Captain's Log Supplemental

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.

Testing to see if `google blogger post –src tmpfile` posts the file contents or the file name to my blog.

A real downside to hooking alice up to my monitor, so that I can show a co-worker something on a screen size much more readable than 10.1″ @ 1024×600, is remembering to use her keyboard instead of my workstations!

Now of course when you consider that my workstations keyboard is like in front of a 20″ @ 1600×1200 monitor, it is rather easy to have a head popping moment!