Back in January, three or four of the webcomics I read started up sponsorship accounts on Patreon all within like a week of each other. (New Year's financial review, maybe?) Arts sponsorship for the Kickstarter Generation, the idea is that organized monthly pledges are more stable and easier to handle all around than just putting out a PayPal tip ( Read more... )

Dreamed that my bag was snatched in the airport. After pursuing after the thief through crowds of people all going the wrong way, finally chased them down a stairwell to the dirty and cobwebbed dead end at the bottom ( Read more... )

I hear that Struts2 + Spring + Hibernate is actually a standard setup for a webapp ( Read more... )

There's a joke I found here in Japan that goes like this ( Read more... )

[Game]Finished Brütal Legend ( Read more... )

[V.Game] Playing Brütal Legend, since it's available on Steam.
- I'm not fond of Heavy Metal generally, but it works pretty well as atmosphere in the game.
- The game controls are really geared toward a console controller. What would be a joystick on the controller is keys on the Steam version--the consequent lack of any gradations between "off" ( Read more... )

Parents are having me go through boxes in the attic. Lots of things where I don't remember why I had it, a bunch where I do, and apparently almost every piece of paper I encountered from grades eight through eleven ( Read more... )

Saving Mr. Banks: A little melodramatic in places, but very well done. Disney was a more interesting character than I was expecting.

American Hustle: Amusing. There are no heroes, only protagonists. Though I'm not sure about that either, for some of them.

Hobbit The First (Unexpected Journey): Long. Gratuitous fight scenes. Pretty sure it ( Read more... )

[Movie] EpicSaw on the plane. It was pretty light on plot. And character development. As most of the emphasis seemed to be on cool action scenes and CGI. The musical number in the middle was weird and out-of-place ( Read more... )

Yes yes it's very clever that you've written an entire complex multifile operation in one line using find -exec and xargs.

But I have to make your bash script do something slightly different now and so I'm going to rewrite it as a for loop. Sorry.