The nice thing about being micofamous is occasionally reading something like this http://is.gd/Zb3jN5

oh the irony.. the unicode bug exposed in my previous dent is one I reported 1 year ago to the day. http://ur1.ca/7z1m6

unicode has eaten another day of my life. Sometimes I wish I were back in kindergarden where the ABCs were good enough. â*¹â*¡

planned out my battery box reorg. It will be so much nicer.. and will require 2.5 tons of lifting of batteries. Urgh

working in the salt mines^W^Wbattery box for hours. Removed 2 dead batteries. Resisting primal urge to rewire the whole mess.

checked the house's batteries.. looks like another 3 or 4 have mostly died and will need to be removed from the bank soon

just sped up git-annex a lot thanks to having written it to assume it crashes all the time (it doesn't) and recovering well

running github-backup on oh-my-zsh. 1562 forks being pulled into one little git repo. plus metadata

to go with my 30 year time-delayed http://olduse.net/ I'm now reading 5 year delayed Mars rover driver blog http://ur1.ca/7pjy4

enjoy the solar storm everyone. I am soaking up the rays like a big solar leech. (Generated more amp-hours today than January 1 thru 23rd)

OMG, an unexpected sunny day

yum.. homemade french onion soup w/croutons made from Mom's bread

brought my nslu2 out of retirement to save power

hacked my two broken pairs of glasses into one good pair

now how long will it take for my brain to filter out the blocked spot in my vision? #testing

broke my glasses. damn! thank goodness for duct tape

number of days this week that were #forecast "mostly clear" and ended up "95% cloudy": 4. Aaaargh!

my lost hubcap magically appeared. country neighbors rule

waiting for #SOPA blackout

while offline, I had to cook lamb stew on the wood stove while reading an enormous textbook all about meat. it was horrible

have not seen the sun in 3 days, but now have enough power to run laptop and modem at the same time again. yay..

#etckeeper article http://ur1.ca/7e9y1

"everything is made by hand" http://ur1.ca/7cieo

I love having people present my work.. maybe someone would like to present #etckeeper or #mr?

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.