These people have held absolute power for far, far too long. It is said that “direct sunlight is the best disinfectant.” I think it’s time to shine some light on the whole tawdry lot of them.
Oh yeah, and What has it got in its poketses, preciousssss?
I have got to stop reading the news when I’m trying to program. Gets me all worked up and pissed off.
I think something bad just happened in MA. Let’s see if I can get this straight. The details may be off, but the spirit is correct:
One funny story that came out last night: My friend and I have been building some software to do some geeky stuff. To support this, he’s had some old server class machines sitting on the floor in his living room, and we’ve been tinkering with the wires.
Yesterday, he adopted a puppy. Cute little 3 month old black lab. He left her unattended for a few minutes, and she crapped in one of the servers, big time. She also pooped on other things, but the big dog poops in the machine left us speechless.
He simply threw the machine away, poop and all.
Went a halloween party last night with redmed, capital_l, and capital_l. Pictures are here. Fun was had by all. It’s nice to finally be developing a social circle around these parts. We’re right now missing the demolition derby, but that’s okay with me. I can’t find any mention of the schoolbus demo, so we may have missed that too. Oh well.
For about a year now, I’ve been wondering why my basement is warm, instead of being cold like most basements. I’ve previously attributed it to the fact that the furnace sucks, and throws heat like a mo-fo. Today I added a little bit of detail to that observation. My house is heated by a nightmare tangle of copper pipes that carry hot water from the furnace through various radiators in the rooms. Along the way to the rooms that they’re supposed to head, these pipes are exposed in the basement. We picked up about $50 worth of pipe insulation at the Home Despot today, and I think that we might be just a teensy bit more efficient in heating the house now. Since putting in the attic insulation we’ve already noticed that the house tends to stay warmer. Plus, when I stick my head up in the attic, I now notice that it’s cooler than the mail level. Hopefully, the combined effect of failing to heat the attic plus the new hotness of failing to heat the basement will offset the recent heinous increases in the price of heating oil.
I tossed a bunch of grass seed on the lawn this afternoon. A flock of dark eyed juncos is currently eating it. They’re cute little grey birds with white bellies, so it’s okay.
Here’s the wikiquote entry for JWZ. My favorite for the day: ‘Browser compatibility problems are nature’s way of saying “stop trying to be so fuckin’ clever”.’
Okay, back to benchmarking.
My summary of the movie “Doom”.
Movie: “C’mere!”
My higher mental functions: “No! No! Aaaaaaaa!”
Movie: “Yeah! That’s right! Now you!”
My lower mental functions: “Yes! Yes!”
Movie: “You like me?”
MLMF: “Aw hell yeah!”
Movie: “I have to go now … even *I* don’t really like me”
That, some awesome Korean spicy tofu soup, and a fire in the fireplace, a happy fdmts make.
redmed is staying at work tonight, so I’m going to go eat incredibly spicy, lightly greasy food.
Slashdork reports that:
Sun’s pay-for-use grid computing services hasn’t picked up a single customer yet.” From the article: “The missing customers prove quite shocking when you consider that utility computing users must agree to be named in marketing programs as part of their contract with Sun – a fact learned by The Register and confirmed by a Sun spokeswoman. More than one year since it first started hyping the ‘pay-for-use grid computing services’ Sun is still weeks away from presenting a customer to the public. The program has proved much tougher to sell that Sun ever imagined.”
Sun? Misread the market? Naaaaaaaaaahhh.
Check this out: I was digging for some old references, and I found this: An article in chinese with my name on it.
I plugged it into a handy dandy web translator, and this popped out:
“Should the computation environment which promotes turn the reality”
It’s a mangled rewrite of an article that I wrote last year on grid computing. I’ve been chortling and laughing as I read this aloud. As soon as I’m able to breath again, I need to call my copyright lawyer…but for now…mirth.
