Beksuki

Ant is pretty cool when you get the hang of it. I can build three separate Java  subprojects, generate their javadocs, jar each of the subprojects, copy the jars to a deployment folder, zip all the support material, and ftp the zip and the javadocs to the server, all with one single click.

When using Eclipse, Eclipse even checks for circular dependencies in your Ant script, and shows you the circle. That's pretty crazy ...

Evidently the Perl source code (for building perl releases) is sprinkled with LOTR quotes. Say what you will, I think that's pretty classy!

The command was supposed to be "ls -al", but "sl -al" gives more interesting results...

Protip: The conductors on a flexible printed circuit (such as those that ... connect my laptop keyboard to my laptop) may easily scratch, rendering the conductors...nonconducting.

Somebody needs to develop a cocomo II calculator for a ti-89 solely so that I may use it one time on this upcoming exam. PS: exam is in 2 hrs

The latest phenomenon is for me to turn on the computer and see that the sound card driver is no longer installed. It doesn't take more than 10 minutes to reinstall it from the internet, but, really? Just the sound card driver?  Never anything else? How random...

$219 to replace my engine temperature sensor.

Too bad they didn't have this site when I was taking electronic circuits...

http://www66.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Butterworth+filter

Oh my gawd my hears hurt. Chimaira, who I didn't recognize, sucked I thought-- Killswitch is about as far into that genre as I'm willing to go. I knew all the Killswitch songs though which made them fun. Lacuna I only recognized maybe one song but they were enjoyable, and Disturbed was epic of course. They almost get you to think they WOULDN'T play Down with the Sickness, then there's a seemingly random 3 minute drum solo that rolls right into the intro to the song.

Current Music: ringing ears

A few grocery stores are offering reusable cloth bags for customers. If they use one of these bags, basically the cost of a paper/plastic bag is subtracted from their grocery total. I think it's a wonderful idea.

A number of years ago when I worked at a grocery store (before words like "carbon footprint" became so mainstream) there was an older lady who always insisted that I put her groceries in a cloth bag that she brought. I had thought she was just being difficult, turns out she was being kind of revolutionary!