Scurvy Jake's Pirate Blog

This Amuses Me

Scurvy Jake — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:10:57 +0000

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.

Happy Pi Day Everyone!

Scurvy Jake — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 17:41:07 +0000

It only comes around once per year (unless you count Two-Pi Day), so enjoy!

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-14

Scurvy Jake — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 16:03:00 +0000

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? #

High Score, Seriously?

Scurvy Jake — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:01:22 +0000

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!

FailWiki

Scurvy Jake — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:55:02 +0000

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."

Happy Birthday, Charlyn!

Scurvy Jake — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:16:01 +0000

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.

My Birthday!

Scurvy Jake — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:17:13 +0000

In my head, it was like this, but in reality, I was just working like normal.

Altered Art

Scurvy Jake — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:18:50 +0000

Altered thrift-store art is too awesome to not post about! It makes me wish I had artistic talent!

Twitter Fail. Again.

Scurvy Jake — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:06:55 +0000

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…

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-07

Scurvy Jake — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:03:00 +0000

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. #