I’m actually kind of excited about landing on a comet.
<http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2014/11/12/rosetta-and-philae-go-for-separation/>
Best of luck to the esa team!
Livestream: <https://new.livestream.com/ESA/cometlanding>
I just got a new job, but I feel my resume requires an update.
So, under hobbies, I want to add:
- WWIII pre-enactor
Too soon?
Do I have a horrible neologism for you…
Techster. Think “techie-hipster”. Exhibit A:

Using a cell phone, while wearing google glass, while riding a segway, while at SxSW. I believe this deserves another neologism: the quadfecta.
(Source: reddit)
Still, this isn’t worse than the hot-pink sequined suit jacket that made G crack up when we first got off the train downtown…
Welcome to Austin, SxSW
Bookmark catchup
So every month or so, I try to dump all the bookmarks I made, especially for things I didn’t have time to comment on at the moment of discovery…
- Apple promises fix for iOS 7 ‘screen of death’ glitch (Wired UK)
- How Netflix Reverse Engineered Hollywood – Alexis C. Madrigal – The Atlantic
- Love’s Labor Lost (ER) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- homebrew/Library/Formula at master · Homebrew/homebrew · GitHub
- classroom.leanderisd.org/default.aspx?MelodyMorton/SpringMusical
- Infographic: Austin sucks, don’t move here – Austin Business Journal
- Remote SSH Filesystems on OSX | stevemanes.com
- Downloads – android-scripting – Scripting Layer for Android brings scripting languages to Android. – Google Project Hosting
- World’s Best Lasagna Recipe – Allrecipes.com
- Chicago Tribune – Lily Tomlin marries longtime partner, collaborator Jane Wagner
- English Muffins Recipe – Allrecipes.com
- How Far Should You Hit Your Golf Clubs? – GolfWRX
- MTI Broadway Junior Collection
- Music Theatre International: Licensing Musical Theater Theatrical Performance Rights and Materials to Schools, Community and Professional Theatres since 1952
- glideware-sliding-pot-holder-0.jpg (900×773)
- Stephen Hawking: ‘There are no black holes’ : Nature News & Comment
- How to Hit the Low Spinning Wedge Shot :: Oceanic Time Warner Cable’s AroundHawaii.com
- Austin police chief takes to the road, and Twitter, during ice storm | kxan.com
- YouRememberThat.Com – Taking You Back In Time… – CARNAC – SIS BOOM BAH
- Jung archetypes on Synecdoche, New York. | el cine signo
- HFS Plus – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- How To Find Out What Those Cops Are Doing On Your Block | KUT
- Choosing an OSS license doesn’t need to be scary – ChooseALicense.com
- Fabergé egg – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Tynsoe projects
- The Librettist – How To Write A Musical
- AT&T U-verse Channels – Digital TV & HD Channel Listings
- Google Public Alerts
- That’s Not How You Use That: Coiling a Cable | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
- mail regarding security flaws in Nagios NRPE to nagios devel and security lists
- Failure Is An Option « The Dish
- Lemon and Rosemary Marinade – Recipe
- How to sync your iCloud calendar with an Android device | How To – CNET
- How to Convert a Yeast Bread Recipe to Use in a Bread Machine
- The time signature of the Terminator score is a mystery for the ages.
- BBC News – Tim Rice: Public have no appetite for new musicals
A new personal record.
Over the course of two hours today, I received — and understand that I’m not making a word of this up — over 16,700 nearly identical, completely useless emails. An exact number is not possible to provide, as the rule I created to get rid of them kept finding more tucked away in my inbox for hours afterward.
Mental note that is obvious and axiomatic to my geek- and geek-friendly friends: Microsoft products do not scale as cleanly as open-source products. I’m referring specifically to outlook, here… Yes, when outlook crashed, it was the first time I had smiled in a few hours. It was a knowing smile.
Quite a first day…
Well, that’s an odd sensation…
For the first time in five years, I am NOT carrying the on-call phone. It’s like a (very small) weight has been lifted!
Happy new everything…
You know, as much attention as the recreational pot in Colorado story is getting, you would think it was mandatory, and that by this time tomorrow, the only other surviving industry in the state will be pizza delivery.
It’s been much too long since I’ve cleaned out my bookmarks folder: here is the result:
- New guidelines urge wider use of cholesterol-lowering drugs to prevent strokes, heart attacks – The Washington Post
- Safflower – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Cover Is An Android-Only Lockscreen That Shows Apps When You Need Them | TechCrunch
- The Purple Rose of Cairo Movie Review (1985) | Roger Ebert
- Houston’s space shuttle to get new name in contest open to Texans | collectSPACE
- Top 5 tools every Linux server should have |
- Dkim-milter is No Longer Available, How to Use OpenDKIM Instead | IPSURE (Hands-On)
- Supercook: recipe search by ingredients you have at home
- Austin Area – Take Me Fishing
- Linux Made Easy: Sendmail – How to Override MX Record
- ‘Ender’s Game’ Boycott Planned Over Orson Scott Card’s Anti-Gay Views
- Bobby Short – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Speedy Sites with Apache and Mod_pagespeed – techPortal
- YSK that if you want private/hidden bookmarks in incognito mode, there exists a Chrome extension called Hush specifically for that : YouShouldKnow
- LinuxBSDos.com4 Free Software alternatives to Matlab – LinuxBSDos.com
- List of Printers Which Do or Do Not Display Tracking Dots | Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Show My Code | PHP dezender
- Custom Create Musical Tunes
- Your Own Composition installed in a Music Box
- .:|[ Unity303’s Musicbox FAQ — How to make a customized music box tune ]|:.
- Godfrey Reggio – “Evidence” – YouTube
- Color-Blind
- Malware Hidden Inside JPG EXIF Headers | Sucuri Blog
- iPXE – open source boot firmware [start]
- WordPress-Gear
- gentoo g-cpan ERROR READING /profiles/arch.list | Mark Burazin
- Nine traits of the veteran Unix admin | Unix – InfoWorld
- Nine traits of the veteran network admin | Data Center – InfoWorld
- Welcome to Instant Rimshot
- Time to upgrade my WAP’s – looking for opinions : sysadmin
- Scooby Doo, The First Atheist Brainwashing Cartoon Reviewed • ChristWire
- Redneck Vasectomy : Jokes
- Bitcoin, Namecoin, Litecoin, Devcoin, IXCoin, PPCoin, Terracoin (BTC/NMC/LTC/DVC/IXC/PPC/TRC,FTC) Exchange and Trading Platform
- Converting 32bit RRD to 64bit RRD (moving cacti between architectures) | Carl Heaton
- Gay Marriage: Children With Same-Sex Parents ‘Happier And Healthier’ Study Says
- Meme Generator – Imgur
- I’m The 14-Year-Old Who Wrote The “Jesus Isn’t A Dick So Keep Him Out of My Vagina” Sign In Texas And Was Labeled A “Whore” By Strangers Online | xoJane
- Tuesday Cain | xoJane
- Why Stephen King Spends ‘Months and Even Years’ Writing Opening Sentences – Joe Fassler – The Atlantic
- Religion to Disappear By 2041 Claims New Study | Las Vegas Guardian Express
- Yooper dialect – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- 10 Things I Plan to Tell My Daughter About Sex That Aren’t That Purity Movement Crap – Houston – Arts – Art Attack
- How to reproduce these features in WordPress? : WordPress
- SysAdmins – In Their Own Words | OpenDNS Blog
- WeatherGoose II Environmental Monitor – Temperature, Humidity, Dew Pt, Air Flow, Light & Sound
- ASN.1 JavaScript decoder
- When Home-Schooling Goes Horribly Wrong…
- Intelligent LCD Series – CP1500AVRLCD
- Nagios | Everybody Hertz
- City of Cedar Park : Dog Park
- You learn something new about Google every day
- O’Dowd: IT Crowd have not aged well – BelfastTelegraph.co.uk
- 142857 (number) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Destination Wally World: Here comes the real Griswolds! | HLNtv.com
- Shakespearean Insulter
- .bashrc generator: create your .bashrc PS1 with a drag and drop interface
- Mining Pools Comparison – Bitcoin Chain
- PHP: The Right Way
- A Tmux Crash Course
- tS9iDF9.jpg (737×951)
- Maggie Scaff Obituary: View Obituary for Maggie Scaff by Cook-Walden Chapel of the Hills Funeral Home, Austin, TX
- Spend Bitcoin On Everything, Everywhere With All4BTC – Automatically Purchase From eBay, Amazon And Anywhere Else Online | Bitcoin PR Buzz
- Kids can’t use computers… and this is why it should worry you – Coding 2 Learn
- FAN « Fully Automated Nagios
- How Laura Poitras Helped Snowden Spill His Secrets – NYTimes.com
- namecoin-qt/namecoin-qt · GitHub
- What I learned from other’s shell scripts
- Further thoughts for the day: Are atheists mentally ill?
- GOP’s secret fear: House majority is in trouble – Salon.com
- Why MariaDB Matters: The OpenShift Interview with Monty | OpenShift by Red Hat
- The Residents – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- The Argyle Sweater
- I taught at the worst school in Texas – Salon.com
- “thereisnofatebutwhatwemake”—Turbo-charged cracking comes to long passwords | Ars Technica
- Inside the World’s Most Dangerous Amusement Park
- Linear barcodes
- 4 Points Traffic – Build the road!
- Dexter’s Final Season – What Should Have Been | TBD
- League of Resident Theatres – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- God is Imaginary – 50 simple proofs
- CyanogenMod | Android Community Rom based on Jelly Bean
- A dot for every second in the day – a clock
- “Something Terrible Has Happened Here”: The Crazy Story Of How “Clue” Went From Forgotten Flop To Cult Triumph
- Unknown Known teaser: Watch Donald Rumsfeld in clip from Errol Morris documentary. (VIDEO)
- CyanogenMod 10.1 – A Complete Hands-On Review & Guide
- Maths MegaCLI / MegaRAID / LSI / RAID controller CLI stuff
- How to remain secure against NSA surveillance | Bruce Schneier | World news | theguardian.com
- The US government has betrayed the internet. We need to take it back | Bruce Schneier | Comment is free | The Guardian
- Best Apps/Games/LWPs Of The Week – Android Police – Android News, Apps, Games, Phones, Tablets
- AirDroid
- Bread Machine Bagels Recipe – Allrecipes.com
- 10 Secret Trig Functions Your Math Teachers Never Taught You | Roots of Unity, Scientific American Blog Network
- android-notifier – Desktop event notifier for Android devices – Google Project Hosting
- SysAdmin Podcasts : sysadmin
- TBay | Nagios plugins – interfacetable_v3t
- Strauss–Howe generational theory – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- How to create a custom ‘add to home screen’ icon for your mobile website on iOS devices | Uncorked Studios
- primer-chart.jpg (2791×1745)
- 4.2.2.2: The Story Behind a DNS Legend – tummy.com, ltd.
- High Scalability – High Scalability – Reddit: Lessons Learned from Mistakes Made Scaling to 1 Billion Pageviews a Month
- How to tell your mother and bosses why they should protest surveillance.
- taylorchu/baker · GitHub
- 4 Things Dexter Could Have Learned from Breaking Bad – IGN
- Home
- An Open Letter To The Parents Of The Stephentown 300 | Kelly Lynch
- Powerful WordPress Tips And Tricks
- How many magic tricks were known in 1584? – Mind Your Decisions
- RonPedley.com
- PhantomJS: Headless WebKit with JavaScript API
- West Des Moines Hotels: Fairfield Inn & Suites West Des Moines hotel: Award-winning hospitality at competitive prices in Des Moines IA
- seriss.com/people/erco/unixtools/hostnames.html
- You’ve Been Booed – Print the Phantom Ghost Poem – Halloween
- Music Theatre International: Licensing Musical Theater Theatrical Performance Rights and Materials to Schools, Community and Professional Theatres since 1952
- NetCipher: Network Security Library | The Guardian Project
- Smart IR Remote Updated To Support Rooted Phones With Custom ROMs, Even Those That Don’t Have IR Drivers Built-In
- Britain’s Best Sitcom – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Dnsyo by samarudge
- 7 Ways to Be Insufferable on Facebook | Wait But Why
- Pretend You’re Xyzzy
- Sarah Palin Claims Jesus Celebrated Easter – The Daily Currant
- Cartoons of a Racist Past Lurk on YouTube – New York Times
- {.bashrc, .bash_profile, .inputrc, .profile, .xprofile, .xinitrc,} which ones do you use for what? : linux
- Medianoche Bread Recipe – Food.com – 311756
- Reinventing storage – Ethernet über alles! | Speaking of Clouds – Distributed applications and virtual infrastructures
- Lists: 9 of the World’s Deadliest Snakes — Encyclopedia Britannica
- Apache / PHP 5.x Remote Code Execution Exploit
- Thug Kitchen
- MegaCLI working examples cheat sheet
- 10 Musicals That Should Be Remade/Made | PopMatters
- 36 Essential “Manly” Life Hacks That Every Person Should Know
- Insight: Class and Education – Austin and Cleveland … and Pittsburgh | Martin Prosperity Institute
- Event Reservation – Actions in the Inbox — Google Developers
- UNIX Tips & Tricks To Save You Time In Terminal
- crossword puzzle solver – crossword puzzle tracker
- Is tmux the GNU Screen killer? – TechRepublic
- PSA: How to install a custom certificate without getting the “Your network could be monitored” message on Android 4.4 : Android
- BBC News – Ison: The comet of the century
- Event Reservation – Actions in the Inbox — Google Developers
- Quality electronic cigarettes at great prices
- 10+ extremely useful PHP classes | CatsWhoCode.com
- The Complete List Of Text Messaging Email Addresses | EmailTextMessages.com
- A curated list of amazingly awesome PHP libraries, resources and shiny things. : PHP
- The Linux Virtual Server Project – Linux Server Cluster for Load Balancing
- TrueAbility Blog
- MasterCard World TV Commercial, ‘Inside the Game with Ian Poulter’ – iSpot.tv
- KXAN Live Stream
- Bash arrays
- ? Murder Most Horrid – We All Hate Granny 3/3
- 90-yr-old life lessons
- Joshua Levy’s answer to Linux: What are some time-saving tips that every Linux user should know? – Quora
- Plex/Web
- Things I learned as a Sysadmin…… – Brocade Community
- Top 10 Plays and Musicals | Top 10 Everything of 2013 – Arts and Entertainment | TIME.com
- Over-Extended Metaphor for the day – Charlie’s Diary
As I prepare for a new-job-enforced change from ubuntu to mac, this makes me laugh.
If UNIX Were a Religion – Slashdot.
Speaking of which, does anyone know an easy way for me to get virtual desktops on a mac? I’m really quite used to a 4×3 setup, where the top left desktop is the web browser and all the rest are full-screen terminal windows.
A PDF printing neologism
Wand re-orchestration is complete. The conductor score PDF is designed to be printed on legal-sized paper, but auto-resizes as needed. It was going to legal paper, but the tray was marked as letter. Or, as I now call it, barely legal.
Just heard the most delightful line:
You can’t fix stupid, but you can bill for it.
Obviously, the context is IT consulting, not politics. But now that I think about it… How much did Cruz make, and how much did it cost America?
Flattered twice in the past 24 hours…
G said two things:
- Everyone in the house, including the dog, loves my bread.
- I should stay home all day to bake bread. Apparently that’s worth more to her than my day job…
My fear is that when she learns that I don’t bake during the heat of summer, she’ll try to get me to move further north. That’s NOT going to happen…
What a day…How much can I learn from my daughter at a waterpark?
After an impromptu sleepover, we took G and a friend to Schlitterbahn. Between a lack of sleep, sheer distance, the energy of youth, thunderstorms, exuberantly potent displays of reliability, wrecks on the other side of the highway, stoplights under repair, road construction, long family conversations, t-mobile incompetence, and toll-road cronyism, it has been a very long, long day.
Important things I have learned today:
- G understands that “No.” means “No.” Even with us. Last night we were looking at the web site, she saw one ride we had dome before, and she said, “I don’t want to do that one anymore.” (It does shove water up your nose!) Today, she said “yes” but then changed her mind. After I had already gone down it. With her glasses in one pocket, and our cash in another, so I had no hands free to protect myself from the onslaught. I waited for the folks after me to make a loop around the “lazy river”, then went looking for them. Found them just as they were reaching the bridge. I wasn’t even mad. I’m glad she stands up for herself, even with us. I want her to be a strong woman when she grows up, so I’m glad to reinforce that “no” means “no!”
- There is one very strong indicator that I am aging out of amusement/water parks. I have no tattoos, and plan on none until I can marry in the state I live in. We’ll do wedding ring tattoos, just to prove to you breeders that you all are, in fact, dilettantes compared to us. (But don’t get me wrong — I still support straight marriage!)
- No amount of consoling can relieve G from the sound of nearby thunder. Even when surrounded by incredibly tall, incredibly grounded metal poles.
- Without time for analysis, I cannot distinguish between “The Illusionist” and “The Prestige”. I know that one has Bowie as Tesla, and one has a Phillip Glass score, but which is which? Beats me, and I’m watching one of them now. I cannot name it.
- There is only one person on the planet worse than estimating time than Cy, and that person is me.
- My daughter is a rule-follower (I knew that before.) Even through teenage-like rebellion and seemingly-endless negotiation, she chooses what is proper. We try to reward this behavior. She knows how to exploit this rewarding. This is the essence of “standoff”, and leads to very tedious discussions in the end. Factual arguments can sway her well, and she knows this pleases me, and leads to greater rewards down the road.
- I’m in trouble, as a parent. G knows me too well.
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