I’ll have a real update soon, I promise. Life’s been absolutely insane for the last three or four months, and it’s finally calming down. As it’s calming, I’m taking a little much-needed relaxing time, and I’m spending some of that time catching up on True Blood.

This post is not about the show as a whole. There’s no time for that. It’s sorta about ( Read more... )

I've decided to try a half-day at the office today, and an hour or two in I've not yet died. I'm a bit tired but surviving.

In only marginally-related news, I've decided that I'll no longer refer to computer integer byte orders as little-endian and big-endian, but rather as Lilliputian and Blefuscudian whenever the opportunity allows and the ( Read more... )

Fine as frog hair. That was my coworker's response when I asked him how he was doing today. I am amused.

Is it a bad thing if, in looking up the Unicode code point for à last post and finding it to be hex 00E0, I started singing the witch's guards' chant from The Wizard of Oz? Oh-Ee-Oh, Yo-Um.

justben: There should so be a markup language to describe facial expressions.
riff_77: iggle yah
justben: I wonder if I could work up an XML schema...
riff_77: hahah that would be cool
justben: raisedsticking outpursed
riff_77: iggle
riff_77: not sure how to place that all on a face
justben: It works best if the eyebrows are on top, the eyes (implicit) are below them, the nose (implicit) is below that, ( Read more... )

Heh. Il Papa ai giovani: "La Chiesa non è nemica del sesso" (report in Italian, from La Repubblica), in which the Pope pleads with the children of the world, claiming that the modern Church isn't actually the nemesis of sex as it's generally reputed to be. It just knows what perfect sex is like and wants to protect its members from the danger of ( Read more... )

[ upon my return from lunch... ]

(15:01:51) justben: Yum!
(15:02:44) shaddragon: Yum is good.
(15:03:12) justben: I'm a fan.
(15:05:10) shaddragon: *insert vague air-conditioner related pun here*
(15:05:49) justben: You know, that really blows.
(15:08:10) shaddragon: I'll try to draft a better one.
(15:09:40) justben: I don't buy it: you're just blowing air.
(15:10:06) shaddragon: Lemme just wind it up right there ( Read more... )

http://www.rahoi.com/2006/03/may-i-take-your-order.php

radiantbaby: So, how has your day been today?
justben Not bad. Digging through some complex code changes to understand their intent. Icky but fruitful.
radiantbaby: Like Starburst?

Swiped from other people's journals:

Cthulhu Carols, particularly including:
The Solstice SongVictims roasting on an open fire ( Read more... )