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2008 Mar 29 terra


Guy Blade Guy Blade---12:33:00


Things that are not Awesome v2: Electric Boogaloo
Things that are not Awesome v2: Electric Boogaloo

1. Large swarms of gnats. These gnats are nearly impossible to see while biking until you feel them smacking against your face as you move speedily through them. Kill the gnats.

2. Finding out your copy of Xenosaga III's second disc doesn't work. Apparently, if you had gotten to disc two just three days earlier, they would have replaced your disc since you would have still been in warranty. Since you didn't, you get to buy it again. Fuck NamcoBandai.

3. Getting your OLPC and finding that it has a single stuck pixel (green). At least the pixel is near the edge.

4. Going to work for a 7am telecon that actually starts at 8am.

5. Stale Oreos.

6. Falling asleep on the couch for like 8 hours.

7. Not being able to store empty directories or empty directory trees in a Git repository.



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2008 Mar 27 yuffie


Guy Blade Guy Blade---07:21:00


Cross that off the todo list
Last night, I finally got around to going through and labeling all of the 004 show recordings that I hadn't ever uploaded to the website. All together, there were 26 full or partial episodes and one that appears to be broken somehow that I'm still working on. You can download the epsidoes at the usual place.

If you have copies of episodes that aren't on the official website (I'm looking at you Andrew), then let me know and I can update them.



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2008 Mar 25 emeralda


Guy Blade Guy Blade---11:19:00


Things that are not Awesome
Things that are not awesome:

1. A person trying to beg money from you for Easter dinner while you are loading your car up with groceries. They're begging from you because they don't want to ask their friends who they are going to be going to dinner with soon. If you can lower yourself to beg from stranger who definately don't care about you, you can lower yourself to beg from your friends who at least might1.

2. Being told to go play HaKox, then after beating the 10 levels that have just been exposed, not being able to save again until after 45 minutes of cutscenes plus a boss fight. If you're going to make us play the minigame, at least let us save before you throw us into a boss fight! At least it is better than II.

3. Kenny vs. Spenny

4. Owing the Indiana government $108 when I have refunds from both the US government and the California government. Serious, why can't Indiana properly withhold money from my paycheck?

5. Watching all of Battlestar Galactica Season 3 in 3 days then having to wait a month before new episodes come out. Even then, I won't actually be in the country when the new episodes start coming out so I'll have to find another way to see the first one.

6. Crimson Tears

7. Multipath routing in Linux.

8. StumbleUpon being full of top N lists and blog posts about blogging. No one cares about metablogging blog posts. I have taken to tagging every top N list on StumbleUpon that I find with the tag topnlist and I suggest others do the same.

9. KML. OK, here's the thing that I don't understand about modern languages which have graphical description as a major component: why don't you let me do per-vertex coloring. I'm not even talking about advanced shaders or anthing like that; I'm talking about something akin to OpenGL's ability to set the color for each vertex of a polygon and then do bilinear interpolation inside the polygon. I can't do this in SVG. I can't do this in KML. The libgd framework doesn't support it out of the box. Come on people, OpenGL was designed in 1992. We should at least be able to do 2d drawing as well as it can when we're specifying new graphical description languages.

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1 My response was to say that all I had in cash was a roll of quarters that I needed for laundry. This was a lie; I had plenty of cash. I just don't like giving things to strangers. Also, the whole "Easter dinner" thing isn't going to engender much sympathy from me since I was planning to have spaghetti alone for dinner.

This top N list has N = 9.

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2008 Mar 13 utena


Guy Blade Guy Blade---07:34:00


Zoneinfo
So, I'm in Suitland, MD again. Earlier today, there was a meeting at NOAA that I had to go to. It was primarily an internal review as to their ability to support launch, but they invited everybody involved in the project.

Unfortunately, this trip, coupled with the daylight savings time shift, has totally screwed up my sleeping pattern. I haven't slept more than 4 hours continuously since Saturday night. This results in me being constantly tired. Hopefully I'll recover this weekend...

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2008 Mar 11 yuffie


Guy Blade Guy Blade---09:09:00


Insufficient preparation
So, JPL has recently started a drive to become more prepared in case of disaster. Although I'm sure they are well intentioned, I find it troubling that they have failed to adequately prepare for the inevitable scenario of the zombie apocalypse. This is especially troubling to me since I occupy a building whose defensibility, from a zombie infestation standpoint, is woefully inadequate. If a zombie scenario does affect JPL while I am on lab, I would be at a serious disadvantage. Hopefully they will expand their preparedness to include this serious danger.

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