matt | September 30, 2004
This month had an extra paycheck in it. With that paycheck, I paid off the rest of my credit card debt. I now owe no money to anyone, though I haven't bought my car yet, which will put me a decent amount in the hole (though that is at a much lower rate than the [...]
matt | September 30, 2004
You know the “doctor” program in emacs? The one that attempts to psychoanalyze you? Well, along a similar vein (okay, maybe not), there is a standalone console app for linux called sex, which does mad-libs style sentence construction.
“No, no, do the goldfish!” grunted the wanton secretary as the egg-sucking handsome priest grudge fucked her moist [...]
matt | September 30, 2004
Green/Libertarian party debates tonight:
http://www.badnarik.org/newsfromthetrail.php?p=1214
Doesn't look like major networks are carrying it, but there is a webcast.
The interesting thing is that after the Bush/Kerry debate, they'll be back to heckle and refute the major party candidates' points.
Bearing in mind, of course, that the major party debates are basically scripted, which predisclosed questions and prepared responses.
matt | September 27, 2004
Last night I made Creme Caramel au Cafe (aka Coffee Flan). It came out okay. The carmel was a little overcooked and burnt, but other than that, it was okay (no chunks!).
I got parchive working with my dar backup scripts, so now if a backup DVD gets scratched, I can attempt to recover up [...]
matt | September 25, 2004
(Liz is watching this show called Joan of Arcadia. In case people aren't aware, it's a program about this teenager to whom God appears and guides her life. Not bad. Better than seventh heaven. Anyway, it got me thinking about things religious.)
First come the Christ fish.
Then come the Darwin fish.
Now, my father has a Truth [...]
matt | September 24, 2004
We hooked it up to the network and now the Macs can share iPhoto and iTunes stuff to it. I just need to get it working under Linux. The JavaHMO project does it, except that it doesn't quite work (the java stuff throws an exception and gets pissed). Plus the hard drive arrived so that [...]
matt | September 18, 2004
(ignore college for this agrument; in collegiate programs, it comes down to revenues)
Q: Why are music and art programs cut in school before sports programs and phys ed?
A: Because sports/phys ed teaches children to be able to function as members of a team.
Q: Why do we need to function as members of a team?
A: Because [...]
matt | September 18, 2004
So, over the past week, I've been driving to and from a customer site up past Boston (90 miles up 95). This has given me plenty of time to think upon many subjects, detailed past the cut.
Subjects: driving, Mass drivers, the American educational system, motivation, coporatism, conforming, disruptive technologies, .
(Note that corporations means large [...]
matt | September 9, 2004
Did you know that The West Edmonton Mall has more submarines than the Canadian Navy? I am amused.
Opinion poll, because I'm basically between a rock and a hard place here.
Background: Liz's family seems to insist upon us sleeping in separate rooms when I visit.
The Rock: It's really pissing me off. I think it's juvenile, [...]
matt | September 3, 2004
Okay, so I find this problem at work. Basically, there is always the question about software conflicting with other software installed, right? So, I asked a couple developers about their design, and basically find out that there shouldn't be any issues and it should all work fine. No problem, right? Well, these guys CC-ed their [...]
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