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03:02 pm

Create your own visitor map!

10:54 am

People trying to dress up their language are always trying to hide their own faults. --me

Not that I'm not guilty of such myself from time to time...

10:54 am - fun with open source

1) Find what you want to run. In this case, RTMPy. Great, python, we haven't done python before, should be fun.
2) Look up the dependencies. In this case, Twisted. Also, setuptools. Which might also be easysetup.
3) Look up the dependencies of the dependencies. In this case, Zope3-interfaces -- but Zope3 itself is overkill.
4) Figure out how to install modules locally on a box to which we have no root access. The magic phrase is:
4a) export PYTHONPATH=${PYTHONPATH}:~/py-lib
4b) python setup.py install --install-purelib=~/py-lib --install-scripts=~/bin --install-data=~/share
5) Start compiling and installing with the magic phrase, from zope3-interfaces up.
6) Finished compiling and installing dependencies of dependencies...time to finally get back to installing RTMPy.
7) RTMPy craps out with some compile errors.
8) Take a deep breath. Check compiler version -- python 2.3.5. That seems old -- yep, python 2.6 and 3.0 are out. They say use 2.6 for better backwards compatibility, so let's listen to them.
9) Download and start installing (locally to our user account!) python 2.6.1.
10) Go spend an hour doing something else...
(to be continued)
11) same problem as in #7. More googling compile errors reveals it may be an incompatibility with the version of Subversion available to me.
12) Download and start installing Subversion 1.5.5...
13) Subversion fails to compile because of Apache Runtime libraries not being available...
14) Get close to giving up...

06:43 pm

( How many cannibals could your body feed? )

09:26 am

I definitely have to recommend Excel as the basis for introduction to programming, because stuff like this becomes barely cool:

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3563/microsoft_excel_revolutionary_3d_.php

You just spend the rest of your programming existence trying to unlearn the bad habits...

03:11 pm

I'm not crazy; Sarkozy won, and he is that guy. What's the over/under on the next French revolution?
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=k%C3%A4rcher+sarkozy+translation&btnG=Search

01:57 pm

hmm, actually kind of wish i had a quote block as i'm accustomed to from forum posting.

"Raph: Actually, programmers are drawn to music. A high quantity of programmers are drawn to music. That's been observed for a really long time. You know, there are definitely qualities in common between sitting down at a computer and trying out algorithms for hours on end and sitting in a room woodshedding on a guitar. It requires the same sort of obsessiveness. I think designers... designers are just eclectic people, and I think programmers aren't always eclectic. They're often really focused people, but designers are just eclectic. They, just by all the ones I know, they read anything, read about anything and everything, they all have completely wacky different kinds of hobbies, and in the same person they'll have wacky different kinds of hobbies. Music is a pretty common one."

--http://www.f13.net/index.php?itemid=595#more

12:15 pm

While the protein MYH16 may have won humans the evolutionary race, in winning, it may also doom us to extinction.

What level of sentience is requisite to avoid falling prey to evolution itself?

12:03 pm

08:30 am

something a little more cheerhopeful?
( Garden, by Noe Venable )

03:06 pm

( Lady Land, by Sierra Swan )

01:58 pm

You Should Be a Mechanic

You are logical, calm, and detail oriented. You're rational when things are chaotic, and for you, reason always prevails. And while you are guided by logic, you aren't a slave to it. You're flexible when it counts. You are always open to being wrong. You do best when you: - Work with your hands - Can use tools, machines, or equipment You would also be a good architect or carpenter.

12:46 pm

Hmmm...

11:56 pm

this is hot.

Your results:
You are Venom

Venom 84% Dark Phoenix 66% Dr. Doom 66% Apocalypse 61% Magneto 61% Mystique 60% Juggernaut 60% Lex Luthor 56% The Joker 53% Riddler 53% Catwoman 52% Mr. Freeze 50% Kingpin 43% Green Goblin 36% Poison Ivy 36% Two-Face 32%

Strength, disguise and adrenaline are your greatest weapons.

11:27 am

"risk assessment isn't mediated by the intellect."
--VanVeen (7339473 / #9840876 - 04/04/07 02:26 PM )

10:42 pm

tbeu: "conscience is the grown man's bogeyman"

10:16 am

Sweet! Bye bye $72 adverse credit record, they had a bad address and hadn't talked to me yet when I phoned them up to pay up, so poof! on April 1st it goes!

11:31 am

hmmm...

795/mo for a 3bd/2ba unit in a duplex means 1590/mo...need to figure out at what rate that's taxed...but for 185k for the duplex, 20% is 37k, and a 30yr payment at 6% is 887... a 30yr of 185k at 8% with no down is $1357, worst case ~240 gross... not much money for a $185k debt... for the 20% downpayment, 37k gets you ~700 gross monthly... plus upkeep plus expenses

so 4-5 duplexes for someone with good credit to live off the profits? 700k debt on 140k downpayment... 33-42k/yr gross but now your income isn't fixed...depends on rising rents and equity outpacing increases in upkeep costs/taxes... ~$3600 in property taxes per year per 140k unit is 18k/yr leaving 24k/yr to live off of... definately want closer to a million dollar portfolio, but presumably there are better investments than duplexes...

grab debt all day long at 6%/30yr imo... first thing's first, fix the credit.

in other news, what a great warning: In an instant, Watersbend became an insoluble liability to its owners. They defaulted on the loan, but the primary lienholder initially declined to foreclose on the property because it was unwilling to assume the risks of ownership. The property eventually became a foster child of the unwilling American taxpayer as a holding of the Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC). ( http://www.experts.com/showArticle.asp?id=101 )

10:13 am

One month till Tool...

12:58 pm

( Fear Factory's Descent )