et another link I ganked from Fark, Brian’s Belly has an article which is a combination mini-biography/interview about (with?) Alton Brown, that enigmatic host (and writer, etc) of Good Eats. By the way, Good Eats is probably my favorite TV show ever. It’s great; it begins with teh basic premise of “cooking show,” but rapidly expands to (and here I paraphrase/quote the Brian’s Belly article) “Mr. Wizard meets Cooking Show.”

Check it out. Here in beautiful Central Daylight time, it’s on the Food Network all the damn time these days; new episodes are on Wednesdays at 8:00, and reruns of older episodes are at least monday through friday at 10:30. The drawback to those being it’s on opposite Futurama on the Cartoon Network.

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I saw this picture on Grotto 11, and I promptly stole it; isn’t that what the internet’s all about?

Anyway, if I still used Windows on my x86 hardware, I’d probably switch to iTunes. Feature-for-feature, it’s the best (only?) program of its kind right now.

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It seems like all I do is bitch about work these days. Well, not even about work, just about the people I have to talk to. Well, not to disappoint, here’s another one.

There’s a reason I say everything. When I say “mail.devlogic.org”, there’s a reason I said every syllable. I didn’t say “maildevlogic.org”, and I didn’t say “maildevlogicorg”. Please type what I say.

And if you’re reading off of your screen to me, please say what’s there. If the blank says “mail.devlogic.org”, please say “mail dot devlogic dot org”. It doesn’t do me any good for you to say “maildevlogic.org” when that isn’t what it says. All it does is make me either

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Yuck. And that picture isn’t completely correct, either. There were only 2 of us, not three; I grabbed that screenshot in the middle of an update.

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I seem to remember posting somethign on the old site about the “ultimate toolkit”. Well, here it is. I want one of these. Too bad it’s $450. Maybe I’ll save up my pennies.

Or just make my own; there’s a good list of ingredients there, and I’m pretty sure I can get one of those attache-style cases at Altex or the Container Store or something. Maybe after I get back from Vegas I’ll look into it.

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here’s a hint: We can’t search for you by your password. Nobody in the world could accurately search for you by your password. here’s why:

let’s say Phil has the username “phil01”. His password is “letmein”. now, let’s say Amy has the username “asmith45”. Her password is also “letmein”.

Now multiply those two users by 1000. 2000 users, any of whom may have any password. If I do a search for people with the password “letmein”, I could potentially get hundreds of responses. If I do a search for username “phil01”, on the other hand, I get exactly one response. That’s why usernames are unique, and it’s why I Ask you for your username. If I’d wanted your password, I’d have asked for it. It’s not like the words “username” and “password” sound remotely alike, either.

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. . . and like that,

I’d succeeded.

Turns out that if you use the IP address of your default route in the"ip route" statement, instead of the interface name (like “Ethernet0/0”), it cuts WAY down on the arp requests, and it makes it so the router functions properly. You also get to turn off proxy-arp requests, which (what with all the viruses these days that replicate thousands of times a second) cuts your memory usage by 2/3 or more.

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I got a little disc golf in this morning; I was bored, and since I’m awake for some reason, there you go. I know that sentence doesn’t make a lot of sense.

“Shot” an 80 at Searight. That’s like 26 over par, but it’s also 10 under my best score to date. Now I just need to work on my 15+ foot putts, and I’ll be in business. Maybe I’ll set up a trash can outside, and practice.

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Don’t you hate it when you go to bed, but instead of falling asleep like you expect, you toss & turn for 4 or 5 hours? That’s what happened to me this morning. I finally gave up trying to fall asleep at 2-ish, and went out for some food. I’m not sure what meal it was, though; it was pre-morning for my usual sleep schedule, but still lunchtime for “regular” people.

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I saw this on slashdot (posted by wansu): … with hurricanes, trees fall on buildings. With earthquakes, buildings fall on trees.

Always nice to have a laugh first thing in the morning.

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