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Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
12:44 am	Lugete, O Veneres Cupidinesque et quantum est hominum venustiorum: Lingua mortua maxime latina est. Quae necavit Romanos nunc necat me. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, September 18th, 2008
8:40 pm	They might be... zippers? In the afterlife You could be headed for the serious strife Now you wear the gold lame But tomorrow there'll be purple toupee People listen to a story from camp I mean about some Selma tramp I used to wonder LBJ what was for But it turned out he could wax the floor When you feel down It'll turn your brain around Now you wear the gold lame But tomorrow there'll be purple toupee This was a place where books were kept A gun was fired, and a Cuban wept There was another item in this list But if I mumble it'll never be missed When you feel down It'll turn your brain around Now you make the scene all day But tomorrow there'll be hell to pay Hell to pay! (Tune change) Hell to pay! Hell to pay on the last day when teeth and bones are ground Hell to pay when cakes are passed around Hell to pay and skin to flay will crush your fortunes down Hell to pay and skin to flay Hell to pay and you're there to stay Your beauty and talent have gone away Fame and money have left you in the grave (Instrumental) We're on some kind of mission We can spell damnation You're gonna have to pay (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, May 8th, 2008
11:57 pm	But soft, what light, its hour come round at last, slouches through yonder window to be born? (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, April 21st, 2008
1:20 am	This year, at the Red Sox home opener, the ceremonial first pitch was thrown by Bill Buckner. Dwight Evans, having caught the pitch (for a strike), nearly rolled the ball back to the mound for Buckner to keep as a souvenir, but thought better of it and handed it to him instead as they walked off the field. Note to Claude Julien: you've just barely gotten an underdog Boston team into the playoffs, and despite falling behind early in the series, managed to get to Game 7. There's a reasonable chance that you'll find yourself ahead in 2/3 of the way through the game. If so, you must, no matter how much confidence you have in him, follow this simple rule, which fans would never forgive you for ignoring: don't let Pedro play when he's tired. In response to David Ortiz's grand slam on Friday, the Yankees have decided not to auction off the jersey they dug out of the new Yankee Stadium, but instead to put it back before July 3rd, when they next play the Red Sox. (Comment on this)
Thursday, March 20th, 2008
8:58 pm	If you don't want git operations to take 10 seconds each, don't configure your system to do this: 10:55:34 sendto(3, "\307\304\1\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\ttimesink\n\5svana \3net"..., 37, MSG_NOSIGNAL, NULL, 0) = 37 <0.000159> 10:55:34 poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN}], 1, 5000) = 0 <4.995564> 10:55:39 poll([{fd=3, events=POLLOUT, revents=POLLOUT}], 1, 0) = 1 <0.000098> 10:55:39 sendto(3, "\307\304\1\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\ttimesink\n\5svana \3net"..., 37, MSG_NOSIGNAL, NULL, 0) = 37 <0.000130> 10:55:39 poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN}], 1, 5000) = 0 <4.999161> 10:55:44 close(3) = 0 <0.000111> 10:55:44 open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) = 3 <0.000066> (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Sunday, March 9th, 2008
3:47 am	Time flies when your clock knows about DST starting. (Comment on this)
Thursday, February 21st, 2008
11:48 pm	kesh n. one of a set of equal and incompatible options, such that (if there is more than one) exactly one must be chosen arbitrarily. It is generally fine to have a problem with a single kesh, but a problem which gets two (or more) keshes is known as a bikeshed problem, and people will argue pointlessly about it forever. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, February 18th, 2008
3:51 pm	I just now laid down (post-postscript) A Void (translation by Adair of La Disparition), of which I want to put a scan, ironically, on that Asus laptop running Linux known primarily to Slashdot sorts (ask Yahoo if you don't know which). If you wish to borrow it (my copy of that book, not a laptop), a post such as this fittingly informs you of its availability (viz, I now click "Post to journal"). (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
3:47 pm	I left my previous job at the end of the year, and I've been making prodigious progress on various of my projects, but it's getting to be time to be employed again, so I'm looking for my next job. Anybody got jobs they'd like to refer me for? My resume is here. (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, January 26th, 2008
9:59 pm	If ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny, and ontology recapitulates philology, what does oncology recapitulate? (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Wednesday, December 5th, 2007
3:40 pm	Dreidel dreidel dreidel I painted it with lead And when it's dry and ready My Wii I'll play instead (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Saturday, November 3rd, 2007
1:09 am	Bush vetoes $23-billion water bill DC Water and Sewer Authority is expected to override the president next week in a bipartisan vote. The GAO is expected to investigate how the White House managed to use 8.4 trillion gallons of tap water in the past 4 months. (Comment on this)
Thursday, October 11th, 2007
10:49 am	I want there to be a movie in which, when the hacker has to break into somebody's special-purpose computer account and there's a password that just magically works the first time with no difficulty or social engineering or inside knowledge of the system, the hacker's handle is Gold-(something), and there's a scene in which the camera is positioned correctly to shoulder-surf, and you can make out that the password starts "d'Or True". (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, September 5th, 2007
1:04 am	((λf.((λx.(f (x x))) (λx.(f (x x))))) ♥)=? E⟦(lambda (x) ♥)⟧=? (λek.E⟦x⟧ [x:♥]e k)=? ((lambda (x) (if x #t #f)) ♥)=? ((lambda (x) x) ♥)=? My normal approach is also useless here. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
8:31 pm	I'm still trying to find a datasheet for this Analog Devices part. I'd be grateful if somebody could find one. (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, August 11th, 2007
10:29 pm	(1 Comment |Comment on this)
Sunday, June 24th, 2007
4:54 pm	(2 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, June 18th, 2007
11:17 pm	610 physicists at Fermilab today submitted a paper reporting the discovery of the Ξ-b particle. A fraction of a second after this paper was written, it split into an administrative form called a WC329 and a smaller, 108-author paper entitled "Reconstructing evidence of the strange-b-baryon". The WC329 then split into a pair of grant proposals, cousins of ordinary funding requests. "Reconstructing evidence of the strange-b-baryon" then emitted a Ph.D. thesis and became a 23-author paper which was nearly published before it decayed into another Ph.D thesis and an ordinary 4-author paper. Researchers at arxiv were able to reconstruct the form of the original paper by analyzing hundreds of thousands of "personal communication" and "in press" citations by physicists distributed around the field. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, June 14th, 2007
9:06 pm	( cut for length ) (9 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, June 12th, 2007
12:46 am	(photo Leonard Woolley, 1930) (6 Comments |Comment on this)