I misread tubal ligation as tubal litigation earlier, and spent the following minute or two figuring out what the latter process involves. If tying up your tubes sounds painful, perhaps tying up your tubes financially…
Archive for June, 2008
Civil or Criminal?
Sunday, June 29th, 2008Pepsi Poo
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008Metafilter is famous for its snark. I’ve poked fun at their hair-trigger crankiness several times. When you’re watching the bloodshed from a safe, unregistered distance, it’s actually quite amusing. What, then, inspired me to pay my $5 after two years of lurking and eventually make a front page post myself, putting myself up to the same butchery I once enjoyed as a spectator? Maybe because I thought people would be amused. At worst, I might get off with a stern look.
Yeah, right. As weak as the post was, I really got the poo flung at me: accusations of cronyism, being a clueless newbie, the works. The situation wasn’t improved by the easy riffs made by a post scatological in nature.
This FPP could use some quality control… or some poop.
Better luck next time.
Something doesn’t smell right with this FPP.
Regarding my choice of username:
Eponypropriate. ((MeFites love words based on the root eponymous.))
“Spamguy?["] Man, they’re not even trying anymore.
You should be banned for your username alone.
And the final comment, to signify the post’s deletion:
This post was deleted for the following reason: As the owner of buttslol.com, I feel I share your feelings regarding stop signs that say “POOP”, but there’s not much there and people seem to not like this very much. Better luck next time around.
OS X's Nervous Tics
Friday, June 20th, 2008There are no shortage of metronome apps available for the Mac. One app, Dr. Betotte, is so hardcore I wouldn’t know the difference between it and a dialysis machine.
Each and every single Mac metronome is missing an excellent opportunity through the Apple Remote. A musician’s instrument of choice and his Macintosh may be several metres apart, so implementing Apple Remote functionality would avoid constant running back and forth to
- start/stop
- change tempo
- change volume
I bring this up so any prospective developers looking to shove another clone into an oversaturated market (or, more likely, already-existing narcissistic clone developers googling their product) get the clue. Arguably I could write such a Cocoa app myself, but I never finished Metal Gear Solid 2, and I need to get on that first. Uh, yeah.
In fact, it’s not even as hard as Cocoa. Sofa Control is one of the few shareware apps I’ve ever registered, and it makes the process as easy as editing a flat file.
Camera Obscura
Saturday, June 14th, 2008The portability of the MacBook Pro alone convinced me never to go back to desktop computing. There were other bonus perks, especially getting rid of my lousy Philips webcam, endearingly named ‘the spamcam,’ and the lousy webcam software. ((I grudgingly paid the shareware fee. At some point the developers decided what they were doing was so awesome that upgrading merited a second shareware fee.)) Manufactured in the age of dinosaurs (1998?), pieces were starting to fall off, the tripod was unstable, the USB jack had melted slightly, the resolution was substandard, and its output was…unpredictable.
Five years after this picture was taken, I still don’t know how it managed to generate that. Or perhaps I should say, I still don’t know how I did that without going blind.
The Trial and Death of Tim Russert
Friday, June 13th, 2008Tim Russert and his whiteboard will be missed. The last six months of his life must’ve been painful. Not from a bad heart, but from dealing with clueless voters. From the last blog post he wrote before he died:
I remember being in Indianapolis covering the Indiana primary and a man came up to me and said he wasn’t going to vote for Senator Obama because he was very concerned about the comments made by Jeremiah Wright, Obama’s pastor. I said, “That’s interesting. As a reporter, I’m curious what comments particularly bothered you?” He said, “Well, I can’t think of any that come to mind, but I also read on the Internet that he’s a Muslim.” And I said, “Now wait a minute. You can’t have both. You can’t be offended by his Christian minister and then say he’s a Muslim. You’ve got to pick one.”
We Welcome You To Our Party
Thursday, June 12th, 2008This was certainly a feature on the old Blog-City blog, but times and technology have changed. Plus you simply can’t shrug off the classics.
Rezelscheft has always been one of my favourite obscure Internet absurdities. It’s a shame I can’t remember who produced it. Thanks to YouTube, the legend lives on.
CakePHP and .htaccess, Enemies Forever
Saturday, June 7th, 2008I reiterate last week’s post about CakePHP: the documentation sucks. They do not put nearly enough emphasis on troubleshooting, because for most adopters of the framework, setting up your first working app is rarely a straight shot.
Case in point. It took a week of research to pick up an important point: if any one of four .htaccess files are missing, bits of your CakePHP app will not work. Not might…will. For me, the symptom was broken CSS: the HREF in
pointed to nowhere, and nothing existed to forward it to a valid location.
Unfortunately .htaccess files tend to disappear easily, especially when manipulating directories. Filenames beginning with ‘.’ do not show up, so simple drag-and-drop operations from an operating system’s GUI leaves out .htaccess because you can’t see it.
Good news is in store, though. Working through this tutorial set me straight, and I have a flawless application once again.
Irregular Cat Hats
Friday, June 6th, 2008What makes a cat hat irregular? I for one would call all cat hats irregular: no cat looks regular wearing clothing. One San Diego woman knows the distinction, however, and is willing to explain through her lugubrious cat hat tale. Pix included, natch.