Draconian but efficacious
Anyone responding to email without using a modern threaded email reader should be BANNED FROM THE INTERNET.
The 'i' is for 'indestructible'
· đź impressed
Forgot to take the iPod Shuffle out of my pocket. Pants went through a full washer/dryer cycle. iPod Shuffle survived completely unscathed.
Infinity mirror
Why is my déjà vu always recursive?
Movie time
Me: âWe could see Planes. Or Smurfs 2! Without Emily!â
Anna: âNo. Maybe Planes. But not Smurfs 2. You go into Smurfs 2 without kids and they just call the cops.â
Impressionable parrot
Anna: âBye bye everyone!â
Curt: âBye bye Anna!â
Emily: âBye bye Anna!â
Anna (to Curt): âNow see what youâve done!â
Emily: âNow see what done!â
Institutional parapraxis
OMG, Pepsiâs new slogan is âLive for now!â Roflcopter! #sodapopinremission
Vague profundity
Getting older hasnât made me any wiser â itâs merely made me more aware of my foolishness.
xfce
If your /proc/cpuinfo says Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N270 @ 1.60GHz or something similarly weak, run xfce. While âxfceâ may be a stupid and unpronounceable name, it is an excellent software suite. Do not run Unity, even with graphical effects disabled as completely as possible.
Actually, never run Unity under any circumstance. Or Windows. In fact, it might be best to throw away your computer and try something less exasperating, like having some children.
A timeless syntax
CamelCase wiki linking: great idea, or the greatest idea ever?
Childish delight
Successfully SCPed a file to my laptop from a VirtualBox Ubuntu guest running OpenSSH on the standard SSH port but which is port-forwarded to a non-standard port via VirtualBoxâs NAT feature, with the host OS on a firewalled workstation running OS X, to which the laptop connected via SSH tunneling through another Ubuntu server configured to allow SSH through said firewall. In other words: laptop â real Ubuntu server â firewalled OS X workstation â virtual Ubuntu server. And amusingly, the file in question was the OS X installer for the latest version of VirtualBox. It has been a fun morning!
Hot take
I wish Adele would use Auto-Tune.
Humanist affirmation of St. Francis
I will strive to be a channel of peace;
that where there is hatred, I may bring love;
that where there is wrong, I may bring the spirit of forgiveness;
that where there is discord, I may bring harmony;
that where there is error, I may bring truth;
that where there is doubt, I may bring assurance;
that where there is despair, I may bring hope;
that where there are shadows, I may bring light;
that where there is sadness, I may bring joy.
I will strive to seek rather to comfort than to be comforted;
to understand, than to be understood;
to love, than to be loved.
For it is by self-forgetting that one finds.
It is by forgiving that one is forgiven.
It is by experiencing death that one awakens to life.
Iterating toward perfection
I love it when a band rerecords one of its old songs (sometimes with a co-artist) after improving and refining their style: Green Dayâs âWelcome to Paradiseâ; Megadethâs âA Tout Le Monde (Set Me Free)â; The Offspringâs âDirty Magicâ; Mumford & Sonsâs âThe Boxerâ (with Paul Simon & Jerry Douglas); and letâs not forget the entire S&M album by Metallica & the San Francisco Symphony.
Credit where credit is due
In this decade of oversimplified unusably âcleanâ software applications, with every version worse than the last, I never thought I would say this, but⊠iTunes finally got it right. The new âUp Nextâ queue rules, and is long overdue.
A wild Baby Teddy appears!
Baby Teddy has joined your party!
Evil triumphs once again
Gmail is sooo much faster in Chrome⊠*cry*
Resistance is futile
· resigned
I am giving up on trying to multitask with a toddler around. It is too stressful for both of us. Easier and happier if home time is kid time. No more video games, no more programming, and no more Internets unless toddler is unconscious.
And itâs time for more child-proofing, too. Gotta create some more space that he canât reach. And every low shelf and table is for toys only! Otherwise itâs just inviting disaster.
Accursed swamp lands
Despite all efforts to the contrary, we still ended up in another house with water in the basementâŠ
Third-person self-references: 2010+ edition
| Date | Status |
|---|---|
| 2010-01-09 | Curtis Rueden beat a 3800 ranked Dictator today! |
| 2010-01-21 | Curtis Rueden has growing doubts. |
| 2010-01-28 | Curtis Rueden is not sure he can love Sun anymore, after the Oracle acquisition. Even the J2SDK javadocs have the Oracle favicon now⊠|
| 2010-03-02 | Curtis Rueden is slowly realizing how crazy this month is going to be. |
| 2010-03-09 | Curtis Rueden must eat his pizza, or the pizza ghost is gonna get him. |
| 2010-05-06 | Curtis Rueden thanks everyone for the birthday wishes! |
| 2010-05-24 | Curtis Rueden wonders if anyone else actually watched Lost, and if so, what they thought of the finale. |
| 2010-06-02 | Curtis Rueden keeps getting NaN in his sums. |
| 2010-06-07 | Curtis Rueden is sitting with Anna & Jennifer in a St. Maryâs birthing suite. A week early! |
| 2010-06-08 | Curtis Rueden is recovering with Anna and Emily at the hospital. For the stats geeks: born 6:54am, 8 lbs 6 oz, 20â long. Sheâs a pretty quiet baby so far, easily calmed, and very hungry. |
| 2010-08-06 | Curtis Rueden is happy that Eclipse 3.6 finally fixes the horrible Welcome screen mystery meat navigation. |
| 2010-09-12 | Curtis Rueden is enjoying the brokenness of the Pathfinder Advanced Players Guide. |
| 2010-09-30 | Curtis Rueden wonders: according to the Barcode Brothersâs song Ambient, 92% of people feel their lives could be better⊠which implies 8% of people are either completely happy or unsure? What? |
| 2010-10-24 | Curtis Rueden is sad that there is no peanut butter in Europe. Or Mt. Dew. |
| 2011-05-07 | Curtis Rueden has nothing to report. |
| 2011-05-24 | Curtis Rueden is too sick for the final game night. :-( |
| 2011-05-25 | Curtis Rueden wonders: is there any software that converts from IPA text to audio? Or IPA text to pronunciation respelling in ASCII? I thought the entire point of IPA was as an unambiguous phonetic transcription systemâso why is it so hard to find a computer program that can read the IPA out loud? |
| 2011-06-01 | Curtis Rueden remembers when it was uber 1337 if your DOS machine could play MODs in a background process. |
Third-person self-references: 2009 edition
| Date | Status |
|---|---|
| 2009-01-05 | Curtis Rueden is frustrated by his own incompetence. |
| 2009-01-06 | Curtis Rueden is feeling better. |
| 2009-01-08 | Curtis Rueden is changing his name to EDGE MAVERICK. |
| 2009-01-27 | Curtis Rueden is destroying his knees, one day at a time. |
| 2009-01-29 | Curtis Rueden is surprised to recognize 88 of the top 90 projects on ohloh |
| 2009-02-02 | Curtis Rueden is consumed with regret over every goddamn thing. |
| 2009-02-03 | Curtis Rueden compiles. |
| 2009-02-04 | Curtis Rueden does not comply. |
| 2009-02-05 | Curtis Rueden can be terrifying to neonates and milquetoasts. |
| 2009-02-07 | Curtis Rueden had an awesome day yesterday. |
| 2009-02-09 | Curtis Rueden believes in a thing called quixotism. |
| 2009-02-12 | Curtis Rueden needs to rent or sell his condo. |
| 2009-02-16 | Curtis Rueden is probably skipping Gen Con this year. :-( |
| 2009-02-26 | Curtis Rueden loves winter thunder. |
| 2009-02-28 | Curtis Rueden has lost all his power. |
| 2009-03-05 | Curtis Rueden wishes Visual Studio would DIAF. |
| 2009-03-25 | Curtis Rueden is finally starting to figure out his iPod classic. But still canât talk right⊠|
| 2009-03-31 | Curtis Rueden just found the coolest consumer-grade storage solution heâs ever seen: Drobo. |
| 2009-04-10 | Curtis Rueden was recently reminded that the time is nigh for the birthday movie! |
| 2009-04-14 | Curtis Rueden misses Mountain Dew. |
| 2009-04-20 | Curtis Rueden keeps reading about economics even though it is nightmarishly complex. |
| 2009-04-27 | Curtis Rueden is 0 for 2 on house offers. |
| 2009-04-28 | Curtis Rueden is outraged that you have to create a shell script wrapper just to compensate for the GNOME launcherâs inability to specify a working directory. |
| 2009-05-07 | Curtis Rueden bought a house. |
| 2009-05-08 | Curtis Rueden doesnât know whatâs worth fighting for. |
| 2009-05-11 | Curtis Rueden eats his peas with honey; heâs done so all his life. It makes them taste quite funny, but it keeps them on the knife. |
| 2009-05-14 | Curtis Rueden is feeling very alone in the universe today. |
| 2009-05-26 | Curtis Rueden is drowning in work. |
| 2009-05-27 | Curtis Rueden feels strangely distant from his friends considering how much they have been through together. |
| 2009-06-04 | Curtis Rueden started making one of those âHow well do you know me?â quizzes but then Facebook ate it. |
| 2009-06-10 | Curtis Rueden is back in C++ hell. |
| 2009-07-02 | Curtis Rueden was sorting through old gaming notes and was amazed anew at the staggering amount of D&D played. |
| 2009-07-13 | Curtis Rueden is appalled that the RPGA is allowing custom characters for the D&D Championship at Gen Con this year. |
| 2009-07-20 | Curtis Rueden is greatly bothered by the existence of âScience Papaâ for some reason. |
| 2009-08-10 | Curtis Rueden just TPKed our level 2 party with an EL 6 encounter. I hope the RPGA is not quite that mean. |
| 2009-08-11 | Curtis Rueden is amused that Amazon thinks I want to buy shoes from them. |
| 2009-08-17 | Curtis Rueden objects to intellect without disciplineâto power without constructive purpose. |
| 2009-08-31 | Curtis Rueden watches the world fall apart, piece by piece. |
| 2009-09-05 | Curtis Rueden is popping bubble wrap. |
| 2009-09-21 | Curtis Rueden still hates Eclipse, despite effort to the contrary. |
| 2009-10-01 | Curtis Ruedenâs plans will not be undone by such amateur-hour horseshit as absorbing too much power and exploding. |
| 2009-10-13 | Curtis Rueden is tired of working so hard for so little payoff. |
| 2009-10-20 | Curtis Rueden is on a bus in Massachusetts! With Wi-Fi! |
| 2009-10-27 | Curtis Rueden is covered in broken code. |
| 2009-11-16 | Curtis Rueden is excited that VirtualBox 3.0.10 on Mac OS X 10.6 actually has working visual effects on an Ubuntu Karmic Koala guest OS. |
| 2009-11-24 | Curtis Rueden wants to know: who wants a Google Wave invite? :-) |
| 2009-11-26 | Curtis Rueden ËÇŚÆuÉ ÊuÇÉčÇÉÉıp É ÉŻoÉčÉ pŚÉčoÊ ÇÉ„Ê ÊÉ ÊooŚ É ÆuıÊÉÊ sı |
| 2009-12-08 | Curtis Rueden is very thankful for the awesomeness that is Skype. |
| 2009-12-15 | Curtis Rueden canât believe he ate the whole thing. |
| 2009-12-16 | Curtis Rueden is always screaming inside his head. |
| 2009-12-20 | Curtis Rueden is never satisfied. |