Why the very thought of anyone drinking such a low class beverage has CAUSED MY MONOCLE TO POP RIGHT OUT! And really, who drinks beer in this day and age anyway? Everyone should drink only expensive wine and scotch.
Why just the other day my chauffer took a wrong turn off of the freeway and pulled me past this run down little liquor store where this shabby looking man (who by the way was driving a Pontiac! A PONTIAC!!!) who hadn’t shaved for a couple of days was walking out with a bottle of Johnny Walker Red. RED LABEL?! I exclaimed, exhaling a puff of cigar smoke and tipping my top hat back in a bemused manner. WHO ARE THESE CRETINS? I practically had my driver phone the police right then and there.
Ok, more geek shit, from ~2 seconds of a real Exim log this time:
x:x:13 SMTP connection from [221.232.74.44]:2373 (TCP/IP connection count = 1)
x:x:13 SMTP syntax error in "GET http://hpcgi1.nifty.com/trino/ProxyJ/prxjdg.cgi HTTP/1.0" H=[221.232.74.44]:2373 unrecognized command
x:x:13 SMTP syntax error in "Accept: */*" H=[221.232.74.44]:2373 unrecognized command
x:x:13 SMTP syntax error in "Accept-Language: en-us" H=[221.232.74.44]:2373 unrecognized command
x:x:13 SMTP syntax error in "User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)" H=[221.232.74.44]:2373 unrecognized command
x:x:13 SMTP syntax error in "Host: hpcgi1.nifty.com" H=[221.232.74.44]:2373 unrecognized command
x:x:13 SMTP syntax error in "Connection: Keep-Alive" H=[221.232.74.44]:2373 unrecognized command
x:x:13 SMTP call from [221.232.74.44]:2373 dropped: too many unrecognized commands
x:x:14 SMTP connection from [221.232.74.44]:2394 (TCP/IP connection count = 1)
x:x:14 SMTP connection from [221.232.74.44]:2394 lost (error: Connection reset by peer)
x:x:15 SMTP connection from [221.232.74.44]:2409 (TCP/IP connection count = 1)
x:x:15 SMTP connection from [221.232.74.44]:2409 lost (error: Connection reset by peer)
GET is an http command. SMTP is how mail is sent, it is not how web sites are served. People rarely go to the post office and scream GIVE ME A BIG MAC AND A LARGE SHAKE into their p.o. boxes. Well, most people.
I was visited by Wowbagger the infintely prolonged this mornig on New York Ave near New Jersey. I was in the far right lane but we weren’t moving because a truck was blocking the entire lane and not moving. I waited for a gap and poped into the middle lane without cutting anyone off. I always give myself room to go back in instances like this because OfficeSpace style, the truck immediately got out of the way, the middle lane stopped and the lane I’d just bailed out of became the only lane moving. I put my signal on and waited out the stop-and-go for a gap.
The person behind me got cut off by a raving bearded lunatic in a Subaru Outback honking his horn over and over from the far left lane. This lunatic was now behind me beep beep beep. I waited for a gap to get in the right lane again and when I saw one coming, started to lunge – only this time lunatic behind me slammed into the gap at mach 2, nearly sideswiped my car, continued honking his horn and with the front end nosediving, almost hit the car in front of him.
Middle fingers were exchanged.
Idiot then noticed that he had 20’ to get into the far left lane (from the far right) or he’d miss getting on 395S and be stuck on Massachusets. I saw him cut off three more people before making it into the long line before I was too far away to see the asshat in my mirrors.
Went and saw the band Aaron managed to sneak himself into over the weekend.
The venue was a bar in my home town which I didn’t even know still existed (the bar, not the town). I used to ride my bike there to try to sneak in and pump quarters into the cigarette vending machine - the bartender was generally quick enough to chase us out.
The neighborhood “big kid” from elementary school who I haven’t really seen in 10 years was working the door. I’m 5" taller than him. He let us in without paying full cover as we lacked the cash so all is forgiven even though he ripped our tree fort down.
I’ve always thought that bands that cover any Hendrix song from “The Ultimate Experience” should have their guitars taken away but I’m cool if it’s played with the band’s style, which it was. Cheers to that.
Yes, they do run to the dance floor if you cover a Skynard song in some places. Seriously.
Lucas is putting out the Special Edition Star Wars flicks on DVD. Finally – when it can make him the maximum amount of money.
Keeping the your-mom joke lively – my mom and I went to see Episode IV when it was first re-released as a Special Edition on the big screen. Neither of us were impressed.
Greedo shot first. The only character we can all dig gets castrated him before they even left Tatooine.
When I first got started in 3d-rendering tech, all shapes were created by a process called “extrusion”. Improvements in technology eventually brought “primitives”, giving artists the ability to insert things like spheres, cones, blocks, stars and teapots. Current tech allows primitives to be sculpted like stone and rapid application of smart textures that remove the need for detailed mesh modeling.
But this was before we had that fancy shit. A block is the easiest extrusion – start with a rectangle of length and width and give it height (generally along the z access – the line pointing at you), leaveing the shape alone throughout the raising process. Voila. A sphere is a bit trickier. Take a circle of zero diameter, give it height and increase diameter in a non-linear but simple curve until the midpoint and then reverse the rate of change as you decrease the radius to zero again.
Of course you can imagine how difficult it is to generate truly complex shapes via extrusion. I made the linked guitar body using graph paper and an estimated curvature on a rough six different slices spread throughout the extrusion. Software took care of the interpolation making the transitions smooth. Were I to lathe the actual guitar (like printing a drafting in 3d), I’m sure the low resolution of my work would have been highlighted.
PovRAY doesn’t have extrusion. PovRay, as I know it, doest not have any drawing whatsoever – it is pure math. Geeky. Neato.
The previous post’s fancy generated fractal shape renders quickly at low-low resolution but takes a few hours at standard size. I tweaked the colors used and that worked. I tweaked the input numbers and the shape disappeared.
I’m curious if any of you can get some interesting shapes out of the template. Povray is free software – google for your flavor (nix/mac/win32) and give it a shot!
If you are the sort of person into the sort of things that I get into but not always around to see what sort of things I am getting into, you may want to go get a free book. I’m getting into it.
As with mp3’s, after a few looks you may be so inclined to buy the higher-quality dead tree version.
The cover art isn’t too shabby but I wouldn’t mind seeing a copy that doesn’t have the > and : around Doctrow’s name.
We get it already.
Computers are hip.
I’ve been guilty of the same crimes to much larger extents – maybe I’m just being picky.
