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 […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 17th, 2009
From http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/RJRAY/RPC-XML-0.66/README.apache2: At present, this package does not work with Apache2 and the soon-to-be mod_perl2. The changes to the API for location handlers are too drastic to try and support both within the same class (I tried, using the compatibility layer). Also, mp2 does not currently provide support for sections, which are the real strength […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 15th, 2009
I have a new apartment at Riata in the works. I originally didn’t consider it because my coworkers had me believe it was super expensive, but after actually checking it out, it wasn’t bad at all. I had put down an application fee at another property, and was quite excited about it, but eventually started […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 15th, 2009
I’ve been reading wiki about Tulsa and it seems to be such a distant time and place. I’ve been back several times since moving to Austin and I’m an outsider with no ties to it anymore. I can barely remember what it was like to live there for four years. I’m sitting here looking at […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 22nd, 2009
It took right at nine months, but I finally finished reading The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life. Why, that averages out to 100 pages a month!
