that’s whacked

i’ve been excluded from being included

Friday, Jan 26. 2007  –  Category: Sun

we have an internal mailing list system where you can subscribe or unsubscribe from various lists. some lists require approval, not unlike Internet mailing lists. anyway, today i got the following email:

You have been declined from subscribing to the the Alias: InclusionExpansionProject_3

hrm. odd. i was excluded from being included in an “inclusion expansion” (which in and of itself, is an oddly opposingly-worded name) list that i never attempted to subscribe to in the first place.

anyway, just thought it was funny and odd.

becks in mls

Thursday, Jan 11. 2007  –  Category: Football

well i’ll be damned

out yourself!

Wednesday, Jan 10. 2007  –  Category: Musings

snagged from geoff’s blog, apparently this is National Delurking Week

don’t be a terrorist. leave a comment and say “hello”, “hallo”, “hullo”, or even a “ni hao”.

links for 2007-01-08

Monday, Jan 8. 2007  –  Category: Linkage

• PERL - Special Variables
  confound these annoying perl special variables… i always have to look them up
  (tags: perl)

now *that’s* backwards-compatibility

Friday, Jan 5. 2007  –  Category: OpenSolaris, Photos

zac told me about his dad’s old Nikon SLR from the 60’s, and on a whim jaime brought them over during lunch, and we tried them out. turns out they still fit perfectly into my brand new D80 digital SLR. these are some old manual-focus lenses, so they obviously don’t auto-focus, but they see to work fine.

the two lenses are a 80-200 f/4.5, which is pretty much a pure overlap with the 55-200 lens i already own - so not much to be gained there. but the other lens is the classic Nikon 50mm f/1.4 lens which i’ve been having a blast with all night. it takes some great portrait photos with some really shallow depth of field.

i’m debating whether or not to cancel the order for the 50mm f/1.8 AF i have at Amazon. i’ll play with this MF f1/4. for a few more days and decide - but so far…so good

links for 2007-01-05

Friday, Jan 5. 2007  –  Category: Linkage

• 3.6.1 String Methods
  python string methods
  (tags: python string)

more destructive dogs…

Tuesday, Jan 2. 2007  –  Category: Pets

sigh. we called in professional help.

char-siu is an eff-ing evil genius. not only that, he’s an alcoholic too.

bet you’ve never heard a dog described as a brilliant alcoholic before, but he is………………. last week he managed to break into the fridge twice. getting into a double-door fridge is no mean feat… but char-siu did it AFTER we started putting a child-lock on.

yes. you read that right. my beagle broke into a double-door refridgerator with a child-lock on it.

amazing. if only he could use his evil genius for better things…. like washing the dishes, or doing the laundry. heck, make me some dinner even.

… anyway, i think i figured out how to set the lock such that he couldn’t leverage it and open it. it foiled him the past 4 days anyway…. so today he moved onto other things.

i came home today to find a chair pulled out next to the liquor bar, my bottle of 12 year Glenlivet lying on the floor… half drunk.

my dog drinks single-malt scotch.

amazing. not only that, he drank half the friggin’ bottle…. which explains his erratic behaviour (and pained yelping when i came home).

anyway, we’ve had two training sessions with Matt, and it’s looking good so far. char-siu is starting to respect us a little more, and i think his confidence is slowly increasing. once we get him focused and more self-confident, i’m hopeful his separation anxiety will ease up.

but in the meantime, i put all the good liquor away.