• 17:02 @grahams I hope you're using 'uhaul' as a generic term. Every experience i've seen about U-Haul has been horrible. just ask @patrickwonders #
• 19:31 tinyurl.com/5z88b4 Guru Meditation: the Atari 2600 game! For real! #
• 22:45 @macrossactual you actually *HAVE* one?!? #

14:14 wow, I forgot how painful CLASSPATH settings were. Oh, Ruby. #

• 12:09 Ultra-sound results are in and... it's a boy!!! #

• 11:09 One of the most useful things I've ever made: a 4 inch long extension cord. Old 3-prong power cord, terminating in a 3 prong jack. Awesome! #
• 11:49 Buying and watching 3D films for fun and profit! #
• 11:50 @macrossactual basically. This power strip has all of the prongs in-line, so the MBP power brick takes up 3 outlet slots. This fixes that. #
• 12:51 Number four is the short straw, but it's broken. #
• 15:10 Suhweet! LlamaClock has been at the top of the "Utilities" page all day. That's surely going to do wonders for sales numbers for today. :D #
• 16:33 Once poor, always poor. #
• 17:06 Wanted: High quality, freely available nixie tube images (all digits) #
• 17:17 tinyurl.com/38funm A thing of beauty... Nixies AND Core Memory! #
• 17:26 I want to make a 4x4 bit piece of core memory. that'd be neat. #
• 18:51 Whoot! The 8 3D DVDs I ordered have already arrived! #
• 19:08 Jaws 3d, amityville 3d, friday the 13th 3d, shreck 3d, starchaser, metalstorm, flesh for Frankenstein, a Kung fu flick #
• 21:23 @lizreay Yes. Flesh For Frankenstein in 3D! #
• 21:34 William Atherton (Jerry Hathaway) is on Monk! Man, he always plays such a great "asshole". #
• 21:45 Thank you RIAA, for shutting down a service I'd often used to find new music and subsequently buy it legally. muxtape.com #
• 00:23 Every. Single. Time. I see "Neosporin", the song gets stuck in my head.
  Baa-naah-naa-naa-na. NEO. Bah-na-na-na-na-na-na. SPORIN. #

12:29 The word "evacuate" makes me giggle. #

13:06 The new Black Keys album is absolutely killing it this week. #

15:32 I get so much OCD satisfaction out of re-organizing a sprawling codebase. #

17:05 Two on one interview? Jokes about the Eiffel Tower? Check. #

18:38 Greyskull is hell of a nice surprise opening up for Aesop Rock. #

19:18 Yak Ballz is officially the worst MC name ever. #

Perhaps their mistake was in only leaving cards, rather than also making stultifying speeches about the nature of anarchy:

Two Pembroke teenagers have been charged in connection with a series of playing cards that were defaced with threatening writing and left at stores in Christiansburg and Pearisburg -- a gesture police said the teens admitted had been inspired by this summer's Batman movie, "The Dark Knight."

Justin Colby Dirico and Bryan Eugene Stafford, both 18, admitted to leaving cards that bore handwritten messages inside the Pearisburg Wal-Mart, according to police Chief J.C. Martin.

Both were charged with conspiracy to commit an act of terrorism.

Dirico and Stafford are being held at the New River Regional Jail without bond.

• 08:38 Fixed the railing this weekend and failed to remove the old steps with the electric jackhammer. Not really a surprise, but disappointing. #
• 13:59 Thinking about the first ultra-sound happening tomorrow AM. Will we have a winner in Kirchner vs Weaver? #
• 14:19 @grahams of course, the "no risk" 5% edge cut. sweet deal. #
• 16:30 Four days to my sisters wedding and counting! #

http://syndicated.livejournal.com/patrickhaney/

Well, after some letdowns and some crappy apartments, I have a place to live as of August 31st. 4 blocks from Porter Square, which means no more bus-to-subway BS. And the commute to work will be a 5 minute bike ride down Oxford Street.

I'll get you the address via email soon if you're in need of it.

Mario was very determined at getting our bedroom shelves and light fixtures in place, despite running into some technical problems with hard concrete pillars.  A solid Black & Decker turned out to be quite an ally for this challenge.

At this point, our extra room is still in need of work (organizing all the knick knacks, really) but we have already ordered a couch that should be delivered in September, so we can call it a work in progress.  Once that room is set up, I think it will just be a matter of taking care of little details here and there, although I believe that is a never-ending story when one owns a home.

And another point of reflection:  if we had a more Anglo-Saxon work schedule, life would be much easier and productive.

Ignore That Logo Under the Tape!

To ensure that only the companies that pay millions of dollars to be official Olympic sponsors enjoy the benefits of exposure in Olympic venues, organizers have covered the trademarks of nonsponsors with thousands of little swatches of tape.

In media centers, dormitories and arena bathrooms, pieces of tape cover logos of fire extinguishers, light switches, thermostats, bedroom night tables, soap dispensers and urinals. The Taiden Industrial translation headsets in a large conference room have had their logos covered, as have the American Standard faucets in the bathrooms nearby, and the ThyssenKrupp escalators down the hall.

The International Olympic Committee says that such "brand protection" is essential for the Games to raise the corporate money that keeps them going and growing. The Games get 40% of their revenue from sponsors, with the rest coming from broadcast rights, ticketing and licensing. Sponsors of China's Games, believed to be the most lucrative ever, have contributed some $1.5 billion in cash, goods and services, estimates sports-marketing group Octagon.

The IOC says the brand-protection practices here in Beijing are consistent with procedures at past Olympics. Actual enforcement of IOC sponsorship-protection rules falls mostly to whichever city is hosting the Games, however, and by some indications no host has taken that role more seriously than China. In many cases, even products that don't compete with anything made by official sponsors are having their logos covered.

• 11:39 Wishing Apple would release my LlamaClock update I submitted last week. :( #
• 21:54 It's no surprise that the word "waffle" is so close to "falafel" #
• 22:38 Yay. LlamaClock 1.4 is now "ready for sale". They'll probably roll out the update to everyone tomorrow. #

20:40 Coheed and cambria is the worst band in the world. #

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lilmissnever

Then lilmissnever took us to what I can only describe as a furry convention. It was a release party for an "elegant gothic lolita" magazine (all three words are false!) I lasted about 45 seconds before I had to flee. There was a pink sugar cookie decorating contest, and a seven foot tranny bunny (no, not Scotty). And this was no mere bunny mask, but a full facial prosthetic, like this.