Of ships and shoes and sealing wax, and futons and Logjam and ... oops, sorry, that doesn't scan.

[unixronin]

First the good news:  I found my problem with Logjam -- when I renumbered our network, I forgot to change the authorized-IP setting in squid.  Oddly, firefox wasn't having an issue with this, but it was tripping up Logjam.

Reconfiguring Squid properly has also allowed my comic unplugger to work properly again, which means I can once again read Dilbert and Pibgorn without all the fucking spam and popups.  Take your spam and shove it up your ass, United Media.

In other news, however, I'm having no end of trouble getting our futon frame assembled because of the infernal mud-dauber wasps in North Carolina, which I hereby declare are a pox and a curse.  The concrete-shitting little bastards will fuck anything with a hole in it (figuratively speaking).  I may have to do significant re-engineering on the futon frame just to be able to get it back together at all, since at least one of the T-nuts (yeah, it's a cheap frame) has torn up the wood under it in the course of my attempts to get enough of the damned dauber-wasp concrete out of it to get a bolt into it.

Comments

[olafthunderfoot.livejournal.com]

~hands you a can of wasp and hornet killer~

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

There's no live wasps to deal with, just their leavings. Besides, I have nothing against hornets -- bald-faced hornets, at any rate. If you have bald-faced hornets, you don't have yellowjackets. They're very unaggressive toward humans (especially as contrasted with yellowjackets' notorious foul temper), but will attack and kill yellowjackets on sight.

[olafthunderfoot.livejournal.com]

thanks for the 411, if i knew what one looked like, i wouldn't be so anti nasty stingy critter! i've been stung too many times.