Tag Archives: life

First Step Into a Lighter-Than-Air World

September 10, 2008

So, today I spent around $400 on my annual dues, initiation fee, and flight logbook. I am going to get my private pilot’s license over the next year or so. It’s going to be awesome.

OSCON Sessions, Day 2

July 25, 2008

Oh man, what a day. I attended quite a few talks, grabbed a lot of swag, and entered a few contests. I ended up buying the Arduino Starter Kit from MAKE so I can do some awesome embedded Ruby like I saw at FOSCON. It looks really fun – I can’t wait to try it out. The talks I attended were half-way decent, but I learned a lot more on the first day. Hadoop and EC2 A good overview of [...]

b0rked hand

May 27, 2008

My left hand is currently incapacitated due to the wonders of modern science. I had an enchondroma, which is a cartilage tumor, in my left index finger. They cut it out today, and now I have a large blue brick attached to me. I think I will be spending my days at home high on oxycontin for the next week or so, which means more internet play time, but I won’t be coding much since it took me almost 5 [...]

Force the UK to commit copyright infringement

May 15, 2008

You know what would be awesome – forcing the UK to commit copyright infringement by simply watching a copyrighted movie in public in London. You’d have to watch out for some things, but if you did it you could legally request a copy of the footage under the Data Protection Act, putting them in a tricky position with the MPAA. As they recorded it in the first place, they are already in violation of copyright law. It would rock. Someone [...]

Things you can’t say on the radio

April 25, 2008

I was listening to “Ends” by Everlast on the radio today on my way to work. It was going alright, but I noticed that there are quite a few things you can’t say on the radio that are surprising. Things you can’t say whore drugs Colt 45 balls green Now, I realize that much of this has to do with context, but come on… You can’t say smoked the finest green? What’s wrong with the word whore anyway? Concubine is [...]

Angband save games directory in Ubuntu

January 2, 2008

I finally found where Angband saves are stored in Ubuntu thanks to the helpful file listing it provides. It’s all in /var/games/angband, and the save directory looks like this: root@rofl:/var/games/angband/save# ls -al total 60 d—rwx— 2 root games 4096 2008-01-01 23:57 . drwxr-sr-x 9 root games 4096 2007-12-31 16:18 .. -rw-r–r– 1 hank games 45651 2008-01-01 23:57 1000.Hank -rw-rw-r– 1 root games 47 2006-11-13 01:20 delete.me The inside of 1000.Hank is complete binary gibberish, but at least I can back [...]

Ron Paul is not a racist.

December 14, 2007

So, I keep seeing people posting comments around that say Ron Paul is a racist, and most of them refer to a 1992 mailing list post he allegedly wrote. This posting was controversial because it portrayed inner city Blacks in a bad light. It was protesting against the lack of police action against rioting, the Rodney King scandal, and inner city crime committed by Blacks. Now, I don’t think he was inferring that only Black people commit crime, or are [...]

Aligning with the Candidates

November 25, 2007

I took this test to see which current presidential candidates my views align with, and got some pretty surprising results: It’s based on this table of the candidates views on popular issues, and how strong your feelings are on each one. A good tool indeed, and it should be publicized as a guideline for voters by our caring media since we all want voters to make informed decisions… The graph led to this: I have no explanation for this picture.

Tax the rich

November 1, 2007

It’s time to raise the taxes on the rich in this country. I can’t believe that Warren Buffett only pays 17.7% on his $46 million. Why am I stuck paying 20-30%? That’s stupid. I hope the next president realizes this and fights to lower taxes drastically for anyone making sub-upper-level-executive salaries. I started trading options about a week ago, and made a little profit on Boeing. Redhat started taking off today, and I might buy a call on that. Watch [...]

Pedo Pwnd

October 19, 2007

So this guy got pwnd: I’m so glad he was such an idiot. They totally forensic-ed his face! The unidentified man appears in around 200 photographs discovered by police on the Internet, in which he was shown abusing 12 young boys. Investigators believe they were taken in Vietnam and Cambodia, possibly in 2002 and 2003. Reminds me of that first episode of Dexter…(Spoiler Alert) Update Here’s another picture of him – they ended up catching him.

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