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Pushed against the window pane

“Pushed against the window pane,
the nail goes right through me.
do it again, make sure that I’m bleeding.
I know that I’m bleeding, God knows i am bleeding.
pull me down the street then, by the neck.
must i die before you break me?
I believed he was right, I believed breathing was a right,
I must earn the patience, courtship, [...]

October 16th, 2008

Interfacing With Another Species 7.2 Ksecs Too Early

I’ve been scheduled for a conference call without my input on the time for more than 7Ksecs before I usually resume consciousness.  In the past this has usually resulted in disaster for the other involved parties, as I typically can’t resume from standby that early, let alone speak in coherent sentences or form what humans [...]

September 29th, 2008

5000 points to anyone who knows the rest of it without googling it.
I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
If you cheat, I’ll know. Think about this dishonor you’ll bring your family.

September 7th, 2008

Google Reader Starred Items Wordpress Plugin

I’m subscribed to a bunch of RSS feeds and I think I finally got this wordpress plugin I wrote on your top left to work for pulling out the items I star for later reading or articles that I think are particularly good.
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August 20th, 2008

Mosquito Country

Mosquito Country

Originally uploaded by Maker.

That is all.

July 21st, 2008

Sins of a Dune Empire

I’ve been playing Sins of a Solar Empire a lot lately. It’s a fantastic 4X RTS. It’s like a galactic scale Starcraft meets Civilization. I’ve also taken up building a Dune themed map for it. logikal is helping me with it a bunch. So far I’ve got players for House Atreides, House Harknonnen, House [...]

February 18th, 2008

Disruption

I will be moving tomorrow to somewhere in central Orange County. I can’t say where, because its Tustin Ranch. I’m not sure yet if it’s a real city. Anyway, my point is that some services will be disrupted while enterprise is being moved. DNS should be fine, but obviously anything thats hosted or running on [...]

July 6th, 2007

Bucket of Drugs

Bucket of Drugs
Originally uploaded by Maker.

Here’s a photo from my “Figuring out these wacky Canon controls” session. It is well known I’m not a big fan of Canon. Naturally I favor manufacturers that have been around and in the photography industry for a lot longer.
Trouble is seen here fighting with the plastic bucket [...]

April 7th, 2007