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Article posted on Jan 26
ooooo
- Posted by Ryan Finnie on January 26, 2004, 5:29 am
create your own visited states map
or write about it on the open travel guide
Granted, I cheated and listed states I've just drove through and/or had a layover in. But still, it's neat how all my states are in blotches.
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Article posted on Jan 25
Super happy fun hard drive enclosure!
- Posted by Ryan Finnie on January 25, 2004, 6:06 pm
I bought a 160GB HD from compusa (only $60 after about 20 mail-in rebates!), and a 3.5" USB2 enclosure. The real gem is an instruction sheet for the enclosure, written in the best Engrish I have ever seen. I'll need to find a scanner, but here is the text:
HDD Assembles Elucidation
1. Make an effort to press in the direction that arrowhead point the plastics lock button up, such as picture A
2. Heading up the upper cover to turn over to rise, such as picture B
3. Cover up and down to separate then and completely, such as picture C
Is good with machine plank according to the right method conjunction the hard dish, lock the tight and HDD, cover the upper cover, can immediately trust the usage.
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Article posted on Jan 20
I'll take "Yelling 'Fire' in a theater house" for $200, Alex.
- Posted by Ryan Finnie on January 20, 2004, 12:24 pm
I've learned that it's only safe to joke about airport/airplane security after the security guard has jokes about it first. For example, last year I was flying across the country with a rackmount rail kit wrapped in bubble wrap. Now, I don't perfer to check luggage, but I thought I'd check at the security checkpoint to see if I could bring it on the plane with me. The guard said no, and half-jokingly gave the reason "you could beat somebody with it and hijack the plane." Rather than argue, I responded with "jeez, my backpack is a better terrorist weapon. Do you know how heavy it is?"
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Article posted on Jan 19
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- Posted by Ryan Finnie on January 19, 2004, 12:29 am
Appearantly I haven't been keeping up with the latest memes.
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Article posted on Jan 14
ihnj,ijls...
- Posted by Ryan Finnie on January 14, 2004, 7:25 am
One of my "Gnew Phrases" has a >1 hit on google now! Amazingly enough, it's "my dog has a PHD".
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Article posted on Jan 13
Weird Dream
- Posted by Ryan Finnie on January 13, 2004, 12:06 pm
Okay, I rarely ever dream (or should I say I don't remember dreams; appearantly everybody dreams whether they know it or not), so I thought I'd post this.
yosemitesam and I were walking in downtown SF, when for some reason it became imperative that we get a McDonald's hamburger and a small soda. Yeah, uhhuh, it gets better. Knowing what we must do, we search for a McD. Along the way a homeless man approaches us and offers us a cheeseburger. Of course we decline, since it had cheese on it and we needed a HAMburger. After some more searching, we meet up with Amber, a friend from high school. (Not you amber, the other one... I've known about 20 people named amber over the years.) We invite her to join the quest.
We finally find a McD, but it's the one I worked at in WI. We go in, and sam orders a value meal. (You know? That value meal that contains a single hamburger that doesn't exist?) Of course I'm horrified and confused, because the meal contains FRIES and a MEDIUM drink, when we clearly need NO FRIES and a SMALL drink.
While our order taker is off grabbing the order, I survey the people behind the counter to see who I know. Kris and Paula are there, but are ignoring me. (I think the non-dream reason for that is because when I left McD, I didn't leave on the best note with those two.) Jenny and Jesse are there as well, who were identical twin sister managers. (Jenny, if you remember, was the girl whose life I was indirectly involved with for a couple years. I totalled her car the day after I got my license, she dated a coworker at the NEXT place I worked at after McD (who was the brother of Amber oddly enough), we happened to move into the same apartment building at about the same time...)
Jenny was too busy to stop, but Jesse came by (it's amazing that I can still remember how to tell them apart, even in my dream) and we started talking. By then sam and amber had disappeared. Gotta love consistency in dreams. This is the fuzzy part, but Jesse and I worked out some sort of plan.
Next thing I remember, I was in the corner of the parking lot. Things were going according to plan, then somebody in a black ski mask appears and shoots at me. In typical movie sequence mode, I can see the bullet coming at my head, but instead of ducking, I jump up and it hits me in the throat. Jesse comes by and says, "did the plan work?" "Oh, more or less... One small problem though," I respond as I'm lying on the cement. I also remember thinking, "well, at least I'm only dying. I'd be dead if it hit me in the head."
That's basically the end of the dream. But it gets weirder. My alarm clock woke me up, I reset it to go off in 10 minutes, then went back to bed. I hadn't entered REM sleep yet, but I remember hearing a "click" that sounds like what happens when the alarm clock inched its way from "alarm" mode to "radio" mode, but has no sound coming out of it. (It's a crappy alarm clock.) I realized this, but couldn't wake myself up, which would suck because I knew I was going to oversleep. Then I hear the voice of Oma say, "he needs a new alarm clock." The voice of Shifu responds with, "here, give this to him". Immediately after that the alarm goes off and I wake up. I sit up in my bed and say aloud, "okay, that was too weird." Then I decide to get up and go to work.
I really do need a new alarm clock, but that's left to another post.
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Article posted on Jan 9
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- Posted by Ryan Finnie on January 9, 2004, 11:44 pm
I was digging through my home directory today and found a python logging framework I wrote a couple years ago. This is truly a thing a beauty. Well-written, commented (it took me a while to realize that I wrote it, since, well, it had COMMENTS), and functional.
The idea was to make a logging abstraction layer that functioned exactly like an open file handle. You define how you want something to be logged (flat file and syslog were implemented), and from that point on, all you do is write to a file handle and it does the rest. It even has a Nolog option that throws away whatever you write to it, so you can do conditional creation at the top (for example, use Syslog or File for normal operation, and Nolog for "quiet mode", and you don't have to worry about conditionals for the rest of the script). It also has dependencies, so you can write to one handle, and it will call others at the same time if you want. And there's a syslog emulation mode if you happen to be running it on win32.
Anyways, I thought I'd share it with the world. Sadly, I can't think of how to use it today because it's been several years since I've done python programming. But if you want to use it, by all means, enjoy.
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Article posted on Jan 5
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- Posted by Ryan Finnie on January 5, 2004, 2:57 am
just wanted to demo a new userpic...
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Article posted on Jan 4
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- Posted by Ryan Finnie on January 4, 2004, 4:33 am
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