Opus Incertum

Snow Day

dedalus — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 16:30:27 +0000

I know we hardly had any snow this winter. These pictures are from 2010, when we actually had some snow. ;^)

Infestation

dedalus — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 16:19:05 +0000

internet debauchery

dedalus — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 13:43:58 +0000

A screenshot of a page of some new igoogle gadgets. After an internet session of gambling and oogling, clean up with some verse.

welcome to the 73%

dedalus — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 16:20:31 +0000

Here is what I have been thinking about that whole 99% thing. Does this 99% count CIA operatives, and police spying on student groups? What about tax attorneys and investment bankers — lackeys and lap dogs of the one percent, but surely counted among the 99? Should I not be making a distinction between the mortgage specialist who helped engineer the bubble and the person who cleans his house, does his laundry and works his yard? They both fall below the 1% cut off line. What of the corporate executive and the barrista who hands him his latte, is the one only equal to the other after he looses his job?

But wait, what about these jerks who throw rocks? I am sure many of them are underemployed. Boys who throw rocks can be educated, I am living proof of that. But they have to promise to be nice, or we wont let them in our club. What about the Birchers, those born again, and the right to lifers? They too can join if they want to, as long as they are not rabid about their views. On second thought, forget those born again. …Oh, all right, they can march with us, because we let the New Age Mystic Spiritualists in the club a long time ago. But if anyone starts telling me “there are no coincidences!” I am just going to pop in the ear buds and drown them out with some slammin’ tunes on my Nano, right after i tell them angels don’t care about us.

on the other hand shooting all white males over the age of 20 should have some beneficial effect. at least temporarily.

Perhaps we should reevaluate that slogan and come up with something more realistic. How about the 73%? A C minus was good enough for me in High School.
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Contemplation

dedalus — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 13:53:20 +0000

Self-knowledge does not mean preoccupation with ones own thoughts; rather, it means concern about the effects one creates. It is only the effects our lives produce that let us know whether what we have done means progress or regression. – … Continue reading →

keeping vigil

dedalus — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 22:45:22 +0000

Floppy was born today. Sheeba needed a lot of help learning how to be a good mother, which Kali miraculously provided. Here she is keeping vigil.

showing code

dedalus — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 15:03:19 +0000

I am having trouble posting code to my blog. Even after installing the Syntax Highlighter Evolved Plugin and surrounding it in the [sourcecode] block it still chokes on some of the code. The error message i am getting is this:

Method Not Implemented

GET to /blog/wp-admin/post.php not supported.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

Whats wierd is that some simple code is working, but when i try to publish several lines it balks. There is no GET command in what i am trying to post.

Prospect Park

dedalus — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 22:55:50 +0000

Went for a walk around Prospect Park early Saturday morning, have not been up there all winter, i think, since that early snow when all the leaves were still on the trees. Strange, it was such a mild winter here. Saturday morning was foggy, warm, and damp. It was nice being up there again, like visiting an old friend.

perl ftp code

dedalus — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 15:02:51 +0000

Here is a script that will get files from a server based on a regular expression. It creates a list of all files in a ftp directory, iterates through that list, and downloads files based on the regex. There is also some simple logging and debug code.

Click Here — will open code in new window. Enjoy!

Man Cave Pictures

dedalus — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 20:41:31 +0000

Finally got the tool rack and bench somewhat finished enough so it actually pleasant to do a little woodwork, planed some boards and cut a few dovetails. Its not a lot of space, but, as they say, its all mine. Unfortunately i am now sidelined by severe lateral epicondylitis, tennis elbow, so no sawing, planing, or general screwing around at the workbench for at least six weeks while i undergo some physical therapy. I appear to be resigned to getting old.