Hello 
I'm Siobhan Curran/Kisa Naumova, and this is my weblog. I tend to write about stuff like crossdressing, Macs, code, cats, wine and Second Life, but in general it's just an ongoing conversation about all sorts of stuff. If you'd like to know a little bit more about what this all is, I recommend starting on this page which has a little bit of info on who I am, and what I'm trying to do — or you could dive into my five years worth of archives if you like.
Otherwise, feel free to close this box and explore...
Pretty Gnomes and Witches
Ack, why is it that even though I manage to get my hands on all sorts of old Macs, I never seem to get one that I can do anything intersting with?
While I was at work the other week, I spotted a PowerMac 1400 that was about to be chucked out. I knew that that model wasn't the greatest in the world, but I thought I could salvage it and do something good with it.
This morning, I was browsing slashdot and I noticed that everyone was getting all excited about a .iso release of Ubuntu for PPC — so I'm downloading it as I type. It looks rather good — it seems to be based on Gnome, which is rather pretty (or at least, not as pretty as OSX, but prettier than half the other god-awful Linux distros out there)
All well and good, but then I started doing a bit of research into whether or not it would install easily on a 1400 ... arse
Seems it's a pain in the backside to put Linux on a NuBus Mac (which I gather the 1400 is) — there's all sorts of stuff about how it is possible to get Debian up and running on it, but the HOW-TOs are full of all kinds of crap.
All I want to do is replace MacOS 7.6 with a nice flavour of Unix ... is that so hard?
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George is being unbelievably affectionate at the moment. Two days in a row he's been lying next to me on the bed with his paws on my tummy. I think he's OK — but there's a bit of a wound on his neck, so I think maybe he's been in a fight and is looking for sympathy.
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All being well, Kathie and I are going to a fancy-dress party tomorrow night. It's at a friend's house, but I need to check with him that there are going to be more people in fancy-dress than just me. It's not that it would be a problem, it's just that I'm not too familiar with some of his friends — so I think I'd better check first.
I'm planning on being a witch 
Not a nasty witch with warts and stuff, I was planning on a rather cute one, with suspenders 
I think I should practice tonight ... any excuse
An anonymous coward writes:
If you care about your cats, and the neighborhood birds, you might want to think about keeping them inside.....
Mikee writes:
I have a dirty old Mac you could have! LOL
Patheniona writes:
Elves, Witches, boombeams, or sunkissed dew too, listen, read, more will askew, Morning and evening Maids heard the goblins cry: "Come buy our orchard fruits, Come buy, come buy: Apples and quinces, Lemons and oranges, Plump umpecked cherries, Melons and raspberries, Bloom-down-checked peaches, Swart-headed mulberries, Wild free-born cranberries,
Next tomorrow if thy stay a read of nonce.
Holy shit — and there was me just going to rely on black eyeliner...Patheniona writes:
Holy shit, black eyeliner, least of your worries!!!!!
