October 1, 2002

this weekend joe and i spent some time with phil. i realized that i don't remember him being happy much. he didn't understand that, but i think it's due to stuff like this or maybe even this. anyway he dumped this on me:

blizzard had a funny quote but i can't remember it

i also actually learned some css and stuff this weekend, and played with php. now i have some functions that will link to different dates on other peoples' web dinguses, so i can do <? phil_link ("20000327", "phil is angry again") ?> and stuff. yes, weekends without nat are that boring.

October 2, 2002

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go to hell.

as far as i can tell, mozilla does not honor a:hover { text-decoration: blink; }. i don't really want my name associated with this in a bug report, nor am i convinced that this isn't, in fact, a feature.

still trying to get some green builds out of the HEAD tinderbox. i've plain given up on gedit people being sane. epochs are popping up everywhere on the -2-0 branch. i need to finish this searchtool replacement so i can get some rhl 8.0 builds going, so that i can return everyone to sanity.

ph33r:

jacob@krunk:jacob$ uname -a Darwin krunk.local. 6.1 Darwin Kernel Version 6.1: Fri Sep 6 23:24:34 PDT 2002; root:xnu/xnu-344.2.obj~2/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh powerpc jacob@krunk:jacob$ sparc-linux-gcc hello.c -o hello-sparc jacob@krunk:jacob$ file hello-sparc hello-sparc: ELF 32-bit MSB executable, SPARC, version 1 jacob@krunk:jacob$ _ <...> [pschwan@sparky ~]# uname -a Linux sparky 2.0.36 #2 Sat Aug 7 05:50:12 EDT 1999 sparc unknown [pschwan@sparky ~]# ./hello-sparc Where you are now you can't even imagine what the bottom will be like. [pschwan@sparky ~]# _

must... get... hands... clean...

October 3, 2002

went to THE STROKES with joe and pat last night. it was pretty good, although short, but that's what i expected. apparently they were in hvd sq partying before the show (news.google.com search wins again).

then west wing etc. etc.

somehow i've managed to be more uninspired today than yesterday.

can a taste of love be so wrong / as all things must surely have to end

had thai with phil then walked around for a while.

October 4, 2002

go listen to SAW II disc 2 again.

our OFFICE is full of CANADA DRY

October 7, 2002

when i set at my desk eating pretzels the little bits of salt fall off and into my keyboard, making it impossible to press some of the keys.

this weekend joe got madden 2003 and nhl 2003 and while doing laundry last night i started a browns franchise thing. anyway in the second half of the first game my backup quarterback was playing, which confused me because i didn't see couch get injured. so i put couch back in.

a little later he got injured.

broken jaw, out 11 weeks.

oh and this was pre-season.

i'd complain but that's not so far from reality.

i tried opera 6 to see what all the fuss is about. after the 2nd incorrectly rendered page (out of 2 pages) i binned it. the ui is horrible.

i used to have glow-in-the-dark star stickers in my bedroom. the problem with them is that i don't wear my glasses at night, so it just produces this blurry glow. my ceiling in boston leaks in the morning, which wakes me up, and the other day while at work a big chunk of it fell down. fortunately it is not over any computers or instruments. i called the super like 5 or 6 weeks ago, but i don't know that anything happened. i should probably call again; there's a large change that the message i left on saturday with whom i presume to be his son didn't get to him. there is a chance, however, that the ceiling fell because they were trying to fix the leak. which i have no problem with, since a hole in my ceiling is not going to keep me from sleeping. people talking right outside my window takes care of that just fine.

since joe and i watched some live tv this weekend, we had to endure commercials. after watching the above minute long commercial about bi-polarism for the 10th time, i yearn for 3-dimensional web browsers.

these pages also remind me of nat; however to be fair i should also link to this incident.

it's always weird for me to read stuff i wrote where i used caps and puntiation.

hmm i wonder if it's time to go home yet...

October 8, 2002

omg THE STROKESs cd is so good.

i've been living in boston for almost 3 years, and was mostly living in pittsburgh for a good 2 1/2 years before that, and i still dial the cleveland area code by default sometimes.

today i saw a bumper sticker that read "No Prisoners Anywhere".

somehow i managed to trick joe into going to charlie's where we ran into pat and ryan. i didn't ask about jennnnnnn's n*sync shirt.

evidently the super may have fixed the leaky ceiling.

October 9, 2002

hmm no leaks to wake me up this morning; the heaters did that instead. and then made it too hot to sleep.

there are so many geese on the way to work, but i never see any dead ones. do dogs find them at night and hide them somewhere? i did see a dead blue jay though.

some time ago i moved to storing my mail on my desktop at home, and reading it via imap. this has afforded me the opportunity to use Mail.app a bit. i haven't figured out the keybindings for marking messages as unread, and i've realized that it doesn't really matter what the keybindings are, however i can only remember the keybindings for one mailer at a time. so, for now that mailer is still evo.

blah i still need to copy the 1.5G of mail i have on my laptop into my imap server.

i really don't know what's going on any more

i watched the west wing with chris and shona at phil's.

October 10, 2002

my watch was on chronometer this morning, which resulted in me either time-warping into the future, or taking 45 minutes to walk from my bed to my desk.

"Using macros is dangerous" -- slashdot

i also had some weird dreams. one was me being in the west wing, although i can't remember if i was josh or bartlet. probably josh. the other one was a bunch of people near a zoo or a post office? we had some letters or something that were supposed to be mailed. i don't get it either.

i really hate cpan.

inexplicably google has no hits for "cpan drinking game". sometime in the future i need to sit down with joe and phil and formalize the rules, but here's a draft off the top of my head:

• every time you need to use cpan, just take a shot to get things started. it's going to be a long day.
• if cpan needs to be configured, even though you configured it before, take a shot.
• take another shot, because you accidentally typed the wrong path to lynx.
• when cpan tries to download something using lynx, but you're behind a firewall, and it doesn't do passive mode automatically, and then you have to go back and configure it again, yeah take a shot.
• now when it tries to download from sourceforget.net, and they changed their mirror layout, so every file needs to be tried twice, take another shot (and go back and configure it again).
• cpan will now tell you that you can upgrade it. tell it no, watch it try to upgrade perl (!!!), and finish the bottle.
• oh but try to kill the ncftpget process so it doesn't download perl. then watch it run ncftp to get it, take a shot, and then kill that.
• now take another shot as cpan uses Net::FTP so you can't just kill it.
• finish the second bottle as you realize it's the year 2002 and you are still using this crap.

conan doesn't do cpan

this ain't ovah

October 11, 2002

i can't figure out how to get UTF-8 Block Elements to go in mozilla. since i don't use underline cursors in my terminals, i'd like my terminal excerpts to use a block (or, hollow) cursor.

this hits so close to home it hurts.

October 12, 2002

i honestly can't find a native os x mail client as good as evo. this week i've tried entourage, grendel, mozilla, and Mail.app.

hmm i remember having some strange dreams last night but can't remember what about.

it will be interesting to see who misses more pucks going into the net: grahame or the nesn camera crew.

``The fifth goal was totally my fault,'' Grahame said.

i need to figure out a decent style for the music stuff.

joe and i had an early indian dinner with phil, who then got an x-box and so we played some nhl 2003 at his place. it looks quite a bit nicer and runs a lot more smoothly than the ps2, but i don't really like the controllers (s type - the one that came with it is horrendous).

here are my theories for this sniper thing:

• it actually is god and he is avenging the sins of his subjects. my religious friends tell me god is vengeful and stuff.
• it's someone from the government, meant to distract people from the economy, the "war" on "terror", and iraq. the fact that peace protests in dc can get cancelled due to the sniper thing adds some weight to this argument.
• it's really a bunch of people. if one gets caught, the others will continue to shoot people and then they might end up releasing the one guy. this would be hard to pull off, as the temptation to squeal would be very high (well joe says this). i don't actually think this is the case (as opposed to the other two).
• if it was terrorists i'd argue that they'd be doing it in multiple cities. i think that'd really freak people out. also it'd be really difficult to pull off.
• hmm now i want to play gta3 again.

going to sleep { hungry }...

October 13, 2002

i found a dry bench in the park to eat my chili on.

October 14, 2002

happy thanksgiving to my canadian friends.

it's fun going to bed after reading about more shootings.

yesterday i ran a bit longer than i had been and it wasn't bad. there's a 5 mi. run in boston on nov. 3 which i might try to do. it was fairly cold and drizzly yesterday which reminded me of cross country, and i kind of almost maybe miss doing it.

watching tv (in this case msnbc) is such an incredible experience. there was just this commercial for some fold out bed thing, and they showed these people smiling while they were sleeping. i honestly do not know anyone who has the type of dreams that would lead them to smile. i sure can't remember having any myself.

******** COUNTDOWN: IRAQ ********

they also have these outragious quotes, like "bush said that the possible recent terrorist attacks won't deter his efforts against iraq." phew. for a moment i was worried there.

October 15, 2002

dreams from 4 different recurring themes last night. ugh. little twists on them though. from now on, i'm never going to sleep. or, only in 4-hour blocks. this is rediculous.

Burning Question
What type of computer do you use at work?

• Desktop PC
• Notebook / Laptop PC
• Mac
• Notebook with docking stations
• Other

i am not going to dignify it with a link.

Shipping estimate: November 1, 2002 Delivery estimate: November 5, 2002 1 "Grand Theft Auto: Vice City" CD-ROM

i.

can't.

wait.

sammy samsonov at 19:59!

my stomach is screaming for pad thai.

oh so my ceiling seems to not be leaking any more, but i have been hearing some dripping noises coming from the walls. i don't really want to know what's going on in there.

October 16, 2002

pretty much everything is going wrong today, but i'm not letting it get to me.

ever since seeing THE STROKES live, the studio version of barely legal is so anticlimactic.

i really do love hockey season.

October 17, 2002

samsonov with another game winner last night, and there's another game on tonight. it turns out that the bruins have this road trip because the circus is in town, which i should have known since joe and i saw a circus train car the other day while we were going to hvd sq.

the colder weather is making the squirrels here go nuts. i saw a squirrel almost get run over today. also, i almost got hit on the head again by an acorn. it brushed my leg instead.

boring.... boring........ boring.............

the album i'm listening to has a track called "bootie call" which is followed by "freak me". later in the album "horny" comes on.

October 18, 2002

oh yeah, another day
oh yeah, what a waste

this life is on my side

joe likes to play with my phone

October 19, 2002

i had a nice run and phil cooked some food while we watched the bruins win again. i think my heaters kept waking me up.

October 20, 2002

this morning some kids were in the back yard woke me up with a pogo stick. last i checked it was 2002, but oh well.

speaking of technology moving backwards... the browns game isn't on tv (as usual) and i remember back in the day being able to listen to radio broadcasts on the internet, so i decide to give that a try.

cleveland.com/browns/ (nobody deserves to be actually linked in this story) doesn't have any link to a radio feed... clevelandbrowns.com does. ok... HTTP 1.1 Error: Server Too Busy. hmm, ok try it until i get something...

Resolving webevents.yahoo.com... done. Connecting to webevents.yahoo.com[63.250.218.188]:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 877 [video/x-ms-asf] 100%[====================================>] 877 856.45K/s ETA 00:00

(because chimera doesn't actually tell me the mime type)... ok i guess listening to the browns is worth installing WMP for...

fire it up... some ad comes on... fast fwd / skip / seek are grayed out... it's over, then this gem:

like the browns this season, i just can't win

time to get out of this mad house.

i can't believe today was a good day

October 21, 2002

another bruins win!

i like this picture because there's a button in the upper right, like the one below with my phone

i am still not totally used to having a place where i'm allowed to turn the heat up, and it actually warms up the place.

i cleaned up my desk tonight

October 22, 2002

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PHIL!!!!!

i'll stick with peach lemonade, thanks

At that point, however, the Mac team was burned out, in tatters. After the excitement of getting Macintosh out the door had faded, Joanna Hoffman said to me, "Nobody could go back to a job." Those who tried found themselves listless and uninspired. It was postpartum depression, componded by shock and horror at the computer's failure to conquer the world.

my neck hurts, so i haven't been running.

the venus de milo gummy episode of the simpsons was on tonight, and it's sepctacular. from the under the sea bit to the 49 star flag, it's impressive to see what they put on in their 4th season.

ie scrolls a thousand times more smoothly than chimera.

October 23, 2002

how did people waste time before the interner and gta?

the monorail simpsons was on today. seems it's about time to make another best-of-TiVo dvd.

also i finished "insanely great" but my books on xerox parc haven't arrived.

October 24, 2002

i'm on the last mission in GTA3 again; should be a fun evening.

the last mission was a lot easier this time around. i guess i had a bit more confidence, in addition to knowing how to do it.

dinner was at the indian place with phil, joe, nat, and eventually alex. it was just what the doctor ordered.

i have 6 (six!!) loads of clean clothes. and i didn't even break into the new roll of quarters i have.

i also think remote kernel debugging with gdb over tcp/ip is ummm neat. but i don't actually know anything.

October 25, 2002

shaver: remind me to make you read parts of "insanely great" where they talk about making computers for people to use, rather than making people use computers, and think of language in this light.

i just noticed that ticketmaster charges both a per-ticket and a per-order rape fee.

the os x kernel docs contain this beauty:

The example values provided in comments are based on the estimated needs of esd (the Esound daemon).

and then some sample code from esd. in. san. i. ty.

i went over to phil's and he cooked a chicken, carrots, and potato dinner. that was followed with orders of magnitude more halo than was needed; however fun sniping from long range is.

i just replaced 9 (nine!!!) lightbulbs in our (smallish) apartment. there were actually some lights that were still working (however ~half of them were in appliancs [ stove, refrigerator ]). it is now very bright in here.

ugh it's 6 am again...

October 28, 2002

i had a pretty crazy dream this morning... i was going back to chautauqua and for some reason decided to get a motorized wheelchair for getting around. a bit before i woke up i was gunning it down some street, wondering if other drivers could see me.

and my xerox parc books arrived, so i have stuff to read again.

people are carving pumpkins at work today. there seem to have been a lot of advances, in terms of little carving aides. sadly i have no inspiration for doing one.

so cute!

October 29, 2002

was 24 this bad last year? it makes strangers with candy look brilliant.

October 30, 2002

ian does a scarily good joe impression, although it wasn't good enough to get him first place at the company halloween party dealie.

since the west wing was on, we missed the bruins game:

Bruins C P.J. Stock, who had 122 penalty minutes last season, picked up his first fighting major of the season in a third-period scrap with Stephen Peat. With two assists, Stock recorded his first career multiple-point game.

speaking of the west wing, aaron sorkin really seems to think highly of himself these days. i really should have seen this sam thing an episode or 2 ago, oh well.

October 31, 2002

ANOTHER SHORT QUIZ.
PLEASE CHECK ALL THAT APPLY. SHOW YOUR WORK:

[ ] I often get out of bed in the morning just to stop the horrible, horrible dreams

dream number one was it was my last day at ximian, and i had to pack up and take all of my stuff out of the office. my sister was there, but she didn't know it was my last day. i was flying home for thanksgiving that day, so was a bit pressed for time. i discovered a ton of stuff that i had forgotten about, including a box full of wooden blocks that i used to play with when i was little. anyway i was all late and running around going crazy.

dream number two was me being at school or something. my bedroom was on the ground floor of a building, in the corner. it had large windows facing the street, so people could look in. there was someone who looked like diana macwilliams, and she was staring at something on my bed. i looked there, and there were a bunch of small snakes on it (they were only like a foot long). i picked up one of them, and bent it in half until it snapped like a crisp vegetable.

dream number three was a combination of the two: i was at school and had to catch a flight. i was in some tunnels going between buildings, and some guys were trying to pull me with them to some hip hop show or something. i resisted, but they wouldn't let me go until i told them i had a plane to catch. there was a bathroom that you had to go through. it was friday night and people had been drinking too much; i could see it on their faces. inside the bathroom, there was vomit pretty much everywhere, including all over the [ closed ] door i had to go through to get out of here. i remember reading that either some or all people dream in black and white (which i know not to be true for myself), but not only was this in vivid color, BUT I COULD TASTE THE VOMIT as i walked through the door. fortunately, it tasted somewhat like the skittles i had yesterday.

Subject: Your Amazon.com order has shipped Greetings from Amazon.com. We thought you'd like to know that we shipped your items today, and that this completes your order. The following items were included in this shipment: --------------------------------------------------- Qty Item Shipped --------------------------------------------------- 1 Grand Theft Auto: Vice City 1

i almost pulled a shaver with my mispelling of "COULD" as "COLD".

speaking of pj stock, he seems to have a blog now too. he writes almost as much as nat used to write (before he had the camera) and is even funnier than some of my stuff.

when joe and i watch the simpsons these days, we say things like "the direction in this scene is superb".