| Belated Thanksgiving |
[Oct. 15th, 2009|10:24 am] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | Arbeit | ] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| | determined | ] |
I should've written this a few days ago and maybe I shouldn't write it at all but here goes:
I'm thankful that I'm only starved for time and not for food. I'm thankful that I exist in one of those historically rare times and places where I have the luxury of being my own worst enemy.
And now off to win a hundred battles. |
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| On the subject of defensins |
[Jul. 2nd, 2009|10:06 am] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | worky jerky turkey | ] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| |  cheerful | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | some LTJ Bukem sounding DnB ditty | ] |
After warning a friend about the duck-billed platypus's venom I fell down the Wikipedia hole because of the related topic 'defensins'. That leads to the most interesting blurb I've read all morning.:
Human genome contains theta-defensin genes, but they have a premature stop codon, hampering their expression. An artificial human theta-defensin,[4] retrocyclin, was created by `fixing' the pseudogene, and it was shown to be effective against HIV[5] and other viruses, including herpes simplex virus and influenza A. They act primarily by preventing these viruses from entering their target cells.
My incredibly naive and maintenance-coding-inflected interpretation of that is "We found some commented out code from the last developer that seems like it's a pretty good bugfix. Let's uncomment it!". Replace the last developer with God or Darwin or negative entropy or Eris or whatever and leave me out of it. This isn't that kind of blog entry :)
P.S.: Don't harass the full-grown, bull platypus!
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| Mathematical happenings |
[Sep. 12th, 2008|10:24 am] |
Yesterday at lunch, five other co-workers and myself had exact change for a non-separated $66 bill, including taxes and tips. When we got back to work, the guy who was giving me a lift hit 60000 km and is now only on his drivetrain warranty.
There's only one logical conclusion: The Large Hadron Collider has collapsed the false vacuum and we now live in a universe without prime numbers. Let's all factor something - anything! Hope you weren't depending on public-key cryptography. Was that important? Anyway, I'm sure it'll work itself out. |
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| Thanks, Alan Cross! |
[Jul. 13th, 2008|11:07 am] |
| [ | Tags | | | poop | ] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | a hat | ] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| | chipper | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | a hat | ] |
I just wanted to take this moment out of my day to thank Alan Cross and his Ongoing History of New Music show from CFNY 102.1 because he reminded me of something I otherwise probably would not have thought about ever again. He reminded me that the Dave Matthews Band pooped all over some people.
Yes, it's old news, but like a lovable old Flash cartoon, it's nice to dredge it up once in a while. |
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| Portal delivers again |
[Apr. 7th, 2008|12:05 am] |
| [ | Tags | | | portal | ] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | a giant bucket | ] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| | accomplished | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | beep boop blorp | ] |
I love Portal. You love Portal. Everyone and their pet slime mould loves Portal.
The only thing that bugged me about Portal was trying to import custom maps so that they would show up in Bonus Maps properly. Now that I know how to do that, nothing bugs me about Portal anymore.
It turns out that to create a custom thumbnail for a bonus map folder, all you need to do is create a folderinfo.bns file, download the Source SDK, use vtex.exe to export a TGA as a VTF, and write a VMT to describe it, remembering of course that the TGA must have dimensions that are powers of 2. For a 180 x 100 pixel thumbnail that means it needs to be padded by 176 pixels on the right and 28 pixels on the bottom.
Why one has to create a material to give a folder a thumbnail image is beyond me. Giving a bonus map a thumbnail is dead easy in comparison. You just have to steal one of the TGA screencaps from the autosaves and link to it in the map bns. All I know is that there's something hilarious to me about building a map pack and only needing an SDK to create one thumbnail. At least I got to feel like some kind of smarty game modder man for an hour. |
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| it was cabbage rolls |
[Feb. 13th, 2008|08:44 am] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | cabbage rolls | ] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| | cabbage rolls | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | The Soft Parade - The Doors | ] |
cabbage rolls
it was cabbage rolls
I had cabbage rolls for dinner last Sunday.
thanks for listening
bye |
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| updating füdblag to previous day |
[Feb. 12th, 2008|02:13 pm] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | a giant bucket | ] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| | busy | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | Busted Speaker - Deejay Punkrock | ] |
day 8:
-breakfast: cereal
-lunch: 6 oz. burger with fries at Master Steaks in Mississauga.
I would've loved to go for a 12 oz. but I already had planned today for a buffet with folks. 6 oz. of beef plus the vegetables and bun surrounding it plus fries cooked in lard is plenty. Good times with me and my fellow IT gluttons were had. We spoke of work and of the "You Sujck at Photoshop" videos.
-dinner: Indian buffet.
Stupid amount of over-eating. Breathing impaired by superfluity of meat beneath diaphragm. Love this stuff.
day 9:
-brokefast: cereal
-lunch: Mom's home cooked weiner schnitzel. VEEENUR SCHNITZUL.
-dinner: steak & onions with penne in marinara sauce.
Hit the spot after shovelling several metric fucktons of snow.
day 10:
-breakfast: cereal
-2nd breakfast: Ikea $1.00 breakfast + oj. Fundamentally good value. We didn't buy any furniture... this time.
-lnuch: Price Chopper chicken and taters meal, Price Chopper mediocre creamed coleslaw. SLAWWWWWWW
-dinner: FILE NOT FOUND
Damn, that's my first FILE NOT FOUND this year for PEYEIYLJ month. I'm pretty embarassed. Pretty embarassed.
day 11:
-breakfast: cereal
-snack: LEMON MUFFIN unfortunately not POPPYSEED. cheese muffin HOMPH HOMPH
-lunch: cafeteria chicken breast with cafeteria cajun herbs and spices, roast vegetables
-dinner: fish (whiting) rice + leftover taters, lentil soup, spring mix salad |
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| FOD (day 7) |
[Feb. 8th, 2008|12:42 am] |
breakfast: cereal + milk + coffee + MANGOES
morning snack: peppermint tea
lunch: wiener schnitzel sammich and some cafeteria soup
afternoon unplanned SNEAK MODE snack: a leftover pizza slice from a local Brampton business, Pizza Depot. Good place and they have a Galaga stand-up machine.
dinnar: rice & lentil & shrimp stirfry, coleslaw on the side |
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| day the sixth |
[Feb. 7th, 2008|09:25 am] |
breakfast: cereal + fruit
lunch: ham & salami sandwich and something that the cafeteria called 'beef borscht', not bad but probably too salty
dinner: -leftovers from Monday's ribs
-bittermelon and eggplant salad
-rice n' beans (actually lentils). |
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| tag funf |
[Feb. 7th, 2008|09:15 am] |
b: cereal + fruit + coffee
l: ham and salami sammich + unmemorable cafeteria soup
d: I was actually drawing a blank here until I remembered that it was a...
SHROVE TUESDAY CLUSTERFUCK (slammin' guitar solo):
* blueberry pancake short stack with butter and syrup
* clam chowder with sea legs and Chinese shrimp balls and unusually large clams that weren't from a can. a can of clams.
* artichoke and tomato salad
INTENSE
This has been your yearly MARDI FAT CLUSTERFUCK (wailing on guitar). |
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| day 4 - WHOA FATT |
[Feb. 5th, 2008|09:03 am] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | calm | ] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| | calm | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | calm | ] |
-breakfast: cereal + 0.33 bananas, cup of carfee
-morning snack: storebought fruit cup and tea
-lunch: steak sammich with spring mix salad topping on rye + small salad bowl from company salad bar... salad!
-afternoon snack: twin date cookies from vending machine. I could not stop the eat attack
-dinner: honey garlic glazed ribs, baked potato, more spring mix salad. so f'ing good.
-evening snack: orange, peanuts, apple, glass of water. Heaven forbid I should go more than 3 hours without eating! |
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| 3rd day |
[Feb. 3rd, 2008|11:10 pm] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | so close to bed | ] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| |  sleepy | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | owetekra | ] |
breakfast: no-name cornflakes, no-name cheerios, red grapes, milk
lunch: homemade phở as made by the mom unit.
I went to Wikipedia to get those crazy diacritics on the o (ở). Pedantic enough for you? I just think they're pretty.
Superbowl Sunday Supper at friend's house:
- 20 Metric butt-tonnes of jalapeño poppers
- tortilla chips with hummus with diced red peppers
- thin-crust pizza with chicken, onions, peppers, and two kinds of cheese
- beers numbering two
You know, when I was mentioning other fūd blags earlier I should've described in better detail what I was talking about. ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) emilyruthdotca started this Facebook group to compile blogs like this that are describing their owners' meals all this month. Check it out! |
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| day two (cont.) |
[Feb. 3rd, 2008|11:09 pm] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | hoem | ] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| | tired | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | ottiker | ] |
evening snack: peanuts and a Mr. Noodles, chicken flavoured |
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| day two |
[Feb. 3rd, 2008|12:15 am] |
breakfist: eggs, sausage patty, home fries, bread, butter, and jam
lunch: debreziner sausage on rye with dijon mustard
dinner: chicken adobo, cabbage, and rye bread.
This was the first meal of the day without sausage. Make of that what you will. |
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| Feb. 1st (cont.) |
[Feb. 2nd, 2008|06:14 pm] |
-lunch: Wendy's double hold the cheese, regoolur fries, bottle of water.
This tasted good going down but the burger sat like a brick in my stomach for the rest of the afternoon. I need to find a real burger joint around here.
-dinner: frozen pizza with extra bacon added, leftover lentil and okra soup, artichoke and tomato salad, and a breadstick.
-evening snack: kofi, choc. cheesecake half-slice, and carrot cake half-slice.
This was at Coffee Culture in Brampton. Nice place. I should find out if they have a hotspot there. Then I could blag about food while I eat it, pleasing precisely no-one. |
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| It is on! |
[Feb. 1st, 2008|09:07 am] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | a giant bucket | ] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| | cheerful | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | Autechre - Incunabula | ] |
Post Everything You Eat In Your Livejournal Month is go!
brakfirst: Cheerios, no-name, flaked corn cold cereal + 0.5 bananas. One cup of cofffeee.
Yeah, that's how far I got. I'm just warming up.
It seems I like to blag about food more than anything else in this poor world. I've thought about why this is the case.
One reason is that I don't think I should be talking too much about work in a world-readable blag. I have never had a problem understanding why blagging about work could be career limiting. Uncharacteristically, for my generation, I do enjoy what I do and am happy to continue to do it. There goes a third of life right there - and besides, who wants to hear a guy saying only that he's "feelin' fine"?
The second third is sleep, a time where I snore so fiercely that I scare children. Ask anyone who knows me IRL and they can describe it far better than I can. Axiomatically, I sleep through my own snoring (somehow).
The 3rd third is divided into socialization, personal life administration, and HORRIBLE WEBSITES. That could be interesting. However, I don't think I'd ever talk about my friends and enemies in a blag with the same flippancy that I do in conversation. Just because I feel one way about someone one day doesn't mean I'll feel different about them the next day - and who wants to hear me bitch about someone on the internet that I could've bitched at in real life myself?
What of the websites? The websites that me and my fellow IRC cenobites trade amongst ourselves like so many eldritch grimoires? Just... no. One time I showed the Mr. Hands video to a sensitive lady and she ended up in hospital for a month. I feel a bit bad about that.
So I guess that leaves two ninths of life that I could be blagging about. Laziness is my only justification for not doing so. If someone can get a laugh about the time I found three packs of gum in my to-do pile at home, it would be a shame if I didn't talk about it.
Finally, I could talk about the food that I eat at least once in a while. Food is great. I like it healthy, I like it junky. Even if I did want to eat less of it, and I do, I could never quit it like you can quit smoking. Because then I would DIE.
I hope you can endure this month of trivia - maybe also check out other people's food blags, because I think they're going to be great. If it's any consolation, I'll be enjoying myself! |
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| Slow learner: episode 1 |
[Apr. 27th, 2007|06:31 pm] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| | nonplussed | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | Hardcore Breaks section - www.hardcorewillneverdie.com btw hardcore | ] |
I've been reading Jerkcity for eight years now. I can't believe it's taken me this long to realize atandt's name is probably pronounced 'AT&T'. Then again maybe it's really pronounced atandt.
Sometimes I'm a really slow learner. |
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| The Ultimate Resource |
[Mar. 16th, 2007|11:49 am] |
Did you know that IGN.com is the ULTIMATE RESOURCE for Barbie Horse Aventures trailers, screenshots, cheats, walkthroughs, etc.?
Well it is.
Also, according to the game forums, it's widely agreed that Barbie can kick John Cena's ass. |
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| Adventures in Posting |
[Mar. 10th, 2007|08:25 pm] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | worky jerky | ] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| |  confused | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | Plump DJs - Remember My Name | ] |
I just tried to import my elljay into faisbok as an atom feed. Although it looked successful at first,
1. It seems to have doubled each imported entry now.
2. LJ-cuts aren't duplicated. The moldy pickle I found in the fridge during Post Everything You Eat In Your Livejournal Month is no longer hidden.
Maybe I shouldn't have given up on the free RSS feed URL from Livejournal so quickly. Maybe this is a temporary thing. Maybe I should read some more FAQs. I'll find out which one of these maybes was a yes fairly soon, I should hope. |
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