I’d have to get up two hours earlier every day if I wanted to be any more awesome. 😆 I can’t decide whether this is gaudy or not, and I don’t care if it is because it’s pretty. I have the Emerald theme that goes with it, but can’t be arsed to turn on desktop […]

I don’t know whence comes the quote and even the mighty Google couldn’t find the original source, but… “Never, in the over fifteen hundred years of continual evolution and refinement of the English language, from the barbaric yawps of the Angles and the Jutes to the eloquent farces of Oscar Wilde, has it ever been […]

Once the whole file is loaded on the browser, look in the root of /tmp for the file with the funky gibberish name (j-whatever, usually). Copy that somewhere, then give it an FLV extension. Terminal command: mplayer -dumpaudio foo.flv -dumpfile foo.mp3 To check quality, it’s file foo.mp3 (I didn’t specify, but mine came out as […]

Please let even half of this be true. Hell, I’d settle for a third; that would still be a vast improvement. Please let this man get elected in spite of the right-wing idiots who’ll see, “Viet Nam war veteran gook-killer! USA-USA-USA!” and “Creationist, militantly pro-life hockey mom, former Miss Congeniality who believes Jesus will return […]

I won’t remember what I posted, but I half-watched almost half an hour of that shite, waiting for How It’s Made. It’s here so if that happens again, I will think of new insults instead of repeating myself. 😉 Google, SmashLab sucks, etc.. Inane “challenges”, idiotic and overly complicated “solutions”, incredibly annoying hosts with zero […]

I just watched the whole 30 minute interview of Vladimir Putin done by CNN. I think the version we got was edited down to six minutes of sound bites (of course it was–the average American’s attention span is about two minutes), but the whole thing was on Russian television, and put up in three parts […]

For Christ’s sake, why do you have to keep turning up and hanging around? I know you own their house, and we’ve been here a while, so you know us, and you know I’m here during the day. None of that means we’re pals or that we should hang out and chat. The fact that […]

What the flaming sweet Jesus Christ on a skateboard is Sourceforge hosted on….A FUCKING 486 with a dial-up connection running over 50-year-old copper? I don’t get anything from there unless I really must because IT LOADS LIKE MOLASSES RUNNING UPHILL IN JANUARY but I don’t have much choice if something on a particular site is […]

I spend a lot of time online. Way too much time, really, but that isn’t my point (really–I do have a point). I don’t live in my mother’s basement, or play WOW long into the night while washing down CheetOs and pizza with Red Bull. I do get outside as often as I can, I […]

Well, so much for the house outside town. I don’t know where the hell the owner thinks (s)he lives (maybe California?), but I do know that he’s not getting that much money for that house…not here. The housing bubble has burst, ladies and gentlemen, and if you own a “pretty nice” house in an almost […]