who thinks they're great?
who thinks they're gross?

So, at the library at my school, there is a network of Sun Ray Thin Clients. You log in and you get a Sun desktop with mozilla and nothing else. I have long wanted to get a look around those machines, execute arbirary code, etc., but without a terminal in which to execute commands, it's pretty tough. At first I tried changing the print command ( Read more... )

I'm doing a project where I evaluate and fix up a program some students wrote a few years ago. They wrote it for their Honours project, and I'm fixing it for my Honours project. Here is an actual method from a class called NumberTag:

public float toNumber(){
        // Blah.
        return 0;
    }

This is comedic gold. A laff riot.

The dream I just had was very vivid. I dreamed about hang-gliding and skydiving. I don't normally dream about such things. A bunch of us jacked some motorbike only to be chased down the highway in some remote place. We pulled into some farm and scattered. I hid behind a sack of potatoes in a cow-barn. Then for some reason the barn "took off" ( Read more... )

Researchers have suggested that left-handed people are better at surviving fights to the death.
( lefties win fights )

Chuck Taylors are pieces of shit.
Today, Rod Lavers come out of retirement on an experimental basis.

Last night I was cleaning and otherwise working on my bike. I sprayed some WD-40 into the frame to prevent internal corrosion. Then I went to bed. This morning had (and continue to have) a massive headache. The air in here is saturated with WD-40. I guess they weren't kidding when they put those warnings on the can.


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In the past six days I have received five email notices from various university agencies urging me to intern myself with an IT firm... in India.

That's, like, far away from here, right?

i went to the protest and came back with two black eyes

So, I decided to kill my oldest and least-used operating system to free up some space. I also decided to move /home to the freed partition so I could organise all my shit on one partition instead of three. I took everything I needed of of the old partition. Everything, that is, except /usr/share/audio, which is where I had stupidly decided to ( Read more... )