June 2008
110 posts
best part of family get-together cookouts: morning after sandwich leftovers.
Jun 30th
What Colour are your bits? →
Great Computer Sciency-mindset exploration of copyright.
Jun 30th
Oh wow that spanish goal was a work of art.
Jun 29th
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Jun 29th
I am in such a piss poor mood today.
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Nostalgia for the 21st century: I wanted to read the letters my ex sent to me in Animal Crossing, but I can’t find the DS cartridge. Le sigh
Jun 28th
Jun 28th
turns outs getting lost in the dense suburbian landscape that engulfs my neighborhood was every bit as interesting as I hoped it would be.
Jun 28th
Solaris is beating me up, stealing my lunch money, and leaving me for dead by the side of the road.
Jun 27th
Jun 27th
You know, I really like my office and associated environment.
Jun 26th
What a perfect illustration of why I loathe Wired and almost all their content: http://rurl.org/u2e It’s well designed, but that’s about it.
Jun 26th
Oh, places that sell tobacco must now conceal their products. I had a feeling something was different; I’m glad that wasn’t just me.
Jun 26th
“Mugabe is the first foreigner to be stripped of the award since Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu in 1989, the day before his execution.”
Jun 25th
Re: Ruby On Rails On Solaris. I think my ears are starting to bleed.
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Oh no, darlin’, you’re just reading from the press release. You said the real reasons: he’s from Quebec & he’s close to the prime minister.
Jun 25th
Today I interacted more with my father than in the past, gee, I don’t know, forever. I should’ve goaded him into driving lessons awhile ago.
Jun 25th
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Jun 25th
About to figure out how to deploy Ruby on Rails on Solaris. There may be EXPLOSIONS.
Jun 24th
“So what will we say when our children and grandchildren ask us what we did about...”
– photographylot: Visa Pour L’Image
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Jun 24th
I have a feeling I ought to coordinate my post work time a bit better. (aka find something to do).
Jun 23rd
I feel entitled to stab everyone who makes apps that ignore $http_proxy, only to have a custom way of defining it in their configs. Stab!
Jun 23rd
That ref is totally on italy’s side.
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Jun 21st
I love summer so hard. What awesome weather.
Jun 21st
“Egyptians have always been religious, from Pharaonic times to the present. Any...”
– Cairo Journal - With a Word, Egyptians Leave It All to Fate - NYTimes.com You have something very similar in Portuguese, with “se deus quiser”, which is something you attach to goodbyes. See you tomorrow, god willing! Now that they mention it, I’m tempted to start using...
Jun 20th
what a piece of shit goal.
Jun 20th
Sigh. After all this time, my ipod was in a seldomly used pocket of my backpack. *facepalm
Jun 19th
Guys, the whole point of a carbon tax is so that the “avg canadian feels it”. Looks like Dion has some guts afterall, which is nice.
Jun 19th
“Fig. 1. Electrical Model illustrating a Mind having a Will but capable of only having Two Ideas” http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/278
Jun 19th
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Jun 19th
Something off with my camera. Either the white balance, or I’ve been spoiled by years of DSLR perfect crispness. Let’s see how b&w fares.
Jun 19th
Jun 19th
“In coastal provinces with ready access to ports, even unskilled workers now earn...”
– As Labor Costs Soar in China, Manufacturers Look to Vietnam - NYTimes.com Man, can’t I just pay another dollar per item, already? Somehow we managed to be a consumption oriented economy while paying people more than $120 a month. $120 a month! I make more in a day.
Jun 18th