Look, a silly quiz! They’re wrong though…. it’s not a conspiracy when you’re right……
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Which America Hating Minority Are You?
That guy on the left there? That’s me. Except I’m not a guy, have less acne, and have legs. And there isn’t something on the wing…… it’s on the wheels! My GOD! IT’S ON THE WHEELS!
I know I’ve been lax about posting recently, but I’ve been pretty busy- I’ve been doing quite a bit of work for two separate jobs. I’m also moving to beautiful Ithaca, NY this weekend after LinuxWorld (I’ve mentioned this before). In addition to that, nearly every site I do volunteer coding for has decided to solicit my services right now. Since I can’t do everything right now, it looks like I’m going to have a busy week next week, heh.
Besides that (in my copious spare time) I’ve been looking for interesting new places to forum and IRC. I’ve come to the conclusion that postwhoring isn’t always frowned upon, and that most people who talk on IRC must have a very hard time reading what’s on the screen (considering where their heads seem to be lodged). I’ve also expanded my horizons a bit (there are some things you just DON’T DO when you meet a murderous clone of yourself), and discovered nifty things (that’s what I call shock and awe).
Oh, yeah… go team, go!
From subliminal.lunanina.com:
Wow. This week’s free associations make me look really boring…. or like a really crappy poet :)
As usual, from fridayfive.org:
1. What does it say in the signature line of your emails?
I have a perl script that generates my signature:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
my $fortune = `/usr/games/fortune -s`;
my $url = "http://terisolow.com";
my $output = "\t- Teri Solow\n\t $url\n\n$fortune";
print $output;
Yes, I could have done it in fewer lines. But I didn’t. Feel free to use it yourself, if you can figure out how (although if you could, you probably would have written your own long ago) :)
2. Did you have a senior quote in your high school yearbook? What was it? If you haven’t graduated yet, what would you like your quote to be?
Sigh. Yes, I had one.
/me looks it up in the yearbook…
Name Translation:
Peter Muzio, Sue L., Bobby W., Erin S., Tammy S., Erin G., Marisa V., Amanda G., Liz D., Charles F., Jenn M., Jane F., Chris N., ???, ??? (Erin L.?)
Yes, it was rather wasteful. If I were making one today I would leave out all the names entirely, as even now (only 6 years later) I don’t remember who two of them were in the first place. Also, the quote (by a member of Prodigy) was apropos, but I could have probably found an even better one had I looked a bit harder.
3. If you had vanity plates on your car, what would they read? If you already have them, what do they say?
They would say either ubergeek, geek, linux, or linuxguru (I’m such a poser) :)
4. Have you received any gifts with messages engraved upon them? What did the inscription say?
I seem to remember getting something from someone once… probably Peter while we were dating… but I can’t remember for sure now. Since I can’t remember, I can’t very well find it and check :)
5. What would you like your epitaph to be?
“Told you I was sick.”
Just kidding.
Actually, I think the point of epitaphs is that they be generated by those who survive you- because you were probably known better to them then you were to yourself. I would like to think it would be something humorous, as I don’t really want my death to be more depressing than it needs to be. Of course, I won’t be around anymore, so after I die I won’t care and people are free to do whatever they want.
Today started as a typical contrast to yesterday- our water heater sprung a leak and started to flood our basement.
So…. typical…. of the luck inherent in my family. And I hoped it was changing. That’ll learn me to hope for better things! :/
Well, maybe it’san isolated event and things really are starting to look up…. yeah, right.
The day started by me receiving a job interview at Cornell University, which is where I really want to work, for a job I applied for in November that is a pretty close match to what I want to do (there’s even Linux involved!). This is really great timing, because I’m moving to Ithaca after LinuxWorld next week. I really hope I get this job, but it’s a bit of a relief that it is one of the first jobs at Cornell that I applied for (so there’s still hope for some of the others, too!) It’s on the 26th- wish me luck!
Later in the day, I received word that one of the contract jobs I quoted a price for is a definite- that means I’ll be able to get by at least another month without borrowing money! w007! Of course, the work is ASAP, so I’ve really gotta start hauling a$$ on it- it mustn’t be left to the last minute :)
After that, I was having a conversation with my dad about physics and he got out one of his old college textbooks (have I ever mentioned how much I love the smell of old books?) for reference (he forgot Ohm’s Law: I (amperes) == E (volts) / R (ohms)) and we found this circa 1973 CrackerJack toy between the pages. A scan of both sides is below (told you I’d get it, Beth!)- the pink things are unlabelled and though my initial suspicions were that they represented freckles (or zits) the fact that there are 10 lead me to believe that they are supposed to be painted nails. Of course, the card is only ~3cm tall, leaving each pink triangle approximately 9mm long at the largest point. Whatever they are, I find this haphazard assortment of odd and cross-gendered stickers from over 30 years ago pretty nifty- definitely not something I’d expect to find in an Engineering text at the very least!
So all in all, despite the fact that we had no heat for most of the day because we were getting a new furnace installed (it was pretty cold- it was 50°F [10°C] in here, with three computers running) today was a pretty good day. Hopefully there will be more to come, I’d like to believe that I’ve filled my quota of bad days for a while.
Just had to express my agreement with something Gabe of Penny Arcade fame said recently:
I’ve been expressing similar ideas (only much less eloquently) for a long time. I’m sure anyone who knows me well has heard me rant on how the SNES was the epitome of video gaming- well, this is why.
Back then, they had to work with what they had (which was really quite a bit) to make games as much fun as possible. Nowadays it seems that most games forgo things like gameplay or story in favor of making the most immersive world possible. Whether or not that is a good thing really depends on what you are being immersed in (e.g. pasta|coffee|Metroid|FFX==good, garbage|acid|Quest64|JA3DP==bad)
Maybe it’s just fond memories, but it seems like there has been a greater ratio of noise:signal in games since the shift to predominantly 3d games. Of course, there are still good 3D games being made, and one can always go back to the great 2D games of yore (or try some new GBA 2D games). And contrary to popular belief, there are new 2D games being made for the newest consoles.
So I guess my complaints are moot, and this post is therefore pointless- except to possibly elicit debate. What say you?
I just beat Mario & Luigi. Overall, the game was good, but irritating. I loved the humor, but some of the mini-games you need to play to move on in the game are hella frustrating, heh. The end boss isn’t really hard, but it takes forever to win the battle- it took me on the order of 2.5 hours to do it. Then the ending just kinda… happened.
I don’t think the ending was really worth spending that much time in an annoying battle, but at least it’s one more game I can check off my “to beat” list, heh.
From Proz via the LJ Geeks community:
Go to amazon.com and type in “old fart” in the search engine.
Trust me, you’ll laugh.
(Got this from an amazon employee)
In case you are viewing this late and missed it, here is a screencap I grabbed of the results. :)
Misanthropic Masturbation. I’ve had somewhat (not completely) similar views to those expressed on this site for quite a long time. In fact, during my freshman year of college my final paper in my ‘Perspectives’ course dealt with my opinion that all of humankind’s problems are a direct result of overpopulation- less people, less problems! (Oversimplified, sure- but certainly not all wrong)
I don’t think I really want mankind to go extinct, of course if it did I wouldn’t mind* ;)
I actually don’t recall ever having the urge to breed. Besides the nontrivial pains of childbirth, and my view that nurture>nature (besides, anything someone did receive from my genes would likely be unfavorable), there is also the utter loss of any semblance of freedom for at least 18 years of ones life after such a silly endeavor.
I’ve been told that I’m strange for holding these views, and that I will eventually change my mind as I get older. People are probably correct in the former assumption, and as I cannot see the future, I can’t say for sure on the latter one. I’ve felt this way for as long as I can remember though, so I somehow doubt it is merely a passing fancy.
If I ever do want for children, I’ll adopt a 6 year old. That conveniently bypasses the messy ‘poopy’ stages of development, and goes straight to the fun of readin’, writin’, and ‘rithmetic! Plus, they won’t end up with my defective genes, they will most decidedly feel (and be) wanted, and they would most likely be saved from a less fortunate life full of foster homes.
(Link from Loonyone’s LJ)
*Of course I wouldn’t mind. If humans ceased to exist, I wouldn’t be here, either. If you felt an urge to flame me for this, then you probably shouldn’t breed.
