October 4, 2004
the worms dig

these are for my friend phil:

jacob@wet-pants:jacob$ echo $SSH_ENV /home/jacob/.ssh/env-wet-pants jacob@wet-pants:jacob$ echo $PROMPT_COMMAND . $SSH_ENV &>/dev/null; echo -ne "\033]0;${USER}@${HOSTNAME}:`basename "${PWD}"`\007" jacob@wet-pants:jacob$ cat .bin/start-agent #!/bin/sh if [ -z "$SSH_ENV" ] ; then SSH_ENV="$HOME/.ssh/env-$(hostname)" fi if [ -f "$SSH_ENV" ] ; then . "$SSH_ENV" > /dev/null if ps x | grep "$SSH_AGENT_PID" | grep ssh-agent$ >/dev/null ; then echo "Agent already running." exit 1 fi fi echo "Starting new agent..." export OLD_SSH_ENV=$(ssh-agent) save-agent . "$SSH_ENV" > /dev/null ssh-add jacob@wet-pants:jacob$ cat .bin/save-agent #!/bin/sh if [ -z "$SSH_ENV" ] ; then SSH_ENV="$HOME/.ssh/env-$(hostname)" fi if [ "$OLD_SSH_ENV" ] ; then echo "Saving old SSH environment." echo "$OLD_SSH_ENV" > "$SSH_ENV" chmod 600 "$SSH_ENV" elif [ "$SSH_AUTH_SOCK" ] ; then echo "Saving current SSH environment." export | grep SSH > "$SSH_ENV" chmod 600 "$SSH_ENV" else echo "SSH environment NOT saved." fi

the problems they try to solve are twofold:

1. i couldn't figure out how to get ssh-agent to start on OS X when i log in
2. ssh agents didn't work inside remote screen sessions after i reattach

i run start-agent when i log in to OS X, and save-agent when i ssh to a remote machine.

October 6, 2004
There's no use dwelling on / On what might have been

October 6, 1995 ... Cleveland completes a sweep with an 8-2 victory over Boston. Indians third baseman Jim Thome starts the scoring with a two run homer off of Tim Wakefield in the second inning. A.L. MVP Mo Vaughn and slugger Jose Canseco go a combined 0-27 in the competition for Boston.

October 6, 1997 ... The Indians finish off the Yankees with a 4-3 victory in a decisive Game 5, advancing to the AL Championship Series competition for the second time in three years. The Yankees' quest for a second straight and 24th World Series title ends.

-- mlb.com

this afternoon in the shower i was wondering what office buildings would look like if they were designed by cats. like, what kind of structures would cats find visually appealing.

if it comes up at some point in your life, do NOT challenge phil in any contest involving Rush lyrics. he knows every nuance to every song on roll the bones and test for echo.

this morning the light from the office window hit the paper shredder just right, and it turned on by itself. either that, or this attic is haunted.

October 11, 2004

last night i dreamt about playing sim city. it's been so long...

October 12, 2004
ensconse your soul

i had dinner at the thai place with phil tonight. there is almost a 100% chance of me getting thai tomorrow as well. i like having dinner with phil, because i learn interesting things. for example, tonight i found out that for the past week or so, i've had a new manager. i can't wait to find out what surprises tomorrow holds!

i still don't really "get" the pixies. their music just doesn't move me like radiohead/zeppelin/etc. but then i'll go and listen to an album, and a couple of days later it will be stuck in my head.

i stayed up until 3:30 tonight playing with garage band and my guitar. it's amazing that a $2500 computer with some $50 software sounds better than the amp that came with my $250 guitar.

October 16, 2004
i've got nothing to say

i walked around boston for maybe 6 hours in all today. this is one of the two pictures i took:

i saw a rat climb a tree, and had some ice cream.

"hey! they're playin' the elephant song!"

October 17, 2004
so it has come to this

last night i walked around fenway park about half an hour before the game. seeing the crowds of people walking around, full of hope, it made me miss hockey again.

earlier in the week TiVo recorded a show from the nfl network on football in ohio. it talked about the last 20 years or so for the bengals and the browns, and then had a lengthy segment on the hall of fame.

they covered the 80's: cincinatti's superbowl losses, and the browns' post-season misfortunes: red right 88, the drive, and the fumble. "unfortunately," began the segue into the 90's, "these would come to be known as the good old days..."

anyway you'd think that the red sox would be the perfect team for me: i'd still get to hate the yankees, and i'd still be disappointed every year. but it's too much fun laughing when manny ramirez strikes out with two men on to end the inning.

so i started liking lurgee today. that means i now like about half of that album.

October 18, 2004
A LIST OF THINGS THAT ARE FUNNY TO ME BECAUSE I AM NOT A RED SOX FAN

1. manny misplaying (routine) fly balls
2. ortiz trying to steal second base
3. mark "bunty mcflyout" bellhorn trying to play in the majors
4. knuckeballs bouncing past the catcher
5. in extra innings
6. with men on base

seriously, joe and i need to get some sort of managing or broadcasting deal in place. the world is really missing out on something special there.

October 24, 2004
new new funkytowntown

somehow i managed to not work today, and got in some sim city. while looking for some names for my cities, i came across a page about the history of the villages of newton which i thought was interesting.

this paragraph is even less interesting than the previous one.

October 25, 2004
one of these days...

20:19 < boc> rm: cannot remove `BUILD/rpm-4.2/python/rpmdb-py.h': Interrupted system call

it would be another 4 hours before the fix for that went into the tree... and that wasn't the first (or last!) thing to go terribly wrong today. it's still more-or-less monday, i've already worked 15 hours this week, and yet i'm still behind.

in 7 hours my phone will ring, and i'll get to do it all again...

October 26, 2004
amazing

i remember sitting in bed last night, thinking to myself how great my new apartment has been. i haven't needed to sleep with earplugs once!

i should have known better.

at 8 something this morning, i was woken up to find myself in what seemed like a subwoofer. apparently some people are here to do something with the sprinklers in the yard, and are vibrating things just right to make a deafening rumble in my bedroom.

it's ok, though. i only really wanted four hours of sleep anyway...

Running sh sanity.sh with a timelimit of 600 second(s)...Done (RC=0)

those words fill me with so much joy. haha i almost wrote joey.

October 27, 2004
is it friday yet?

i took a break to go get a scanner. i got an hp 4070 or something. it doesn't work on my mac.

i used to play baseball:

i'll play with it more tomorrow.