The beaver is a proud and noble animal
Notes from a bemused canuck
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raspberrysalmon sent me this link today:
http://www.pythonline.com/plugs/idle/index.shtml
Eric Idle presents… The FCC Song.
“Heres a little song I wrote the other day while I was out duck hunting with a judgeIts a new song, its dedicated to the FCC and if they broadcast it, it will cost a quarter of a million dollars.”
Hilarious :) Download it directly here
Oh geez, gimme a f'n break. Quoted from here: Church leaders strike deal to let Prince Charles re-marry
The issue of whether the royal heir can marry a divorcee has vexed constitutional experts for years, since the British monarch is the titular head of the Anglican church and thus officially expected to be beyond moral reproach.
Royalty is nothing more than a bunch of inbreds. Expecting them to be beyond moral reproach is like expecting my lunch to get up and dance the Macarena…
Went to have a drink with eniran after work last night. We both kinda needed it, though we didn't stay too long. Went DVD shopping afterwards, where I bought Muppet Treasure Island and Sherlock Holmes Feature Films collection. After that, we went to the post office to pick up a parcel that was waiting for me. After a false start of not going to the right post office (we went to the one where the parcels used to be kept when I was living on EM) and then discovering that the pharmacy near my house has a complete section I'd never even noticed (which contained said postal outlet), I got the bright yellow box containing a quite horrendous fridge magnet (yay!), and this little guy here:
Ate some pasta goodness, then watched the Muppet movie, chatted a bit and called it a night.
*does the happy-friggin-dance*
After 3 days of having my brain leak out of my ears, I got everything to work.
I rule!
Hey [boss].
We need to talk. I was having lunch with [coworker], and he asked me how the tension situation between us was. My first reaction was to tell him everything was fine, but in fact, it's not. This is a new and unwelcome turn of events. This wasn't the case up until a few weeks ago, and I don't know how things went from hunky-dory to their present state. It seems that all our conversations are terse and tense. I have no idea what's going on, which is actually part of the problem. I get very little feedback from you about my work, about the state of the company, clients, prospects, anything. This makes me feel like my input is not important. You probably have issues with me, I know I have some with you. I'd like for us to put them on the table. Are you free for lunch tomorrow or Friday?
A+,
[me]
I don't know what this is going to do. Hopefully, things get better. At worse, well, I'm already looking for a new job right now anyway.
I'm going mad, wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
This will be a semi-technical rant, so please bear with me. I need to configure our stand-alone DEV environment, so we can work in peace and not trash our main production server every time something runs amok. So, I need to install the JWSDP (java webservices development platform – [insert profanity here]), and a whole bunch of secondary components.
Of course, none of them want to play nice together.
I've been spending the last 2 days hacking configure scripts and Makefiles, trying to get components to compile. In some cases, it's not recognizing the dependencies (even though I KNOW they're there and working properly), in others, headers are missing or the include paths are incomplete. Pissy little details that you have to slog through hundreds of lines of crap to get to.
#
# Check for gd
#
if test $CHECK = "1"; then
echo "$as_me:$LINENO: checking for gdImageCreateFromPng in -lgd" >&5
echo $ECHO_N "checking for gdImageCreateFromPng in -lgd... $ECHO_C" >&6
if test "$cv_lib_gd_gdImageCreateFromPng+set= set; then
echo $ECHO_N "(cached) $ECHO_C" >&6
else
ac_check_lib_save_LIBS=$LIBS
LIBS="-lgd -L$-lgd -lpng -lz -lm $LIBS"
cat >conftest.$ac_ext <<_ACEOF
/* confdefs.h. */
_ACEOF
cat confdefs.h >>conftest.$ac_ext
cat >>conftest.$ac_ext <<_ACEOF
/* end confdefs.h. */
/* Override any gcc2 internal prototype to avoid an error. */
#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C"
#endif
/* We use char because int might match the return type of a gcc2
builtin and then its argument prototype would still apply. */
char gdImageCreateFromPng ();
int
main ()
gdImageCreateFromPng ();
;
return 0;
_ACEOF
rm -f conftest.$ac_objext conftest$ac_exeext
if (eval echo "$as_me:$LINENO: >&5
(eval $ac_link) 2>conftest.er1
ac_status=$?
grep -v '^ *+' conftest.er1 >conftest.err
rm -f conftest.er1
cat conftest.err >&5
echo "$as_me:$LINENO: = $ac_status" >&5
(exit $ac_status); &&
ac_try="test -z "$ac_c_werror_flag"
|| test ! -s conftest.err'
(eval echo "$as_me:$LINENO: >&5
(eval $ac_try) 2>&5
ac_status=$?
echo "$as_me:$LINENO: = $ac_status" >&5
(exit $ac_status); &&
ac_try="test -s conftest$ac_exeext'
(eval echo "$as_me:$LINENO: >&5
(eval $ac_try) 2>&5
ac_status=$?
echo "$as_me:$LINENO: = $ac_status" >&5
(exit $ac_status); then
ac_cv_lib_gd_gdImageCreateFromPng=yes
else
echo "$as_me: failed program was:" >&5
sed 's/^/| /' conftest.$ac_ext >&5
ac_cv_lib_gd_gdImageCreateFromPng=no
fi
rm -f conftest.err conftest.$ac_objext
conftest$ac_exeext conftest.$ac_ext
LIBS=$ac_check_lib_save_LIBS
fi
echo "$as_me:$LINENO: result: $ac_cv_lib_gd_gdImageCreateFromPng" >&5
echo "$cv_lib_gd_gdImageCreateFromPng" >&6
#Rcmodif - bug in GD detection - force it to detect
#if test $ac_cv_lib_gd_gdImageCreateFromPng = yes; then
CHECK=1
#else
# CHECK=0
#fi
I mean, I'm a geek damnit, and I have trouble following that.
What's pissing me off is that a lot of these components are still in alpha. They themselves say that they don't really know how everything will fit together. It's like trying to fit a square peg in a round hole… except you're not even really sure what exact shape the hole is.
Fun, fun, fun.
Comment on those that are on the list, add new ones at the top if you feel like it.
40. Battlestar Galactica
I wanted one of those jackets…
39. The dukes of Hazard
Daisy duke in short shorts? drool!
38. McGuyver
Come on. Seeing a guy defusing a nuclear bomb with a tennis racket and 3 screwdrives rules!
37. The A-Team
Mr.T rocks. And that van? priceless
36. M*A*S*H
Grew up watching it. Have all the DVDs. Still good.
35. Gilligan's island
Grew up watching it. Just wanted to slap the shiat out of Gilligan.
34. Red Dwarf
Never seen it.
33. Strange Luck
Nope.
32. Stargate: SG-1
McGuyver was so much better…
31. Smallville
Never watched it
30. Northern Exposure
Never watched it
29. Highlander
There can be only one!!!
So cheesy, so good ;)
28. Wonderfalls
Never watched it
27. The Daily Show
Nope.
26. Firefly
Saw the pilot. Didn't like it.
25. Freaks and Geeks
Never watched it
24. Absolutely Fabulous
Never watched it
23. Forever Knight
I'll watch it if I catch it cable surfing, and there's nothing better.
22. H. R. Pufnstuf
Whaaa?
21. Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
Never watched it
20. Twin Peaks
Nope.
19. Dark Shadows
Nope.
18. Doctor Who
Saw it when I was a kid and it scarred me for life.
17. The Avengers
Nope.
16. My So-Called Life
Nope.
15. Quantum Leap
Meh, ok.
14. Beauty and the Beast
Isn't that a disney movie?
13. Babylon 5
RULES! Have them all on DVD.
12. Family Guy
Never cared for it.
11. Mystery Science Theatre 3000
I need to see this.
Apparently, it's so bad, it's good.
10. Pee-Wee's Playhouse
Saw it when I was a kid, scarred me for life.
9. Xena: Warrior Princess
Saw a few. Not such a big deal.
8. The Twilight Zone
The movie warped me for flying,
but I've never really seen a show.
7. The Prisoner
Don't know it.
6. The Simpsons
Excellent!
5. Monty Python's Flying Circus
Only seen the movies :)
4. Farscape
Watched a few, didn't really get into it.
3. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Cute babes, bad stories :) Cheezy goodness!
2. The X-Files
Got hooked around the middle, liked it, then got bored of it.
1. Star Trek
Dude! I grew up on Star Trek. You have to be horny to fuck a green bitch.