@bkuhn left slicehost because I wanted the freedom to run my own kernel http://kitenet.net/~joey/blog/entry/happy_on_a_cloudy_day/

@spacehobo it's a great way to make $20 to $40 per user, if you don't give a damn about how you're perceived

If you leave #slicehost, they will not return money, either prepayments, or pro-rated refunds. Sits in account "for later use". #Beware

Bahrani & Herzog, what a combo! http://futurestates.tv/episodes/plastic-bag

failed to embed floss in my droid (not the software, the dental product)

Hot dog, I noticed another way to hide javascript in html. Typical security pain now ensuing.

@bkuhn for date parsing, I prefer Date::Parse to Date::Manip

just discovered a machine I had "lost" is alive.. it sent me a cron mail. Now to discover what country it's in..

yay, new Idle Words post! about how the cure for scurvy was lost http://idlewords.com/2010/03/scott_and_scurvy.htm

secret project #5 is coming along well, BTW

amused at my truck being (repeatedly) featured on sis's blog http://waldeneffect.org/blog/More_mulch/

arrived at anna's just in time to help with wood chipping

rooted my droid via http://alldroid.org/threads/13862-How-to-Root-your-Droid-lt-lt-lt-ONLY

really really happy with connectbot.. full screen ssh with all the keys I need, in my pocket, finally!

used my get-out-of-sprint-free card & got the droid

looking at 2 mb of facebook friend presence info logs that pidgin has helpfully gathered w/o being asked, over the past few weeks

grr.. my Palm Pre's forced OTA update just hosed it, will probably lose all local configuration

noticed I can play nethack mostly w/o using my brain's language center. Surely this will come in handy somehow...?

my weekend has been all about pain (pulled shoulder), hacking, and, er, curling

@liw be careful out there! BTW: you've got mail

gave up on using puppet for current project.. does not scale very well to managing lots of files on one host. Oh well.

finally learning me some puppet

so, anyone still using Network Solutions, and if so how do you feel about DNS registrar locking domains due to content? #cryptome

I happened to be wearing my old LinuxCabal T-shirt when I ran across this video.

Wow, memories.

of the season..

First try at learning blues harmonica. So far I'm concentrating on learning to play single holes. Hard enough for now, although I think I managed to bend a note once.

I have found my happy sound though. Just draw through hole #1 on my C harp and I get that nice lonesome train sound. This is the easiest hole to draw, too.

Weird popcorn experience. I screwed up the first pan, burnt and mispopped everything. So I cleaned it out and put it back on the stove, still quite wet, tossed in a small amount of (olive) oil and popcorn (no test kernels, just all at once), and tried again. This time the corn took quite a while to start to pop, I could hear the water/oil mixture sizzling and splattering the inside of the pan. When it started to pop, it was all over in under 5 seconds, no trail off of slow to pop kernels like I typically get. And only 2 kernels didn't pop. Perfect.

Something went on with that water/oil mixture. My guess is that the water regulated the temperature, as long as the water was in there everything was kept right around the boiling point. When the last water evaporated, the temperature must have shot up to popping point very uniformly and quickly.

With a full moon behind the blue clouds. Gorgeous tonight! And windy, and brr..

Black bean soup and garlic shrimp home cookin'.

Driving up Diablo, we're always in awe of the bikers going up it. When we're not thinking they're insane. :-)

Seth biked up. Awesome, and happy b-day!

Funny, I use vimoutliner just like Matther Palmer, and like him I also think that everyone should learn to program. If you don't know how to program, you can't truely use a computer. You can only fiddle with constructs someone else has made for you on a computer.

Somehow I doubt either of these ideas will catch on, but it's nice that I'm not alone in my heresies.