Some of This and That

First, a blogger/geek/programmer named Adam Lindsay, inspired by the runaway success and face-melting hilarity of Caturday sites like ichcb and roflcats comes the first inklings of a new programming language, called lolcode. Observe a typical "hello world" program:

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Inadvertently Fixed

Um... weird.

I just did a minor code update to the backend of the site. The flat files that store the witty, well-timed captions to all my pictures were previously in a colon-delimited format. That means that on each line in each file, the text would read, …

The System is Down

You may have noticed that things are weird. I have too. I brought up this webpage a couple days ago, and saw that there are some missing entries. So I logged into the server and found that it's all running on the backup server. I sent an email asking what's up, and got …

The System is Up

Everything's back up! That was an annoying, yet thankfully not too long outage. I have restored the comment functionality, and I will now resume my work on the features I wanted to add. Enjoy.

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Cinco de Long Day

I had a lively weekend. On Friday morning, I handed off the oncall phone to Eddie and ran- nay skipped, out of the office for the afternoon. The really bad news came though as I was approaching my car at Sunfresh in Midtown. Someone had quite expertly removed the brand …

At Large

In what was supposed to be the sixth week of the kickball season, we played our third game last night, and lost by two runs. We celebrated with various runs around town. Before the game, I found that I would have to drive myself there, despite having secured a fantastic …

Paying the Principal

It was recently brought to my attention that in the case of controlled debt payments, like for a car or a mortgage, anything that is paid over the required periodic amount goes directly toward paying off the principal loan amount. Being largely oblivious of things that …

Attention Paintfumes

Check your email. The one that has your ZIP code in the address. I sent you a full explanation.

Everyone else: Sorry.

Tchaikovsky

Eric came over last night to help Jeff and me make a dent in the keg we still have not finished. We need to empty it by the upcoming party, for which we have reserved and paid for a new keg. A while into the proceedings, Becca sent a round of text messages, instructing …

The Waitress at Tarantino's

John, Brad and I went to Tarantino's for lunch today. Tarantino's makes, without question, the best Chicago-style pizza I've ever had outside Chicago. That said, it seems to be a major gathering place for KC's relatively small but high conspicuous Italian community. …

Pubcrawl Pictures from 2007

I have finished transferring, renaming, resizing, rotating, uploading, extracting, linking, and captioning the latest set of pictures. The following link feature, when clicked, will change your web-browser's view to that of a display page for the aforementioned set of …

Like a Dirty Hippie

In an effort to humor Jeff, save some money, avoid parking unpleasantness, and get some natural exercise, I'm taking the bus all this week. Driving takes 12-15 minutes, but fills me with hate. Riding the bus takes about an hour and 20 minutes each way, including …

A Good Old-Fashioned Woopin

We had a make-up kickball game last night, to make up for time lost to rain. Coincidentally, we played the same team we played last week- the same team that beat us with a score of nine runs to our six. We even played them at the same time. We came out slow, not scoring …

Weekend in Iowa

I got out of the office on Friday at about 4, and headed downtown to pack and get going. I got out the door by about 4:45pm, gritted my teeth, and prepared for a hellish Friday rush hour drive out of downtown. I was pleasantly surprised however. The Broadway Extension, …

Royals, Finally!

On my suggestion, a group of us at work went to the Royals-Indians game last night. We got out the door by about 5:15pm, made a quick stop at the Price Chopper in Raytown, and before we knew it, were grilling in one of the many tens of thousands of parking spots at the …

Got a Treo

My phone has been a continued source of annoyance for me. I love how small it is. I love the big color screen. I love the EVDO internet connection, but that's about it. The rest just makes me angry. The reception is horrible, text messaging is worse, and I have now …