Blog posts from 2006

1. Wedding website

   grantandamanda.com/wedding is taking form . Slowly.

2. Menufela

   I’ve been looking for an app like Menufela since I switched to mac-on-the-desktop three years ago. All it does is hide the menubar and let it slide back in when the mouse is against it. Yes, just…

3. Baltimore Santa Crawl 2006

   This year has some tipping point potential to turn into total mob anarchy. I hope that doesn’t happen - those of us that have been a few times (this will be my fourth crawl) need to keep the spirit…

4. Paging Kevin Bernier

   Doctor Kevin Bernier, please pick up a red courtesy phone. Doctor Kevin Bernier, please pick up a red courtesy phone.

5. When the phish have poles...

   Via funsec: …the phishers get reeled .

6. 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…

7. 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…

8. 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…

9. 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…

10. 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…

11. 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.

12. 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 .…

13. 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…

14. 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)…

15. Stavely Makepeace

    I am just curious enough to hear what this 70’s brittish glam-rock band sounds like that has my last name in the band name (found by testing live.com searching for myself without quotes) that it was…

16. Another dot com

    http://www.grantandamanda.com/ (Blatantly stolen flash placeholder. A textpattern blog and wedding news to follow now live. Married life blogging excitement to follow that. Parent-hood blogging to…

17. The popular college vote

    Aziz: we might actually start having a democracy Aziz : :) Aziz : read away Aziz : http://ideas.4brad.com/node/433 Grant : ¡viva la republic! Aziz : si senior Aziz : have you heard about that Grant :…

18. Moving to Towson

    Well, Parkville, I guess. Amanda and I will save more in monthly rent by getting out of DC than Ben and I paid per month for our last apartment together in Maryland . That is a show. I move in about…

19. Getting married

    Amanda and I are planning a May '07 wedding. FYI. (Amanda is planning ) (omg she just asked me if I am going to surprise her w/ a ring. HOW?!?)

20. Sad week, here are kittens

    We must all be protected from the vicious guitar strings.

21. shutdown +20160 -r

    > Broadcast message from root ( pts/0 ) ( Mon Jul 17 07:44:53 2006 ) : > > The system is going DOWN for reboot in 20160 minutes ! Translation for non-nerds : I quit my wildly successful and lucrative…

22. PROTECTO

    Reeves Gabrels is releasing a new CD as a two-piece w/ drummer Stefan Svensson. They call themselves Protecto . Reeves Gabrels- Normal & Abnormal Guitars, Fretless Bass, Delayloops Stefan “Big…

23. Chirp-chirp-chirp-burp

    Sasha and I lacked the foresight to have enough clean and ready bottles prepped for our last batch - my double IPA and his Hefeweizen. I cleaned about 80 bottles at once - some from my trash bin,…

24. Habitat

    I read this essay on dead trees this weekend while waiting in the alley for prospective buyers to walk through the condo I’m renting. The Lessons of Lucasfilm’s Habitat discusses the creation and…

25. I LIVE HERE!

    The spot I rent in an alley near my apartment for my MD-tag car is in between a building of contemporary $1.5mil condos and an auto-body/mechanics shop that has been there for nearly 30 years. I’ve…

26. Double Parking

    Double parking on Sunday mornings by church goers is making a stink in DC. I don’t really follow why this is debatable at all. If my first through third attempts to move my car / have people blocking…

27. Scarlet Letters

    I’ve disagreed with a few of you on the publication of sex offender registries. I’m finding out about it months old in a magazine, but here is an example of why I don’t believe them to be appropriate…

28. Big Lazy

    The script that updates what I’m listening to as I listen to it in the sidebar on the left wasn’t running as scheduled because I accidentally disabled it for a week or so. It’s back. talking about…

29. SLUG

    For the past few months I’ve fought with various issues on my new DHCP/DNS/SMB/HTTP server. I expected a fight, it’s a 100Mhz ARM processor with no monitor, keyboard, mouse, or internal hard drive.…

30. Visor - Quake style OSX drop down console

    From the creator of Quicksilver. I’ve wanted an app like this for the past six or seven years. Very nice. I bound it to ` , feels completely natural.

31. Infallibility

    in•fal•li•bil•i•ty |in?fal??bilit?| noun the quality of being infallible; the inability to be wrong : his judgment became impaired by faith in his own infallibility . • (also papal infallibility )…

32. 15" G4 Powerbook

    Luckily my older powerbook is still under warranty. I’m thinking it’s a fan of some kind failing - it definitely makes a different noise than it should. I’m dropping it at a genius bar this evening.…

33. CHEWIE!!!!!!

34. A Short History of Nearly Everything

    I was a big fan of James Burke’s Connections series in high school. When Ben described Bill Bryson’s A Short History of Nearly Everything , it sounded pretty sweet. So far it’s a very fast read but I…

35. Spin

    Spin , by Robert Charles Wilson. I burned through it in four days and found it highly entertaining; a great break from the non-fiction / technical books that are piling up half-read under the coffee…

36. The Shaggs

    Don’t stop until you get to the mp3’s. Link .

37. Jokerbone t-shirt

    Interest check, Jokerbone logo shirt? Shirt color? ‘de gustibus non est disputandum’ somewhere on it? References to past posts? I wear my Outerbody shirt all the time. 😃

38. Ben's wedding

    I landed the roll of best-man in Ben’s wedding. This means I’m obligated to wish them well in a speech which I get to give to the family and friends gathered before me after the ceremony at some…

39. Dig a pony

    MY FAVORITE SONG : Updated to Dig a Pony . Lennon: “it’s just words, put together for a song” in other words, stop trying to find meaning from nonsense. If it’s good to listen to, listen to it, don’t…

40. Second Batch

    Two carboys are in the bathroom burping their airlocks away. Yesterday Ben and I brewed two beers at once - mine a Pale Ale, his a Dunkel Weissen. It is nice to see (and hear!) both happily…

41. Famous Sounds

    I just wasted my morning checking these loops out . “Famous sounds” are sounds that have been created or used by somebody, liked and then copied by many others, and thus earned a “classic” status.

42. The line!

    Setting: Underground skate party. A kegger two blocks from the convention center downtown. A live punk band, skaters taking turns in a bowl, skateboard art on display, skate video’s projected onto…

43. Drunk Piglet Canon

    A photo gallery .

44. Security Edition

    Brilliant . The Bill of Rights: The First Ten Amendments to the constitution of the United States printed on sturdy, pocket-sized, pieces of metal. The next time you travel by air, take the Bill of…

45. Parking at home

    Ah, the irony . The alley that my parking spot is on, off Kalorama between Champlain and Ontario, is getting re-surfaced. I knew about the construction further up the alley for the previous week but…

46. zsh

    I’ve gone from fish back to bash and now to zsh . Exciting times. As Ben reminds me every time I bitch and moan when someone puts me in front of a shell that isn’t my own, I’m retarded and ought to…

47. That's a lotta nuts!

    A client is delivering preloaded video ipods to a few thousand folks as a marketing campaign. I had nothing to do with getting them pre-loaded, when asked I suggested they go straight to apple, which…

48. Forced-listening: Country

    Compare: Alabama - If You’re Gonna Play in Texas vs. Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit I know it’s only one extra chorus in the Alabama song but it makes me want to drive a pencil into my ear and the…

49. Quake3 on a Powerbook

    If you want to Quake on a powerbook, the first of many problems you’ll face after getting over macs-can’t-play-games is that the resolution is funky. Quake 3 has a single widescreen resolution in the…

50. Bring me the hydrospanners!

    The Millennium Falcon 1 [went off course at about T+40 seconds and took a turn in the wrong direction, crash landing in the Pacific Ocean. Sponsored by one of the now wealthy founders of PayPal , the…

51. Golden Shower

    Dogfish Head lays down a lot of trash-talk with the announcement of their new Imperial Pilsner. I can’t wait to order one.

52. The Teaching Company

    All the fun of college (courses) without all the homework! I always enjoyed my latin class in college, I never did very well on tests. I am interested in history, but not flashcards. I am in the car…

53. Making gumbo

    If you should get the craving, this turned out really tasty. I was breaking recipes / this is not exact, just what I did, should I try again having forgotten: Ingredients 1 pound fresh okra,…

54. My first batch of beer

    I brewed a brown ale this weekend at Ben’s house. It was great fun, and easier than I had expected it to be. Our first two failed attempts relied on packaged yeast which refused to ‘activate’ in the…

55. Zappa on censorship

    Zappa on censorship » We are under attack by words! Ideas!

56. BSG: Not till October

    Battlestar Galactica » No new episodes until Season 3 in October. Time to start counting the days .

57. NO PARKING

    On parking in Adams Morgan . Come visit! When you get here you can bitch about the parking or the metro or the cab ride! I’ll smile and change the subject to something that a discussion has more…

58. A Dead Horse

    DC Council member Barry: “There is a sort of an unwritten code in Washington, among the underworld and the hustlers and these other guys, that I am their friend,” Barry said at an afternoon news…

59. The Elements of Typographic Style

    Curses again to Amazon one-click. Coming soon, used, at half price, to my bookshelf.

60. No Pho in DC

    Pho » Washington DC’s needs PHO . It is a mystery why I am surrounded by bad chinese and pizza places and have to drive for a decent Pho Thai. Pho 79, you don’t count because your pho is terrible.

61. New TV

    I just ordered what will be my first non-hand-me-down television to go with the xbox 360 I picked up a few weeks ago. It’s a 42" Plasma HDTV. :monocle: I picked the industrial model - it’s…

62. John Stewart cnn Transcript

    John Stewart, interviewed by Larry King » …in preparation for this Sunday’s Oscars: Transcript

63. VW

    Unpimp your ride! » Representing Deutschland!

64. Adding features!

    jokerbone updates » Ajax archives , cleaned up itunes more , asides, cleaned up IE support for Will… redesign reboot coming…

65. Vinge: Rainbow's End

    Pre-ordered.

66. Can I borrow your cat?

    Amanda got an e-mail from the neighbor living below us… This might sound weird, but can I borrow your cat for a few days? I think I heard a rat in here this evening. I haven’t had rats since my…

67. But you never know!

    Andrew Hearst over at panopticist torrented a recent BBC broadcast of Richard Dawkins screaming at a wall… or rather, debating the age of the Earth and the theory of evolution, with an Evangelical…

68. Dirty Ice - SOOOOOOO??!?!

    Bacteria discovered in fast food restaurant ice . SOOOOOOO!??? I ignored this the first time I skimmed past it during my morning RSS catch-up. Then I got it from jericho @ attrition as a mailing list…

69. Brain farts

    Heard on a conf call… Your fears will be… uh… ah… uh-swayed, or whatever that word is… assuage |??sw?j| verb [ trans. ] make (an unpleasant feeling) less intense : the letter assuaged the fears of…

70. Bonnaroo '06

    Amanda and I are going.

71. Origins of :-) (* & % !)

    😃 (hat tip: attrition )

72. Extract song info from iTunes

    You may or may not have noticed that the song listing on the left is pretty dynamic and recently has included the album cover for the most recently played song. I used to do this all manually with an…

73. Danish defacements

    deface=test for secure Perfectly logical, perfectly normal…

74. Challenge Club - A Briefe Description of the Notorious Life of Challenge Club Together With Their Ignominious Death

    Challenge Club’s CD, A Briefe Description of the Notorious Life of Challenge Club Together With Their Ignominious Death , made the city paper . The reviewer wasted the first paragraph knocking common…

75. IE Only sites

    I use mozilla on win32 at work. Of course any company worth their salt will have an intranet that is IE only. Lo and behold I find this extension for mozilla. This will open predefined sites in a…

76. Imbolc

    The spring lambs will be born soon, lets get these new christian priests to bless some candles , and throw a party to the goddess Brigant?j?, and say a prayer for world peace . Best summed by Pete…

77. Solaris partitioning

    I had great fun following this process today. I made it to the last bit, but after rebooting the system wants to mount / as a read-only file system, freaks out about not being able to create /tmp,…

78. rm -fr /

    <p>In a <a href="http://www.jokerbone.com/2005/10/04/kill-9-lecture-ii/">continuing reference series of unix newbie tricks</a>, apparently some of the oldest tricks in the…

79. Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine rejections

    When fiction writing goes wrong …

80. Cease and desist

    Also brilliant .

81. Duchamp's Fountain

    Brilliant .

82. On the DC smoking ban

    Further reading: Politics tend to not interest me . Appeal to consequences , Argumentum ad populum , Ecological fallacy , Ignoratio elenchi , Statistical special pleading … …and so on

83. fish fish fish, fish fish:||

    > fish expr: syntax error Welcome to fish, the friendly interactive shell Type help for instructions on how to use fish fish: Syntax: set KEY VALUE set_color: Expected an argument grant@scribble…