21st Century Digital Boy

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No one likes the M16 except Colt.

I was playing with Aptana over the weekend, and it’s really neat: except I currently don’t own a computer with enough horsepower to make it work worth a damn.

One thing I think is neat about IDEs and Eclipse, is their whole “internal HTTP server” thing. My users are, at times, silly, and making them maintain an Apache instance is problematic. I really wish I had a way to view content, wherever it may be, without making them (and me!) have to wrangle apache.

So here’s what I did.
Continue reading ‘A simple app server’

I’m sorry, I can’t stop bragging, but I finally got around to making a before/after pic:

August, 2005. Close to 300, 2XL shirt, 46″ waist.

Today, April 2008. 170, shirt size M, 32″ waist.

We went hiking on the trail at Bull Run Park in Manassas to see the bluebells and took pictures.

The first ~20 pics were taken with by me with my camera, inadvertently set to “suck ass”. I hate that goddamn thing, but at least it was free.

Apparently YouTube sucks.

This is news to no one.

Tremendous fun for the users, but of no value to people who want to make money; the author calls it a “community charity”.

But the best part is this:

There is absolutely no market value at all to user generated video. Zero. None. Nada. Actually there is a market value, but its negative.

Sometimes I get a little sad that I’m not out in Silicon Valley doing the hip startup thing, and that our little company here will probably at best provide a decent living for the principals (as opposed to headlines and filthy lucre).

But then I remember that the primary operating mode in startups is suck and only in the Bush Administration and Silicon Valley is a lengthy list of failures a positive thing.

And suddenly our boring little profitable company isn’t so bad. (If only running a successful business was a virtue in startups!)

Oh, how I loathe Superman. I’m glad it’s not just me; it turns out others think Superman sucks:

Batman had a much more tragic childhood (watching your parents die is infinitely worse than hearing your biological parents died without ever having met them), his crimefighting style is based more on intelligence and planning that Superman’s brute force, and he’s actually kicked the living shit out of Superman at least twice. Batman exhibits more moral maturity than Superman: Superman always upholds the status quo, but in Year One Batman goes on a crusade against Gotham’s corrupt elite. Batman is a detective, a scientist, a master of disguise, and a martial arts expert; Superman is a burly asshole in a red cape with big muscles.

Of course the real answer, when confronted with problems, is to drop out of society and murder all criminals.

Park anywhere you want? “After all, who’s going to argue with a guy driving a half-scale Panzer tank complete with a working air cannon?”

The guy who remembers his “infantry vs armor” class, that’s who.

From http://men.style.com/gq/blogs/gqeditors/2008/04/papa.html

One night in the summer of 2001, after he’d slathered her in Vaseline (“He liked you all greased up,” she says. “Like a porkchop”) and wore her out trying to come, he gave up and left the room, and Gloria dozed off. When she woke up, Mr. Brown was standing at the foot of the bed in a full-length mink coat over his bare chest, a black cowboy hat, and silk pajama pants with one leg tucked into a cowboy boot and the other hanging out. He had a shotgun over his shoulder and a white stripe of Noxzema under each eye. “I’m an Indian tonight, baby,” he announced. “C’mon, let’s let ’em have it.” Then he dumped a pickle jar of change on the floor, told her to get a machete, and went out to the garage. He took the Rolls, drove ten miles to Augusta, weaving all over the road, clipping mailboxes, smoking more dope, and screaming about being an Indian. Gloria kept thinking she should flag down a cop, say she’d been kidnapped.

Damn. He makes Raoul Duke seem like an amateur.

Subtitled, “Why the DC area will always, kinda-sorta, be recession-proof”.

From http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/04/01/fbi.counterterrorism/index.html:

The FBI needs more than 1,000 new agents, intelligence analysts and support staff, bureau Director Robert Mueller told House members Tuesday.Mueller is appearing on Capitol Hill to push for a $450 million budget increase to expand the bureau’s ability to combat terrorism, spying and other national security threats.

They may be losing jobs in the heartland to illegal immigrants but we here in the DC area are just one committee meeting from muthafuckin growth. And the poor jobless bastards get to pay for it!

Since all but disabling tabs, I’ve noticed that Safari seems, like, orders of magnitude more stable.