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Fri-Mar 12 2010
Twitter Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:46:12
My inner child wants an army of robot spiders. With lasers. Green lasers. And they have to go "chitter chitter chitter", but not too loud
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Wed-Mar 10 2010
Tue-Mar 09 2010
Twitter Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:19:31
RT @justinvincent #php - On windows if you put .htaccess in C: root it will affect ALL local Apache web-servers!!! -Oh god I understand this
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Fri-Mar 05 2010
Twitter Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:02:59
Go right ahead, Mr Land Rover - ordinary traffic laws don't apply to you, because you're a SPECIAL PERSON. #rocketenematime
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Fri-Jan 01 2010
Wherein I Succumb to a Internet iPod List Meme
You can learn a lot about someone by the music they listen to. Hit shuffle on your iPod or mp3 player and write down the first 25 songs. No cheating or skipping songs that are shameful. That is the fun!
Sun-Sep 27 2009
Another Rocking Saturday Night
Apartment neighbor recently got a guitar. He would have been better off with a hamster.
All he's done is fail to play scales with a squeeky-clean tone that sounds like Joe Pass on Valium. Dude-
you have an ELECTRIC GUITAR, at least try to rock out, that's what it's for.
Sun-Aug 16 2009
Adventures In Computer Repair
If you're thinking of replacing a noisy or broken motherboard chipset fan (specifically, the one on a MSI K8N ATX {ms-7185} I have some tips that may prove useful:
On the bright side, the repair was successful, my computer is quieter, and I discovered 4 USB ports I didn't know I had. You can never have enough USB ports.
Sun-Jul 12 2009
Mon-Feb 02 2009
Google Reader
"The feed being requested cannot be found." - That's funny, I was reading it just 2
seconds ago. Google Reader seems to have a bunch of small problems, like logging
you out at random intervals and the inability to delete folders. I find myself
constantly logging in and out after it freezes. Bloglines never had these problems,
but their free email accounts no longer receive mail and the word on the interwebs
is that they aren't long for this world.
I wonder if Google will be willing to spend the
money to make Reader a finished product, since they own the world and have no competition.
Mon-Nov 17 2008
Bloat
I'll be so glad when my Symantec/Norton subscription runs out. It's annoying
enough that Windows isn't ready to rock even though the desktop has loaded,
I also have to wait 10-20 minutes for LiveUpdate's processes to stop hogging
70% of the CPU. What the hell are they doing?
Wed-Apr 30 2008
Living on the Edge
Upgraded Ubuntu to Hardy Heron.
Despite a thrilling "Fatal IO Error 9" it works just fine. I guess it wasn't quite fatal.
Only partly fatal. Slightly fatal, but not completely.
I did have to futz with Thunderbird to get it to open links in Firefox. TBird thought Firefox was called "mozilla-firefox". And I'm beginning to think that they shouldn't have gone for Firefox 3 beta-half my extensions don't work and it's like my thumbs have been cut off. P.S. Arrrggh!! FireFTP doesn't work! If I can't use FireFTP to update the blog I'll have to fall back to using the command line. I've been using FireFTP for years and I've totally forgotten what to do. P.P.S. Scrounged the newest beta of FireFTP. It works, so here's to untested software.
Thu-Jul 19 2007
Harry Hullaballoo
I heard a NPR story yesterday where someone from Amazon was talking about the lengths they've taken to keep the last Harry Potter secure. He would only say that he was in Nevada, because naming the city might be a security risk. At this point I yelled "You're in Reno, you idiot". Anybody in the book business, or that can read a return address on a label, or that has access to the Internet could tell you where the largest Amazon fullfillment center is. They Amazon rep then when on to describe how the book is in a secure room, with admission by card only, and how only select Amazon employees wearing gloves are allowed to pack the books for shipment, and how Amazon is performing inventory counts constantly to maintain security. I found all this very amusing because at that exact moment I was tooling around Seattle in a Ford van with over 500 Harrys packed into the back-just me, with only a large box knife and a bad attitude standing between Potter and hordes of biblophile highwaymen. And I wasn't even wearing gloves.
Thu-Mar 01 2007
Good Impulse Control
![]() From Craigslist:
Let me tell ya, last Sunday night I was this close to calling Craig and heading out to West Seattle with $750 to buy myself a hearse. Then my inner adult regained control and I realized that this might not be a suitable daily driver for a 200 mile weekly commute. But if I already had a working car and a place to park a hearse, right now I would have one serious funmobile.
Sun-Jan 07 2007
It's Too Funky In Here
Sweet Buddha with a chainsaw! Now my whole apartment has acquired a definite taint
of dead-neighbor stink. It's not intolerable, but it's not good, not at all.
Sat-Jan 06 2007
Holiday Surprise
Sure enough, the guy next door is dead. No sign of him since before Xmas, newspapers
piling up, his van hadn't moved, and his radio was on 24/7-so I finally called the police.
It looks like he died on his bed from natural causes, though the Medical Examiner
is going to have the final say. Chalk up another life experience, now I know what
a dead body smells like.
Tue-May 16 2006
What I Did This Weekend
Friday I took the plunge and shelled out for Reason from Propellerhead, a computer music program. Reason models a rack of synths, samplers,
drum machines, and audio gear tied to a sequencer. The sequencer could use some work, but
the virtual hardware side is amazing. Your rack is infinitely changeable, limited only by the capabilities of your computer. Plus you can "flip" your virtual rack around and play with the cables that route audio and control messages from one piece of gear to another. The program is very well written: I ran a mixer, 3 samplers, a synth, 3 distortion boxes and assorted reverbs and barely made the CPU usage meter blink.
I tried to update the software on the Kanotix Linux side of my computer and screwed the pooch. For some reason known only to mad Germans the dhclient program echoes rejected packets to the terminal window that is also home to the GUI for the update. Result: I can't see what I'm choosing. I managed to cripple the default display manager, which means when the computer rebooted I got no graphics, only text terminals. 11pm on a Sunday night, and suddenly I'm like Locke in the Swan hatch, without even a fake Henry Gale or Mama Cass records for entertainment. Thankfully the update program made backups of the configuration files it changed so I was able to get my baby back up and running today.
Sun-Dec 25 2005
Firefox
I've updated to Firefox 1.5 and it's all good. I hadn't
realized that all my preferences and bookmarks are kept
in a directory separate from the browser-that makes updating
really easy.
On a different matter, I get a big kick out of spam with a date in the distant past. Like I might have important unread e-mail from 1969.
Mon-Dec 12 2005
The Things I Wonder About
I haven't been able to determine if any of
legendary samurai Miyamoto Musashi's
sculptures have survived to the present day.
Damn you Interweb, for failing to satisfy my every intellectual craving!
Thu-Nov 03 2005
Boat+Warehouse=Fun
Last Friday night a large (about 20ft.) boat was moved into my employer's warehouse.
I stayed after work to enjoy the show and take pictures. ![]() A Little To The Left...No, MY Left ![]() When the forklift came into play I had visions of subpoenas. ![]() Easy Does It
Sat-Oct 29 2005
Dude, I've Got It Covered
I got a big charge out of the concern the Circuit City clerk
showed about me carrying my new stereo receiver out of the store. He warned me TWICE that one end was heavier
than the other. I just looked at him like he was advising me to continue
breathing. I think I delivered something like 2000 pounds of books that
day-unless Sony is making their stuff out of solid depleted uranium I think
I can handle it. They must get a lot of clumsy customers.
Sun-Oct 16 2005
Babysitting
I learned 2 things from overseeing my 3-year-old niece for a couple of hours yesterday: 1: Sometimes the best toy is just your basic push-broom. You give a little kid who occasionally seems to be channelling John Belushi, circa Animal House, a big heavy stick and room to swing it around and you're talking big fun.
Mon-Aug 22 2005
Like 2 Flamingos in a Fruit Fight
![]() Captain Beefheart... you are one of the first modern fucked-up geniuses. When it comes to creating, you rank right up there with the likes of James Mangan, John Wilmot and Edvard Munch. Which fucked-up genius composer are you? brought to you by Quizilla Via Tom Waits for No Man
Thu-Aug 11 2005
Riiiight
I get home, and there's a message on phone machine. It's not even a live human, just
a recording: "Hi, this is Dave with the Family and Individual Health Department
and I'm calling....". Nice try, but vaguely official names make me suspect
that you're just shady fuckwads.
Thu-May 19 2005
Tue-May 17 2005
Blogito Ergo Sum
Via Adventures of Accordian Guy...
Wed-Apr 06 2005
Mencken's Creed
"I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have been more than overcome by the damage it has done to clear and honest thinking.Link Via Metafilter
Mon-Mar 21 2005
What Fun
I was awakened this morning by the firm knock on my door of the Seattle Police. It seemed
that my car was sitting in the middle of the road. Upon further inspection it became clear
that the brake hadn't slipped but rather that some bastard had tried to steal it. They ripped
the passenger side door handle off and pulled the wiring harness from the ignition,
probably so they could hot-wire it. The thief obviously hadn't forseen the possible
mechanical problems in actually starting and driving a 20-year old VW Rabbit: That car
isn't going anywhere (except downhill) until it's warmed up, and that can take at least
10 minutes. And after 5 minutes it doesn't want to hold an idle and it can be hard to keep
running. Luckily the thief must have been so upset he didn't take anything.
Sun-Mar 20 2005
A Pox On The House Of Jiffy
Let me put it this way: I drove into the University Village Jiffy Lube in a functioning car,
I drove
out with a major oil leak. My mechanic says the drain plug was about to fall out entirely,
which is not the sort of excitement I need. Most of the Jiffy Lube horror stories I've run
across involve them overtightening/stripping the drain plug or filter, not undertightening-
especially if they noticed the resultant leak. I suppose they might
have been fishing for some "repair" dollars, but that's only a theory. I should have stopped
going to them after they offered to "fix" my working back-up lights-I think they just couldn't get
my car into reverse. In conclusion:Screw Jiffy Lube
On a related note, I recommend Michael and Laura at Auto-Mobile Auto & Truck Repair. They've been my mechanics for 7+ years and 3 cars. They come to your car and fix it on site if they can, driving or towing back to their shop if they can't. I couldn't be happier with them. If you're in the Seattle area and need car repair give them a ring at 206-764-1151.
Sat-May 29 2004
I Call Bullshit
I'm constantly seeing (and hearing) this publics service spot with the
tagline "Cops write tickets because seatbelts save lives" and it's getting on
my nerves. Cops don't write tickets because seatbelts save lives, they write
them because it's against the law. It's not that I disapprove of seatbelt wearing, but
blatently false statements bug me.
Wed-Feb 18 2004
Words thats bug me
Problematic-When did every jughead on radio/tv decide to stop calling things "a problem"?
Now they have to be Mister (or Mrs) Multisyllabic Vocabulary. I think if you meet any
flesh-and-blood people who use "problematic" you can assume they are a dickhead.
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