Ever hear a song where you don’t understand a damn thing, but you sing to it anyway?
Also, check me out in that photo. I said, ”what, what- in the butt!”
Mar 192007
Mar 192007
First, Travis came home Friday night to a used condom placed over his doorknob. I’ve refrained from posting for days, waiting for him to post about this, but despite mentioning it on Ars he has yet to say anything here, so now I will. A used condom! What the fuck? In true Travis fashion he has already placed a security camera outside his apartment door. Assuming that one incident really does equal someone preparing to launch a full invasion of his outer premises, this should protect him against anyone other than the KKK.
Now then, on to other things. Vivian and I are fostering a dog. First we were fostering, for all of 24 hours, a big hound dog that Vivian just couldn’t handle. It was too big for her to walk.
“Fred”/”Pokey”
So we went to the shelter and “swapped” and got Clover. Clover is like a really big version of Pugsley, only better trained. She’s one hundred percent house-broken, extremely well leash trained, and does…pretty much nothing. This is her at 80% of top speed. She’s a wonderful dog. We have to decide by Saturday is she’s “our dog” or not; currently we’re unsure. Again, she’s wonderful, but she’s also…well, what you see is what we’ve got.
“Clover”
Don’t let the face fool you. She’s fat, so she’s on diet food, but she hates it, so she hasn’t eaten anything since coming to our place. That’s one way to crash diet.
Mar 162007
Post whore.
Mar 162007
With the guy that comes out of the thing.
10′d
Mar 162007
One of the hacks I made in trying to get Jux 3.0 up and running quickly on the new server has been reversed. The Members page may not look upgraded, and indeed what you see is the exact same other than a slight change to the URL, but the backend that creates it is much upgraded. We were cheating using invisible posts to a segregated category. Not anymore.
This is all thanks to my expanding PHP skills, which I never had a chance to play with before we moved Jux to WordPress. Travis and Peter helped out a bunch with MySQL query formats and general information. It’s weird to be using a real language for the first time (HTML and CSS don’t count).
Speaking of my old fake language days, though, while backing up some files this week I found this old image of my own personal mIRC script editor:
Quick code automatically created stuff like While and For loops for you (mIRC only had goto loops at that point), plus you could create your own macros for repeated actions. Unfortunately I no longer have my collection of these presets. But you can see the rest of the program’s features from the screenshot; it was pretty straight forward. The loaded scripts list looks like I loaded Peace & Protection just to show off how well it handled large numbers of loaded files when this was taken, or something. Those definitely look like P&P’s files, but I never used the script, just tested it for pai, so I can’t think of any other reason they’d be there.
Mar 142007
Today while walking to class I decided a new word needed to be invented, so I invented it. The word of the day is:
Hypocryphal: Stating a point that you believe in that is counter to your own professed beliefs, based on events or statements about reality that are factually untrue.
For instance, Americans who believe in “Capitalism” and “Freedom”, but hate “outsourcing” because it’s taking jobs from Americans in a way that has never happened before? Hypocryphal.
Believing that “Mexicans” are destroying American culture in a way that’s never happened before? Hypocryphal.
Mar 132007
Crossed Reality said:
I have a hard time concentrating on school stuff at work. My choices appear to be to ignore Vivian during the week or piss off my friends during the weekend. Which would you do?
Well, presented with ticking your friends off vs. ticking off your significant other–with whom you spend much more time with–I would say the friends would have to know that this is something that is important to you and your future and they should understand.
I’ve had to make similar choices, and you have to pick the one that least hurts those that love you the most.
Mar 132007
It’s worth appending to the below that one of the reasons I never went ahead last summer is that no one, no one, wanted to take the MSF course with me. They were all too afraid. :(
I have a hard time concentrating on school stuff at work. My choices appear to be to ignore Vivian during the week or piss off my friends during the weekend. Which would you do?
Mar 122007
On a less immediate scale, there are two big things I want to learn how to do. The first one is learn to play guitar, something I’ve been wanting to do for about 15 years at this point. I blame my mother for my failure on that end.
This is an awesome idea that covers the other thing. Ever since last summer I’ve really wanted to get a small bike and learn. By the middle of June I’d decided on this one in particular:
That’s the exact color, too. I don’t know why I suddenly got the urge to get on a motorcycle. Maybe my delusions of immortality that I was supposed to have had for the 22 years previous finally kicked in. Regardless, I still plan, at some point, to get a small sportbike (I don’t like standards or cruisers) and really learn to ride. Right now, it’s too much money to spend on a vehicle that I would use purely for recreation, and one that I would have no place to store. Still…if Honda brings that program here, and it works, you might find me in line once the money starts flowing a little better than it does when you’re in graduate school.
Mar 122007
- Begin work on my Intellectual History paper…at work.
- Also British History
- Get books for the above from Amazon.
- Examine possible gifts for my cousin’s “couple’s shower.”
Too much to do :(