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Personal blog of Erlend AakreWelcome to my blog containing sporadic personal ramblings, coding, electronics, D&D and anything else.
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Yamaha XTZ 660
So, I recently got my motorcycle driving license, and I bought a good old Yamaha XTZ 660 Tenere 1993.
It’s pretty cold up here now (6-7 Celsius at the warmest) so it’s soon off to winter storage with it, I went for a ride around Jonsvannet today, and got to drive on some dirt/gravel roads, and the bike handles those very well (no surprise).
I was a bit skeptical as I had mostly driven a pretty sweet brand new 2008 BMW F650 before, but the transition went very smoothly, the only thing I miss is a hydraulic clutch.
I got the bike quite cheap (23′000 NOK – 4000$), and I was not sure how long I was going to keep it, but now I cant see myself selling it anytime soon :)
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New Camera
I got a new camera today, a Canon EOS 1000D SLR.
It was pretty reasonable and the pictures was way better than the old compact digital camera, here are a few test pictures I took during the day.
1) A bullet hitting a small pond
2) A flower close up
3) A trio of ferrets (Pinky, Nemi, and Buffy)
4) Buffy posing for the camera
5) A bullet going through a toy RC car
6) Bherd!
7) Bumblebee
8) A sleepy pinky
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The Mac Mini
For a brief period (6 days) I was recently the not so proud owner of a Mac Mini.
I bought it to run Debian and take over as the new house server, however Installing Debian proved to be easier said than done.. All the guides out there deal with having it work as dual boot, not to run only mac. I tried 3 times to install, but each time I messed up the partition table I had to do a 12 gig mac os X install (which by the way is the worst operating system since Windows 3.11).. Even if I did get Debian installed (which I’m pretty sure I would have done in the 4th try) :), I suspect the BIOS compability crap would require it to have a screen attached to boot :(
So just to spare myself the aggitation I sold the crap and cut my losses (especially the loss of time which should have been spent fixing the Starsystem controll view in Trekwar).
At least I learned something:
My ban on anything from Apple had been eased a bit lately seeing that they started using a Unix(freebsd) base for OS X, and using Intel processors instead of their own stupid crap. But now that I have some first hand experience, I’m pretty sure the ban on apple products will last for the foreseeable future.
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Star Trek movies rating
A list of all the Star Trek movies, sorted by quality ranging from 10 (best) to 1 (horrible)
- Star Trek 6 - The Undiscovered Country - 10 / 10
- Star Trek 2 - The Wrath of Khan - 9.8 / 10
- Star Trek 8 - First Contact - 9.3 / 10
- Star Trek 1 - The Motion Picture - 8 / 10
- Star Trek 7 - Generations - 7.8 / 10
- Star Trek 4 - The Voyage Home - 7.6 / 10
- Star Trek 9 - Insurrection - 7 / 10
- Star Trek 3 - The Search for Spock - 3.5 / 10
- Star Trek 5 - The Final Frontier - 1.8 / 10
- Star Trek 10 - Nemesis - 1.6 / 10
- Star Trek 11 - 1.4 / 10
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My favourite TNG episodes
Here are the very best episodes of Star Trek The Next Generations:
- 1×18 Home Soil
- 1×21 The Arsenal of Freedom
- 1×22 Symbiosis
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1×26 The Neutral Zone
- 2×09 The Measure of a Man
- 2×13 Time Squared
- 2×16 Q WHo
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2×21 Peak Performance
- 3×04 Who watches the watchers
- 3×10 The defector
- 3×13 Deja Q
- 3×14 A matter of perspective
- 3×18 Allegiance
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3×26 The best of both worlds (part 1)
- 4×01 The best of both worlds (part 2)
- 4×03 Brothers
- 4×11 Data’s Day
- 4×14 Clues
- 4×15 First Contact
- 4×19 The Nth Degree
- 4×21 The Drumhead
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4×22 Half a Life
- 5×07 Unification (part 1)
- 5×08 Unification (part 2)
- 5×18 Cause and effect
- 5×23 I Borg
- 5×24 The Next Phase
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5×25 The Inner Light
- 6×04 Relics
- 6×09 The quality of Life
- 6×10 Chain Of command (part 1)
- 6×11 Chain Of command (part 2)
- 6×15 Tapestry
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6×25 Timescape
- 7×04 Gambit (part 1)
- 7×05 Gambit (part 2)
- 7×11 Parallels
- 7×12 The Pegasus
- 7×19 Genesis
- 7×25 All Good Things
- Arcturus - Hufsa English Translation
- Wolves of Welton extended (maps)
- Simple Sitemap on Github pages
- Old Man's Child English Translation
- Mere of Dead men map (Forgotten Realms)
- Leilon map (Forgotten Realms)
- Conyberry map (Forgotten Realms)
- D-Link DCH-Z510 Siren with Smartthings
- New blog, jekyll and github
- Fedcon 2011 - Day 3