Oct 31, 2005
Silas and Russell made pumpkins for Halloween this year. Well, actually, Russell made a pumpkin (the one on the right; he cut all by himself except for the little round nose, which I did) and Silas told the best what he wanted on a pumpkin, and she cut one to his specifications.
--orc Mon Oct 31 22:02:37 2005
Since they had to withdraw bagman #2's nomination to the Supreme Court because it turned out that she has a vagina, and that's the one compromise the American Taliban will not accept, the new bagman (#3 in a series! collect them all!) was, apparently, chosen for the extraordinary repugnance of his (yes! he's got a penis! Leon Kass would be proud) views.
Sure, you can take the "will vote to repeal Roe v. Wade" as a given, but bagman #3 brings many many more charming qualifications to the table:
- There is no categorical 'harassment exception' to the First Amendment's free speech clause. (This in response to a case where a police officer was being regularly harrassed and assaulted by a superior, so not only is harrassment okay, but harrassment by the government is particularly approved of.)
This decision is reinforced by another one where, in regards to a case where female students where physically and sexually assaulted in class, he stated that the students could not sue because the state has no responsibility to "care for them".
- A complete and utter ignorance of human biology. (In a case about the Family and Medical Leave Act, he claimed that a state's refusal to provide family leave has no greater impact on women than on men, seemingly ignoring the teeny detail that humans are mammals, and there are a couple of things that a woman does during and after childbirth that are fairly difficult to work around. [breastfeeding can be worked imperfectly around, at, possibly, some risk to the newborn, but the physical act of giving birth, either via the traditional routine of passing a seven pound human being through your vagina or the modern American routine of being cut open and having the baby removed surgically, is likely to put a crimp in a woman's everyday routine for a few days or weeks.])
- And, don't forget, since women don't have penises, they need to get the permission of someone with a penis before they can have abortions. If you're a kid, daddy's penis must say okay, but if you're married, your new owner has to sign off on the proceedings before you can get an abortion.
- And, to one-up bagman #1's argument that, gosh, it might be horrible that the (Washington, DC) Metro police can handcuff and drag off a 12-year old for eating french fries in a subway station, but the law is the law, bagman #3 is willing to defend strip-searching a 10 year old girl because she was found in the house of someone who had a search warrant against them.
But, to look on the bright side, he's not just a fascist, he's a fascist who has figured out that guns are useless against the state, and so he's happy to give cover to the NRA by arguing that everyone should be able to possess machine guns. You know, to defend themselves. Against the federal government. The same Federal government that the NRA continued to support after the Patriot Act was enacted.
Yes, this one is a true winner. He's the sort of fascist that bagman #1 can only dream of being.
--orc Mon Oct 31 13:59:41 2005
Oct 30, 2005
Ms. Spider is sitting on the porch ceiling, waiting for something to drop in for dinner. Perhaps some of those tasty trick-or-treaters?
Chomp Chomp! Yum Yum!
--orc Sun Oct 30 12:57:56 2005
Oct 29, 2005
As google's gmail service has ramped up, I've been seeing a slow, but increasing, flow of spam coming from the google servers. And, of course, all of this spam gets sent off to the abuse desk at google. I don't know if I've ever gotten a "we killed us a spammer today, thanks for the heads-up" from them (little tiny ISP s are happy to give me this sort of feedback. The big free email account providers, on the other hand, don't seem to be on the ball nearly as much), but today I got the next best thing -- a hotmail-style "don't bother us, we've got more important things to do than kick spammers off our network" note:
Hello^M,
Thank you for your abuse report. We apologize for any inconvenience you
might have experienced^M.
Google takes abuse situations very seriously. To help us process your
request as quickly as possible, please fill out the form specific to your
situation^M.
- If you believe that your account may have been compromised, please
visit^M:
https://services.google.com/inquiry/gmail_security^M1
- To report a message that violates the Gmail Terms of Use or Program
Policies, please visit:
https://services.google.com/inquiry/gmail_security^M2
- To report an established account for sale, please visit^M:
https://services.google.com/inquiry/gmail_security^M3
- To report all other security and/or abuse-related issues, please visit^M:
https://services.google.com/inquiry/gmail_security^M4
If we find that the Gmail Terms of Use have been violated, we will take
the appropriate actions and, if necessary, discontinue Gmail service for
the account(s) in question. To read the Gmail Terms of Use, please visit:
http://gmail.google.com/gmail/help/terms_of_use.html^M.
We appreciate the urgent nature of your message, and thank you for your
cooperation. We will respond to your report as soon as possible^M.
Sincerely^M,
(yes, the stupid extra \r's were in the message, for that added touch of "yes! we've outsourced to the cheapest possible overseas technical support organization we can find, because hiring good technical support will stop the board from becoming wealthier than the Walton family!")
Now, I try to be reasonable, and I have been known to give large souless monopolies the benefit of the doubt even past the point where it's obvious that they've successfully excised any of the good intentions that they started with, but if a company uses their SMTP servers to send me spam, part of the deal is that they will let me use their SMTP servers to complain about the goddamn spam.
So I sent abuse@google.com and postmaster@google.com a little note about this spam.
I sent you an abuse report. I'm not going to play hide and go seek
with a bunch of stupid web pages to report abuse coming from google
servers. You have an abuse email account -- why don't you, um, use it?
Google has
plenty of technical staffers who have advanced degrees in
computing, so it's just possible that one of them might be able to write
scripts that will feed abuse mail into the bug tracking system that
you are using.
But don't ask me to set up special procedures for google just because
it's google. If gmail can deliver me spam via SMTP, you can accept
abuse reports via SMTP as well.
Thank you
-david parsons
I wonder if they'll apologise, or even explain. If they don't, no problem; I've been meaning to put per-user blacklists into postoffice, and once I do that I can blacklist gmail without interfering with the best's email exchanges with people who switched to google when I still thought they actually still meant their cutesy little "don't be evil" motto.
--orc Sat Oct 29 23:41:09 2005
For the first time, I'm doing (as one of the five projects I've got in progress right now) a piece of furniture where most of the wood is new. This bit of wood is the headboard of the bed I'm making to replace the icky futon sofa in Russell's room; aside from two planks and two sections of 2x2 that came off a couple of pallets from work, all the wood in this bed is new. My intent is to not have any metal fasteners in the completed headboard, but to have the thing be pegged together with wooden dowels, but I've had to drive some screws into the smaller diagonals to hold them in place until the glue dries and I can go back and drill the holes for the dowels (yes, this is not really the most efficient way of pegging a headboard together, but it's easier for me to prototype when I don't have to insert and remove dowels as part of the prototyping.)
Russell has some plans for this bed. He wants drawers under it, so he can keep his piles of junk close at hand. Originally he wanted shelves in the headboard, but at the very last minute (after I'd glued up the legs and the bottom crosspiece) he changed his mind and wanted "something else", but not shelves. Okeydokey. I'm glad I didn't spend a lot of time planning this bedframe.
Now he's asking for a nice tall footboard, so he can jump down to the bed from it; now, it's probably a good idea to have a good solid bedframe, because in all likelihood he'll be having sex on it within the next 10 years, but I'm not willing to let him break it in (or simply break it) by pretending to be Greg Louganis competing for one more Olympic metal; the bedframe is going to be made from 2x4 sticks of house framing (which are quite sturdy; I tested the strength of them by setting a stick up on the feet, then sitting on it, and it didn't noticably deflect) with palletwood slats going across them, but I still don't want him to do collision testing on it.
He wants it painted green, which is fine with me. Paint hides a multitude of sins. The second bed, on the other hand, now that one I won't paint.
Yes, it's a Pratt truss. But it's a decorative Pratt truss, which won't see any loads unless the bears start jumping from it.
--orc Sat Oct 29 22:35:34 2005
Oct 28, 2005
We have several giant spiders on our porch, and as the weather gets colder and colder they spend more time huddled up trying to keep from becoming giant spidersicles. This couple is sitting on the porch ceiling right above one of the porch lights. Mr. Spider has, wisely, put a good thick layer of silk between him , the cold, and his much larger and not particularly romantic mate (I thought originally that Mr. Spider had come a little bit too close and become an evening snack, but his legs look a little bit too alert for a poisoned spider.)
It's not the greatest picture on this planet because of the twin curses of the Pentax not having greatest autofocus in low light and the mark 1 manual focus not being willing to sit out on the very cold porch trying to properly focus in on Ms. Spider's mandibles.
--orc Fri Oct 28 20:11:01 2005
A bouquet of Hydrangea flowers and Dust Mites.
--orc Fri Oct 28 19:21:01 2005
A few days ago, Dane Carlson wrote a little cgi program that figures out the "value" of a weblog, based on some research Tristan Louis did on the AOL purchase of Weblogs, Inc. This is all fine and good, but it really cried out for some improvements to better tune the value of your weblog compared to a hypothetically perfect one. A few hours and a few aspirin later, here's a (ahem) better program for determining the value of your weblog.
If AOL is on a buying spree, I'll be at home waiting by the telephone.
(apologies to Dane Carlson)
--orc Fri Oct 28 14:26:40 2005
Oct 27, 2005
At least that's what Amazon thinks. Looking for a ridiculously powerful electric drill on Amazon? Oh, they'll find you the drill all right, but that's not all:
Now, that's just the selection I want to see when I'm shopping for a power tool. Does Amazon expect that I'll bring along a DVD player when I'm building a house, so I can use the power drill with one hand while pleasuring myself with the other while watching the DVD? Or perhaps this is how they recommend unwinding after a days work.
Oy. What a cheap meaningless life they think that men lead.
--orc Thu Oct 27 21:32:07 2005
And what could be more trivial than using Microsoft google to search for "my name wants"?
- Orc wants YOU! (true if you're the best)
- Orc wants to punish you with spankings! (no.)
- Orc wants to set out together to find their tribe (true, if by find their tribe, you mean move to Canada)
- Orc Wants YOU (see item #1)
- Orc wants to ensure corporations like PGE pay their fair share like the rest of the citizens of Oregon. (actually, I want the state to nationalize PGE, but other than that paying their taxes would be a good start.)
- Orc wants a fight (no.)
- Orc wants your help with wood chopping. (no.)
- Orc wants to, make it where he can wear clothing and armor that will shield
other players from knowing if he is an orc. (I think the signature line is a dead giveaway.)
- Orc wants to eat a pig (chomp chomp yum yum!)
- Orc wants to share information (so that would explain the weblog, no?)
- Orc wants to best him in battle. (no. See #6)
- Orc wants to create a sub committee. (shudder)
- Orc wants. (.... yes, and what does he want? The suspense is KILLING me!)
Not a very inspiring list, if you ask me. Between committees and MMRPG fanatics, it's pretty thin pickings out there in search engine land.
(I blame Parts and Pieces and Badgerings)
--orc Thu Oct 27 15:08:31 2005
Oct 26, 2005
So, in your otherwise reliably Evil Party supporting south you've got a few pesky cities that tend to vote for Democrats. The Democrats they vote for aren't exactly what you'd call liberal Democrats, but they aren't members of the Evil Party, so you can't reliably count on them to support whatever crackpot fascist scheme that you might wish to implement. So, you've got to get rid of those enemy strongholds. But how to do it?
In New Orleans, a wonderful opportunity has arrived to cleanse one city of undesirable elements. After a fortunate catastrophic flood and subsequent evacuation of the black population to as far away as you can get in the United States, don't release forwarding addresses for absentee ballots! The people with money in New Orleans are primarily white, and many of those are Evil Party supporters who might actually vote for the fascists in the next city election. And once you've swept those pesky Democrats out of power, the new Evil Party government can implement the appropriate takings laws to ensure that none of those pesky Democrats will ever come back.
Problem solved, the Evil Party way!
(via Body And Soul)
--orc Wed Oct 26 20:09:40 2005
Now that Congress has, after much armtwisting by the few Evil Party senators who've had first-hand experience with being tortured, passed bills that attempt to make it illegal for the United States to torture people (yes, yes, you might be asking isn't this already illegal? Apparently it isn't), the treasonous scum in the B*sh junta are attempting to carve out an exception so they can keep torturing people to death legally. And, to make it particularly cute, Dick Cheney brought in the little fuckpuppet that the B*sh junta installed to run the CIA to say that it's rilly rilly important that the CIA be allowed to torture people at will.
It's not important that CIA spies can go to work without being betrayed by their government, but it is important to allow brown-skinned people to be raped and beaten to death by bored CIA employees.
Moses, from Yowling from the Fencepost, asks did you ever think that we'd be living in a country where our leaders are debating how much torture our government gets to do?
Yes. Because they're Republicans, and that's what they do. They did it in Central America when Reagan was in power, they would have done it in Iraq when the B*sh junta was first in power (but they had to settle for a cowardly air attack on a retreating conscript army; it's not as personal as beating someone to death, but Satan isn't particular about the teeny details of how you're being Evil.) The only difference now is that they aren't even pretending that this isn't what they do.
I'll note, en passant, that the Evil Party appears to have gotten away with abandoning New Orleans, and that Maximum Leader Genius has managed to successfuly convert the "relief" effort into yet another conduit for looting the public purse. Ho, hum, yet another day in hell.
--orc Wed Oct 26 10:48:03 2005
Oct 25, 2005
This month, for some inexplicable reason, I turned off referrer checking for images on tsfr. This appears to have been a horrible mistake. Normally TSFR gets a couple of hundred visits a day, with about 600 page views and ~1600 total requests for images and whatnot. Today, I was checking to see if anyone commented on any old messages via the simple expedient of checking my system logs, and found that some clueless idiot on FARK had decided to use the Iraqi flag image I put up on TSFR about a year ago, to the tune of 10,000 image fetches from the single-celled amoebas who read and post to that BBS.
Grr. And thttpd doesn't give me the sort of specialized image redirection that a more heavyweight solution like apache would. There are some images I'd love to present to BBSes who feel that TSFR isn't using enough bandwidth. I'm thinking bibles. And ponies. And big-eyed kittens.
--orc Tue Oct 25 20:17:10 2005
There are now 2000 dead US soldiers in our Splendid Little War™ in Iraq.
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Ricky L. Crockett •
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Cody J. Orr •
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Kelly L. Hornbeck •
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James D. Parker •
Michael T. Blaise •
Brian D. Hazelgrove •
Jason K. Chappell •
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Ervin Dervishi •
Patrick D. Dorff •
Adam G. Mooney •
Matthew J. August •
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Luke S. James •
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Cory R. Mracek •
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Juan C. Cabralbanuelos •
Holly J. McGeogh •
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Richard P. Ramey •
Thomas D. Robbins •
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Eric U. Ramirez •
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Roger G. Ling •
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Matthew C. Laskowski •
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Michael R. Woodliff •
Michael J. Gray •
Gussie M. Jones •
Matthew G. Milczark •
Edward W. Brabazon •
Richard S. Gottfried •
Fern L. Holland •
Robert J. Zangas •
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Joe L. Dunigan Jr. •
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Joel K. Brattain •
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Jason C. Ford •
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Daniel J. Londono •
Jocelyn "Joce" L. Carrasquillo •
William J. Normandy •
Michael R. Adams •
Thomas R. Thigpen Sr. •
Tracy L. Laramore •
Ivory L. Phipps •
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Doron Chan •
Andrew D. Brownfield •
Ricky A. Morris Jr. •
Brandon C. Smith •
Jason C. Ludlam •
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David M. Vicente •
Matthew J. Sandri •
Mark D. Taylor •
Michael W. Vega •
Christopher E. Hudson •
Dustin L. Kreider •
Bruce Miller Jr. •
Andrew S. Dang •
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Adam D. Froehlich •
Jeffrey C. Burgess •
James A. Casper •
Leroy Sandoval Jr. •
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Richard L. Ferguson •
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Michael G. Karr Jr. •
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Michael W. Mitchell •
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Toby W. Mallet •
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Michael Raymond Speer •
Elias Torrez III •
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William C. Eckhart •
Justin W. Johnson •
John T. Sims Jr. •
Lawrence S. Colton •
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Victor A. Rosaleslomeli •
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Kevin T. Kolm •
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Frank K. Rivers Jr. •
Richard K. Trevithick •
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Edward W. Carman •
Jonathan N. Hartman •
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Michael A. McGlothin •
Robert L. Henderson II •
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Richard J. Gannon II •
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Michael J. Smith Jr. •
Ruben Valdez Jr. •
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Leroy Harris-Kelly •
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Jason L. Dunham •
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Michael J. Pernaselli •
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Kenneth A. Melton •
Nathan B. Bruckenthal •
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Ryan M. Campbell •
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Ramon C. Ojeda •
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Trace W. Dossett •
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Robert B. Jenkins •
Scott R. Mchugh •
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Marvin R. Sprayberry III •
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Ronald E. Baum •
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James J. Holmes •
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Carl F. Curran •
Mark Joseph Kasecky •
Bob W. Roberts •
Joseph P. Garyantes •
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Michael C. Campbell •
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Alan N. Bean Jr. •
Kevin F. Sheehan •
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Kyle W. Codner •
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Dominique J. Nicolas •
Michael J. Wiesemann •
Cody S. Calavan •
Benjamin R. Gonzalez •
Rafael Reynosasuarez •
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Bradli N. Coleman •
Aaron C. Elandt •
Charles E. Odums II •
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Robert C. Scheetz Jr. •
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Todd J. Bolding •
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Justin L. Eyerly •
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Erik S. McCrae •
Ryan E. Doltz •
Humberto F. Timoteo •
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Melvin Y. Mora Lopez •
Jamie A. Gray •
Jeremy L. Bohlman •
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Thomas D. Caughman •
Eric S. McKinley •
Shawn M. Atkins •
Paul R. Syverson III •
Jeremy M. Dimaranan •
Arthur S. (Stacey) Mastrapa •
Jason N. Lynch •
Thai Vue •
Sean Horn •
Marvin Best •
Gregory V. Pennington •
Pedro Contreras •
Juan Lopez •
Deshon E. Otey •
Tommy L. Parker Jr. •
Patrick R. McCaffrey Sr. •
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Daniel A. Desens •
Charles A. Kiser •
Jeremy M. Heines •
Manuel A. Ceniceros •
Ernest E. Utt •
Patrick R. Adle •
Alan David Sherman •
John H. Todd III •
Robert L. DuSang •
Christopher A. Wagener •
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Timothy R. Creager •
Brian D. Smith •
Stephen G. Martin •
James B. Huston Jr. •
Dallas L. Kerns •
Michael S. Torres •
John J. Vangyzen IV •
Scott Eugene Dougherty •
Justin T. Hunt •
Jeffrey D. Lawrence •
Rodricka Antwan Youmans •
Michael C. Barkey •
Samuel R. Bowen •
Collier Edwin Barcus •
Robert E. Colvill Jr. •
Shawn M. Davies •
William River Emanuel IV •
Joseph M. Garmback Jr. •
Sonny Gene Sampler •
Jeremiah W. Schmunk •
Terry Holmes Ordóñez •
Krisna Nachampassak •
Christopher J. Reed •
Trevor Spink •
Dustin W. Peters •
James G. West •
Dana N. Wilson •
Jeremy J. Fischer •
Linda Ann Tarango-Griess •
Torry D. Harris •
Jesse J. Martinez •
Demetrius Lamont Rice •
Paul C. Mardis Jr. •
Bryan P. Kelly •
Craig S. Frank •
David A. Hartman •
Dale Thomas Lloyd •
Charles C. "C.C." Persing •
Danny B. Daniels II •
Michael J. Clark •
Todd J. Godwin •
Nicholas H. Blodgett •
Mark E. Engel •
Torey J. Dantzler •
Tatjana Reed •
Nicholas J. Zangara •
Vincent M. Sullivan •
DeForest L. "Dee" Talbert •
Ken W. Leisten •
Shawn A. Lane •
David S. Greene •
Joseph F. Herndon II •
Anthony J. Dixon •
Armando Hernandez •
Justin B. Onwordi •
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Dean P. Pratt •
Tommy L. Gray •
Harry N. Shondee Jr. •
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Elia P. Fontecchio •
Joseph L. Nice •
Raymond J. Faulstich Jr. •
Donald R. McCune •
Yadir G. Reynoso •
Moses Daniel Rocha •
Joshua I. Bunch •
Roberto Abad •
Larry L. Wells •
David L. Potter •
Rick A. Ulbright •
Jonathan W. Collins •
Andrew R. Houghton •
John R. Howard •
Tavon L. Hubbard •
Michael Yury Tarlavsky •
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Kane M. Funke •
Nicholas B. Morrison •
James Michael Goins •
Brandon R. Sapp •
Daniel Michael Shepherd •
Mark Anthony Zapata •
Fernando B. Hannon •
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David M. Heath •
Brandon T. Titus •
Caleb J. Powers •
Jacob D. Martir •
Henry C. Risner •
Dustin R. Fitzgerald •
Richard M. Lord •
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Brad Preston McCormick •
Ryan A. Martin •
Charles L. Wilkins III •
Kevin A. Cuming •
Nicanor Alvarez •
Jason Cook •
Seth Huston •
Edward T. Reeder •
Nachez Washalanta •
Matthew R. Stovall •
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Robert C. Thornton Jr. •
Donald N. Davis •
Jacob R. Lugo •
Marco D. Ross •
Charles L. Neeley •
Alexander S. Arredondo •
Barton R. Humlhanz •
Nicholas M. Skinner •
Omead H. Razani •
Luis A. Perez •
Nickalous N. Aldrich •
Edgar E. Lopez •
Carl L. Anderson Jr. •
Aaron N. Holleyman •
Joseph C. Thibodeaux III •
Nicholas Perez •
Alan Rowe •
Nicholas Wilt •
Ronald Winchester •
Eric L. Knott •
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Gary A. Vaillant •
Charles R. Lamb •
Shawna M. Morrison •
John J. Boria •
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Tomas Garces •
Devin J. Grella •
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Michael J. Allred •
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Joseph C. McCarthy •
Mick R. Nygardbekowsky •
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Clarence Adams III •
Yoe M. Aneiros •
Chad H. Drake •
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Michael A. Martinez •
Jason L. Sparks •
Lauro G. DeLeon Jr. •
Edgar P. Daclan Jr. •
David A. Cedergren •
Jason T. Poindexter •
Alexander E. Wetherbee •
Guy Stanley Hagy Jr. •
Carl Thomas •
Benjamin W. Isenberg •
David J. Weisenburg •
Dominic C. Brown •
Michael J. Halal •
Cesar F. Machado-Olmos •
Jaygee Ngirmidol Meluat •
Mathew D. Puckett •
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Kevin M. Shea •
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Drew M. Uhles •
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Andrew K. Stern •
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James W. Price •
Thomas Chad Rosenbaum •
Brandon E. Adams •
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Adam J. Harris •
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Ryan Leduc •
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Robert Oliver Unruh •
David W. Johnson •
Clifford L. Moxley Jr. •
Eric L. Allton •
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Tyler D. Prewitt •
Mike A. Dennie •
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Rodney A. Jones •
Allen Nolan •
Jack Taft Hennessy •
Michael A. Uvanni •
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Richard L. Morgan Jr. •
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Jessica L. Cawvey •
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Andrew W. Brown •
Michael S. Voss •
Andrew Halverson •
James E. Prevete •
Carson J. Ramsey •
Michael Lee Burbank •
Anthony W. Monroe •
Pamela G. Osbourne •
Aaron J. Rusin •
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Dennis L. Pintor •
Michael S. Weger •
Oscar A. Martinez •
Ian T. Zook •
Daniel R. Wyatt •
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Jeremy F. Regnier •
Ronald W. Baker •
Mark P. Phelan •
Charles R. Soltes Jr. •
Paul M. Felsberg •
Victor A. Gonzalez •
Mark A. Barbret •
Bradley S. Beard •
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David L. Waters •
Michael G. Owen •
Jonathan J. Santos •
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Brian K. Schramm •
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Andrew C. Ehrlich •
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Jonathan E. Gadsden •
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Brian Oliveira •
Jerome Lemon •
Michael Battles Sr. •
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Maurice Keith Fortune •
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Kelley L. Courtney •
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Matthew D. Lynch •
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Todd R. Cornell •
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Nathan R. Wood •
Dennis J. Miller Jr. •
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Kyle W. Burns •
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Jonathan B. Shields •
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Lance M. Thompson •
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Louis W. Qualls •
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Joseph J. Heredia •
Joseph T. Welke •
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Kirk J. Bosselmann •
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In C. Kim •
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--orc Tue Oct 25 14:26:35 2005
Oct 24, 2005
At work, the HR department is a great fan of using The Computer to manage all parts of our work misery. One of the ways they use The Computer to make my personal work experience that much more unpleasant is that they send out a constant stream of work policy updates, all of which require some sort of acknowledgement, and not just a legal acknowledgement, but going to a website and clicking a [confirm] button so that the record of the new policy being read can go directly into the MS SQL Server database without bothering the beautiful minds of any of the wonderful people in HR.
This is pretty annoying to start with -- there's nothing to make you feel like a faceless cog than having a constant stream of email from HR (from an email address that HR doesn't bother to read) telling you (sometime under threat of termination), that you have to go to some stupid website to click a button for their database -- but it gets better when your MS Windows IT department carefully writes their database applications so that you can't click the button, even if you're using Microsoft Big-Bag-O-Security-Violations on Microsoft "operating" systems (the, need I bother to add, official workstation environment for my company, nevermind the trivial detail that we're the Unix branch of the company) and then manages to drop the record of my successfully clicking on the stupid button (after a fairly long search for a WINDOWS computer running a WINDOWS web browser that would let me click the dumb button) for one of these critically important (but not important enough to do on paper) policy enhancements.
Grrr. Stupid stupid HR department. Is "drive the developers completely batshit insane" part of their job description, or are they simply doing it as part of their bonus plan?
(h/t to Dooce, for doing the web-based scream of frustration first.)
--orc Mon Oct 24 09:17:12 2005
Oct 23, 2005
I went down to the hardware store with Silas yesterday to pick up a couple of pipe clamps for one of the projects I'm working on, and ran into an old friend from a previous sysadmin job. We chatted briefly about the hardware store equivalent of the weather ("what are you doing?" "oh, working on a project...") and then he asked me what plans I was using to build the project in question (a bed, in case you're wondering.)
Plans? But where's the sport in that?
He was dumfounded. But surely every carpenter, from the most skilled craftsman to the backyard punter, must use plans?
When I assured him that, no, I don't generally use plans except when the cost of the lumber runs into thousands of dollars (and can cause serious injury or death if they fail), he wandered away in a bit of a daze, shaking his head at the insanity of it all.
I could see the point of using plans if I did carpentry for a living. But I don't. I do operating systems development for a living, and I do carpentry as just another outlet for my artistic impulses, and furthermore when most every project I do uses scrap (and SCRAP material), I couldn't even start to dream about reliably sized components that I could draw a plan against.
And life is to short to follow someone else's assembly instructions. When they find a cure for mortality, then I'll go back and build things from a menu.
--orc Sun Oct 23 20:36:56 2005
Oct 22, 2005
Tropical storm Alpha has formed, putting 2005 into the books as the year with the most tropical storms on record. From now until the end of the season it's going to be greek greek greek all the way (offer not valid if there are 24 more tropical storms this year.)
Not that there's any such thing as global warming; it's purely a coincidence that three of the five most intense recorded hurricanes happened this year, and it's purely a coincidence that there have already been 22 tropical storms this year.
Really. Trust me. Would the B*sh junta lie to you?
--orc Sat Oct 22 21:46:21 2005
Oct 21, 2005
We splurged and got sushi for dinner tonight, and everyone joined in for the meal.
But
Dust Mite got greedy and muscled in close to the plateful of
Dead! Raw! Fish!, and then a horrible catastrophe occurred.
OH NO!!!
--orc Fri Oct 21 20:23:56 2005
It must have been foggy this morning, because when my bus crossed over the Ross Island Bridge, I saw this bank of fog slowly retreating over North Portland.
--orc Fri Oct 21 13:42:57 2005
Union Pacific SD40-2 #3308 sits at the north end of Brooklyn Yard in the late afternoon yesterday (20-Oct-2005).
You may notice that the lettering on the two UPS trucks is somewhat blurry; that's because I was taking this picture from the window of a #70 bus, and I didn't have time for frivolities like focussing the shot -- I just aimed the camera out the window and pressed the shutter release when I realized that there was an Eng! sitting at the other end of the alley. The Pentax assumed, correctly, that I was intending to focus on the SD40-2, so closer items suffered from the curse of letting the Computer Be Your Friend.
--orc Fri Oct 21 13:38:47 2005
Oct 20, 2005
Oh, no, I can see her eyes! The Romance Is GONE!
"Hook ups," the perennially-dapper professor said, "will get you in a bad habit that is very hard to get rid of."
"By the age of 30, you see men," he cautioned, "who are used to getting free samples" and will not enter into loyal, reliable relationships. Citing evolutionary biology research, Mansfield said that "men are interested in quantity, and women are interested in quality."
"Women play the men's game, which they are bound to lose. Without modesty, there is no romance—it isn't so attractive or so erotic," said the professor.
So that's all there is for men, huh? Paradise is nothing but an endless supply of vaginas and a really big scorecard?
This is another where do I even begin? moment. I've run into absolute morons like this before -- all men, of course -- who will state, long and loud, how that's what every man wants, and if you deny it, well, you're just lying to yourself about your true nature, and pretty much their universal solution to this arrangement is the recommendation that women trade sex for a ring (which, as many people have pointed out, is actually recommending that women should all be prostitutes.) Are there any other blatantly stupid generalizations that come out of this moron? Oh, right, the whole modesty thing; is he trying to say that women shouldn't sleep with men because after you've seen yourself screwing a "chick", why, the thrill would be gone.
I can just imagine what he'd think of seeing childbirth; I imagine it would be *whoosh*, Mr. Happy would vanish back into the body cavity so fast there'd be a thunderbolt, and then nothing could get him out except going down to the quad and seducing another freshman (or, as is more likely, going to the local and spending the afternood whining about "my wife doesn't understaaaaaand me." Oh, your wife understands you all right; that's why she hired that PI to follow you around.)
Christ, spare me. I presume that the ideal world for this guy is that women wear burkas and that people are issued blackout curtains when they get their marriage licenses so the man wouldn't "lose romance" by seeing himself inside his sex partner. Being present at childbirth is, of course, right out, and a man who even stayed in the hospital while his lover hatched his latest recombinant DNA experiment would be arrested and fined US$500 for not doing the traditional "go down to the corner bar and watch The Game! while waiting for the blessed event™ to happen."
Aaarrgh. I've got an even better idea. And it starts with seeking therapy. It may be a bummer that you never had a chance to sleep around, but, really, human beings hook up for reasons other than casual sex, no matter how wonderful the casual sex might be.
(annoying as hell article via Echidne,
red burka picture via Hugo Zoom,
refutation of this stupid "theory" provided by the best)
--orc Thu Oct 20 20:04:47 2005
Oct 19, 2005
The changes are not published tonight, because it's an embarrassment that I've been running this code for the past 18 months sans documentation, but I finally got sick of my syndication formats just blatting forth a message of unformatted text and rewrote a lot of rss.c to pass the message bodies, almost unmodified (if I put a character with bit 0x80 in, all the feed verifiers do into a shrieking hissyfit about me having The! Nerve! to taint their input with a non-ascii character, so I still have to replace all those characters with a ?).
I have discovered that with xml formats, you can spend a lot of time pounding your head against the wall trying to figure out what the documentation means, because, unlike documentation which is written by people who know how to write documentation, people who write xml formats assume that their readers have nothing better to do with their time than read approximately 10,000 pages of prerequisite documents before reading the pitiful excuse for documentation that the format provides. The rss2 format is no exception; I only figured out how to pass unmodified content by the simple expedient of grabbing a typepad rss feed and using that document (and one of the RSS validators out there) as a reference implementation. I may not understand some of the esoterica of xml any better than I used to, but now my syndication code generates feeds that are technically readable.
This is probably G-d's way of telling me that I should not stay home sick tomorrow; when I'm sick, I can only vaguely get enough energy to play Civilization II, but when I start getting healthy I start writing code and crawling down to the basement to start whittling away at the big backlog of projects I want to do before I do the house.
--orc Wed Oct 19 23:58:40 2005
About 15 months ago, I bought a bunch of tiles from SCRAP, and mocked up a tabletop with some of them. I didn't have time to do any work aside from the mockup, so I carefully transferred the tiles onto a piece of hardboard and tucked it away in the attic until I got some spare time to finish the work.
I promptly forgot about it, and only remembered that the tiles were there when I occasionally would go up to retrieve something (or to close a window which had blown open -- the windows in the attic are not in what you would call good shape, and the ones on the south side of the house are starting to do antisocial things like shed panes of glass.) When I saw it, I would guiltily think "oh, right, I need to finish the table", vow to do something about this "this weekend", go back downstairs, and forget about the whole thing.
This summer, Russell decided that he was old enough to go upstairs and play in the attic, and as a result of this decision that attic became enough of a mess that whenever I had to go upstairs, I would come down vowing to sell the house and move to Canada (the move to Canada part is my ultimate intention, but I'd like to keep the house for a rental property anyways), and eventually the best got fed up with my whining and got together with both bears to clean it up. After a few rounds of tidying, my piles of projects became the messiest part of the attic and so I was asked to clean them up.
The tabletop (remember the tabletop? It's an article about the tabletop} was transferred down to the basement, where, after spending a couple of weeks precariously balanced on top of the storage bench, got glued onto a piece of 1/4 inch plywood. which then sat waiting for me to break down and buy some new 2x2 planking that I could use for tablelegs.
This last weekend, I finally put some more work into the slowest table in the world:
It's almost done. I need to put a skirt around the edge of the tabletop so that the edges of the tiles don't just hang out at the edges of the table, I need to sand the wooden parts so they don't have quite the same rustic look, and I probably need to grout the thing because there are some gaps between some of the tiles and I can just imagine the results of the pepsi syndrome on thin plywood.
This table comes from a wide variety of sources.
- The tiles are from SCRAP.
- The plywood under the tiles is from the Stupid Room.
- The tabletop is attached to the table base via a couple of cleats that were originally part of the now-demised deck.
- The legs, as previously mentioned, are new 2x2 stock from a local lumberyard.
- and the apron is made from recycled pallets.
I cheated when I fastened the table together; the legs are glued to the apron, but I countersunk screws in to reinforce the joints, then hid them by plugging the holes with pieces of wooden dowel.
Perhaps I'll get the finishing touches onto the table before the heat death of the Universe, but until then it's sitting upstairs being used as a bedside table.
--orc Wed Oct 19 22:54:03 2005
Oct 18, 2005
There are 22 files that Fitzgerald is looking at for potential indictment . These include Stephen Hadley, Karl Rove, Lewis Libby, Dick Cheney, and Mary Matalin
So, why the leak? A little bit of prosecutorial strutting, or a gentle reminder that if you want to turn coat, you should do it now before the inditement bell rings?
(freshly leaked to No Quarter)
--orc Tue Oct 18 19:21:52 2005
«Clinton Calls on Canada to Fight Terrorism»
Ooo-kay. I wasn't aware that Canada wasn't "fighting terrorism" in either meaning of the phrase. (The first meaning is actually fighting terrorism, of course, and the second meaning is "go along with crackpot ideas that the USA comes up with that don't actually reduce terrorism." Canada had the good sense to not take the radioactive potato that was "joining" the coalition of the unlawful that did the aggressive war against Iraq, but has been engaged, sporadically, in doing really stupid things at the request of the United States .) But that's not the thing that caused my eyebrows to go orbital.
No.
Further down in this AP article it mentions where Clinton made this request. It was at a (gag) "motivational" conference in Toronto. And if that's not enough to cause the bile to rise and flow forth like a raging torrent, the motivational conference was called "The Power Within" and people paid US$335 to US$1100 to hear this speech.
Sure, sure, Clinton was a good president who managed to keep the United States afloat for eight years despite the drunken-sailor habits of the Evil Party, but this new tradition of a president leaving office only to become some sort of speechifying rent boy is undignified and unworthy of a person who was president of the United States.
Excuse me, I think I need to go and clean my eyes with a wirebrush now.
(link via The Guardian)
--orc Tue Oct 18 17:08:57 2005
A few weeks ago, a friend asked if I could do a cleanup on their Windows machine, because it was "running slowly" and they thought that they might have some spyware on the machine. Yes, I can do that, I said, bring it on down. And they did, and it sat there for about a week and a half. About 20 minutes ago, I pulled the machine out of the living room and connected it to the basement KVM switch, and turned it on. It booted up, only to present me with a machine that has an
- 1) Expired Norton Antivirus subscription.
- Strike One!
- 2) Internet Explorer, and only Internet Explorer.
- Strike Two!
- 3) Outlook as their mail client.
- Strike Three!
There were so many viruses and spybots on the machine that all it could do is pop up little alertboxes saying it was trying to connect to the symantec-loves-the-cock domain and a dozen or so other equally enlightening 'bot relay hosts. My grand scheme was to do a virus scan on the offending box, but I suspect that the only way to do it would be to plug the hard drive into a Linux machine and run clamav and a whole family of spybot catchers to sweep the machine clean.
There are days when I'm very, very happy that my primary web server is running a version of Linux that is approximately 13 years old. Today is about a dozen of them all combined into one.
--orc Tue Oct 18 16:10:02 2005
White House Watch: Cheney resignation rumors fly
Has it really been 32 years since Spiro Agnew resigned? My, my, my, how time flies when you aren't paying attention.
(link via Connect Left)
--orc Tue Oct 18 12:00:51 2005
Last night, Russell and the best went out to do a few errands. Since I'm sick, I couldn't go, so Silas had to stay at home to keep me company.
He didn't like that plan. So we went downstairs and built what would normally be the most trivial project of all time -- a quick and dirty paper towel roll holder from palletwood and a SCRAPpy
wooden dowel.
It's hard work cutting and gluing four pieces of wood.
--orc Tue Oct 18 11:30:14 2005
What do I do when I'm too sick to either work or complain about politics? Well, the current monkey on my back is "I want to build a summer camp", and one of the prerequisites for doing such a thing is to actually make some plans, since the traditional orcish scheme of "build it and make things up as I go" doesn't scale well when you're talking about projects that involve thousands of dollars worth of wood products.
Good drafting programs cost a stack of money, and the little trialware versions are pretty severely crippled to stop you from using their collections of clipart furniture for free. It's a fair deal; They won't let me print my floorplans, and I won't use their software to make the blueprints. But screen captures work.
Compared to some of the really tiny houses out there, this is a mansion. But it's ~97 m^2 (1040 ft^2) of mansion (plus however much basement I'd want; it needs some basement for utilities, and if you're going to carve out some basement, you might as well carve out the entire area that the house covers.) When a basement is included, the house bloats up to a whopping 145 m^2, which takes it out of the summer camp category into the full-time house category.
When the best and I first moved up to Portland, we lived in a 75 m^2 3-bedroom flat for a couple of years immediately prior to moving into the 334 m^2 Chateau Chaos, so we've got some experience with living in small spaces. This house doesn't provide much more in the way of rooms, but I've opened up the downstairs by coalescing the living spaces into one big 4.8m x 6m common room, and the upper floor by putting a ~2m wide transverse corridor with windows at each end. Combine this with the basement and the house has three separate areas for people (of various sizes) to play in without much interference from people in the other rooms.
My big concession to modern house design is putting two bathrooms into the house; a full bath with detached tub on the ground floor and a toilet and washbasin on the second floor (and with a full basement, shoot, I could put a toilet in the basement and then all we'd need is a 200 m^2 garage to fit right into the suburbs!)
I've still not decided about what the roof should look like. If I went towards a modernist flat (and, after a few years of dealing with winter snowfalls, leaky) roof, I could put a deck (with a spyglass and parrot) on the roof, and if I went towards a steeply peaked roof, I could put in a cross-gable roof which would leave most of the bedrooms as usable space (at the expense of making the upstairs bathroom kind of cramped.)
Why such a small summer house? Well, there are a couple of reasons; first, it's a summer house and I expect that people would want to spend a lot of time outside (when I was a kid, my family went up to my grandfather's summer camp in Maine every summer, and the lure of the outdoors kept me outside except when it was pouring down rain, and even then I could be found outside in the little toolshed working on disarraying my grandfather's lifetime collection of camp tools), and secondly, and more sneakly, Chateau Chaos has a derelict two-car garage that's 6 x 8 m; it's not being used for anything now, except as a lumber drying shed, but with some care to avoid triggering a reassessment, I could convert it into a slightly shrunken version of this cottage and increase the resale value of our holdings in the American Imperium.
--orc Tue Oct 18 10:57:47 2005
Oct 17, 2005
Watching the B*sh Junta messily unravel under the slow fires of the treason investigation, the pitiful response to hurricane Katrina, and the 30 or so other corruption scandals makes me think that it's like being a bystander after a couple of clown cars had a head-on collision; It's amazing just how many bodies the paramedics are bringing out of the wreckage.
--orc Mon Oct 17 22:09:28 2005
It's monday, I'm home from work with the flu, and it's been a while since I've done a baby picture dump.
A couple of weeks ago, we went to the Hanna Andersson outlet store in deepest Clackamas County, and while waiting for the best to finish up, the bears galloped up and down the sidewalk while I sat on the ground and took pictures.
--orc Mon Oct 17 13:37:22 2005
Oct 16, 2005
Last week, I built a little shelf in the basement, and the pictures I took of the shelf showed a haphazard pile of drawers that were yanked out of the little kitchenette in the stupid room. After they sat there for a few days, I decided that it would be a good plan to go and actually build them into a new chest of drawers.
This is not one of my better projects. For one thing, starting a project by stacking the drawers on their side on a couple of strips of plywood, then nailing the slides in between them and using that side as a template for the other side can lead to hilarity when you screw up the measurements and end up with one opening being too narrow for the drawer (there are, as you can see, four drawers -- the only measurement which is the same for these drawers is their width; they are all slightly different lengths and not-so-slightly different heights. And then, after all this, if you fit the drawers in tightly when you're nailing the sides onto the bottom and top, they end up fitting rather tightly -- in this case, the top and the bottom drawers are very difficult to open. They might fit better when I wax the slides, but I doubt it because the, ahem, homemade splendor of the drawers ensures that the sides are not quite parallel and they bind when you close them all the way.
The irregular alignment of the drawer fronts is how they were made, and, fortunately, not my problem. The drawers, in case you're wondering, were made from 1/4th inch plywood (some of the fronts are 1/2 inch plywood, but others are two layers or 1/4th inch plywood nailed together. The cheerful red paint is a defensive measure so I can pretend that the drawers are not as, um, wonderful as they are.)
But they do fill a useful purpose; they allow me to store things like extension cords, soldering irons, and other too
