Learned a few things this weekend about computers and religion:
- xfsdump/xfsrestore is a beautiful combo. Had the root partition decide to develop bad sectors during the RAID migration and was able to save most of the data using dump/restore. But not before that project consumed my entire night.
- Rebooting before a mirrored array has finished syncing is very, very bad. This seems pretty obvious now, but at 4am it didn’t seem quite so bad of an idea.
- Partitions that are part of a software RAID 1 array can be mounted outside of the array once removed. Helped save my stupid self from the above.
- Copying 150+ gigs of data from an ide drive to a SATA RAID 5 array take a looooong time. Not to mention the time it takes to sync the array. Plan for 10-12 hrs in the future.
- It’s ok to play the most violent and gory scenes from a movie with young children present (and no warning) as long as it’s the Passion. Never mind the parent’s potential objections, or how badly it might upset the kids. It’s religous after all so it’s ok.
- Cartman is alive and well and has followed his religous “ways” (ep 709) to a church in south Mississippi. No, really.
After a full day of office cleaning and keeping up with my fantasy football team, I sat down and watched Saved. For those that aren’t familiar with the plot, it’s your basic “evil teen girl clic vs ex-clic member” sham but set at a rabidly christian high school. Tho the movie did do an o.k. job of scewering the extreme religous amongst us, it did little to amuse and was overall a pretty poor excuse for a flick.
—Rant Warning—
While overbearing, the movie did remind me of one of the biggest blights on our culture today – the eagerness with which organized religon has scooped up the very dregs of pop-dom in a misguided effort to swell their ranks. Pop culture offers no redeeming qualities and embodies everything that any religion should despise and shun. I shuddered to hear the preacher in this movie refer to “the G-O-D” like some sort of pop star. One of the best lines from the movie came when the preacher was asked by his board to justify playing “christian” music that was indistinguishable from it’s secular counterparts. His response? “We get em listening to it and, before they realize it, we’ve got a convert” (my paraphrasing). And yes Virginia, I’ve seen this type of thing with my own eyes. Sickning ain’t it.
I could go on for hours on this subject, but I’ll save that for another day. Accreditation folks will be waiting on me in the A.M. so I think I’ll be smart and get a night’s sleep…
