6/24/2000

Looks like the permalinks are working, thanks to a nice eighty-line mod_perl hack. If I get up enough gumption, I may even highlight the entry being linked to.
posted 2:16 AM

6/23/2000

I have no lint between my toes, because I went out and bought a pair of Birkenstocks about a month ago. So far, my hippification has proceeded in stages: I had an 18-inch-long ponytail when I was in college, but no birks. I cut my hair in 1996, much to the chagrin of my employees (who just knew this meant I had sold out and was looking for another job), because I had taken up swimming to try to relieve the stress. There's nothing uglier than a skinny guy with a programmer's paunch and a wet ponytail.

Well, except maybe a guy with all of the above, eating a bug.

Seriously, though, I sincerely hope that nobody reading this thing is expecting new insights or fascinating commentary, or BenBrown-esque epic tales of rockstardom; I'm doing my best to avoid the snarky-comment-and-a-link style of posting URLs I found on someone else's 'blog; and my life just isn't that interesting. I'll see what I can do to provide a more in-depth explanation of the whys and wherefores soon.

In the meantime, here's a little something I posted to metafilter, on the topic of what makes or breaks an online community. You'll have to scroll down a bit to see what I added, but I recommend you read the whole thing, especially if you're a metafilter member. Online community is something in which I have a pretty substantial vested interest, for various reasons, which I'll try to elaborate upon in more detail as time goes on.
posted 5:27 PM
There is nothing on earth that floats as well as cat barf.
posted 11:40 AM

6/22/2000

Don't you just feel silly when you go to make an omelet and the second egg you try to crack into the frypan turns out to be hardboiled?

Trust me. You do.
posted 11:57 PM

6/20/2000

For some reason, I seem to have contracted the achy feverish dizzy blahs. So, I see a lot of liquids and rest in my immediate future.
posted 5:41 PM

6/19/2000

Went on a late night cigarette run, and there was a guy standing in front of the window (with one of those drawers where they take your cash) playing a didgeridoo. The woman behind the drawer didn't understand what I meant when I asked for a carton, so I got three packs. The didgeridoo guy kept pointing at his face and saying 'beautiful', over and over again, between blasts on the didgeridoo. Finally, he says "check out her cheeks, man, she's from Africa. Ritual...tribal...scarification. Just beautiful, man." And sure enough, she had starburst scars on her cheeks, just below her eyes. The he hit me up for a pack of cigarettes.

I gotta do a better job of keeping stocked. I went out for smokes and got late night didgeridoo and tribal scarification. I can only wonder what the woman must have been thinking, confronted with a bleary-eyed smoker trying to buy ten packs of cigarettes at once, while aboriginal Australian wind instruments played in the background.
posted 2:57 AM

6/18/2000

From the manpage for the Mutt rc file:

indent_string
Type: string
Default: "> "

Specifies the string to prepend to each line of text quoted in a message to which you are replying. You are strongly encouraged not to change this value, as it tends to agitate the more fanatical netizens.

Hey, they're talking about me!
posted 9:04 PM
Me: (sitting quietly waiting for Brent to finish compiling the new kernel for the latest server in our server farm)
Brent: chuckle
Me: (looking up)
Brent: (giggling maniacally) man, this box is sick-ass fast...
Me: (grinning)
Brent: Have you tried untarring something on this box? This is sick-ass fast.
posted 3:13 AM