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[27 Aug 2008|04:11pm] |
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Due to work events of breathtaking stupidity, I'm going to indulge in a little "love me plz" behavior. Forgive me.
In comments, tell me: What's YOUR favorite story that I've written, and why?
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| I made a mug! |
[27 Aug 2008|02:33pm] |
Over in ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) so_very_doomed, ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) yeburger is very pissed off about the US sending warships to sit in the Black Sea because of the mess in Georgia. Here is his post. I can't say I blame him at all. While I realize that US warships are very effective mobile aid stations, we would be superduper pissed off if Russia did something similar to us. They're actually handling it very well.
In response, I made a a mug out of his graphic which you can buy (I won't make any money). I think it pretty much sums up US foreign policy.
Anyway, J. thought it was pretty funny.
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| [writing meme] |
[26 Aug 2008|06:22pm] |
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Lifted from lokei
( Writing meme )
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| The Barbarians |
[26 Aug 2008|04:31pm] |
One of the causes of the fall of Rome that is often cited is The Barbarians. The fact of the matter, though, is that the Barbarians were always there. They just got more feisty as Rome became visibly weaker due to other problems. It's like the coyotes attacking the sick member of the herd.
The United States has its Barbarians as well. They're right there, just waiting. One example is the rural, anti-education, pro-Jesus, pro-gun crowd that is very rapidly being estranged from the progressive liberalism, faithlessness and dainty defenselessness of the cities. I've got people in my life who are very outraged (as am I) at the constant attacks on Planned Parenthood and, by proxy, the whole of women's health and independence. The interesting thing, though, is that we are as horrified as rural America is delighted by these developments, even though rural women have more to lose than urban ones.
We weren't always this polarized, but I'm finding it increasingly unlikely that any kind of bargain can be struck. So, consider this:Urban and rural populations, they say, rely heavily on each other. Cities refine and process rural goods for urban and rural consumers. But if either cities or rural areas had to sustain themselves without the other, Wimberley says, few would bet on the cities. “As long as cities exist, they will need rural resources – including the rural people and communities that help provide urban necessities,” he said. “Clean air, water, food, fiber, forest products and minerals all have their sources in rural areas. Cities cannot stand alone; rural natural resources can. Cities must depend on rural resources.”
Mayday 23: World Population Becomes More Urban Than Rural As horrifying as it may be, the cities need the barbarians.
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[26 Aug 2008|03:06pm] |
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If you treat your comics as newspapers from a fictional universe, there’s no reason to read them twice. Marvel and DC have essentially told their readers that any given issue is not important—it’s only important as long as it connects to this network of events, or because it contains a certain plot point, they’re creating stories that can be replaced by reading a spoiler on a blog. And when you create that type of story, you have to follow that logic to its natural end, and relish the ephemerality. Make the best piece of disposable entertainment you can! Make it look like the other kinds of disposable entertainment that we understand.
God only knows why Marvel hasn't had Spider-Man get sucked into a techno-dimension and lead into a summer crossover where part of the story is exclusively on MySpace or Marvel.com, or an alternate reality game that reveals what Dr. Doom is up to, or a chance to get text messages from Captain America if you give us your phone number. Play up the NOWness of it. You missed it? Oh well, you'll catch up; that's how these things work.
From here.
Newspapers from a fictional universe. I like that.
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| The Chief, Spice World |
[26 Aug 2008|10:42am] |
I really love these quotes (thanks cain_iii for looking them up for me):- When the rabbit of chaos is pursued by the ferret of disorder through the fields of anarchy, it is time to hang your pants on the hook of darkness. Whether they're clean or not.
- The headless chicken can only know where he's been. He can't see where he's going.
- When the speeding melon hits the wall, it is Christmas for the crows.
- Did anyone care if Marilyn Monroe could act? All they cared was, 'was she in focus?'
But whatever you do, do NOT watch Spice World! You have been warned.
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| Quiz. |
[26 Aug 2008|09:56am] |
| What Kind of Libertarian Are You? Your Result: Classical Liberal Classical liberals agree with the words of the Declaration of Independence: That all people have basic human rights, and that the sole legitimate function of government is to protect those rights. Most of the Founding Fathers, and most of the European philosophers who influenced them, were classical liberals. | | Geolibertarian | | | Paleolibertarian | | | Objectivist | | | Libertarian Partisan | | | Neolibertarian | | | Anarchist | | | Anarcho-Capitalist | | What Kind of Libertarian Are You?
Quiz Created on GoToQuiz |
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| [gip] |
[25 Aug 2008|09:14pm] |
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It is ugly but it is mine. \o/
I'm kind of sorry that I'm cutting off Patti and Nils' faces and covering Max's head, but, you know. Work with what you have. And what I have is Google Images and a crappy image editor.
But it speaks the truth.
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| Perl moderately broken on RHEL |
[25 Aug 2008|02:09pm] |
Hi LJ Perlers, long time lurker, first time poster.
This was a disturbing bit of news in my day. I had not noticed this due to usually compiling Perl manually, but I definitely have been suspecting something since I tried switching to the one RedHat ships. This guy just called it-- certain functions are really, really slow out of the box on RHEL-- and they just get slower the more you use them.
http://blog.vipul.net/2008/08/24/redhat-perl-what-a-tragedy/
He provides a test which should exit very quickly on a "good" perl, and will take many seconds on a broken one.
# Perl compiled manually, runs in a snap:
sandbox# time perl perftest
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real 0m0.108s
user 0m0.100s
sys 0m0.007s
# Redhat's stock Perl, took almost 19 seconds:
sandbox# time perl perftest
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real 0m18.868s
user 0m18.726s
sys 0m0.072s
To tell if Perl on a system you use is affected, run the following code:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use overload q(<) => sub {};
my %h;
for (my $i=0; $i<50000; $i++) {
$h{$i} = bless [ ] => 'main';
print STDERR '.' if $i % 1000 == 0;
}
The only reliable "fix" at this point is to not use RedHat's Perl, and to compile it manually, including anything linked against it like mod_perl. Not fun.
Hope this comes in handy and/or helps spread the rage I'm feeling right now.
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| [will stop spamming now] |
[25 Aug 2008|01:20pm] |
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Kittenlet is home; she's not 100%, but definitely much better, and her personality is all the way back. Which is to say, she's very angry. And vocal about it.
Also, apparently the Ann Arbor Bruce show was a myth that isn't actually happening. Oops. Well, at least that'll save me some money, and makes me extra glad I went last night. \o/
Third and finally, I am exhausted. ::falls asleep on desk::
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| HTML demonstration for sionnain |
[25 Aug 2008|12:52pm] |
Click for larger version!
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[25 Aug 2008|11:13am] |
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I can go pick up Racetrack in an hour! \o/ I am going to spoil her ridiculously.
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| [birthdaypost!] |
[25 Aug 2008|09:38am] |
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Happy birthday, romanticalgirl! I hope it is splendiferous and full of happy boything thoughts and an equivalent amount of joy to an OMGCLARENCE!
::twirls you lots and lots::
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| [bruce recap!] |
[25 Aug 2008|08:51am] |
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OMG you guys. That was the best night ever.
( Setlist and writeup )
Sigh, conference call, must stop here. In conclusion: YAY BRUCE
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| Posted using TxtLJ |
[25 Aug 2008|12:14am] |
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cold