Jungle Juice Congratulations! You're 162 proof, with specific scores in beer (100) , wine (100), and liquor (147).

You are a true alcohol connisseur. You not only know what drinks are best for parties or dinner or cocktail bars, you can make most of them as well. You don't mess around with the cheap stuff--only the good stuff will do.

My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 93% on proof You scored higher than 93% on beer index You scored higher than 95% on wine index You scored higher than 99% on liquor index

Link: The Alcohol Knowledge Test written by hoppersplit on Ok Cupid

]]> http://devlogic.org/2005/03/21/i-apparently-know-my-liquor/feed/ http://devlogic.org/2005/03/19/driving-observations/ http://devlogic.org/2005/03/19/driving-observations/#comments Sat, 19 Mar 2005 19:07:02 +0000 devlogic http://www.devlogic.org/2005/03/19/driving-observations/ You know, it's interesting.  I notice this from time to time while I'l out driving around, and I think I can construct a formula to demonstrate it.  In most cases, the probability that a driver will use their turn indicators for turns or lane changes is inversely proportional to the purchase price of the vehicle.  I.e., prob(signal) = 1/vehicle.(purchase price)

Not a day goes by when I don't get passed by some jerk in a Lexus who can't be bothered to use their blinkers.  I mean, it's not like it takes that much effort.  Maybe a pound of pressure on a lever that's already at your fingertips.  And it keeps people from accidentally smashing into you because you're too damn lazy to do it.

You'd think people driving a $30,000 luxury car would want to protect their investment.

• Valuable Transformation - Gold plating charcoal
• A more powerful Fulminating Powder
• The Leyden Phial - "...a painful jarring sensation is felt at the joints of the fingers, the elbows, shoulders & chest,..."
• To Recover a Fly after being drowned several hours
• Galvanic Experiments on the Dead Body of a Criminal

Everything a young man needs for hours of (thoroughly educational) amusement!

Now if I can just figure out how the "HTML Tags" actually work, I'll be in business. Maybe it's in the tutorial or the documentation; I should read those.

Update: I figured out the HTML Tags. I was trying too hard before; I guess I just need to get used to the "It's a Mac; try the simple approach first" rule...

[posted with ecto]

I mean, let's look at what I did today.  I got home from work around 8:00 (work was pretty uneventful; I watched about 12 episodes of Red Dwarf, and read some email).  I watched this week's episode of NUMB3RS, read about a chapter of The Arrow of Time (actually a pretty interesting book on theoretical physics and temporal theory), and fell asleep some time between 10 & 11.  After I finally got up (some time around 18:00), I did hack a bit on my webserver, setting up a "fake" .mac server.  It works pretty well inside my home LAN, but I suspect that I'll primarily use it for putting stuff from work onto my box at home; with my measly 384k upload from RoadRunner, downloading anything from the WebDAV space would probably take about 100 years.  After that, I came back to work.  I've watched Hellboy and about half of Fight Club so far.

Pretty exciting, eh?

Anyway, that WebDAV stuff is pretty neat.  But keeping the hack in place to make the "My iDisk" link work will prove irritating; my IP changes from time to time, and I'd just have to remember to keep updating my /etc/hosts file to keep it working.  But it is a nifty project anyway.  Now if only Google would add a WebDAV interface to gmail, so I could split that gig among the email that I get (which is comparatively little) and a personal disk space of some kind.  Oh, and a hack to reconfigure the "My iDisk" menu option so it'd actually open with a minimum of effort.

Oh, well.

I'm really liking ecto, by the way.  I've still got a few days left in my trial, but at only $18, I think I'll probably register it.

And with that, I'm done for the morning.