Friday, February 9. 2007
This is for Joey - Cheer up buddy, ... Posted by Radar
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Comment (1) Trackbacks (0) This is for Joey - Cheer up buddy, because it could be worse. Believe me, it could be worse.***This post is not for everyone!!! It involves things of a gross nature. Continue reading at your own risk. This is intended for the laughter of Joey. You have been warned.*** Continue reading "This is for Joey - Cheer up buddy, because it could be worse. Believe me, it could be worse." Tuesday, February 6. 2007
There's...a Smiley Face on the ... Posted by Ancient of Days
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Another old entry that didn't get out of "Draft" state for some unknown reason:
I was poking around in Google Mars, and I found this (the feature in question should be almost directly in the middle of the page). o.O Tuesday, February 6. 2007qaD wIv
So a friend picked me up a nice treasure (not like those punk friends who go home to see their families and then claim that they are out of "cell service", and whose names rhyme with doughy) on his recent trip to Las Vegas: a Klingon Chalice.
So here is the dilema: What do I choose to drink as the maiden beverage? This is a special occasion, and I don't want to use some sub-standard tonic. Milk is too wimpy (this is a klingon chalice). Cran Apple just doesn't feel right. I think I need something thick. Citrus drinks don't seem a good choice. Water = not a drink. Soda is too fizzy. I am so confused. So people, I need your help. I am here by taking suggestions as to what I should drink as my virgin libation. Ideas? Monday, February 5. 2007Oddities Indeed!!!Monday, February 5. 2007Where the h3ll is Joey?
So I have been trying to call Joey since last night during the super bowl, and every time that I call, I get no ring, no dial tone, and no Joey. Does anyone know what is happening? I know he is alive because he has posted a few things today (most of which are confusing to the common man). WHY WON'T YOU ANSWER ME JOSEPH SMITH???!!!
Friday, February 2. 2007
More on DSLs: awk, part II Posted by Ancient of Days
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To reward those of you who have struggled through my most recent posts regarding DSLs in general and awk in particular, I give you a short post.
How I'm using awk (in conjunction with other tools) to block the botnet attacking us: I was able to find a regular expression that lets me match attempts by the botnet. So I told my computer to watch the logfile forever, looking for matching lines and blocking the IP address that made the request. Here's what the command line looks like (I've left out the actual grep command so that spammers don't pick up on it). tail -f /var/log/apache2/sites/thehomestarmy.com | grep ' Here, awk is being used for its simplest, but perhaps most popular, feature. It's very intelligent about providing ways to break a piece of text into chunks and making those chunks available for printing. What I've done is asked awk "Please read you input, break it into fields, and print the first field." That first field from my apache logfile format happens to be the IP address of the user requesting the page. That's it. To demonstrate how effective these "little languages" are at solving this kind of task, I went ahead and wrote the same tool in perl and C. Using DSLs (awk, grep, bash): 1 line, 20 words, 156 bytes Perl solution: 20 lines, 62 words, 566 bytes C solution: 367 lines, 926 words, 9718 bytes. DSLs clearly won the day here. Thursday, February 1. 2007
For you Harry Potter fans Posted by Ancient of Days
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You can reserve book 7 now.
Tuesday, January 30. 2007
[Forwarded from Pejer]: Does anyone ... Posted by Ancient of Days
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Comment (1) Trackbacks (0) [Forwarded from Pejer]: Does anyone else see a problem with this?
Or does this mean that it is finally legal to do this? If not, how does homestarrunner get away with it?
Friday, January 26. 2007I have come a long way
Who would have thought that, a little farm boy from Linden would be sitting on an airplane typing out an article to share with his friends on their bolg. I have come a long way in my life to reach this point and I find that as I sit here, at about 35,000 ft. hovering somewhere over the Sierra Nevada mountain range, that I am truely blessed.
I spent the better part of an hour sitting in the airport this morning waiting to board my plane sending emails to clients and co-workers. I felt it an odd experience to be sure. This is by no means my first time on an airplane, but so many times before I sat waiting in an airport bored stiff and trying to look like I was actually interested in what was happening down at the Cinn-a-bon. Internally I longed to be one of those people who pulled out their laptop to do "important" stuff. I was this morning; and it felt good. I will admit a sad lesson that I learned. I actually had typed this article out once before while I waited this morning to board. I was logged into the homestarmy typing away at this very article and I pulled out my verizion aircard to connect to the web and post it, when my connection went down mid-load. I was devastated! I had just lost the entire article. So now I sit in the upper atmosphere re-writing (though to be candid, this article does not contain the same words) in notepad. I will not make the mistake again of working offline on the web. I have learned to work in something that you can save locally. One might have become bitter and angry about having lost about 15 minutes worth of work. And let's be fair, I have never fully enjoyed writing. But I am neither disgruntled or pissed off. I have finally become one of the people I used to so longingly gaze at. I don't know if there is a name for these people, but for this morning and the rest of my vacation at home, I am one of them. And it feels good! I don't feel any different, being on this side of the laptop monitor. The only thing I worry about is when the battery will die. Because I have no idea how this blasted thing works! Thursday, January 25. 2007Bow Ties?
So I thought it would be a good idea to try something new. I asked my Mother for a couple of bow ties for Christmas. She performed admirably and I now have two bow ties. They look great, and I love them.
One problem: I don't know how to tie a bow tie. So do one of you happen to know how to tie a bow tie, or perhaps know of a web site that teaches one how to do it? If you could let me know, I would be greatful. Who knows, maybe this is what has been keeping me single all these years. :) Thursday, January 25. 2007Also,
I know there's this unspoken disapproval about posting videos from youtube here now, but I know at least one of you will appreciate these three; they're music videos by an artist named Emilie Simon and I love them. I have listed them here in order of coolness.
Flowers Desert <--- this one is a little weird. But someone really liked it, check out the description lol NO idea the name of this one, it's French. EDIT: Okay, you know what? Shut up. I'm posting two more. I'm posting Dare by the Gorillaz because I was telling Daboo the other day how much it cheers me up when I'm blue, and I'm posting this one because it's just cool. Friday, January 19. 2007I can't live with you...
And I can't live without you.
I promised myself I wouldn't resort to posting videos from youtube on here, but... well... d'awwww. I mean, I can't speak the French so's I have no idea what the song is about but I really liked the animation. Tuesday, January 16. 2007
Always Remember: It Might Look Gayer ... Posted by Ancient of Days
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Comments (4) Trackbacks (0) Always Remember: It Might Look Gayer Than You ThoughtThursday, January 11. 2007Forwarded from RadarFunny stuff...my question is, why wasn't the teacher bothered by the sudden shift to China in the last paragraph? Wednesday, January 10. 2007 |
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