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This is a summary of the car issues I have had recently.

Last month, I totalled my Honda Accord. It was raining and I think my tires may have been low on pressure. I was driving along a downhill curve that I drive everyday at a speed that is normally safe for my car in the rain (probably around the 35 mph speed limit) when I started to slide to the outside. I wasn’t able to control the slide and I hit a parked car.

Anyway, over Thanksgiving, my dad visited and helped me get a new car, a silver 2006 Mazda RX-8. It’s a fun car and I’m finally driving a manual transmission. Four days after getting the car, I was driving Estella and my dad to brunch when a green Buick ahead of me pulls into the inclined driveway of a gas station. As I drive forward, I notice the car backing out of the driveway, so I stop. But the car keeps backing up until he hits me. Apparently his car had stalled while he was on the incline and he lost his power assisted brakes. The damage to the RX-8 was minor, but it was causing the front passenger side wheel to scrape against the wheel well. So I have been without a car for an additional week and it looks like it will be at the body shop for about another week.

” Los’ .vimrc
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set tabstop=4
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set autoindent
set laststatus=4
set ruler
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:autocmd FileType mail :nmap :w:!aspell -e -c %:e

For those of you who have this site linked or bookmarked as L0s.net or www.L0s.net, please update the links to point to carlos-m.net. L0s.net will expire on 17 April 2006. It was too confusing anyway. The “0″ kept getting confused for an “o”.

This is long overdue for an update. So here is an account of some of the things I have been up to recently. August 31, my dad and I loaded a 16′ UHaul and attached a trailer so it could carry my car. September 1, left for Austin, stopped in Nashville for the night. September 2, drove from Nashville to Dallas. September 3, arrived at my new apartment in Austin.
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Not really new, just newly uploaded. This includes photos from Montréal, Italy and Germany that I’ve been meaning to post for a couple years now. Others are just photos that I’ve been shooting with my film camera that just needed to be scanned. All of these were scanned from the 5×7 prints because scanning from the negatives would have taken way too long.

Snapshots:
[ Friends ]
[ Family ]
[ Commencement ]
[ Last Weeks at JHU ]
[ Miscellaneous ]
[ Prague ]
[ Dinner Party ]
[ Germany ]
[ Italy ]
[ Montréal ]
[ Las Vegas ]

Photography:
[ Miscellaneous ]
[ Portraits ]
[ Statues ]

Concerts at Ram’s Head Live, the Yabba Pot, the Aquarium, paddle boat rides, pedicures, vegan burgers, pumpkin pie, cookie, hiding under the bed, trips to the harbour when the Lion King is sold out, mango tango and “the usual”, tango in the parking lot, flaming tissue roses, Star Wars, summer movies, creepy ghost visions, cocktails and tapas at Red Maple, flamenco dancers, flowers, trips to DC, the Sandman, Death’s ankh, Murakami, letting you sleep, my dark corner at Sam’s, the ferret at Petco, vegan pancakes, afternoon tea at Xando, waking up early for work, lunch at Orient Express, Sunday night television, banana songs, car rides, getting lost, Radiohead covers, talented and effeminate drummers, Swan Dive, Tree Hugger, Fireman’s Pole, not letting go, evening walks and climbing trees… this summer couldn’t be any more perfect. Estella, mahal kita!

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#!/bin/sh

#
# Runs a file and stores output (if any) to log files. Meant to be run
# by cron jobs.
# -Los
# http://www.carlos-m.net/
#

unset PATH
DATE=/bin/date
SH=/bin/sh
CAT=/bin/cat
RM=/bin/rm
ECHO=’/bin/echo’

TMPDIR=$HOME/tmp

TMPFILE=$TMPDIR/`$DATE +%Y%m%d%H%M%S`.$$
TMPLOG=$TMPFILE.log
TMPERR=$TMPFILE.err

LOGDIR=$HOME/var/log
LOGFILE=$LOGDIR/cron.log
ERRFILE=$LOGDIR/cron.err

TORUN=$@

$SH $TORUN > $TMPLOG 2> $TMPERR # only run Bourne Shell scripts

STAMP=”`$DATE` — $TORUN”

if [ -s $TMPLOG ]; then
$ECHO $STAMP >> $LOGFILE
$CAT $TMPLOG >> $LOGFILE
fi

if [ -s $TMPERR ]; then
$ECHO $STAMP >> $ERRFILE
$CAT $TMPERR >> $ERRFILE
fi

$RM -f $TMPLOG $TMPERR
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# Sort mail from bugtraq mailing list
# -Carlos Macasaet
# http://www.carlos-m.net/
#

:0: bugtraq.lock
* ^List-ID:.*bugtraq\.list-id\.securityfocus\.com
| $RCVSTORE +bugtraq
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Carlos,

Your diploma hold has been released. Please come to the transcript window in the Office of the Regsitrar to receive your degree. If you have left Baltimore, please provide a current mailing address to receive your diploma.
Otherwise, your diploma will be mailed to the permanent home address on record on Wednesday morning July 13 if you do not respond with other instructions.

Gail L. Rauenzahn
Student Insurance/ Commencement Coordinator
Office of the Registrar

I’ve modified the default search so that it will also search through the photo gallery. I achieved this by inspecting the Coppermine code for searching and then extending this plugin from Idahocline.

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