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citifinancière screwing me over
I want everyone to know that a payment plan entitled "Financement Gratuit" had a surprise charge added to it by "citifinancière" of $21.00. I was advised that they met the legal requirements of changing the terms of my agreement with a notice sent in March that I do not recall receiving. They would not reverse this fee, even at the offer of having ( Read more... ) -
Do I know what I'm talking about
In an effort to waste time I don't have, I have read and given a relative uninformed critique of ( Read more... ) -
Fuck you, little gremlin
"Pope Benedict said on Monday that saving humanity from homosexual or transsexual behavior was just as important as saving the rainforest from destruction."
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George Carlin is dead!
I was gonna write a little epitaph, incorporating the various epithet used in his Seven Dirty Words (yadda yadda, I like that title better). But then I didn't want to actually use a bunch of them, so I settled on the minor humor of using epitaph and epithet in the same sentence (I had to look BOTH of them up). I couldn't decide which was funnier, ( Read more... ) -
moving
"Life goes by pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." -- Ferris Bueller's Day Off ( Read more... ) -
XKCD
I legitimately used XKCD in my thesis:
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vmware
I knew it would change everything, it just wasn't time for me to look into it before.
It's now time.
It changes everything.
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(Untitled)
It didn't work. Patches were weird. I compromised.
I detect if trac is being proxied. If it is, I assume it's being proxied for https and assign the scheme appropriately:
"""Reconstruct the absolute base URL of the application."""
host = self.get_header('Host')
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bloood... Thoughts on giving blood
I'd give blood, but I have massive panic attacks about needles. I'll faint or puke. It's not like I need all that I have, and maybe someone else can use it... it's just that... I can't.
However, I feel no guilt that my fear prevents me, only curiosity about the nature of these feelings. I've changed so many other things about myself, why not this?