August 2008
53 posts
The Burning Hell - It Happens in Florida: Be...
July 2008
55 posts
A simple unix/linux daemon in Python →
I’ma use this to write a process that runs in the background and periodically tells me that I’m awesome. It will be called truth.d.
UNIX tips: Learn 10 good UNIX usage habits →
A few basic shell pointers
Get over it, Orson →
From Futurismic: “Orson Scott Card is being a reactionary ass-hat again.”
more correspondence
You know I love correspondence! The Sra emailed me with a few remarks and observations, herewith reproduced and interspersed with my retorts.
I read the American Scholar article and thought of at least three people I would like to feed it to. Like, literally print it out, bake it in a pie, and say: “eat up, baby!”
I admit I’m not quite sure what this means. I assume these...
The American Scholar - The Disadvantages of an... →
Vi Cheat Sheet →
vi makes me want to destroy the universe.
“I like you, cause you’re the size of a cat, but you’re not an...”
– The Sherry, to The Cloey
YouTube - Domino Domino Logic →
Working logic gates constructed from dominoes. The XOR gate will blow your mind.
All aboard the nuclear power superjet →
A brief contemplation on the “vestigial risks” inherent in the uptake of “green” nuclear in the post-oil world. Touches on the problem of creating containment and signage for nuclear waste disposal facilities that will effectively ward off incursion by future-people (on the scale of 10,000 years).
I recommend that we adopt the Missionaria Protectiva. It’s also...
Google Docs Templates →
Because Office is like a trainwreck in slow motion.
carbon questions
Will our extremely flatulent (though small) puppy need to be registered as a source of greenhouse gases and taxed accordingly?
Will we be taxed on tonnage or, like, based on methane’s global warming potential and multiplied by twelve?
What can we feed her to make her stop smelling like several hundred head of cattle?
The Tragically Hip - Put it Off: Here’s that...
A Playlist For The Jerk Who Stole My iPod -... →
“4. Pavement - Heaven is a Truck
… and I hope it hits you.”
eric's trip - love tara →
I knew Love Tara as a name-drop in a Tragically Hip song before I knew what it meant.
I played Love Tara by Eric’s Trip on the day that you were born I had to find the cuteness in the unadorned but I was torn
Julie Doiron played bass in Eric’s Trip and later played on Gord Downie’s solo albums because the world is a blanket.
meltin' stuff
The only thing worse than “news” on the internet is the local teevee news recap of recent internet “news”. Isn’t it miraculous enough that you have a box in your kitchen that pops corn with radiations? Why do you want to believe your razorphone does that?
fiat lux
A follow-up to the lighting situation: I installed the new porch light with minimal loss of life and only one call to Sherry’s brother the electrician. It’s a light so smart that it can detect when it needs to be on. Light sensors! Motion sensors! Strange magic.
where is your dog now?
For Christmas The Cloey is getting a Habitrail.
downtown barrie
Is proof positive that god hates us and wants us to be uncomfortable and frightened.
new developments
The Sherry is seriously watching Star Trek: First Contact on Barrie’s A Channel right now.
I liked the first half of I Am Legend a lot better than the second.
30 Most Incredible Abstract Satellite Images of... →
I love the pointillism in Kansas.
raspberry wheat
Ribfest = drunken assholes and amateur blues bands and some goddamn tasty dead animals. I learned a thing about amateur blues bands: you’re not allowed to play a “gig” in this town unless your guitar teacher stands in on bass.
GNOME 3.0 Is Coming →
2010: The year we make contact (with GTK+ 3.0 and hopefully a tabbed file browser)
they're not what they sound like
A month or two I was driving to the beer store or something with Borrelli, a crunchy Hamiltonian trying desperately to pretend to be an uncaring, elitist Hamiltonian. He is a savage, fiery-faced Italian. He decides where depleted fissile materials are stored in Canada.
He is preparing the way for the Dominion of the Sky People.
We drove past rows of bungalows and townhouses, and strip mall after...
Matt Mays - Midnight is the Time: One more vocoder...
Neil Young - Transformer Man: This is some of that...
my problem with ruinediphone.com is now moot →
6GB for $30 a month on top of any voice plan is bit more reasonable. 3-year contract required, though.
i have a problem with ruinediphone.com
Isn’t a petition usually a letter accompanied by signatures? Where’s the letter? The site includes no information or context and relies on sites referring to it to explain its purpose.
I’m starting a petition to convince the people in charge at ruinediphone.com to shape up. It’s basically a list of names with inane complaints and threats, and it can be found at...
things i learned while reading about...
The French equivalent to the English idiom “it’s a slippery slope” is “c’est le toboggan.”
Anything that goes wrong in France can be safely blamed on the Germans.
[The Academy Strikes Back at Language Log]
me and my vocoder
We saw Wall*E (everything they say is true — and some of the things that aren’t said and cannot be said are true as well). It reminded me of a hundred thousand bits of sci-fi trope-debris my mind has accumulated over the years. Aside from the obvious referents (2001, Star Wars, Short Circuit), I came out of the theatre remembering a short story I read from a two-dollar second-hand...
this is how to spend the weekend
The banjo man holds court and we dance with impunity.
feel the cool commotion
Mariposa commences in a matter of hours. I’ll be there, camera in hand, to capture the mellow madness and a glimpse of The Plaskett.
And others.
Eli Bendersky’s Python insights →
Useful tips. For now. Can’t wait for everything to change with Py3k.
The Boys and the Subway →
“My sons Arthur, 5, and Gustav, 3, are obsessed with the New York City subway system.”
Get Started With the Flickr API →
commence photo-mashing and stat-grinding immediately.
Using Linux to Beat Comcast's BitTorrent... →
Here’s hoping it works on Bell and Velcom too!
10 Great Sites and Resources for GIMP Tutorials... →
Hey Ya Laurier - Wilfrid Laurier University →
what is to be said? it is a product of its time and place.
Networking with Ubuntu 8.04 and Windows Part 1 →