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Tue, 15 Jul 2008

Seattle to Portland on a Unicycle

I decided that I didn’t want to disappoint me, Helen, or God, so to Winlock we went.

Via Eric, who attempted this for the first time this year. Congratulations!

It concludes: 

A unicyclist with two beautiful and talented daughters as a unicycle honor guard drove the crowd completely wild, and I felt like I was the king of the world as I rode triumphantly, giving high fives to my subjects.

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Fri, 20 Jun 2008

+5 fooled Slashdot

Mod parent down. This is absolute rubbish, how did it get to +5 informative? I assume it's there as a joke so it should only be +5 funny, or possibly now, +5 fooled Slashdot.

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Mon, 16 Jun 2008

The S-video jack

for video

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Mon, 19 May 2008

Humility in the open source world

"Thanks, Markus. I'm glad to know I was dumb"

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Fri, 16 May 2008

Another satisfied customer (of Dovecot)

everything is perfect.

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Thu, 08 May 2008

Hypotheticals 

<l7_> hmm, well that's a rather problematic hypothetical
<shiznick> what?
<shiznick> oh, the nuclear holocaust thing?

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Sat, 03 May 2008

Lessons to learn 

<vsrinivas> what I really really wish existed somewhere was a 'lessons to learn from N'
<vsrinivas> where N was plan9, coyotos, erlang, alef, ....
<vsrinivas> because srsly, we're not using them. but it'd be nice to understand what worked and what didn't and how it was applicable to reality
<paulproteus> "Programming UNIX as if it were Plan 9"
<paulproteus> "Programming Python as if it were Erlang"
<paulproteus> "Coyotos idioms for kernel designers"
<vsrinivas> something like that
<paulproteus> "Alef for Naught?  Not!"
<vsrinivas> hahahahahaha!

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eSpeak

While I was listening to the Raven, Matt remarks:

"I don't know what the purpose is, but clearly it should be a female voice with a British accent."

Kragen replies online: "oh, use -v en/en+f2 for that"

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A name 

<cdchan> That seems like Awkward City.
<paulproteus> Awkward City Soundtrack

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Fri, 02 May 2008

Who is that Mailer-Daemon anyway?

"He's a magic dwarf with a taste for destruction."

Another good quote: "On the Internet there are no cops, just system admins."

And the part where I think I like him: "It would be a shame if we lost our public postal system to private companies!"

He suggests sysadmins use collaborative filters. That's interesting, since I currently just use a local DSPAM that collaborates with nobody.

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