- I think I need warmer socks. I’ve been at work for some time and my feet are STILL numb from the cold outside. Brr. #
- Trilliyuk is even more yuck than normal, today. Lunch choices: gross pizza or soup. Blech. #
- Cars should come with internal windshield wipers to make up for the first 10 minutes where the defogger is useless against internal frost. #
- It’s downright balmy out: 16°F. Much nicer than yesterday! Or, mayhaps I’ve become acclimatized? #
- Fretting over an xmas present that still hasn’t arrived. Trying to think of a contingency plan. #
- Ordered a replacement gift to be shipped back home with one-day shipping. Blech. This means, of course, the original gift will arrive today. #
- Scratch that- the original seller responded to my cancel order request with a “Sure!”. So, they never even shipped the damn thing. #
- Next in ‘As the Gift Turns’, we discover that my dad has purchased aforementioned gift for himself, too. Yessir! #
- Pet peeve: people who call 3.5″ floppies “hard disks”. #
- Is it really so terrible to point out that humanity is an ecological disaster akin to an ice age or asteroid and follow up with “so what?” #
- Debating braving the freezing rain to visit the maul in an attempt to sate misanthropic people watching urge. Gift buying is done, of course #
- Happy Xmas! #
- The day started out so well, but then I managed to ruin it anyway. Go, me! #
- Bar hopping in New Brunswick… something I mostly skipped out on when I went to school here. #
- Went to my friend’s wedding today. Now I’m chi-zillin’ in the hotel room, stuffed with penne. Tomorrow will be a busy day. #
- Preparing for a trip to the city… woot #
Monthly Archives: December 2008
Weekly twitterings for 2008-12-21
- Up and showered before the dawn. Bleeaaarrgh. #
- Got to training early only to discover it was in a different building, and I didn’t know which one. Ended up making it only 20 minutes late. #
- Lucky for me, the class was late too, and is only starting now. #
- Training instructor telling us how Twilight was “an engaging two hours” but how it didn’t live up to the book. I refrained from commenting. #
- A dirty secret I just learned:Sharepoint is Frontpage 2007. Oooh!
I feel sick. # - Worse than a bureaucrat whose job it is to push papers, my job is to design and maintain transports for those papers. Society is a misery. #
- Ever feel like you’re trying to paint rain? #
- I hate not being able to tell whether I’m being paranoid or perceptive. Maybe it’s a little from column a, and a little from column b. #
- Don’t confuse me not contesting what you say with me believing what you say. #
- While taking a break I heard what sounded like the screams of a Nazgûl in the bathroom. Turns out it was the sink. #
- They need to invent a smokable form of caffeine so I can have an excuse to take frequent smoke breaks. #
- These tools remind me of the annoying bureaucratic version of “programming” I dabbled in for a while after college. Ugh. #
- “Hey, I know! Lets write tools to take a fun intellectual activity like programming and turn it into word processing!” “Sounds great!” #
- I feel like a dinosaur. #
- It occurs to me that the most likely thing to solve all my problems is a zombie apocalypse. One can always hope, I suppose. #
- There’s a lot of hating on coders going on here. “I don’t have a wife to do stuff for me while I think about code all night. Not my thing!” #
- ♪And you might say it’s self-indulgent
And you might say it’s self-destructive
But, you see, it’s more productive
Than if i were to be happy # - Playing with BitlBee, using IM through IRC though SSH. 1337.
http://www.bitlbee.org # - RT @loxosceles because this is awesome; rabbit + owl = http://tinyurl.com/5kyd8c #
- http://twitpic.com/twbk – I see what you did, there. #
- Windows is like a three year old. Painting the walls with poop, rubbing it in its eyes, throwing tantrums. Rebooting temporarily depoops it. #
- Proving once again that the Benny Hill theme makes everything better: http://tinyurl.com/3l8pu8 #
- ♪ Say love,
Say love,
Oh love’s gonna get ya down ♪
http://tinyurl.com/3pgdeo # - Mika is my current guilty pleasure.
http://tinyurl.com/68hjzf # - ♪ Why don’t you like me,
Why don’t you like me,
Why don’t you like yourself? ♪
http://tinyurl.com/4ln7w8 # - Winter-storm-a-palooza today. No snow in Syracuse yet, but decided to work remotely anyway. #
- Wrote script to get the current IP and use GeoIP to get a zip code from it. Getting local forcasts in conky without changing config, now. #
- Z’s new favorite phrase:
♪ Rockstar, rockstar, rockstar!
La, la-la, la-la! ♪ #
Weekly twitterings for 2008-12-14
- Researching bluetooth / linux interactivity; dreaming of switching between phone and vent while playing WoW. #
- What a pain, indeed. Damn you, Bluetooth SIG, damn you all to hell. The wayback machine was crippled, even. http://tinyurl.com/5tljjz #
- 50 degrees out- freakishly warm for a december drive to syracuse. #
- “Facebook and Beacon ruined my LIFE!” on the next Jerry Springer. http://tinyurl.com/6aopxe #
- Okay, following @common_squirrel was lawl for a while but got old really fast. #
- Learning about PulseAudio, and how borken Ubuntu is: http://tinyurl.com/4d7lk3 #
- Ubuntu fixing WIN #
- My hobby: parking reeeaaallly close to the driver side door of cars parked way over the lines. I estimate I got about 4 inches today! #
- I just need to reiterate how awesome this is: http://tinyurl.com/55xx8t #
- Everything falls apart… #
- Winter storm funtimes. I’m hoping something interesting happens, like I get impaled by an icicle or something. #
- At a work holiday party. Finally found a tolerable replacement for Gino’s Pizza! #
- Chicken / broccoli / artichoke pizza + Wii = win. Best at-work party I’ve been to in years. There’s beer too, but that’s not really my thing #
- If “to God” letters have to go to Jerusalem by law, then “to Santa” letters should go have to the North Pole.
http://tinyurl.com/6kbahf # - Watching people play Rockband, possibly the best party game ever. Imbibing gin. Lonely. #
- Now I’ve left the party to go play some drunken WoW. Still lonely, but at least I’ve dinged 74 and have finally reached Dalaran. #
- I’m not interested in drinking OR playing anymore. I’d rather rant and yell, but that won’t help anything. Some things aren’t for sharing. #
- I hate pleasant dreams that remind me how much reality blows. I’d prefer rotten dreams that remind me what to be thankful for. #
- ♪Shell smashed, juices flowing wings twitch, legs are going
Don’t get sentimental, it always ends up drivel
One day I’m going to grow wings♪ # - ♪ you can kiss it you can break all the rules
but still everything is broken,
everyone is broken. ♪ # - I wonder why Facebook is being stupid about displaying Twitter updates. Meh, probably just because Facebook is stupid. #
Deep down, aren’t we ALL meat puppets?
It seems there is a growing trend of advertising clothing with surreal videos that have absolutely nothing to do with clothing. I’m fine with this, especially if it results in some sort of twisted competition to see who can produce the weirdest ad. Bonus points should be awarded if at the end of it people have no idea what the video is for. David Lynch can determine the winner when he feels the time is right.
Take this gem, fr’instance, which was posted over at ectomo earlier today:
