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| Friday, May 25th, 2012 | |
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| 3:30 pm | Guess The State! School nurse confiscates medication of asthmatic child, locks him in nurse's office, and stands there watching as he passes out because he can't breathe. *Other* school employees had contacted his mother, who arrived, opened the door, and called 911. Poll #1842627 Guess The State! Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 57 Guess The State! |
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| Thursday, May 24th, 2012 | |
| 3:35 pm | "This recipe was inspired by Dwarf Fortress!" "This recipe was inspired by Dwarf Fortress!" - Reason #331 John Is No Longer Allowed In The Kitchen Unsupervised. The best jalapeno poppers ever, from Inn At The Crossroads. Take a quick look at that recipe, then come back. It's okay, I'll wait. First thing I noticed: It doesn't say what to *do* with the cayenne and the cumin, so I figured I couldn't really go wrong with splitting it between the cheese and the egg. As it turns out: Cayenne is not egg-soluble, and just kind of clumped up. So! The recipe, cleaned up a little, is: Ingredients: 1 250g package cream cheese, softened 250g shredded sharp Cheddar cheese 1 onion, minced 1 tsp ground cumin 1 tsp ground cayenne pepper 15 fresh jalapeno peppers, halved lengthwise and seeded 2 eggs, beaten 1/2 tablespoon milk 2-3 cups crushed corn flake cereal Directions 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line a baking sheet with foil. 2. In a medium bowl, mix together cream cheese, cheddar cheese, spices, and onion. Stuff jalapeno halves with the mixture. 3. Whisk together eggs and milk in a small bowl. Place crushed corn flake cereal in a separate small bowl. 4. Dip each stuffed jalapeno half into the egg and milk mixture, then roll in corn flake cereal to coat. 5. Arrange in a single layer on the prepared baking sheet. Bake in the preheated oven 30 minutes, or until filling is bubbly and lightly browned. And here's what you get:  OM NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM. Notably, I didn't crush the cornflakes enough. They should have been even smaller chunks than you see here. |
| Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012 | |
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| Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012 | |
| 9:31 pm | House: 8 seasons. Scrubs: 8 seasons. House: Main character is a dick. Scrubs: Main character is a dick. House: Bromance with best friend. Scrubs: Bromance with best friend. House: Unrealistically attractive blonde secondary character. Scrubs: Unrealistically attractive blonde secondary character. House: Excellent series finale. Scrubs: Excellent series finale. Scrubs: Season 9, med school. I'm just saying, House had better *stay gone*, y'know? |
| 8:27 pm | Kansas middle-school "social studies" teacher: "homosexuality is murder" ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=92.1){kind=small} torrain: "In my brain, he explains this while wearing a poly-cotton blend shirt." |
| 7:56 pm | A slice of life. Me: I appear to be infested with unicorns. cosmiccat: Unicorns are beautiful, majestic creatures whose meat and bones are of above-average value. |
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| 10:46 am | Stupid symlink question time! If a symlink is made on a NFS-mounted network folder to a local path, does it actually point to the local path *on each machine*? So if /server/firefox is symlinkied to /usr/bin/firefox, will that run /usr/bin/firefox on the machine that's mounted the NFS folder? The symlink will point to /usr/bin/firefox on the machine of the user calling /server/firefox, and not /usr on the server or on the machine of the person who created the symlink? ****** Unbelievably Dumb Context: ****** Imagine a NFS-mounted folder on a server. This folder is mounted from many workstations, as if it was a local folder called /server/ . Further, imagine a program installed locally in this folder, which we will call "/server/firefox" for completely no reason and not because it is firefox, no, not at all. Imagine that this program is version 3.6.8, which is way the hell out of date Further, imagine that installing a newer version simply fails to address the problem at all, since a network-loaded copy isn't getting updates properly and the *newest* of new versions haven't been properly tested and don't work perfectly on all the OSen on the network. Finally, imagine that somewhere in a labyrinth of terrifying scripts and config files that are used for EVERYTHING, at least one project includes some wacky dumbass scripting that changes the "preferred application" for web pages to /server/firefox, or sometimes adds /server/ to the front of the path, or both. My goal: force users to run the local copy of firefox on their machine, specifically /usr/bin/firefox, even IF /server/ is at the front of the path before /usr/ and even if their Firefox shortcut has been modified to point to /server/firefox. Without breaking anything else that depends on the asinine path-fuckery and gconf-wanking. Simply deleting /server/firefox doesn't work because then the firefox icon stops working. Will symlinking /server/firefox -> /usr/bin/firefox correctly point to the local /usr/ folder of each client machine? |
| 8:12 am | This moose is not drinking.  It is siphoning the lake, processing fish into their component elements, and ejecting the unneeded water via structures that you or I might call "antlers" but in moose are actually wastewater ejection ports that double as bearcrushers. This is a critical part of the reproductive lifecycle of moose. |
| Saturday, May 19th, 2012 | |
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| Friday, May 18th, 2012 | |
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| Thursday, May 17th, 2012 | |
| 7:36 pm | A Slice Of Life torrain: What about Jumanji?Me: Jumanji was not space opera. torrain: No, no, there was a remake, recently.Me: Do you mean Event Horizon? torrain: [blinks]Me: Event Horizon was totally Jumanji In Space torrain: ... I love you, dear.Me: It totally was! Next you're going to try to tell me The Care Bears aren't Zoroastrian allegory? |
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| Tuesday, May 15th, 2012 | |
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| Monday, May 14th, 2012 | |
| 10:05 pm | Musical Audience Participation Day! Open your music playing application of choice! Load your entire library. If it does not keep statistics, uh, DO NOTHING. Play some music or something. But if it tracks things like "most played" and "date added" and "times skipped" and you maybe rate tracks to make ones you like come up more often, keep going! 1. What's your Most Played song? How many times have you played it? 2. If your app tracks the number of times a song comes up and you skip it, what is the most-played song that you have never skipped? How many times have you played *it*? 3. If you rate tracks, what's the most played track that DOESN'T have the highest rating available? 4. What is the track with the earliest "date added"? 5. Most Skipped: What is it, and why do you keep it around? 6. What other interesting kinds of stats can you think of pulling from this kind of data? For me: 1. Most Played: Apoptygma Berzerk, "Love To Blame". 53 plays since 2008, last played Jan 18. Skipped 4 times. 2. Most Played While Never Skipped: Judas Priest, "Worth Fighting For". 44 plays since 2008, last played March 7. Second overall. 3. Most Played While Not Highest Ranked: A TIE! Mastodon, "Sleeping Giant" and Motörhead, "Teach You How To Sing The Blues", 25 plays each. Tied for #34 in the most-played list. 4. Earliest Added: A several-hundred-way-tie for 3/3/2008, since that's when I got the grandfather of my current computer and my library stats got lost before that. Since then, I back up, but y'know. The actual oldest file in the bunch is Danzig (with Alice Cooper), "Five Finger Crawl", circa 1999, which I remember because I spent about 45 minutes on "sz danzig.mp3" and then "sz winamp.exe" on a 14.4K dialup connection. 5. Most Skipped: Dokaka, "Smells Like Teen Spirit". Played once, skipped 17 times, last played all the way through April 13 2008. Why do I skip it? Because it's... uh... a Japanese beatbox guy doing an a capella cover of Nirvana. That's not something I want to listen to very often. Why do I keep it? Because it's a JAPANESE BEATBOX GUY DOING AN A CAPELLA COVER OF NIRVANA. Seriously. If you don't see why I love this track despite almost never wanting to listen to it for long, you must be new here. 6. Other Questions: If I had other questions, I'd have added them already. YOUR TURN! Either comment, or post it yourself and link to it in the comments! |
| 9:34 pm | A TV question. Anyone out there in readerland watching the TV A Game Of Thrones, without having read the books? |
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| Saturday, May 12th, 2012 | |
| 7:14 pm | Steam Sale! Portal 2, $6.80. Portal 1+2, $8.50. Skyrim, $40. These are damn good prices, is what I'm saying. Skyrim is still pretty hefty, but a game this popular is going to stay expensive for a while yet. $40 is as cheap as it will get before July, likely as cheap as it will get before Christmas. Portal.... well, if you know *anyone* who doesn't own Portal, who has a computer and can play first-person games without motion sickness? Buy them Portal. It is genuinely one of the best games EVER made, suitable for anyone from casual gamers to puzzle games to twitch gamers and playable by all. |
| Friday, May 11th, 2012 | |
| 8:35 pm | QOTD: "I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better. I fully expected that by the time I was twenty-one, some scientist, maybe my brother, would have taken a color photograph of God Almighty — and sold it to Popular Mechanics magazine. Scientific truth was going to make us so happy and comfortable. What actually happened when I was twenty-one was that we dropped scientific truth on Hiroshima." - Kurt Vonnegut, from his address to the graduating class of Bennington College, 1970. |
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| 8:07 pm | Catholic school administrators force children's baseball team to forfeit championship, to avoid needing to play with non-penis-haver. (Memo to all other teams in that league: You have a *guaranteed* way of winning against that school, every single time! Just have a girl on your team, and they'll quit! Eventually, either the students will rebel and reject the arbitrary bigoted dictates of their religion (which is good) or the school will relent and stop being quite as bigoted (which is good), and in the mean time, you don't have to play with assholes AND you get more games in the playoffs than you lose in the season. Having a girl on your team so the Catholics won't play you: It's win/win/win/win!) PS: Arizona is TOTALLY giving Ohio and Florida a run for their money, this year. |
| 4:27 pm | Wherein I endorse a product and/or service! Carmageddon! Seriously, the original was awesome. Now they're remaking it! |
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| Thursday, May 10th, 2012 | |
| 10:22 pm | |
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| 3:01 pm | Guess The State! Police come into your home with a warrant to seize all your computer equipment because you've allegedly been downloading child porn! Do you: A) comply, quietly B) run away C) grab a sword and stab your hard disk Poll #1839491 Guess The State! Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 61 Guess The State! |
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| 10:01 am | Wherein I endorse a product and/or service. Have you ever reached for your phone, realised it wasn't there, and swore bitterly before checking your desk, your car, your floor, the outside, etc? Well, I have. One too many times, as of this morning. So I decided to look at my options. Voila,  Android Lost Push to phone remotely via Google Play, activate with a text message from a friend, and poof, suddenly I can do a great many things as long as I confirm to http://www.androidlost.com/ that I am the phone owner by using Google's authentication. I started with "tell me the phone's current status and location", which gave me (among other things) the battery details (plugged in, charging), the current IP (on my home network - I use a distinctive subnet), and then it turned on the GPS and popped up Google Maps with a little arrow on the precise location of the phone: My house. So I left it at home! It is a major load off my mind to know that. Seriously. From there, I decided to have a little fun, and started snapping pictures (all black - the phone is in it's case - but it works!), recording audio (a snoring dog), then recording audio while setting the phone to maximum volume and sounding an alarm (the dog snoring stopped, suddenly). I viewed the last 10 text messages sent/received, then sent one to myself that says "Help, I am a lost phone. Please return me to John and pet my dog since you are in my house." I *could* erase my phone, or have it report that it is stolen on boot, or lock it, or set call forwarding (!!!! - may do that anyway!) or any number of other things, but it makes me really happy just to be able to say "yes, it is definitely in my house, not on the ground somewhere or gone walkabout." Seriously. Very handy app. |
| Wednesday, May 9th, 2012 | |
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| 8:32 am | Sextuple Jeopardy: A man tried six times for the same crime. Convicted four times, with the first three thrown out on appeal due to prosecutorial misconduct and the last up for appeal on prosecutorial misconduct grounds now, and two hung juries - but the same prosecutor keeps retrying the same case (and fucking it up by maliciously breaking the rules 100% of the time so far, reviews show) and he's promised that if the current appeal holds, he'll try the same person a seventh time for the same crime. I know I've got a couple of American lawyers in the audience: Is there anyone who can take the county DA off the case and assign a different prosecutor to the case? Or does the buck stop at the county DA? And is there any way for a judge to say "No, dude, YOU fucked it up six times in a row, you don't get a seventh shot at it since you're tromping all over his 5th and 6th Amendment rights." |
| 7:44 am | Google gets driver's license. No, not "a google employee", Google. The search engine is all growed up and is allowed to drive its own car. |
| Tuesday, May 8th, 2012 | |
| 10:42 am | |
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