Question: How many bags of chopped grass and leaves from the lawnmower can I fit into the bed of the truck before they won’t compress anymore and it’s full, requiring a trip to the town mulch pile?
Next question: How many bags total will get filled up by mowing the back yard? Answer: 26.
Third question: Will you be able to tell the following morning that I did a damned thing in the back yard? Answer: No.
With a crash that kept happening in iTunes recently (since I’d upgraded to 7.0.x), I was getting annoyed. Got to the point where I could sometimes play one song, but never a second – as soon as it would try to load another song, *poof*. Turned out to be an issue with the Macbook Pro’s audio settings (bitrate was too much for iTunes to handle), but then the latest release also fixed the problem so I didn’t have to keep changing the bitrate on the sound card. But, before I discovered the correlation, I ended up wiping my entire library, again (first time was when the laptop crashed, and thanks to FileVault, I lost a bunch of stuff). So, since I was going to have to re-sync the iPod, I thought I should clean up the library. And I did.
Seems it’s that time of year again – time to set the clocks back this Sunday. However the folks at Dreamhost have brought up the interesting (and maddening) problem of what Congress thinks will save everyone so much energy and make all our lives easier.
Instead, it will likely cement the fact that I hate changing the clocks twice a year, especially since now I’m sure I’ll have some devices which were previously smart enough to do it on their own, and I’ll have to “correct” them anyway.
I still think Gallagher had it right – “If Con is the opposite of Pro, is Congress the opposite of Progress?”
(Only sounds right if sung like a muppet, a-la Muppets Take Manhattan)
As promised, gobs of wedding photos. They’re all in the gallery, specifically the wedding album. Not to be confused with the White Album.
There’s some things about computers that still crack me up now and then. Take this photo, for example. I didn’t think any motherboards existed anymore that would still do this:
Now, for those that might not get the “joke” here, allow me to point out that at the time there was *no* keyboard attached to this computer. Now re-read the error message, and see if you can figure out the error in their logic. Hint: Imagine a VCR that comes with a tape to show you how to install and use your VCR…
Looks like spammers have found the site, and are relentlessly hitting it with comment spam. Maybe if they had half a brain (they never do, why else would they engage in this kind of crap) they’d realize that the stuff they’re posting goes as far as my moderation inbox and gets deleted. Oh well… you can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
In other news, I’ll have photos from the wedding I attended this weekend up in the gallery soon. I don’t have that many, unfortunately – they requested there be no photos during the ceremony, and during the reception I was chatting with so many friends (and only really saw the bride and groom once, which was of course after I took the cameras back to the truck) that I only got some photos of the folks at our table. And while I’m uploading stuff, I should probably upload the ones of a previous wedding I went to, where I did get quite a few shots off – they’re in iPhoto on the laptop, just never made it up to the gallery. Stay tuned; maybe if I bring the CF cards to work with me I’ll sort through them there today.
In searching some websites today, I came across someone’s Geek Code, and realized it’d been awhile since I updated mine. So here it is if you care:
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Version: 3.1
GIT d-(--) s: a C+++()$ USBIL++++$ P---(+) L++++$ E--- W++$ N+ o++ !K w--(---) !O M++$ V-- PS+ PE Y+ PGP++(+++) t+(++) 5-- X-- R tv+() b+ DI++ D+ G e h---() r+++ y+++
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Oh, and if you don’t want to decode it by hand, copy and paste it into either of these websites: http://www.joereiss.net/geek/ungeek.html or http://www.ebb.org/ungeek/
EDIT 20061006 0409UTC: Sorry, realized that WordPress tried to do funny things to multiple dashes in a row. It should be correct now.
My last post gave some information on ROT13, and why I think it can be fun. This one is for some of the conversations I’d had before, including the one when I decided that this was the way to deal with ICQ spammers.
So every now and then, I’ll get some idiot who doesn’t know me and tries to start a conversation with me on ICQ or AIM. Usually these idiots either try to get personal information out of you, or just want to “be friends”, probably so they can try to come over and marry you or something. Either way, they never take ‘no’ for an answer. So awhile ago, I started having some fun instead. Since I’d tried telling them to bugger off and it didn’t work, I figured it might be interesting if no matter what they say, my reply was unintelligible. So I went for it :>
In the post “Anatomy of a Disaster, Part 2” the folks at Dreamhost explain what all caused some of the problems seen with their service lately. The problems were obviously complex, considering seven different people from Cisco couldn’t even put their finger on it. But it seems that things have settled down for them, and are running much smoother (I posted before about the low load on the two shell accounts I have, and sure enough I’ve seen my sites loading faster and performing better than they have in quite some time, even before these problems were noticed.)
Not only their solving the issue, but the fact that they’ll come out and say what was wrong for those of us who understand the concepts (and they’re not afraid to say, “Yeah, we screwed up on that one” either) is proof enough to me that they’re deserving of my patronage. And should you be looking for a hosting provider, you should look at them too.