you've got another think coming

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 14:02:58 GMT

a starbucks in new york city is rickrolling me RIGHT NOW

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Tue, 13 May 2008 01:30:37 GMT

I posted about this a bit before, but I'm still bloggin' away; in fact, I'm in the middle of a 30-day project of blogging every day.

I also realized that my transfer of my site to a different server a few months ago may have screwed up the blog's RSS for any of you who were subscribed. This should be the current feed.

Fri, 09 May 2008 20:06:49 GMT

This is full of LULZ.

I'll still vote for Obama if he turns out to be the smoke monster* or Dennis Kucinich, though.

*i have not seen the most recent episode, no spoilers plz!!!!!

blog blog

Fri, 02 May 2008 19:37:35 GMT

I'm writing moar blog now... people who are interested might care to subscribe, or whatever.

bloggity blog blog mcblogtowne

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:03:26 GMT

Your Score: Tigger

You scored 16 Ego, 10 Anxiety, and 18 Agency!

And as they went, Tigger told Roo (who wanted to know)
all about the things that Tiggers could do.

"Can they fly?" asked Roo.

"Yes," said Tigger, "they're very good flyers, Tiggers
are. Strornry good flyers."

"Oo!" said Roo. "Can they fly as well as Owl?"

"Yes," said Tigger. "Only they don't want to."

"Why don't they want to?" well, they just don't like it
somehow."

Roo couldn't understand this, because he thought it
would be lovely to be able to fly, but Tigger said it was
difficult to explain to anybody who wasn't a Tigger himself.

You scored as Tigger!

ABOUT TIGGER: Tigger is the newest addition to the Hundred Acre Wood, and he lives with Kanga and Roo, because Roo's strengthening medicine turned out to be the thing that Tiggers like best. Tigger is bouncy and confident -some of his friends think he is a little TOO bouncy and confident, but attempts to unbounce him tend to be fruitless.

WHAT THIS SAYS ABOUT YOU: You are a positive and confident person. You feel capable of dealing with anything and everything, and funnily enough, you usually ARE. You don't worry about much, and you love to go out and find new adventures.

Your friends and family might sometimes be a little exasperated by your boundless enthusiasm. You don't like to admit your mistakes, and when you find yourself in over you head, you tend to bluff your way out of things. You would be surprised, however, at how happy the people around you would be if you would actually admit to a mistake. It would make you seem more human, somehow.

The Deep and Meaningful Winnie-The-Pooh Character Test

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 22:23:02 GMT

the chilton hilton brewery has now named two of its beers:

beer #3: Prairie Madness Barleywine, a flat, grassy, and alcoholic beer
beer #4: Fool's Gold, a golden-colored Belgian-style ale bottled on April 1

They aren't fully mature, but when they are, local folk will be informed and invited!

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:37:44 GMT

I'm bored! Recommend me some websites I might not have seen, or some activities to shake it up.

from a "which office character are you" quiz

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:08:26 GMT

16. When you come home from work, you...
A) Pour yourself a giant martini, even though you don't really have a job.
...

no further options are necessary.

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 22:23:06 GMT

I just put up an article at Aristocratic Rockstar.

For those of you who already have AR blogins, why haven't you been writing?

For those of you who don't yet have your blogins but want them, email me!

Sun, 23 Dec 2007 22:03:20 GMT

Does anyone have any (convenient, inexpensive) suggestions for data backup?

My desktop now has 100G+ of data that I would be sad if it got lost. Backups are a good idea in general, plus I've decided I want to switch Linux distributions and don't want to worry too hard about accidentally wiping my data partition.

Sun, 23 Dec 2007 20:51:18 GMT

new comic: health insurance, large primes.

Thu, 06 Dec 2007 00:13:33 GMT

Should I buy an XO?

Pros

Get to help this cool project

About as cheap as plausible laptops get

Free software

Environmentally friendly

Physically resistant to all kinds of abuse

Lightweight

Cute

Bonus: 1 year of T-mobile wifi

Possible cons?

Secret early adopter problems!?

Too-small keyboard/screen?

OS may be impractical? It seems like I ought to be able to replace their OS with Ubuntu(/whatever) if I don't like it, but since I can't find any examples of people who have done this yet, I'm a little nervous.

EDIT: no ethernet port

90% of what I want to use any laptop for is Firefox/SSH; if I need to do anything heavy-duty, I'll use my desktop, but I want a laptop so that I can work while traveling, on-site with a client, or getting out of the house to a coffee shop.

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 04:23:04 GMT

Mark Pilgrim is my hero!
On Mac OS X:
"Jesus H. Christ, it must suck giant wet donkey balls to be stuck on an archaic OS where you need to be dropping into the terminal and tweaking configuration files and compiling shit all the time."

I don't know how anyone lives without package management. (And yeah, sbisaac, I know, back in the day you used slackware and had to make build install everything by hand!)

nothing new to see here

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 00:42:58 GMT

Coats believes makeup on men is not a good idea for the general population. "A guy should look like a guy. I think in general, guys just look better natural."
Ah yes. Skin blemishes are "masculine"; spending a lot of time and money to pretend you don't have any skin blemishes is "feminine". The twenty-first century sure is full of utopian gender equality!

Similarly, when I read software blogs, I often see bios that describe developers as living "with a beautiful wife", but never with an intelligent/brave/funny/hard-working wife; and female bloggers (there's, like, one female software blogger anyway; there used to be more, but that's another, much worse story), never say they have beautiful husbands.

And why am I clicking on headlines containing the word "guyliner"? Um, I guess it's been a long day?

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 16:25:28 GMT

The NYT Freakonomics column does a point/counterpoint on marijuana legalization/prohibition. It gets 133 comments; most of these comments are at least moderately thoughtful (i.e. more substantive than "yea moar weed!11!"); NOT ONE of these comments advocates prohibition. Hmmm...

Sun, 21 Oct 2007 23:17:39 GMT

New comic!

Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:03:26 GMT

by way of Alan's facebook profile, Borges says what I mean:

"Never will one full and absolute moment, containing all the others, justify my life; all of my instants will be provisional phases, annihilators of the past turned to face the future. Beyond the episodic, the present, the circumstantial, we are nobody."

Mon, 15 Oct 2007 23:34:53 GMT

I had a great weekend: ruby on rails, biking, math, coffee, drumming, beer, lolita nation, new england autumn, apples, good times with good people.

Now I am upset that it is dark out so early, and apprehensive about the coming time change that will intensify this problem. Fortunately I have more social activities to occupy my evenings with than I did last fall/winter; that will make wintersadness less acute, I am sure! There are probably also various "apartment hacks" I can do that will help with this as well.

I have yet to find a good sleep schedule for myself, though; I want to have a getting-up-early habit on weekdays to maximize sunlight time and working time, but I also want to be able to stay up late with people on weekends and not build up sleep debt.

Attn math people: can you recommend me math books? I am mathematically inclined but not mathematically knowledgeable, and it is time to fix this. I am up for somewhat difficult reading if I will get cool knowledge as a result!

Sat, 13 Oct 2007 23:40:40 GMT

uhmmm, even at several tabs and a couple windows, firefox shouldn't be taking up 70%+ of my CPU, right? do i just have a sucky CPU? a sucky version of firefox (2.0.0.6)?

Thu, 11 Oct 2007 14:19:53 GMT

"Big Science." Ha ha.
Wait, that's not funny.

Mon, 24 Sep 2007 20:04:48 GMT

this is probably an even better use of $400 than this. must... earn... money... to buy... gadgets...

Sun, 23 Sep 2007 23:00:13 GMT

My faith in humanity has been [temporarily] restored.
I had my camera with me for once, so I'll be adding to this flickr clot soon as well.

In other news, I'm now twenty-two! I had a great birthday, and I plan to be really good at being twenty-two. Watch out, everys one.

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 02:43:12 GMT

ah, so true

Mon, 03 Sep 2007 22:43:17 GMT

new design
and
moar new design

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 21:38:44 GMT

aristocraticrockstar.com: it's comin' soon.

comment here if you want to be a contributor. content will be roughly this sort of thing.