October 2008
117 posts
September 2008
56 posts
Okay, okay, let’s be fair. Stephen Harper probably does not need to drink the blood of small children in order to sustain himself.
Using my father’s computer’s like a form of punishment. Personal note: pump that sucker full of ram, stat. Why won’t Apple update the minis?
“He was startled. I don’t mind telling you that Justin Timberlake was intensely...”
– HELLO, I’M FAMOUS STARRING JOHN HODGMAN: GQ Features on men.style.com
What a great economic environment to be graduating university in.
“Oh, it won’t take me too long to get this to compile” is a dangerous thing to say before breakfast on a Sunday morning.
“When I was a teenager, I visited the original Motown records studios, in a...”
– Positive Ape Index
Just one bagel is never enough.
Ruby On Rails On Solaris on x86 is about an order of magnitude faster than Ruby On Rails On Sparc. Somehow, I wasn’t expecting that.
Clearly, if your webapp breaks firefox, this is badass.
My kingdom for sudo on these boxes, I tells you.
“Peak IP4 is a myth; there are still plenty of addresses buried in the Canadian...”
– Slashdot | China To Run Out of IPv4 Addresses In 830 Days
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that his company was too large to fail. http://bit.ly/3Gie4Y
Huh. The mayor of Toronto governs over a budget three times larger than that of the state of Alaska. Four times the population, too.
I have performed such gross acts of contortion to get the corporate firewall to play nice with github, I’d put a chinese circus to shame.
Privatize the gains, socialize the losses, amirite? MBAs aren’t allowed to fail, they just ride off into the sunset.
Trying to merge my changes into the latest version from upstream while simultaneously not breaking the production db. Having users is weird.
Today’s web2.0 entertainment idea: A soap opera you follow by adding all of the characters to your facebook.
Of course, the only place in the city where I get carded routinely has to be the beer store right by my house.
Beer o’clock!
If there is a constant about Portuguese immigrants it’s that they think life back home is more fun. Canadian people are just too cold.
The price of being black: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/21771 Man, Canadian politics are like a breath of fresh air after all that.
They crushed my pipe dreams by not releasing a fancier sized Touch. Looks like I might have a handy 120gb Classic in my near future.
It’s official: I caused, or at least was the catalyst for, the dismissal of a professor of mine. Only way this gets better is with a refund.
Well, I don’t have to tell you that the Apple event today is probably going to be the highlight of my news day, yet once again. Ah, life.
It saddens me that this isn’t an espresso drinking culture. You can’t get good coffee at any of the chains. Time to troll the ethnic restos.
Virtual server located in Newark + SOCKS proxy over ssh = full episodes of the daily show over the tubes without using bittorrent. huzzah!
I actually like the new Windows ads. Shocking!
Best part about not paying attention to celebrity culture: reading the odd profile in the new yorker feels like reading some bizarre fiction
I hate it how I’m always running into my ex.
Saying goodbye to @hcatlin, seeing my ex and stumbling to a friend’s bday, all pretty hard.
“Someone has to be able to say, ‘Luke Skywalker would not have that color of lightsaber.’”
“Fans of indie music, for instance, were found to have low self-esteem and little motivation, but described themselves as creative” Ah, fuck
Why I can’t believe US presidential race polls: http://tinyurl.com/5vfblj
Don’t just do something, sit there.
Oh man. http://tighroslin2008.com/
Ruby On Rails On Solaris 2: Moving forward on the silly hope that they’ve patched the trunk properly since last time.
New scramble crosswalk at yonge and dundas ftw.
Romney’s speech at the rnc is ridiculous. It’s as if they haven’t been in power for 20 of the last 28 years.
Chrome is pretty. They’re not lying when they say it’s fast. For me, it needs mouse gestures and SOCKS proxying to compete, but maybe soon?