taking the fall, depending on their contracts.  But remember below when the Heir said that if the Giants couldn't make this win, they will open their next home game to a mostly empty stadium?  Well, they couldn't make this win, and therefore they will open their next home game to a mostly empty stadium.  The Giants organization will have to weather season ticket lawsuits from fans, possibly frivolous, as well as uncomfortable questions from their advertisers.  New York-Presbyterian, Bob's Furniture and even Met Life itself will light a fire under the Giants President's office.  Maybe there's an opportunity in reversing the trend of corporate names for stadiums, and actually name the place again after a good person.  Now, back to the risk of feeling comfortable with losing, the Heir did see rookie Beckham's (at least he thought that was Beckham) throwing down of his helmet in frustration and disgust a hopeful sign that they aren't so comfortable.  A sign to the fans that there's some fight left in them.  Something the Heir couldn't find in most post-game interviews with the rank and file, or overly sympathetic sports magazines and radio commentaries.  That sympathy just doesn't help, and the Heir's not entirely sure he'll tune into next week's game.  Maybe New Orleans instead if he can get it.

Those of you who've been listening to the Bachelor on audio (via the stream link here) have heard pro-sex sermons referring to or at least inferring the need for science to weigh in on whether health-wise (or otherwise), you need to have sex by a certain age, because of either intimacy-versus-isolation, or to obtain a brain chemical.  The Heir is still looking for factual answers online that science may have hidden for him on page 5 for search results if you use really obscure search terms.  But he did find one opinion which among other things called for a rational approach to the question of sexual deadlines.  (And we still need to get links from our old site to this online handle).  In any case, this opinion reminds the Heir about the days of Fun Loving Chief when there was discussion on whether there is a definition of sex that makes sense.  This online opinion extends that further, and asks about whether there's a definition of virginity that makes rational sense. Virginity Is A Social Construct @ http://bellejar.ca/2013/12/19/virginity-is-a-social-construct/comment-page-3/