Older blog entries for Wheat (starting at number 114)

werk

Whew! Halloween partied at the Wett Bar with DJ Doc Martin, who had things moving well and good with his signature jungle bongo-energy spinning. Enjoyed gin and beer and the costumes.

This morning though, at werk. Wow. It was not possible to write code. Me poor head full of cotton balls. Me poor brain.

Preparing to take over the maintainence of the sequencing database for the next two months during Ran's sabbatical absence. There's a whole mountain o' Perl code needing to be maintained. Today spent some more time poking around the glossaries on the web. Restriction enzymes, aliqouts, ET Terminators, BigDye Terminators and more.

Next week I'll also be poking around in Mapping. Mapping seems weird, working with all the image bands they use the object-oriented AceDB a fair bit.

Oh, and I scheduled to do a talk about the Zope-powered intranet in three weeks for the benefit of my co-worker client-base.

I'm gonna but a rabbit!

31 Oct 2001 (updated 31 Oct 2001 at 05:14 UTC) »
things

Tomorrow, I hope to score a cupcake in the afternoon.

Myth III is out! I have no fast Mac, I have no Windows! Fawk. Someone should port this to the Linux Computer Operating System.

Kohan is OK. Nice RTS. Only played the solo stuff so far, looking forward to multiplayer - except the servers usually seem fairly empty ...

Justin quit his job. This is the thing to do. Quit your job.

Trakker is fixing boogs all the time.

I have a gun. I don't have to pay.

I built a paper and balse wood airplane.

I painted a ceramic plate. With carrots. With the tight GSC slacker crew.

I stayed up till 7 am playing Axis and Allies: Pacific. Dauntingly long set-up time, and then you're locked into the simulated combat arena of the Pacific.

I stuffed my cat into the arm of a sweater and then she rolled off the couch.

I like rabbits.

Tomorrow is halloween. I'll be a buccaneer I will.

19 Oct 2001 (updated 19 Oct 2001 at 06:08 UTC) »
Monkies

<MonkeyMan> Wheat: Innaccessible by a the immense majority (perhaps higher than 90%) of.

biology

"What's python?"

"What's a pathogen?"

Reading about pathogens, as all be doing a bit of touch up to some areas of http://www.pathogenomics.bc.ca.

Bacteria is like little bugs. Real small bugs. There are three kinds of these "mini-bugs": Bacteria, Archaea and Eukarya. Bacteria are the simplest. They don't have the complex cell structure of the Eukarya. The Eukarya are pretty nifty - they weren't discovered until the 1970s - and they can survive in temperatures up to 90 C.

A pathogen is an agent that causes disease. In particular, certain types of bacteria.

Star Trek: Enterprise.

C. Gtk. Glade.

A Gift From Earth.

If you try and give me chocolate, I will say, "fuggoff! fugoff!"

If you play me in Quake 3, I will frag your sorry bum.

The chocolate makes my mouth hurt. I ate too much.

Logs files are boring.

rsync is cool.

supatwee

Belle and Sebastion were supatwee. In the end, they had fourteen people on stage. Rattling maracas and shakers and blowing on twee little bits o' brass. The Orpheum was a nice venue. Except they don't really sell much beer. But if you've got a boozing audience, how can you invite a twee bunch o' twirling teenage girls on stage for a "wee dance". Shitza, y'all homies supatwee n' shit.

I'll go see M.E. Smith in The Fall this fall, then I'll get a fill of gleeful vitriol rock noize. Sheeit biatch!

Arab Strap was OK. And a few others.

"What are you hypnotized?"

QuickTime

I used my "Yahoo! Wallet" to purchase CodeWeavers wine plug-in. I installed it without too much trouble, and now I can play QuickTime movies on my computer. Nice. Except the sounds is all messed up. Sounds like this, "phbhpbpbpbpbpptbtbbtbt". So I go to their FAQ support page, and it says, "search for via82cxxx_audio in the output of lsmod". Which means my onboard sound chip is crap/and or poorly supported. I need to get a decent sound card.

The terrorist attack

What a horror show! It's on like, every channel, and even Slashdot was covering only the event. Seinfeld reruns were pre-empted yesterday and then halfway through today's Seinfeld episode they switched to more of that damned news. They didn't even have anything new to say. Just pre-empted my reruns for no good reason. And all those pictures! Keep surfing pic collections of the event, photos of business men in suits bleeding and covered in ash. Photos at night, with the wreckage that makes New York look like some post-nuclear wasteland. And reading all the comments. Everyone has comments. So much commentry.

Jerry Pournelle has published some fairly extremist stuff on his mail page. Lot's of talk about war. I don't understand why there are so many Americans who love war so much. Comments like the following are fairly typical: "We know there are several terrorist groups who wish to do this to us. We know which countries harbor and support them. We are at war with those countries. Let us begin with Libya, Sudan and Afghanistan, and go on from there." Probably somewhere between 5,000 to 10,000 people were killed. On an average day, over 40,000 people die from world hunger. 20% of the world's people consume 80% of the earth's resources. Folks clamoring to go to war to "protect" this way of life. Some more rhetoric: "A simple solution would be as follows: all natural resources, world-wide, should be taken over by the civilized nations."

The attack was fueled by hatred for the USA. Bringing the terrorists to justice, and retalition on the terrorists, fair enough. But all this talk about war, and "making an example of the country that harboured such criminals". I don't get this. I don't understand this. "An eye for an eye" is just "That was so bad, we should do it to. Only more, coz we're Americans and we are bigger and badder and more powerful!" When innocent people are killed in acts of revenge, this is only going to fuel more anti-American hatred.

I don't know. People are pretty wired right now, and understandably so, I suppose. Just look at the crazy noise that ESR is spewing. Totally wired and all fight.

comments

Sunday. Spent the day reading comments on different linux web sites. First Slashdot, the Linux.com, and then finally MaximumLinux.org. "Linux rulez. Down with the evil OS empire." Well, it's something to do on a sunday i guess. I also packed up my stuff for the forthcoming move and did some cleaning. Then I thought, wow, I haven't posted to advogato in a long time, so i should go there and write about how i did some cleaning and i like, surfed the web n' shit.

I've been struggling with "relational" databases at work. MySQL doesn't have a UNION statement, so you need to create a temporary table to achieve the same effect. Hrm.

Z SQL Methods have their own cache settings seperate from the RAM Cache Manager. Which is no fun. I submitted a feature request for that. My contribution to open source for the week, "give us more features!"

Oh yeah, I also tried out EasyTag, a really cool ID3 tag editor. This way when I pull down albums from audio galaxy, I can go to a site like discogs.com and get the track data and add it. Then all my songs are easily sortable in iTunes. Except EasyTag seems to have trouble writting tags to certain mp3s. Maybe it has something to do with ID3 v2?

moving

so, like, well. long time no visit eh? first my net was like, uh, my browser was all ... so then i come back and it's all like code red! well, uh so yeah ...

i moving somewhere. gave notice. going looking for places tomorrow with john. we're trying to find a house. the rental market isn't so great, but we find something anyways. got to live somewhere.

also, zope is cool.

105 older entries...

New Advogato Features

New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.

Keep up with the latest Advogato features by reading the Advogato status blog.

If you're a C programmer with some spare time, take a look at the mod_virgule project page and help us with one of the tasks on the ToDo list!