Link of the Day [5.21.08]
I really haven’t eaten any ramen in my life except for the noodle blocks you get at the grocery 10 for $1. Yet, reading through this site it makes me hungry. I guess this post is more suited for foodiemonster.
A rose is a rose
More naming conventions for the new gadgets in my life.
iPhone is Thorin. The MacBook Pro is Gondolin. (I thought that was my big ass hard drive? Must be because I haven’t turned it on in a long while that I forgot.)
The IBM ThinkPad is Morgoth.
Yes, that’s a PC on the list. Because I needed it for school. Just for one class. And just for one project. $500 bucks. I could’ve had another MacMini.
Yet, I’ve been using it lately. It certainly needed to be used as I have had it unplugged from the charger for a year. I wonder if the battery is still good? I’ve been putting it to good use as the back up machine to my web surfing. Firefox. What other utils should I install to save me from the wicked world of PCs? Also, what games?
Quote of the Day [5.20.08]
“Good ol’ Charlie Brown… How I hate him!”
Shermy, Peanuts, Charles Shulz
Link of the Day [5.20.08]
Someone fixes a 25 year old bug in the BSD Unix.
“Who cares? I don’t use Unix anyway,” you might say. Sorry, it’s what’s running beneath the pretty Aqua interface of Mac OS X.
It’s a rather trivial bug, very low level and such. Yet, I wonder why it took this long to find a fix. The open source model of software development touts the fact that with the source available to anyone and everyone all bugs are shallow. That is it should take a short time to find a fix. Yet, the bug fix was just submitted recently!
The funny thing is that it was a known bug. Was it reported to code maintainers? There were programs that knew of the BSD problem and created workarounds for it. Somethings wrong with this the BSD development to let this go untouched for so long.
Salamat
Thank you to my friends and family for the well wishes that I received on Saturday. Grad school, while boring, was fun and challenging at times like so many other endeavors we choose to attempts. And getting the congratulations from you all made it all the better. I really appreciated the cake as well.
I wasn’t going to go to the ceremony, but once there on the floor, I thought to myself that I was glad I did. (And not just the girls) It was surprisingly awesome to be out there, then onto the dais for the ceremonial handshake.
Thanks!
The Office in Japan
This is spot on hilarious.
“Pamu. Pamu. Pamu.”
“Baka.”
“Gomen ne sai.”
And the way she laughs. So very, very, very japanese.
If I didn’t know any better, SNL produced a few laughs last weekend.
Quote of the Day [5.19.08]
渇いた心で駆け抜ける
ごめんね何もできなくて
痛みを分かち合うことさえ
あなたは許してくれない
無垢に生きるために振り向かず
背中向けて 去ってしまう
on the lonely rail
私ついていくよ
どんな辛い世界の闇の中でさえ
きっとあなたは輝いて
超える未来の果て
弱さ故に魂こわされぬように
my way 重なるよ
いまふたりに God bless…
1st verse of “God Knows…” from The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
Link of the Day [5.19.08]
XKCD would only appeal to geeks. Or am I wrong? Read some of these and tell me if you get the humor. Especially, the math stuff.
XKCD, a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math and language.
Quote of the Day [5.18.08]
“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.”
Sydney Carton, A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
Link of the Day [5.18.08]
Who’s the superest of them all?
I don’t know but some of these are quite clever.