Cosplay: Proving that when there is a will, there is a way to construct damn near anything.
When installing Perl modules by hand, be sure that you have lots of coffee handy. Not only can it take a bloody long time to compile everything, but running make test (and you'd better run make test to be sure you're not hosing your installed copy of Perl) can take an amazing amount of time.
Sure, you can automagickally install stuff from CPAN (perl -MCPAN -e shell) but if you need to go through a proxy server, you're screwed. You'd be better off …
When using sed (Stream EDitor) in a shell script to match or strip out certain strings of characters, keep in mind that character usage in the regular expressions doesn't work the same. For example, running the following command manually on the command line works properly, but does not do what you'd expect inside a shell script:
sed s/\<\/td>//
That command is supposed to find all of the tags in an HTML document and substitute for them nothing (i.e., erasing them from the file). It works properly if run manually, but inside a shellscript you're not getting a true …
Whenever you put your headphones on at work, someone will want to talk to you within thirty seconds, necessitating removal of said headphones.
Never try the Jedi Mind Trick on police officers. Their will is too strong.
When your account officer at the bank looks at the interest rate on your checking account and remarks "That's pitiful," you know something's wrong. Enabling the WebCollage module of Xscreensaver at work can be dangerous when you have words like 'bukkake', 'sodomy', 'beastility', and 'necrophilia' in your systems' dictionary file. Disable all instances of this screensaver module on all machines that you take …
An old chewing gum commercial says "Double your pleasure, double your fun," but I don't think this is exactly what they had in mind.. one hannah Kersey, age 23 from the UK have birth to triplets. Triplets carried to term in her two uterii. I'm not pulling your leg, folks, she really does have two wombs. The three girls (two identical twins, and an odd one out) were born by cesarian section seven weeks early.
Does anyone out there have a USB scanner that I can borrow? Mine just died in the middle of something important... The new threat to …
It's been an interesting trip back to Pennsylvania, to say the very least. Lyssa and I finally got the TARDIS loaded up and set course for Pittsburgh around 1130 EST/EDT yesterday morning, stopped off for a quick lunch at the local deli, and then headed for the northbound beltway for the long haul.
I'm very glad that I was able to talk Lyssa out of driving home on Friday night because driving conditions were so bad in the DC area. Between the rain, the darkness, and all the headlights of people trying to do last minute shopping it really …
James Brown, requisat en pace When I get home, I'll play some good, old fashioned LA Style in your memory, because it was That Song, the first track of Best of Rave volume one that got me listening to you after all.
Lyssa and I got up around 0800 EST/EDT, when our circadian rhythms had decided that we'd gotten enough sleep, and got ourselves going for the long haul back to Pittsburgh to visit my family. Lyssa's father had gone to the nursing home to visit Grandma Pat before we'd awakened, so we waited for a while until everyone …
Wow.. are there only three days left in 2006?? It feels like time's been flying by faster than even the most sensitive of clocks can account for.
Lyssa and I have been back in DC for about two days now, and it's been a hell of a vacation thus far. On the 26th, while we were still in Pennsylvania, Lyssa spent some time at home with a friend of hers while I trekked back to Pittsburgh to see my family some more, and catch up with some close friends thereof who have gone above and beyond the call of duty …
