Yay! Cooking With Monkey!!

Bling Bling!

Jeff sent it. I don’t even wanna know.

IRC sucks. More specifically, the configuration and setup of a new IRC daemon sucks.

I’ve been setting up an internal IRC server at work, so that we can chat and goof off without having our traffic go through someone else’s network. After banging on it all day yesterday, I’ve gotten the recalcitrant config file to work almost properly, with the exception of allowing multiple connections from one host.

The main problem with the config file for ircd is that it was written by computer nerds in the 70s, so the config files go something like “By default we disallow all access. If for some weird reason you actually want someone to be able to USE your server, you’ll have to edit the Y line. The format for editing the Y line consists of rolling 6d8 [using standard D&D dragon dice], multiplying that result in octal by the hex value of e, and then placing colons after every second prime number in the result. Append that with your users’ expected Class rating. [Class ratings are not covered in this document, and the appropriate document may be found via Gopher at the University of Helsinki’s site. Or not.]”

Hooray! It’s Rod‘s birthday! Everyone go send dirty email birthday wishes to rod at dinkdonk dot com!

Happy birthday, Rod!

Laura got me a terrifying rubber monkey this weekend. He’s currently hanging by a string run through his little rubber monkey head from my rear-view mirror. Yay!

To prove a point, and also to test the capabilities of my camera, I’ve made a nice little [note: 4.5mb Quicktime] movie of a water-filled geode I picked up at some random tourist trap during one or another vacation in West Texas. Supposedly the water in this geode is millions of years old, although I suppose it could’ve been inserted via syringe moments before the hawker sold it to me. I prefer to believe I have prehistoric water trapped in a semi-transparent stone sitting on my shelf.

Aww, according to BlogTree, Unxmaal.com is a proud Papa.

Division 6 has released a Stealth Dimmer for your GBA with an Afterburner. Basicly it uses the GBA Buttons to control the brightness of the Screen. Killer… Sucks I’ll have to take the thing apart again to install such a device.

J R Stockton’s Critical Dates: 2112-12-21 is “doubly palindromic as DDMMYYYY.” So is 3003-03-30. Friday, October 13, 4772 marks the completion of the Mayan Great Cycle. And most importantly, at 15:30:08 GMT on Sunday, December 4, the year 292,277,026,596 A.D, the UNIX 64-bit signed time_t fails (seconds from 1970).

Today’s my little brother Sam‘s thirteenth birthday!

Everyone poke the comment thingy and tell him happy birthday!

Today is also Lammas, or Lunasa: the First Harvest Festival. So, for all you pagans who don’t believe in my little brother, happy Lammas!