Friday, October 7th, 2011
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23:47 - green house
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if a red house is made of red bricks and and a blue house is made out of blue bricks what is a green house made of?
green bricks of course, what else did you think it was going to be
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Saturday, August 6th, 2011
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19:40 - Minimal copyright/licence (C version)
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In my never-ending quest to find ways to automate making the same change to lots of different source files I have discovered vim scripts.
rjy@vile ~/src/rboom % cat /tmp/script
gg/rboom,
0jd/^-
:set paste!
O
Copyright (c) 1993-2011 rboom developers (see AUTHORS)
Licence: GPLv2 or later (see COPYING)
^[:wq
rjy@vile ~/src/rboom % for i in **/*.{c,h,inl} ; do vim -s /tmp/script $i ; done
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Wednesday, July 20th, 2011
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18:21 - JOKE: Who is the oldest footballer in the world?
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Friday, July 8th, 2011
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13:55 - TRUTH
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$ man X
X(1)
NAME
X - graphical terminal multiplexer
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Tuesday, June 14th, 2011
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14:34 - initlist: replace RBOOM_MODULEs with INIT_LIST_CONSTRUCTORs
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I spent half an hour working out this command line
sed -i '/^RBOOM_MODULE/,/^};/cINIT_LIST_CONSTRUCTOR(AddCommands);' \
$(git diff-tree -r :/"modules: use function name 'AddCommands'" \
| awk '/^:/ { print $6 }')
instead of spending fifteen minutes making the same change manually to about twenty different source files.
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Monday, May 30th, 2011
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23:10
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there's a man eating fish in the river
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Thursday, January 27th, 2011
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23:08
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Tuesday, January 18th, 2011
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19:24 - "quandary" has a second a after the d
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It's not "quandry". Who knew?
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Tuesday, November 30th, 2010
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06:42 - the best thing
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on a cold morning such as today,
get up.
get your clean pants out of the wardrobe,
and put them on the radiator.
now go off and have a shower or whatever it is you do,
and come back and get dressed.
and pull on your fresh, clean, and deliciously warm pair of pants.
this is
the best thing.
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Friday, November 19th, 2010
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10:23 - white grape and elderflower squash
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i'm drinking this. it's expensive for squash (two quid for a litre from morrisons) but it tastes like a really sweet white wine and i like it.
morrisons also do a blood orange which is the nearest thing i've ever found to robinson's blood orange that basically disappeared off the face of the earth a couple of years ago and i really miss it. at least robinsons pink grapefruit still exists.
i also really like orange kia-ora (i'll be your dog, haha, anyone remember that) and sainsburys apple cranberry and cherry.
actually nearly all flavours of squash are good and i don't really drink anything else. i've never been into fizzy drinks (except for lilt, but even that's better when flat.)
i got kind of bored of tea a few years ago. i still have it at other people's houses if they offer but i don't generally bother with it for myself.
yeah an englishman what don't live on tea!! what's up with that!! bollocks mate a chav nicked me lorry.
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Sunday, November 14th, 2010
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14:37
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<RjY> oh it's the 70th anniversary of the blitz today isn't it
<RjY> i'd like to thank the germans who spent 11 hours bombing
coventry into a smoking pile of rubble 70 years ago,
because 20 years ago it got me the night off homework
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Friday, November 12th, 2010
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10:12 - Third Arm
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My dick atrophied from lack of use and fell off so I had it replaced with a third arm. I can now type with both hands and use the mouse at the same time. My productivity is up 300% - my boss is delighted. Sure some people make fun but I can flip them off three times!
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Friday, September 24th, 2010
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20:30
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rjy@vile:~/src/rboom$ git log1 --reverse next..
a82bafa... d_event.h header cruft
5143e7d... more cruft
448e751... cruft
3192dfc... so much cruft it's like a dog show
e1334e3... g_iwad should have gone in "Remove runtime wad addition and iwad switching"
346fbb8... cruftilocks
e512364... lara cruft
eadc9e8... krufty the klown
7b7d8b1... NO MORE AWFUL CRUFT PUNS this is me having fun on a friday night~
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Friday, January 29th, 2010
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07:24
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anatomy of a unix timestamp.
consider 1264753890.
1 changes every 31¾ years,
2 changes every 3 years 2 months,
6 changes every 4 months,
4 changes every 11 days,
7 changes every day-and-a-bit.
you kind of stop caring here,
as the rest change too often.
but,
5 changes every three hours,
3 changes every 20 minutes,
8 changes every 2 minutes,
9 changes every 10 seconds,
0 changes every second (duh.)
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Thursday, December 31st, 2009
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19:52 - ONLY POST OF 2009
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this year after being badgered endlessly about it i broke the habit of a lifetime and put someone on what livejournal calls your "friends list". it was funny having a page that said "you have no friends" but that was years ago and i don't care any more.
anyway i thought a long time about friends lists and came to the conclusion that they are badly named and poorly implemented.
to explain: the friends list conflates two separate functions into one. these are:
- aggregation, and
- access control.
these functions defintwo sets of people:
- aggregation is putting all the posts from people whose posts you want to read onto one page, and
- access control is allowing a given list of people to read entries you deem "private". (how "private" it is posting on a site owned by a for-profit organisation over which you have essentially no control is another matter, but beyond the scope of this discussion)
i claim that the sets defined by these two functions are completely separate; neither is a subset of the other.
1. aggregation list is not a subset of access control list: for example gitster.livejournal.com is the journal of the guy who maintains git, a revision control system which i use a lot. he sometimes writes interesting posts about this software and i would like to read them. therefore i'd want him on an aggregation page. however i don't know him from adam so why do i want to give him access to my innermost thoughts? (not that i have them, i never make private posts for reasons hinted at above)
2. access control is not a subset of aggregation. you might have a friend which you know in real life but who posts a lot. that friend you'd want them to see your private posts but if you have them on your aggregation page they'd just flood it out completely. (i can't think of any specific examples of a journal like this because i don't have any friends and they don't post very often.)
thus both sets are not subsets of the other and the function should be separated.
furthermore i feel the feature is badly named. there is an emotional connotation to the term "friends list". it brings out people's insecurities when they "friend" someone and the gesture isn't returned. an unbalanced mutual friends list is cause for distress. it is often the case that "de-friending" someone is an action that causes angst and upset. it's like being back at primary school, and it's idiotic.
so there you have it. i am sure i am not the only person who has come to the same conclusions. i will continue to use off-site methods such as browser bookmarks to keep track of journals which interest me.
this has been 2009; i've been RjY. for another year, and into the next one, best wishes, and goodnight.
edit i am told there is something called friends groups that allow you to essentially work around this, okay fair enough i guess they've made improvements since i last paid any attention.
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Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
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08:10 - GOOD MATHS JOKE
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Lemma: A condition affecting mathematics students whereby they prove things before starting on the main proof of a theorem; those who cannot remember which of two lemmas they are supposed to use are said to be in a dilemma.
-- from The Bluffer's Guide To Maths
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Thursday, October 2nd, 2008
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12:48 - THE FEROCITY AND SHEER HURRICANE-LIKE QUALITIES OF
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my farts never ceases to amaze. It's no wonder this chair is falling to bits. I'm sure I could propel myself across the English Channel.
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Friday, August 1st, 2008
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09:23 - re: python challenge dot com
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if you think "peak hell" and "pickle" are homonyms then you are a GIGANTIC FUCKING RETARD
if you think homonym means "sounds and is spelled the same" then okay pretend I wrote homophone instead.
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
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19:15 - METHODS OF CASUALLY MENTIONING TO THE INTERNET AT LARGE THAT YOU HAVE A GIRLFRIEND #94
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"Give online dating a second chance"
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
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19:59
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Posting because it is a leap day.
Any girls reading this feel like getting married? The only one I semi-regularly talk to wasn't online *sad face with exaggerated puppy-dog-esque expression*
This pathetic update was brought to you by tradition
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