Blog posts

1. When the phish have poles...

   Via funsec: …the phishers get reeled.

   Posted on Blog over 19 years agoon November 07, 2006 - 7:38 PM and archived here at /blog/2006/2006-11-07-when-the-phish-have-poles/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2006/2006-11-07-when-the-phish-have-poles/ in the Blog collection in both HTML and markdown.

2. Cosmological, Ontological, Alelogical...

   That last one sounds a bit too much like illogical to me.

   Beer is proof that God exists. Not just some higher power that loves you but the wishy-washy christian new testament post-modern interpretation God.

   The author also has thoughts on Stephen King and other secular things. He’s a normal dude my age.

   Hail Eris, I say.

   Posted on Blog over 19 years agoon November 03, 2006 - 2:17 PM and archived here at /blog/2006/2006-11-03-cosmological-ontological-alelogical/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2006/2006-11-03-cosmological-ontological-alelogical/ in the Blog collection in both HTML and markdown.

3. 300 Spartans

   A movie is being made telling the story of the the Battle of Thermopylae.

   Go watch a trailer.

   Amazing.

   The Nine Inch Nails trailer music is a nice touch.

   I’d love to see a Rome style series (which is excellent, do watch) documenting all of Greco-Persian wars, excluding the Trojan of course. I want to see Xerxes whip a river with a chain.

   Hubris! 👮

   Posted on Blog over 19 years agoon October 07, 2006 - 4:22 PM and archived here at /blog/2006/2006-10-07-300-spartans/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2006/2006-10-07-300-spartans/ in the Blog collection in both HTML and markdown.

4. Kid Koala's Negatron

   [Negatron](http://www.mp3.com/tracks/4925547/dl_streams.html) == [Jack Burton](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090728/)
   

   My mind is blown. Seriously blown.

   Negatron

   Yeah, that Jack Burton.

   You know what Jack Burton always says?

   I think this is the only movie I’ve seen near the number of times I’ve seen Empire Strikes Back.

   AWWW COME ON!!!

   (amanda: oh wait, isn’t that the girl from Sex in the City?)

   Posted on Blog over 20 years agoon October 06, 2006 - 4:14 AM and archived here at /blog/2006/2006-10-05-kid-koalas-negatron/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2006/2006-10-05-kid-koalas-negatron/ in the Blog collection in both HTML and markdown.

5. Best Man

   I was the only groomsman in Ben’s wedding on Saturday, making me the Best Man. He is off in Africa climbing both peaks of Mount Kilamanjaro for his honeymoon.

   His Kilimanjaro team:

   Before he left he threw up a few pics that guests have sent him.

   Aaron performed the ceremony. The wedding was super cool and everything went smoothly. Thanks to everyone that helped!

   Posted on Blog over 20 years agoon October 03, 2006 - 4:48 PM and archived here at /blog/2006/2006-10-03-best-man/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2006/2006-10-03-best-man/ in the Blog collection in both HTML and markdown.

6. Care packages to Togo

   Our friend Beth is now a Peace Corps volunteer in Togo, Africa. She gave us a list of things she can’t get locally which Amanda sent out earlier this week. The package had to go in a padded envelope and be under 16oz to prevent it from being too interesting to postal workers more likely to pilfer and steal than deliver the message.

   Envelope contents:

   • Seasoning mixes
   • Taco mix
   • Vasoline
   • Listerine Breath-Strips
   Posted on Blog over 20 years agoon September 29, 2006 - 5:41 PM and archived here at /blog/2006/2006-09-29-care-packages-to-togo/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2006/2006-09-29-care-packages-to-togo/ in the Blog collection in both HTML and markdown.

7. Primus Sucks

   You purchased <3> ticket(s) to:
      * PRIMUS DAR CONSTITUTION HALL (SECTION ORCH , ROW T ) *********************************
   

   Row T is about the 20th row? I’m excited.

   Posted on Blog over 20 years agoon September 27, 2006 - 3:11 PM and archived here at /blog/2006/2006-09-27-primus-sucks/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2006/2006-09-27-primus-sucks/ in the Blog collection in both HTML and markdown.

8. Putty as a Cygwin Shell

   If you already have a working bash shell and are just looking to extend bash’s tab completion capabilities, do not pass go, proceed directly to Ian MacDonald’s programable bash completion project. Then read the rest of his advice, it is excellent.

   To skip bash completely and try an entirely new shell, give fish or less crazy, zsh a shot.

   If you are looking for bash in Windows and Cygwin help, continue reading.

   cmd.exe is really terrible.

   There are hackish Unix workarounds but none that really come through. Cygwin’s default install leaves us with the Cygwin Bash Shell, which is just bash running in (drumroll please) cmd.exe. It also comes with rxvt.exe which is fast and actually a terminal and instead of just a process running within cmd.exe, but it isn’t easily configurable and has a nasty looking scrollbar.

   Mark Edgar’s PuTTYcyg to the rescue!

   It’s easy.

   Install Cygwin. This should give you a working unix environment, home directory, shell, and Cygwin bash shell. Launch the included Cygwin Bash Shell shortcut to remind yourself how lame it is. It uses cmd.exe! Gross! It should dump you in your home directory.

   Download the latest release of Mark Edgar’s patched PuTTY executables. I like to keep all that stuff in ~/bin, which is in c:\home\bin on my laptop. You probably want to add c:\home\bin to your PATH environment variables in windows. Yours might be different. If you aren’t sure, type “set | grep -i home” in the default Cygwin shell to find out.

   Launch the putty.exe you just extracted. It looks like the normal Putty GUI but there is a new connection type radio button labeled Cygterm. Select that. Label it whatever you like, I call mine ‘local’ and hit save. Then click the Open button and you are off!

   

   You should probably go back and tweak your shell settings now that you have a working shell in windows. From the top-left corner context menu, select “Change Settings…”

   I like to enable logging, use a lighter gray background, turn on the visual-bell and blinking cursor, and modify all of the colors assignments. Once you are happy, go back to the top “Session” menu and save your session over your ‘local’ bookmark.

   

   NB: Not all dos commands work well within PuTTYcyg. Some of the sysinternal tools (pstools for example) that request passwords misbehave and are useless. Keep in mind that the shell is interpreted like a unix shell, so you’ll need to escape backslashes and so on.

   Now go back to the cygwin setup and grab bash and bash completion. You will need to add the bash completion files to your startup by sourcing it in a bash dotfile like .bash_profile or .bashrc

   if [ "$PS1" ] && [ $bmajor -eq 2 ] && [ $bminor '>' 04 ] \
     && [ -f /etc/bash_completion ];
     then
     # interactive shell
     # Source completion code
     . /etc/bash_completion fi

   To jump right to your shell and have a shortcut in your quicklaunch or on your desktop, use Putty’s -launch flag.

   

   I’m always looking for something better, let me know if it’s out there!

   Posted on Blog over 20 years agoon September 22, 2006 - 10:34 PM and archived here at /blog/2006/2006-09-22-putty-as-a-cygwin-shell/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2006/2006-09-22-putty-as-a-cygwin-shell/ in the Blog collection in both HTML and markdown.

9. iTunes 7

   ITunes 7 looks nice but behaves very poorly. Any time I play a song from my NAS where about 4/5 of my music is stored would grind it to a halt. Any other attempt to access the NAS while this is happening is extremely slow, if the finder manages to not crash. This is all over 802.11g which iTunes 6 handled with no problem. I tried letting it sit all day to ‘catch up’ for the past week hoping that it’d work gapless playback through the ~65BG of music I have; no luck.

   I have removed all plugins, I have disabled anything in the preferences that might cause it. I think it’s gapless playback and a half baked, rushed to market app that only exists to keep everyone’s eyes on Apple as Microsoft announces Zune.

   This step by step guide worked for me to revert to iTunes 6.

   Posted on Blog over 20 years agoon September 22, 2006 - 1:43 AM and archived here at /blog/2006/2006-09-21-itunes-7/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2006/2006-09-21-itunes-7/ in the Blog collection in both HTML and markdown.

10. Further googling for stavely

    Stavely site:en.wikipedia.org reveals this from the article on the Mean Center of US Population:

    In the first census, 1790, the mean population center was located a little under 8 miles (13 km) west, and slightly north, of Chestertown, Maryland, a few feet from a small branch of the Chesapeake Bay called Stavely Pond. Oddly enough, the spot is on the “Great Oak Mannour” property patented to Josiah Fendall in the mid-1600s, one of Kent County’s oldest and largest land grants. The patent was for 2000 acres (8 km²). Fendall was an early governor of the colony.

    Very interesting. The branch of the Stavely family from which I am descended was in PA by then I think but had cousins in Baltimore and I assume the eastern shore near there. Hooray worthless trivia.

    Posted on Blog over 20 years agoon September 13, 2006 - 2:55 PM and archived here at /blog/2006/2006-09-13-further-googling-for-stavely/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2006/2006-09-13-further-googling-for-stavely/ in the Blog collection in both HTML and markdown.