by Katherine Villyard | May 2, 2008 | geekiness
My newly upgraded Ubuntu 8.04 box continues to boot to a black screen from a cold boot. Sure, I can go into recovery mode and then it works when I reboot, but I don’t really want to fix my machine every time I boot it. And I’m still not alone. My...
by Katherine Villyard | Apr 27, 2008 | geekiness
I woke up–slept in, ’cause I was up late upgrading–wandered over to the computer, and pressed the power button. It ran through the startup process into a black screen. Meh. Luckily, escape at the grub menu, running the recovery mode, and picking xfix...
by Katherine Villyard | Apr 26, 2008 | geekiness
One of my other machines is busily upgrading from Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper) to 8.04 (Hardy). I did both a full backup and a backup of home first, just in case anything ends up hosed. Yikes. No, I don’t live dangerously. 😉 Sadly, Ubuntu has discontinued their PPC...
by Katherine Villyard | Apr 14, 2008 | life, the universe, and everything
Someone recently asked me how I became a feminist. Let me set the scene for you. I’m ten years old, living in Ogden, Utah. My father is stationed at Hill Air Force Base, and I’m merrily exploring hitherto unimagined depths of unpopularity at Horace Mann...
by Katherine Villyard | Apr 3, 2008 | sale
My story “In the Water” will appear in an upcoming issue of Fictitious Force!
by Katherine Villyard | Mar 26, 2008 | life, the universe, and everything, novels
Pretty much working, exercising, and writing my novel. And nagging my sister to put dog pictures on Flickr. I think the world needs more pet pictures, don’t you? Isn’t that an Avenue Q song? “The Internet is for Pet Pictures”? Current novel...
by Katherine Villyard | Mar 10, 2008 | novels
My novel-in-progress is over 40,000 words. Yay, it’s a novel! It’s not a complete novel, mind you. In fact, it’s a half-complete novel. But it’s 40,000 words, and a girl needs...
by Katherine Villyard | Mar 7, 2008 | life, the universe, and everything
I just subscribed to Asimov’s as an ebook from fictionwise. See, I love Asimov’s, but I hate the way all those little digest-sized books start to cover every available surface of my home. This is much better, because they just go onto my PDA and are there...
by Katherine Villyard | Mar 6, 2008 | life, the universe, and everything
A man sits next to a woman on a plane. He spreads his legs, pressing them up against her. She complains. He tells her, “You’re a big girl.” She says, “Don’t fucking talk to me like that.” He grabs her arm and threatens,...
by Katherine Villyard | Mar 5, 2008 | life, the universe, and everything
Apparently, my comment sp@mmers are offering me links to pictures of garden implements. One even offered garden implements with cats. Intoxicated cats. How can I ever resist? *deletes*