Archive
December 14, 2022
· File under
Apropos of nothing
I performed an experiment for over a month. I’m not sure when I started but from some time in September...
Read more
May 21, 2022
· File under
Apropos of nothing
Do you remember how bad tomatoes were in the 90’s? I think they’d bred tomatoes to last longer in trucks...
Read more
March 22, 2022
· File under
Apropos of nothing
I had a big night with my brother last Friday, and when I got home in the wee hours I...
Read more
March 1, 2022
· File under
Apropos of nothing
I was thinking about Keanu Reeves as I was taking my walk today. I don’t know why I was thinking...
Read more
October 31, 2021
· File under
Apropos of nothing
I have several mostly long-standing song mysteries – songs I remember hearing, want to hear again, but that I haven’t...
Read more
September 16, 2018
· File under
Technical argle-bargle
We’ve got a deal, you and I, regarding this blog of mine: I don’t write it, and you (the internet)...
Read more
September 30, 2012
· File under
Fun and games
My kids have been heavy into mazes lately, and have been making me draw them mazes by hand, so I...
Read more
March 26, 2012
· File under
Sheet music
"No One Knows" by Queens of the Stone Age (I've got my G tuned an octave down, so maybe this...
Read more
March 12, 2012
· File under
Sheet music
Bigmouth Strikes Again on uke 2210 / 2010 / 2013 / 4035 2210 / 2010 / 3211 / 0003 break...
Read more
October 25, 2011
· File under
Sheet music
Watch the Throne - No Church in the Wild The main riff is detuned a little: e ---------------------------------| B ---------------------------------|...
Read more
September 20, 2011
· File under
Technical argle-bargle
I resolved the "top 1000 sites" via Google's Public DNS, 4.2.2.2 and OpenDNS. Here are the results: $ curl http://www.google.com/adplanner/static/top1000/...
Read more
August 30, 2011
· File under
Technical argle-bargle
If you've got a project on github that you'd like to web-host at username.github.com/project (that is, it has an index.html...
Read more
June 29, 2011
· File under
Fun and games
TL;DR Design your sign-based grinder floors as 1-wide strips with 2 spaces between them. Or possibly a grid of 2x2...
Read more
September 15, 2009
· File under
Technical argle-bargle
I wanted to see something translated into everything, for some reason; the code below does it okay. You need a...
Read more
September 5, 2009
· File under
Electronics
Mildly unsatisfied with my earlier, more obvious solution for using an electronic drum kit to play Guitar Hero World Tour...
Read more
January 5, 2009
· File under
Fun and games
I jumped through a lot of hoops to try to use my Roland V-Drums in place of the Rock Band...
Read more
November 9, 2008
· File under
Technical argle-bargle
I don't really get Twitter, or rather I only sort of do. I never got MySpace. I feel like I...
Read more
September 28, 2008
· File under
Adventure time
I've been playing with making alcohol-burning volcano-kettle-style cooksets out of aluminum drink cans.
>
Read more
August 9, 2008
· File under
Adventure time
I made a solo backpacking cookset that weighs in at just over an ounce. Its the lightest one that I...
Read more
July 29, 2008
· File under
Adventure time
I've been playing with different alcohol stoves (lightweight backpacking ones, that is). Building them, researching them, etc. My main goal...
Read more
July 13, 2008
· File under
Adventure time
I'm off to the Olympics tomorrow for a 3-day (2 night) trip, my first solo. My goal is for an...
Read more
April 3, 2008
· File under
Sheet music
The drum part for Tomorrow Never Knows (the Beatles' song - not the imaginary James Bond movie of the same...
Read more
February 3, 2008
· File under
Technical argle-bargle
Edit /etc/acpi/lidbtn.sh (as root) to contain: #!/bin/sh LID_STATE=`cat /proc/acpi/button/lid/LID/state | awk '{print $2 }'` AC_STATE=`cat /proc/acpi/ac_adapter/AC0/state | awk '{print $2...
Read more
January 10, 2008
· File under
Technical argle-bargle
CookiePie is a Firefox extension that lets you give a browser tab its own set of cookies. This is cool...
Read more
December 3, 2007
· File under
Electronics
It took me an hour or so of googling & trying stuff to figure this out (especially "/dev/ttyS2"), so I'll...
Read more
August 25, 2007
· File under
Kids
My son is like most baby boys (of all ages). His favorite things in the world are (in order): 1....
Read more
August 8, 2007
· File under
Technical argle-bargle
I'd assumed for a long time that the (real-life-chronologically) first 2 2/3 Star Wars movies didn't suck, and that made...
Read more
March 27, 2007
· File under
Kids
Read more
March 12, 2007
· File under
Electronics
If you're going to spy on your baby, this is great for audio, but this is crap for video. I...
Read more
February 8, 2007
· File under
Things that suck
I swear to god, it only just now occurred to me: When the pizza guy brings your pizza, and he...
Read more
February 6, 2007
· File under
Found
From: jporn_g24@hotmail.com
Date: Feb 5, 2007 11:53 PM
Subject: Fwd: Thai Boxing
Read more
January 3, 2007
· File under
Fun and games
Here's the world map from Ultima 6. (Firefox only! It's a XUL app.) Click either the minimap or the map...
Read more
October 20, 2006
· File under
Things that suck
This just in via email: "i guess what really pisses me off is how [name of coworker] tells me all...
Read more
October 3, 2006
· File under
Fun and games
Here are some pigs running in circles.
Read more
September 13, 2006
· File under
Generative art
Generate maps of somewhere like Barionia Udrone from Atlas Maior V/22. Hit refresh for a new one.
Read more
March 28, 2006
· File under
Unsolicited advice
Here's what I've settled on for air travel. Start with Expedia or Orbitz which work well and have all the...
Read more
March 28, 2006
· File under
Found
· File under
Things that suck
From: aarnfq5hh@halifax.com
Subject: pie
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 11:22:44 -0600
cold
Read more
February 20, 2006
· File under
Adventure time
Read more
February 20, 2006
· File under
Unsolicited advice
I read a good article in the New Yorker about Philip Pullman wherein he disses CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien....
Read more
February 13, 2006
· File under
Things that suck
I buy tons of stuff from Amazon, and here's a brief Amazonecdote. (And an Amazantidote.) Of late, Amazon has settled...
Read more
January 20, 2006
· File under
Found
From: Laverne Lowe Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 19:24:15 0000 Subject: Laverne Good afternoon, Lowe Good Bye Lowe Lowe Lowe...
Read more
