- Found out last night while "showing off" my MUD that I have a login issue I didn't know about. Now I'm motivated to work on it some more.. #
- Said goodbye to brother-in-law, he was visiting from Texas and had to leave today. Sister-in-law and her 2 kids are still here. #
- Lunch at Schlotsky's. Evening plans made. Wife will actually come home. Farscape will be watched. #
- Right now (eg. before I send this tweet), my tweets and blog posts are at the same count: 3,134. #
- For the second time in my life, I've seen names of people I know in the Records section of the newspaper. #
- For my friends outside the US, re: (American) Pi Day: You can celebrate Approximate Pi Day on 22/7! #
- Owowow! Diet Pepsi up my nose! #
- It's always nice when you think payday is a week away but it's actually today! #
- ROFL @JhonenV "Leave no life untouched, even if you have to touch them in a way that makes them cry." #
- Had my first experience using Parted Magic (drive partitioning bootable CD), worked great! http://partedmagic.com #
- Apparently dinner is Skippers tonight. A place frequented by old people and....well....old people. #
- Had a great time playing games with the inlaws and that smelly homeless guy that just showed up. We were too embarassed to make him leave. #
- Just bought FIVE new #RiffTrax files, including the brand new "Twilight: New Moon." I refuse to watch it sans-RiffTrax! #
- My online banking wasn't working because I didn't allow 3rd party cookies in Firefox. Why my bank USES 3rd party cookies is unknown to me... #
- Making ready with the cilantro and lime chicken fajita marinade for tomorrow's dinner. It's a favorite now! #
People and pictures of poor grammar and/or misuse of apostrophes really amuse me. For example:
The part I enjoy most is both the appropriate and inappropriate use of the apostrophe. I see this truck around town from time to time. I finally had a camera handy and snapped a picture of it. I also submitted it to GrammarBlog.
It only comes around once per year (unless you count Two-Pi Day), so enjoy!
- My sourdough rolls are rising quite well. This always surprises me considering there is no commercial yeast in them at all... #
- The rolls were FANTASTIC! Best I've ever made, hands down! #
- I'm getting early automated birthday emails as the more eastern parts of the US are turning midnight.. #
- Remember, my birthday isn't official until the dancing midget jester from The Safety Dance video shows up.. #
- My office is too warm again today. #
- Had a great dinner with dad and stepmom at Tomato Street! #
- I don't know about you, but I could use a little Less'Nique.. #
- So tired. Slept very poorly last night. Have to drive wife to airport in an hour though. #
- Lunch with Peppin today. Haven't seen him in a while. Going to talk cryptography. Should be like old times! #
- Off to lunch at Moon's Mongolian BBQ in Post Falls with an ex-coworker. Good times. #
- Lunch was nice. Had good times chatting about old times, cryptography, and MUDs. #
- Debating: Office net connection can be doubled (up to 20Mbit) for same price. Should I try to stay at 10Mb and get a cheaper bundle? #
- Woohoo! More @woot deals! #woot happy hour = more crap to buy for me! #
- Had cake just a few minutes ago. It's just coincidence that it happened at the same time as #woot happy hour. Really. #
- Watched the #rifftrax of Star Trek last night with the Blu-Ray version (synced perfectly!) There were several amazing riffs in that episode! #
- #rifftrax Star Trek: I loved "that was her favorite cereal." It goes by so fast you almost don't get how funny it is! #
- Nearly wet myself with the #rifftrax Star Trek line "stop trying to shoplift me" #
- 3 more hours of work? Really? #
Since Lorien's been out of town this week, I've been watching Buck Rogers on Hulu. I finished it last night, but couldn't get over the hilarity of the penultimate episode, Testimony of a Traitor.
I won't go in to details, but a ship is chasing Buck and Wilma, and his weapons interface looks like this:
Futuristic or not, that's a pretty cavalier attitude toward combat!
I just finished setting up a new instance of MediaWiki for an internal department. Everything went fine, the setup was straight forward. Except nobody could edit any pages. Even the front page.
Turns out the default values you get are garbage. Specifically, the memory usage. After enabling error logging (also off by default), I found that if you tried to edit a page, the wiki used up the default of 20Mb and halted, resulting in a blank screen any time you click an edit link on the wiki.
Once I figured this out and cranked up the memory limit, things started working fine. I'm just left wondering why the default settings cause the system to fail "out of the box."
Today is my stepmother Charlyn's birthday. Just a couple days after mine, so it's not hard to remember. Happy birthday, I'm coming over for cake later! For some reason, I've been thinking this was on Friday, but when I looked at my calendar it said today.
In my head, it was like this, but in reality, I was just working like normal.
Altered thrift-store art is too awesome to not post about! It makes me wish I had artistic talent!
Once again my Twitter feed failed to migrate over here. I have a suspicion it's Twitter, though, and not the WordPress Twitter plugin. Things are always getting borked up over there.
If Captain Ahab had been hunting the fail whale instead, that book would have been 15 pages long!
At least I got it to work manually…
- Onions and peppers are all cut up, ready for fajitas in 1 hour! #
- NBC will only show highlights (if you're lucky) for some sports, but they'll show you the 50k x-country race all day. #BORING #
- The fajitas were a huge hit. The hand-made tortillas were the icing on the cake, though! #
- Returning a printer to HP that I got last week.
# - Cracker's "Teen Angst" just came up on random play. Didn't realize how much I needed that song right now.. #musicmonday #
- You can now place a preorder your @Boogie_Board at their site. Since I got mine last week, everyone that's played with it LOVES IT! #
- I bought FIVE @rifftrax mp3s last night. I <3 movie riffing! #
- Installing Untangle on a new test firewall machine. #
- Untangle is now booting. So far so good. #
- Why does loading BoingBoing SUCK UP my CPU cycles? #
- Got a nice original fairy watercolor from @Tavisha. It will either be for Lorien or her friend, who loves fairies. #
- Today @JhonenV revealed some interesting things about@richardhorvitz such as the origin of that dead child fused to his back.. in reply to JhonenV #
- Remotely managing software on a SuSE Linux Enterprise Server. It's not real fun, but it's doable. Copying install DVDs up now. #
- Thank goodness I have a 10 meg fiber connection.. #
- Wonder how long it's going to take to tar and bzip2 a DVD image... #
- Not to mention whether it's worth doing. I don't know how much space it will save. #
- Burning in Apache mod_rewrite hell right now. Hey, at least it *can* be done.. #
- Just bought tickets to #w00tstock Portland for May 8th. Thanks @paulandstorm! #
- Ooh! Boost's new release last month finally has the UUID library! Yay! #
- Exec wondering why our site loads slower than competitor. I say it's the 3.2Mb flash video, but no one believes me.. #
- Today's wisdom: Good Design > More (bandwidth | memory | money | cpu speed) #
- How do they make eggs with more vitamins? Injection? #
- Just cracked a hard sudoku puzzle that's been bothering me for a couple of days. Success! #
- News: Snow storms bad for unemployment. Me: Don't you mean employment? #
- Had no idea @jimchines was here until @starshipsofa RT'd him. You should read his books, they're fun! #
- RT @csts Ron Glass speaks about Book comic! http://bit.ly/
aTKPn3 <- I'm totally geeking out about this! # - Monday is my birthday. I expect platypus-shaped pinatas and the cast of "The Safety Dance" video. Or at least the midget jester. #
Ran across How It Should Have Ended recently, and thought I'd share this one:
I received my copy of Cinematic Titanic's The Alien Factor in the mail the other day. I watched it this morning since I was up early with little to do. The Alien Factor like East Meets Watts, is a "live show DVD," a recording of a live performance. I didn't think I'd like either as much as I did because of the laughing in the background, but it wasn't too bad. (In case you don't know, I have a strong aversion to laugh tracks.)
In any case, The Alien Factor was a horribly low-budget film. In fact, I'd be surprised if it wasn't some amateur film school dropout project. A significant portion of the movie involved people walking around in the woods not saying anything!
The plot (what there was of it) involves a crashed alien spacecraft that held dangerous biological entities the aliens intended to study. They are freed by the crash and begin terrorizing a small town. There was a ton of plaid and most of the pants flared out at the bottom (always funny!) and the acting was horrendous. The "hospital" scene was obviously a white sheet backdrop, and the sheriff's car had only two doors. A "state policeman" showed up in uniform driving a VW Beetle.
The worst part, however, has to be the end, when we find out the guy helping to kill the monsters is actually himself an alien. The woman he's speaking to screams because he's hideous, and the sheriff shows up and blasts him with the shotgun and the film ends abruptly. While I enjoy this type of entertainment (well not the movie, but the riffing), I think I enjoyed East Meets Watts more than The Alien Factor.
- Someone did something truly AWFUL in the men's bathroom. You could smell it IN THE HALLWAY! #
- Then someone over-corrected by spraying half a can of Lysol. Now I can hardly breathe, but it smells slightly better. #
- Lunch with a Cisco technician today. It's about time.. #
- This is awesome: http://xkcd.com/705/ #
- Oh yeah. New #CinematicTitanic release is mine! #
- Bought Jeff lunch because it's his birthday. Woot! #
- Think I just blew out the TCP/IP stack on my router. It choked while browsing web, downloading files, and copying a 1.2G file internally. #
- I keep looking for pedobear in the audience at the Olympic figure skating rink.. #
- Installing Ubuntu 9.10 x64 desktop in VMware Fusion. Hopefully my MUD development will continue in the virtual machine. #
- I had no idea that 'port install meld' would take so long. How do people live without meld?? #
- Woohoo! Another @wootoff!! #
- Port is still fetching and building prereqs for meld... #
- Reading about the Cassandra data model for next-gen databases. Interesting stuff. #
- Seriously. Does meld really require so many prerequisites? Like gnome-keyring? GIVE ME TEH MELD!! #
- Well that was a waste of 45 minutes. Meld won't install. #FAIL #
- Hello, snow. Where have you been? #
- Office meeting in 15 minutes. I'm not sure I'll finish anything I started today... #
- News: Killer whale kills somebody. WHAT DID YOU THINK WAS GOING TO HAPPEN?? #
- Meeting time. Not sure how many I've had this week, but the hour count is over 8.. #
- Boss admitted to blowing off my proposed solution email last night. Turns out I was right after all. #vindicated #
- Good news: @InvaderCon is 1 year, 1 month, and 1 day away #
- When my Tatung rice cooker dies I will get very choked up. Seriously, there could be tears! #
- Happy gorram birthday @adamsbaldwin! #
- Just finished cutting up 4.5 pounds of chicken. Into the fajita marinade with you, chicken! This is going to be soooooo good. #
Wow, I think this is one of the longest periods of time I've not written anything here on the blog. Even on vacation, I manage to write a few posts and add some pictures. I guess it's been stressful lately.
Today I'm focused on relaxing and winding down. We're hosting family dinner tomorrow night, and we're making fajitas for Ronnie (it's his birthday dinner). They are delicious, and this time we're adding in homemade flour tortillas, it's going to be awesome!