Month: July 2011

I’m glad that I woke up like 0300 – it’s 6 hours later and my mother is already raining all over my code.

Grrr!!!

My mother’s puppy, Corky, just showed me the point of being nice to trouble.

So I’m sitting here, writing some code, when Willow starts liking my face/hands; ugh that’s hard to type when she goes after my fingers. So after a bit I got up to wash off the dog slobber. While Willow was licking my face, Corky lept on the bed as he usually does in the morning, and curled up to nap.

Being nice since he hadn’t done any harm lately, I petted him politely and decided to take a morning leak while I was up. Well guess what? The little son of a bitch decided to do the same, exact thing—only he used my pillow instead of the potty papers. My new official threat is no longer to sit on his head, rather it is if there is ever a zombie apocalypse, he is going to be used as a food source!

If he had pissed on alice (my netbook), he would have officially made THE LIST. Good thing I put it on the stand by the bed, instead of leaving it on the bed, as I usually do….

Lately, I’ve been using my netbooks ability to go into suspend and hibernate a lot. To be honest, I’ve never had much use for it int he past: Dixie was usually on battery whenever it was idle, and under most *nix operating systems, there were problems getting it to resume (FreeBSD 6.0-8.1), or the touchpad would stop working (Linux 2.6). With Alice however it works perfectly, aside from the display will sometimes stay blanked on resume from suspend to RAM (sleep) mode. It has happened once in a few hundred sleeps. That however, I can fix by manually manipulating /sys/power/state to put the system back to sleep, then wake it again. Yes, I don’t reboot a lot.

At one point, I had Alice running for nearly two or three weeks non stop, before I finally forgot to plug it in on sleep mode lol. Right now, since there are often longer stretches after work where I don’t get back to the system, I will usually put it into hibernate mode and throw it in my backpack. It’s actually faster to resume from hibernate, than load a fresh session >_>.

Something that I have also noticed as a side effect of my new shell/x profile setup, is with how I do services, if I boot the system when there is no network available, like at a red light, then when I return home and come out of suspend: the shell scripts will detect that I’ve gone from no-network to connecting to my wifi, which means launching my “services” profile :-).

So awesome that they can’t even manufacture 0,5l water bottles that are straight!

Generally when I make any kind of important calculations, I do it three ply:

1. worst case is …
2. probable case is more like …
3. ideal/best case to hope for is …

In my present financial calculations towards vacation and future operations, the notes are looking like the probable case is beginning to surpass my original best case by a wide margin, and the worst case was already above minimal requirements with a small margin for error. I’m kind of a pessimistic optimist, or an optimistic pessimist. Never could figure out which.

To top it off, my equations generally anticipate sudden “Expense bulges”, courtesy of parental unit, explosions, error, and unforeseen Murphysters. That generally reflects a sum greater than what the worst case looks like, or at least most of the time. Perhaps it’s growing up without even an allowance, or being used to things being tight, but I generally succeed at managing my cash flow. Even in a game like Killing Floor, where you need to spend plenty to survive the waves of zombies, I’m a frugal son of a bitch.

All I need fear is Murhpy’s CF—or someone could steal my mayo jar!

A few minutes ago ma came in and told me to turn around, and what did I see? But Willow making her self at home on a pillow. Ma made too much ruckus and she moved but of course, sheepishly had to get back there… so I snuck a pic, hehe.

Ironically this was a NEW pillow I bought a few months ago, until my mothers puppy, Corky, pissed on it. It recently got thrown over there to get it out of the way.

Hmm, my ~/sw/sh/blogit script really should be adjusted to deal with labelling posts.

This teaser for the new Aliens: Colonial Marines game, just happens to say it all. not the date and IP address on the computer screen. Happily, command line interfaces are still in use, hehehehe.

Personally, I kind of hope that someday in the far-far future, that the Internet will span the galaxy using some sort of technology much like BattleTech’s HyperPluse Generator, instead of becoming a collection of disparate planetary networks.

I’ve rigged up a little script that invokes $EDITOR (vim for me) on an HTML file, and then posts the result of the buffer to Blogger like so:

$ google blogger post --title {subject} --src {file name}

And then in turn posts a note like this on my Facebook:

$ fbcmd feednote "Blogger post: {subject}" "I've posted a new journal entry <a href="{url of blogger post here}">here</a>"

Since supplying a file to `google blogger post –src` uses the file name for the –title/subject by default, I’ve yet to.

I’m too lazy to fully-compatibly figure out Blogger shrinks the first part of a post, down to a unique in the month set of <= 40 characters of text, s/ /-/, and stripping punctuation. Maybe if my mother wasn’t on the war path, I would check into googlecl further for a way to modify this behaviour.

edit: check the repo of my ~/ and dot files on github, for a copy of the script. Currently in repo terry as sw/sh/blogit.