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A song by Bush came on iTunes. Curiously exactly what they were mumbling, I went to look up the lyrics. I Googled “Everything Xen lyrics,” before realizing that I’d confused the hypervisor with the state of tranquility. I need to get out more.
Wasting time on YouTube: “Insane News Man” is pretty funny. Not until about the seventh time watching it did it occur that it was maybe a teleprompter problem, and the transition into his co-anchor being absent and a man being “murdered and then set on fire while celebrating his birthday” were two separate things. This [...]
A long time ago I coined Wagner’s Law: “While driving, the probability of encountering a bicyclist is exponentially higher when approaching a blind curve.” Why this is, I have no idea, but the world’s bicyclists always seem to be entering blind curves when I’m driving. I very rarely get to pass a bicyclist on a [...]
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23 Apr 2008There were a couple people screaming profanities outside my window. After about ten minutes one of them shouted, “Come drink with us” at some girl, and I looked out and saw that they had beer bottles. Sufficiently irritated at this point, I called Campus Police. The dispatcher said, “I just sent someone up that way [...]
We hear a lot about LAMP, the classic combination of Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP. I just saw a reference to WIMP. I was confused for a minute, but then burst out laughing. Windows, IIS, MySQL, and PHP. (They say that this combo works perfectly well, FWIW.)
Between Andrew’s amazing panorama created with Hugin, and Garrett almost simultaneously sending me a link to a Lifehacker* post about Hugin, I figured it was only fitting that I try it out. It’s essentially a software app (OpenSource no less) to stitch together a series of shots and create a panorama. Since I don’t like [...]
I’ve been working a lot on cleaning up Wikipedia in my free time the past few days. I think I might stick with it and eventually go for admin, which seems like a fun goal. (Although as they point out, it’s no big deal really… But it’d help me a lot.) A lot of my [...]
I find this image interesting for so many reasons. The most obvious, and least interesting, one is that the laptop is engulfed in flames. It’s a Dell, and you may recall that stretch when a bad batch of batteries kept spontaneously combusting. One of the bigger issues is the thought process. “Oh crap, my laptop [...]
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7 Apr 2008Sometimes, it seems, counting is hard.
The UK’s Mark Steel has a particularly humorous piece on Hillary’s problems with accidentally mis-speaking and making strange claims, because she says so many words: Her next round of soft-focus adverts will probably feature her soothingly saying, “My fellow Americans, I drank a pint of walrus milk once for a bet. I speak fluent Eskimo. [...]