I used to have one of these locks but threw it away because I’d lost the key.
Cylindrical key-hole, meet ball-point pen.
We used to use them as spit-ball-shooters in elementary school.
Blog posts
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kryptonite for kryptonite
Posted on Blog over 22 years agoon September 15, 2004 - 4:31 AM and archived here at /blog/2004/2004-09-14-kryptonite-for-kryptonite/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2004/2004-09-14-kryptonite-for-kryptonite/ in the Blog collection in both HTML and markdown. -
phonetic alphabet
Having recently placed a call to the Microsoft Clearinghouse to get a 25 character license re-activated and been bounced between multiple clearinghouse representatives, tech support, and back to the clearinghouse, I wanted to have this handy for posterity.
Here we are…
Alpha Bravo Charlie Delta Echo Foxtrot Golf Hotel India Juliet Kilo Lima Mike November Oscar Papa Quebec Romeo Sierra Tango Uniform Victor Whiskey X-Ray Yankee ZuluThere are many phonetic alphabets. The above one is the one Microsoft uses.
It looks like the RAF dropped Beer for B during WWI.
Posted on Blog over 22 years agoon August 27, 2004 - 5:20 PM and archived here at /blog/2004/2004-08-27-phonetic-alphabet/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2004/2004-08-27-phonetic-alphabet/ in the Blog collection in both HTML and markdown. -
writequit.com
I just bought writequit.com.
Posted on Blog over 22 years agoon August 24, 2004 - 10:35 PM and archived here at /blog/2004/2004-08-24-writequitcom/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2004/2004-08-24-writequitcom/ in the Blog collection in both HTML and markdown. -
bwaa!!!
“He said, ‘We can’t give it to you’,” Mr. Kennedy said, describing an encounter with an airline agent to the rapt audience. " ‘You can’t buy a ticket to go on the airline to Boston.’ I said, ‘Well, why not?’ He said, ‘We can’t tell you.’ "
“Tried to get on a plane back to Washington,” Mr. Kennedy continued. ‘’ ‘You can’t get on the plane.’ I went up to the desk and said, ‘I’ve been getting on this plane, you know, for 42 years. Why can’t I get on the plane?’ "
The hearing room erupted in laughter.
OOoooOOOooOOOoooooh you waskawy tewwawist flag in the database!!
…Mr. Kennedy emphasized his concern for passengers stuck on no-fly lists. But he tried to make light of his own troubles.
He said, to much laughter, that he did not believe the mistake was a conspiracy engineered by his Republican colleagues. And as Mr. Hutchinson offered up his apologies, Senator Orrin G. Hatch, Republican of Utah, responded jokingly in kind.
Mr. Hutchinson said, “Senator, we do regret that inconvenience to you.”
Mr. Hatch said, “Quit smiling when you say that.”
Posted on Blog over 22 years agoon August 21, 2004 - 2:23 AM and archived here at /blog/2004/2004-08-20-bwaa/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2004/2004-08-20-bwaa/ in the Blog collection in both HTML and markdown. -
linux kernel dev cycle
Non-geeks: Groups can only e-mail a document back and forth to work on it at certain sizes. When it’s a few million lines it has to be maintained in one place and changes (patches) need to be inspected one at a time because hundres of people are throwing them in rapid-fire. Impressive account of a speech about stats about the developement of the linux kernel after moving from old-and-busted(CVS) to new-hotness(BitKeeper) versioning systems:
Pre-Bitkeeper, this is how they did it: maintainer sends patches to Linus. Wait. Resend if patches dropped. Lather, rinse, repeat.
January 2002 - patch penguin lkml flame fest. Worried about patchs getting dropped. Linus decided to use BitKeeper, 2.5.3 first kernel. “License weenies got their panties in bind, ah feh.” (Greg is like the Vin Diesel of kernel dev: I keep expecting him to shout “I! LOVE! THIS! DEVELOPMENT CYCLE!!!”.)
BitKeeper change things a lot. Bitkeeper maintainers got a lot more work. Linus sucks in all patches, discarded crappy stuff. Non-bk maintainers just sent patches as it goes.
Unexpected consequences: we knew what Linus was doing, so much better feedback. Bk2cvs and bk2svn trees. bkcommits-head mailing list so you could you see what was flying around.
All patches started to go through Andrew Morton; BK stuff goes through Linus.
Result: 2.6.0 = Two years of dev, 27149 different patches, 1.66 patches per hour. At least 916 unique contributors. Top developers handled 6956 patches. Ten patches a day for two years. People should research this data.
2.6.1 538 patches. 2.6.2 = 1472, 2.6.3 = 863 patches, 2.6.4 1385 patches…. keeps going. bY 2.6.7 2306 patches. Something is wrong. This is the stable kernel, but we’re going faster –- one million lines added, 700 thousand lines deleted: a third of the kernel. A lot of data, and this is stable. Feeling uncomfortable yet?
I need a new PC. I haven’t even booted a 2.5+ kernel. I was in 2.4 land ~2.4.2 praying for usb fixes that 2.2 wasn’t up to. A shuttle is in my future.
Posted on Blog over 22 years agoon August 18, 2004 - 6:12 AM and archived here at /blog/2004/2004-08-17-linux-kernel-dev-cycle/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2004/2004-08-17-linux-kernel-dev-cycle/ in the Blog collection in both HTML and markdown. -
darko
Everything you were afraid to ask about “Donnie Darko”.
Either you loved it or you hated it, it seems. I had a smoke and a beer, then came back in and watched it again, my first night with the DVD. Now I need to buy the directors cut.
Sign up for a free day pass with Salon and dig in.
Posted on Blog over 22 years agoon July 28, 2004 - 11:11 PM and archived here at /blog/2004/2004-07-28-darko/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2004/2004-07-28-darko/ in the Blog collection in both HTML and markdown. -
Beastie Boys
I’m not really digging the latest BB songs as much as the past three albums but thanks to a pretty heinous hangover and a complete ignorance of what channel is what here in DC, I found myself watching VH1 this morning and caught the Check it out video.
I am most definitely going to have to get a Star Trek TOS uniform. I googled for a pic to place in this post and found this near the top of the list:
Reviewer: Jeff Conrad - See all my reviews
Just saw a beastie boys video today that reenacts the pon farr battle on a street corner.
The rest of the episode reviews are great too.
Posted on Blog over 22 years agoon July 24, 2004 - 5:07 PM and archived here at /blog/2004/2004-07-24-beastie-boys/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2004/2004-07-24-beastie-boys/ in the Blog collection in both HTML and markdown. -
1970's Atkin's
Quote fnord.org (I love this stuff):
“You will find that the State is the kind of ORGANIZATION which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly too.” - John Kenneth Galbraith THE MYTH OF THE APPLE OF DISCORD
It seems that Zeus was preparing a wedding banquet for Peleus and Thetis and did not want to invite Eris because of Her reputation as a trouble maker.*
This made Eris angry, and so She fashioned an apple of pure gold** and inscribed upon it KALLISTI (“To The Prettiest One”) and on the day of the fete She rolled it into the banquet hall and then left to be alone and joyously partake of a hot dog.
Now, three of the invited goddesses,*** Athena, Hera, and Aphrodite, each immediately claimed it to belong to herself because of the inscription. And they started fighting, and they started throwing punch all over the place and everything.
Finally Zeus calmed things down and declared that an arbitrator must be selected, which was a reasonable suggestion, and all agreed. He sent them to a shepherd of Troy, whose name was Paris because his mother had had a lot of gaul and had married a Frenchman; but each of the sneaky goddesses tried to outwit the others by going early and offering a bribe to Paris.
Athena offered him Heroic War Victories, Hera offered him Great Wealth, and Aphrodite offered him the Most Beautiful Woman on Earth. Being a healthy young Trojan lad, Paris promptly accepted Aphrodite’s bribe and she got the apple and he got screwed.
As she had promised, she maneuvered earthly happenings so that Paris could have Helen (The Helen) then living with her husband Menelaus,King of Sparta. Anyway, everyone knows that the Trojan War followed when Sparta demanded their Queen back and that the Trojan War is said to be The First War among men.
And so we suffer because of the Original Snub. And so a Discordian is to partake of No Hot Dog Buns.
Do you believe that?
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This is called THE DOCTRINE OF THE ORIGINAL SNUB
- There is historic disagreement concerning whether this apple was of metalic gold or acapulco.
- Actually there were five goddesses, but the Greeks did not know the Law of Fives.
- There is historic disagreement concerning whether this apple was of metalic gold or acapulco.
Earlier in the same doc: “The Classical Greeks were not influenced by the Classical Greeks. DO NOT CIRCULATE! What We Know About ERIS (not much)”
Posted on Blog over 22 years agoon July 21, 2004 - 7:21 AM and archived here at /blog/2004/2004-07-20-1970s-atkins/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2004/2004-07-20-1970s-atkins/ in the Blog collection in both HTML and markdown. -
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tough work
Switching must be tough. I remember kicking and screaming a bit but now switch app’s, os’, etc all the time. I don’t mean to imply that I’m Captain Open Minded.
Formal testing of a switcher to gnome 2.6 reveals how a lot of people I know would react when switching to gnome.
Don’t tell anyone but they probably acted the same way the first 10 times they did the same tasks in the OS to which they are now accustomed.
Posted on Blog over 22 years agoon July 21, 2004 - 6:02 AM and archived here at /blog/2004/2004-07-20-tough-work/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2004/2004-07-20-tough-work/ in the Blog collection in both HTML and markdown. -
morning drive
Morning commute to client near the Capitol building: 15 minutes.
The same commute from my previous residence: 1 hour 15 minutes.
Posted on Blog over 22 years agoon July 20, 2004 - 5:18 PM and archived here at /blog/2004/2004-07-20-morning-drive/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2004/2004-07-20-morning-drive/ in the Blog collection in both HTML and markdown.