2009 Pittsburgh Autism Walk

I shot a few pictures at the Pittsburgh Autism Walk. The purpose is to raise money for autism research. Pittsburgh does a great job and ends up bringing more money that much larger cities. I walked with Team Jordan to support my sister's family (including Jordan) and most of pictures reflect that.

What do you get when you cross GM with Chrysler with Obama?

Just substitute Government Motors for Congressional Motors and you have the same thing. Oh and take away Pelosi and insert Obama. Enjoy!

Mark Levin on the Obama vision

I think this guy is smart. If you ever listen to his show, he'll likely rub you wrong because he comes off as a snarky New Yorker (which he probably is), but he also has a very good understanding of law and government.

Ugh. He just doesn't know what he is doing, does he?

Who is this poseur?

Who laughs at an economy in trouble?




And is this what the people that voted for him expect to get?

Two Telling Quotes..

"People tend to pay their mortgages. I don't think we are in any remote danger here. This focus on receivership, I think, is intended to create fears that aren't there." - Barney Frank (D), In a speech to the Mortgage Bankers Association

"While I favor improving oversight by our federal housing regulators to ensure safety and soundness, we cannot pass legislation that could limit Americans from owning homes and potentially harm our economy in the process." - Protesting against greater controls against lax mortgage lending, Sen. Harry Reid (D)

And we're running again, well maybe strolling or limping..

Here's an update to the situation.

I did have to rename some things in both grub.conf and /etc/fstab. Since I couldn't figure out how to get the MythDora 5 boot DVD to stop at the grub menu, I booted from a Ubunutu 6.06 LTS livecd and picked the option to boot from the 1st hard disk (I think that's what the menu item said) and it began to load MythDora from the new disk. It ran into some problems due to what I had excluded when I did the rsync copies though and somewhere there was a reference to the old LVM Volume Group name. So I rebooted to the Ubuntu livecd command prompt and used vgrename to change the name to the same one as the dead drive used. I again rebooted with the livecd and chose the option to boot from the hard disk. This time it got further into the boot process but there were still problems with missing directories (/var/run and /var/lock among others). I corrected as much of that as I could and restarted using the Ubuntu livecd. The system is now up and running with the new disk and should have recorded a show last night on the schedule. It's a good thing this was a down week for scheduled recordings.

So now I have a system that still won't boot on it's own. I'm guessing that the MBR is not what it should be since the drive will boot if I use a boot cd's grub to load it. The question is, how do I correct the MBR? On the chance that the copy of grub on the new hard disk was somehow damaged, I used yum to remove grub and reinstall it. I'm going to run another grub-install /dev/sda and see what that yields.