August 14, 2008 @ 5:14 pm
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Not really so much a dream as a fragment.

I am in the bedroom, and I get a call from my girlfriend, from the living room. She tells me that she accidentally killed one of our cats. My dream implies the cat was killed under the recliner which we are always afraid of happening. When I go into the living room, my girlfriend has left for work, seemingly to her old job.

There is a small clear, plastic tarp on the floor in the living room, which is devoid of all furniture. I suppose that makes sense because we just moved into the apartment recently and my first impression of the living room was when it was empty. I try to open the tarp, but I had trouble doing so. I've seen this cat near death twice now, once when nearly crushed and again when it tried to drowned in the fish tank (that event required CPR), so you think I would be used to seeing this scene.

Eventually, I do open the tarp and there is the cat, switching between states of being wet (like the drowning incident) and just a dry sleeping/dead cat. All that leads to the creepy part: the body starts to twitch (which also happened when the cat drowned after I gave gave it CPR), but in a more cartoon, stop-animation setting.

I get excited, thinking the animal is still alive, I pet the animal's side and it reacts in a strange, mechanical way that freaks me out. I pick the cat up and take it into the middle room to put it in the travel container (which wasn't the greatest idea, I know).

About that time, the whole situation has freaked the shit out of me and I woke up. Man, I'm fucking tired now.

July 24, 2008 @ 10:39 am

If you thought that names like Tookie, Alquan, or Sheananalae were horrible names, apparently we were a step behind the curve, behold from New Zealand:

Officials had blocked [names such as] Sex Fruit, Keenan Got Lucy and Yeah Detroit, he said, but Number 16 Bus Shelter, Violence and Midnight Chardonnay had been allowed.

I've said for a long time that global peace will destroy us. To choose between death by stupidty or death by evil, I'll pick evil. Shut up, Jewish folk. Blah blah, Nazi, death camps. At least when you fought back and tried to kill your attackers, you weren't held in contempt in the eyes of justice.

"But peace on earth is good!" And communism is evil. Grow up. We were born through struggle. We will die through another struggle. Every breath you ever take is a struggle to simply not die. Each second of your life is a stolen moment from the rest of your life.

The World IQ is falling at an unprecedented scale. We've been steadily increasing the World IQ ever since the Middle Ages and now it is falling off a cliff. Sure our smart people are getting smarter by the day. But our dumb people are losing intelligence by the second, and multiplying like retarded locust. The bell curve is so flat and peaked, it might as well be an upside-down capital T.

The main problem, however, is that our dumb people are just smart enough to make detrimental decisions. Like raise ever worse generations, leech off welfare programs, vote subpar politications into office based on their YouTube exposure (oh, you thought Politics + Youtube was a good idea? Apparently, you've missed all the `Obama is hawt, I'd phuck him in the opal office` comments), and god help me, further lower the entry bar for firefighter, police, and the military. Eventually, you won't have to be able to hold a gun to get in any defense position. I look forward to the time with our enemies gather up and roll over America in our old tanks we sold because we needed more Escalades and Plasma TVs.

Let me put it bluntly another way, I would disown any child of mine that named their child Sex Fruit. Disavow any friend that named their child Number 19 Bus Shelter. And depending on my mood, I'd shoot both in the head.

July 9, 2008 @ 12:56 am
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So we are in Houston now. But my internet connection was 1.5 hours that way. Until, well, about 1.5 hours ago when I disconnected it. On the upside, I get a check for $16.51 from my old ISP (about as useless as an economic stimulus check), but I won't have internet for potentially 10 to 15 days. And I'm betting that in joyous business days too.

I don't blame the ISP I've chosen, Oplink DSL. They can't help it if AT&T is a horrifical beast that, were we suddenly five or six centuries in the past, knights would woo their ladies by seeking to slay this particular conglomerate. The timeframe from AT&T is 10-15 days from this recent Monday to set up access for Oplink to install access to the Remote Terminal so that I can get service.

"Why not go with AT&T for DSL? I'm sure they are faster right?" Oh definitely. But you know, I could have lost my virginity to a girl named Susie a full year earlier than I actually lost it. But on the other hand, I'd have herpes one year earlier than never as well. So you know: patience, virtue, blue balls.

AT&T has shitty service anyway. And Oplink rates highest in Houston in terms of service, quality, and customer satisfaction.

I'll wait. But I won't enjoy it.

June 24, 2008 @ 7:22 pm
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Heinz releases a commercial. In the commercial, a stereotypical family is starting a stereotypical day. The mother is preparing lunches for the family, getting it right for each of the children. The father comes in, of course, in a rush, and takes his lunch. The wife calls out to get her kiss, just like in every 1950s sitcom ever.

The catch in this commercial is that "Mum" was actually a guy in a deli outfit, little paper hat included. And the father shares a kiss with the man. And retard parents got in an uproar over that.
(http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jun/24/asa.advertising?gusrc=rss&feed=networkfront) (follow the link to see the commercial) (more…)

June 20, 2008 @ 9:12 pm
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Most of you will recognize the image at left, the share icon that has taken over the blog world. I forgot who came up with the icon, but (edit) Tom gave me the proper link. My first thought was, "Oh god. I hope it doesn't become popular." But it did, and now everyone has a horrible, non-semantic icon littering their blog or news source. (edit) Pre-iterating, I'm not knocking Alex King's icon, just the semantics. (more…)

June 16, 2008 @ 4:06 pm

Just some bug fixes. This post was actually testing the plugin so give it a few minutes to appear.

Project page

June 12, 2008 @ 4:35 am

Removed user's need for developer API to match Ping.fm's API changes. You should update if you are using an older version.

June 5, 2008 @ 10:53 pm
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On my todo list was: make s3nt timestamps based on milliseconds instead of seconds

And I didn't do it. What happened was that two people posted a link at the same second, and it wasn't returning the right latest row and therefore the new hash for the short link had already been used by the real latest link.

This has been fixed. I wish I had been notified by someone because it was that way for a couple days…

May 27, 2008 @ 9:01 am
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A friend came up with a good idea: Twitterbacks, Pingbacks for Twitter. I suggest that Summize jump on that, but that's because I like Summize more than the others.

May 27, 2008 @ 8:22 am
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To start, I don't hate the idea of OpenID, I'm just passionate in my reasonings. As with everything else.

It has been noted by various people, various people I will quote as soon as I can find them again, that OpenID is a nifty idea with many logic holes. And I personally get stuck on the DRM issue. For those that don't get what I'm saying, I'll lead you. (more…)

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