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Looking For Quacks In The Pavement

Author: Karel Kerezman

  • You found me HOW?

    Every so often I check my “referrers” page to see how people are finding me. I wasn’t prepared for this, though.

    A Google UK search for “latex kilt.”

    Those are two words that just don’t go together, you know?

    I don’t think I’ve ever talked about spanking or being spanked by a coworker. Nor am I aware of a “duck sex song.” Sorry, websearchers.

    And for the record, I don’t have any pics of Aeka or Ryoko naked. (Of course, saying that just guarantees that I’ll get more “aeka naked” and “ryoko naked” Google searches. Oh well.) I could get my hands on some “cartoon females with weapons,” though, if that’s what you’re into. Dirty Pair, anyone?

  • Everything’s Coming Up Rosey

    We would like to announce that the ROSEY105.COM domain was renewed this evening. Regular service at that domain will resume within the usual standard time period.

    That will be all.

    And please, let’s not get into how the domain was allowed to lapse in the first place.

  • Bizzee Bizzee Bizzee

    Where to begin? Where to end?

    • I spent the entire back half of yesterday’s workday adding personal information into the users in our NDS trees. For instance, Corporate has wanted phone numbers to show up in the Groupwise address book since, oh, two years ago. I made that happen yesterday. Yes, I’m a loser.
    • Today has largely been spent completely rebuilding The Lab, the website that started out as a grand vision and is now something of a sad testament to the fact that I really didn’t know what I was doing three years ago. (One could argue that I still don’t, I suppose.) And yes, I did strip down and recycle the more useful bits of the current greyduck.net code. You can call it laziness, I call it expediency.
    • The first two of the new Compaq computers (you know, the WinXP beasties we received a month ago?) have been placed. Every last technical hurdle has been cleared, including the Norton AntiVirus upgrade and the wonderful ZENworks Dynamic Local User trick. I can now place these machines with complete impunity. But that project is on hold until…
    • …I complete the last four PD Streaming servers and ship them to Norfolk, Rochester and Wichita. I have until the end of next week to do so, and the last four will be the most time-consuming as they’re former LMiV machines that are running RedHat 6.1 and need a complete OS reinstallation. Fun, wot?


    I’m not neglecting my updating duties. I’m just placing a higher priority on keeping my job. Call me strange…

    Update: Here’s the funny part. This journal entry is number 404. Oddly enough, I spent over an hour arguing with IIS and PHP about how to handle 404 errors. The trick is to make sure that the PHP ISAPI handler is set to check for the existence of the document. Otherwise a missing document is presumed to exist (!) and the site visitor sees a bunch of PHP error gibberish. I won’t even go into the trouble I had upgrading to the latest PHP version. Feh.

  • Music Video Progress Report

    You might remember that a stated goal of mine for December was to complete my next AMV, a project I undertook at the request of one of my coworkers. That obviously didn’t happen, but all is not lost. The most crucial 41 seconds (give or take a second) of the video is now locked in and pending review by Justin Emerson. That is, if I can get hold of the guy. He did promise to critique my efforts, but that was several months ago.

    If this works it will be far and away the coolest video I’ve made, even factoring in that I’m using two “overused” sources. So far I’m thrilled with how the crucial centerpiece has turned out. (I can now proceed to build the rest of the video around it. No worries.)
    AnimeMusicVideos.org

  • Bejeweled Friday Five

    • Do you wear any jewelry? What kind? – No.
    • How often do you wear it? – Uh, no.
    • Do you have any piercings? If so, where? – No.
    • Do you have any tattoos? If so, where? – No.
    • What are your plans for the weekend? – No. Er, wait. Quite the sharp left turn, eh? My plans for the weekend involve staying home to watch the rugrats while Wendi does her gig tomorrow, then staying home some more on Sunday. Do I know how to live, or what?

    Friday Five

  • Stereotyping Is Funny

    Setting the tone for the new year, I’m stealing a joke from a Slashdot discussion.

    A Texan, a Californian, and an Oregonian are out hiking in the wilderness and meet each other and decide to share a camp fire. After dinner, in a flash of showmanship, the Texan pulls a bottle of tequila out of his pack and takes one long swig out of it. Then the Texan throws the bottle up into the air and whips out a large chromed, pearl-handled revolver and shoots the bottle out of the air. His camp-mates are a bit surprised and comment on the waste of good tequila. The Texan explains, “Oh, it’s no loss. Where I’m from we’ve got more tequila than we can drink.” Not to be out-done, the Californian fetches a bottle of Chardonnay from his pack, takes a sip, throws it into the air, whips out a Glock 9mm with laser sight and empties the clip, breaking the bottle, and then boasts, “Where I come from we have more wine than we can drink.” The Oregonian fetches a bottle of micro-brewed, bottle-conditioned India Pale ale from his pack, quietly drinks the entire bottle, tosses the empty into the air, pulls out a shotgun, shoots the Californian, and catches the bottle before it hits the ground. Then he explains to the stunned Texan, “Where I’m from, we have more Californians than we need, and this bottle is worth 5 cents.”


    Maybe I need a humor section like Wendi’s. Or maybe not.

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