Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 24th, 2009
I had an interesting encounter with another resident tonight. I was outside crimping a terminal by hitting it with a hammer on the curb, and there was a couple of guys talking by the pool one on a motorcycle. I’m tapping away, he calls out “hey! who’s making that noise, motherfucker!” He starts up his […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 22nd, 2009
All of a sudden it dawned on my last night that I leave for Burning Man next Friday. For whatever reason I thought I had another week. I blame my calendar for pointing at the day the man burns, and not when I leave. So, today I ran a bunch of errands picking up some […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 18th, 2009
It’s amazing what you learn about electronics. Ever since moving, I thought my stereo receiver was broken. It would power up, but would never output anything. Over the past year I’ve tried different speakers, inputs, sources, test modes, and finally resorted to using a voltmeter to measure things. In desperation as I lay in the […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 13th, 2009
After another early venture to the Apple store, I finally got my hands on an iPhone. Today I discovered the speaker doesn’t work. At first I thought it was a Feature[tm] that iTunes, games, etc didn’t play sound without the ear buds. Then I called it and discovered it doesn’t ring at all. A call […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 9th, 2009
I realized Airport Extreme isn’t as expensive as I thought it once was, so bought one today. I wanted a dual-stack router that was smaller and quieter than the Cisco 2620 under my desk in the bedroom. While the bedroom is certainly quieter now, the AE is pretty annoying to configure. The actual setup is […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 6th, 2009
The dealer’s financing group came back with 18.95%. ha ha. hahahaha. ha. heh. I’m told it’s simple interest that accrues daily, if I pay early each month “it makes it more like 12%”. Can I pay 30 days ahead? I’m not comforable with this, I’m a simple cave man and don’t like things that require […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 2nd, 2009
Today’s perl frustration: swatch. 3.1.1’s man page states it supports thresholds in N seconds. This is contradicted by a Debian bug report that claims it’s a bad man page and to use “throttle threshold” instead. Looking at the code, it mentions “^threshold” in several places so that’s not even right. Turns out threshold per-second isn’t […]
