July 2009
2 posts
Gisborne dog Scooter 'world's smallest' - National... →
Too cute
emptyage : Are You Going to San Francisco →
Very good depiction of life in SF
May 2009
2 posts
Signs. Amazing short film. (Video) →
thanks to Katie
Not Always Right | Funny & Stupid Customer Quotes... →
April 2009
1 post
Eloisa to Abelard by Alexander Pope at Old Poetry →
March 2009
2 posts
Help! please could you explain the offside rule? -... →
Brilliant explanation of the offside rule for women. (via Reddit)
February 2009
4 posts
Never Get Out Of The Boat!: The Beatles -... →
The missing link between Revolution 1 and Revolution 9? I’d believe it…
Skittles Vodka Tutorial | Mix That Drink →
This is simultaneously scary and intriguing
“i imagine his gay partner would be equally upset with the lesbians”
– Katie, after some snarky commentary around her watching too much Undressed
January 2009
3 posts
MIT 2009 Mystery Hunt - G4tv.com →
Hey, here’s the segment done on the hunt and my team (I show up from time to time!)
"Presedent Obama today announced a new policy giving puppies and rainbows to the children of America"
would not surprise me
that'll be next week
June 2008
2 posts
March 2008
1 post
If you have trouble with your DHCP server changing your hostname on you, it can be VERY frustrating to figure out. For increased Googability, I’m posting this here.
The Leopard way to insure that your hostname doesn’t change on you is:
sudo hostname my-permanent-name; sudo scutil –set LocalHostName $(hostname); sudo scutil –set HostName $(hostname)
That should make “my-permanent-name” survive...
January 2008
2 posts
mollyringwraith: Is This a Kissing Book? (Done... →
I lol’d
“You’re a ballsy motherfucker.
-Why?
For throwing down The Clash at a swing...”
– Matt, to me, regarding Rock the Casbah
December 2007
8 posts
Feedback during sex is annoying. You really need to move that guitar further away from the amplifier. What are you doing, having sex or recreating a Sonic Youth concert?
Laughed so hard when I read that. I’m such a nerd.
What's better about Ruby than Python? -... →
Einstein's Logic Puzzle →
A good puzzle. I haven’t done one of these in a long while, but I busted out some graph paper and did it by hand.
I got the answer, FWIW, in about 30 minutes (in which time I was also talking on AIM and stuff)
“Firefly: Better than a porn collection”
– Bryan C.
“Javascript inheritance is just asking “Who’s your daddy?”
– Me
SRSLY DUMPED on Flickr - Photo Sharing! →
“BREAKING: Batty attention whore dumps guy on facebook. Looks pathetic in process. News at 11.” — Digg comments
This troubles me. I’ve mentioned this sort of thing before. Every day I hope I never have to deal with this level of crazy.
November 2007
2 posts
“Blogging is the cross-stitch of our generation”
– Lauren
You know you're a nerd
You know you’re a nerd when you notice the MPEG artifacts on pompoms as much as the cheerleaders
October 2007
5 posts
It’s a beautiful evening in the city. :)
root@localhost# modprobe tincan
jeff: i can bring stuff on my laptop, but my audio card might as well be two tin cans and a string
me: lol
me: write a driver for that
jeff: dwFlags = MODE_CAMPBELLS | MODE_FISHINGLINE;
Deep Secrets of the Registry...
(searching for "knight" in the registry)
katie: i know all about registry keys being places they shouldn't be
katie: ummmm
katie: lmao what the fuck
katie: shopknights.com
katie: right below
katie: shemalespornmag.com
katie: god, the internet.
me: lolz
katie: sexxpassport.com!
katie: what the helllll
me: seriously, what have you been up to?
katie: NOTHING
me: :D
katie: sexpatriot.net
katie: i would never be caught dead on a patriotic porn site
katie: sexxpassport.com, maybe
katie: but never sexpatriot.net
me: you know where i'm putting this, right?
katie: ..... i hate you.
katie: so i take it that this means my only problem is a rogue republican porn addict accessing my computer at night?
me: one can only guess.
The day the music industry died - Times Online →
IAWTC
“i meant to say ayn rand called. she wants her hijab back.”
– chasingred, in a certain ucblj discussion
Major props.
September 2007
6 posts
And depending on who's saying it, it becomes...
katie: the really funny thing about 10 things i hate about you
katie: is like - ok, i saw it once around the time it cmae out. and then i saw it again this spring for the first time that i relaly remembered it.
katie: and the plot is so fanfiction.
me: lol
katie: like, seriously, i've read about a zillion fics with the same plot
katie: like "hey u, plz to be seducing draco 4 the following nefarious purposes: p.s. dunt rly luv him ok??"
EE128 book: pretty but confusing and error-prone
At the New Pornographers show. Completing the cycle of music that began 4 years ago.
Thinking in Class...
It never ceases to amaze me that differentiation is a linear operation. I mean, it’s really easy to see if you’ve been through 3 or 4 weeks of Calc 1. But DAMN it’s a useful trick.
August 2007
7 posts
Ten Life Lessons I’ve Learned In The Pursuit of... →
A few of these I’ve experienced directly. Good stuff.
Manhattan Elsewhere →
Interesting size comparison between Manhattan and other major cities. Really fun to look at SF.
“Everybody in Berkeley goes to hippy camp!”
– Mari R. (about the locals and Camp Winnarainbow)
My Away Message Thought
There’s something about coming home with a very late dinner, smelling strongly of perfume, and sweat on your brow.
“You’ve been out dancing again, haven’t you?”
Jedis?
me: so we'd be like disc jedis
ed: you know the plural of "jedi" is "jedi", right?
me: oh. yeah. wonder why that is
ed: because jedi dress in wool cassocks, much like "sheep"
me: ...
All too true...
katie: i assume it originally came from /b/ or something, since everything else did
July 2007
15 posts
“Vim: it’s like software that’s 95% easter eggs”
– The Old Joel on Software Forum - Time for comic relief
Dangerous Precedent
me: i'm an engineer, like my father before me, and his father before him
mari: That's genetic, though, and isn't half as dangerous as being Catholic. -_^
