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Five barrels and no gophers

News ·Tuesday August 1, 2006 @ 21:47 EDT (link)

As we descended from this dome we arrived at a spot, on the gradual descent of the hill, nearly four acres in extent, and covered with small holes. These are the residence of a little animal called by the French petit chien (little dog), which sit erect near the mouth and make a whistling noise, but when alarmed take refuge in their holes. In order to bring them out we poured into one of the holes five barrels of water without filling it....

—William Clark, Corps of Discovery

The site has been down for a few days due to Gentoo bug #135238, which is still stuck at status "NEW". Sometimes, you get what you pay for (hint: bugs don't sit in the Office12 database that long without investigation). The fundamental problem is that two packages want Kerberos, but they want a particular flavor (either MIT or Heimdal), and they're incompatible, but one claims it'll take either, but it lies.

We had a great weekend with family from Pullman; they arrived Thursday and stayed with us, visiting Seattle during the day, and then on Saturday we headed to Cape Disappointment State Park (named by a British sea captain who expected more of the headwaters of the Columbia), camping overnight and visiting the lighthouse and the Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center on Sunday. We headed back at around 1600, making good time on US 101 and then highway 12 to the I-5, a quite scenic drive.

We're doing workaholics Wednesday again tomorrow; hopefully it won't go too late. I found the crumble recipe I was looking for (that AT made for SW's leavetaking); it's called a cobbler on the site, which misled me. I found Infamous Adventures' King's Quest III, a VGA remake of the original; looks pretty good, although mere VGA resolution is pretty coarse by modern standards.