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October 16, 2008

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come along and listen to / the lullaby of foghorns (via Twitter)

Twitter posted a message on Twitter
“come along and listen to / the lullaby of foghorns”

October 16, 2008 02:39 AM

Mmm, two drink attitude adjustment (via Twitter)

Twitter posted a message on Twitter
“Mmm, two drink attitude adjustment”

October 16, 2008 02:31 AM

annoyed that instead of playing the debate drinking game, I am working. Again (via Twitter)

Twitter posted a message on Twitter
“annoyed that instead of playing the debate drinking game, I am working. Again”

October 16, 2008 01:58 AM

October 15, 2008

FriendFeed consolidation

second impulse from the book I'm reading: violating the grave of Earl Butz (via Twitter)

Twitter posted a message on Twitter
“second impulse from the book I'm reading: violating the grave of Earl Butz”

October 15, 2008 05:29 PM

vaccinated against influenza (via Twitter)

Twitter posted a message on Twitter
“vaccinated against influenza”

October 15, 2008 05:01 PM

transmission from outer space or stairs going up? I can't tell! (via Twitter)

Twitter posted a message on Twitter
“transmission from outer space or stairs going up? I can't tell!”

October 15, 2008 05:26 AM

Sharks win! Sharks win! 5-2 (via Twitter)

Twitter posted a message on Twitter
“Sharks win! Sharks win! 5-2”

October 15, 2008 04:57 AM

fight fight fight (via Twitter)

Twitter posted a message on Twitter
“fight fight fight”

October 15, 2008 04:46 AM

to be filed under TMI: evidently no male hockey player can do the tricks @cosmogrrl does (via Twitter)

Twitter posted a message on Twitter
“to be filed under TMI: evidently no male hockey player can do the tricks @cosmogrrl does”

October 15, 2008 04:43 AM

nooooo, don't pass to the ref, either (via Twitter)

Twitter posted a message on Twitter
“nooooo, don't pass to the ref, either”

October 15, 2008 04:38 AM

posted 18 more messages on Twitter

Twitter posted 18 messages on Twitter
  • “MR PICKLE puts it in”
  • “the Sharks motto: luck is our co-goalie”
  • “second goal of the game for Merlot! YES”
  • “good news, Sharks now passing to real people. Sadly, those people are on opposing team”
  • “ah, UFC. Gladiator games for the American Empire”
  • “@airshipjones like Hannah Montana? No, the undead are not the soulless of Disney”
  • “@airshipjones hence the term brainfreeze”
  • “IAABPB: I see an ad for wireless Amber alerts, I thik: great, jailbait pr0n for people on the go”
  • “Zomboni Time! Zamboni time!”
  • “it's a damned shame Sharks are near-sighted animals; it means they often pass the puck to someone who ISN'T FUCKING THERE”
  • “evidently the reason Cheechoo is so cute and muppety is that he's from JimHenson Bay”
  • “@cwage *SIGH* why is it never a hot chick, with you?”
  • “Yay CHEECHOO”
  • “reminded by a TV commcercial that, oh yeah, people still pay money for software. Ha, chumps”
  • “Sharks evidently under impression this isn't a real game, playing painfully sloppy”
  • “deciding that from now on I'm wearing a babyface mask from BRAZIL to work”
  • “hooray Sharks pregame, hooray beer, hooray wings”
  • “finally escaped work, heading to wings + hockey + beer”
See all Twitter activity in Shannon Prickett's feed »

October 15, 2008 03:27 AM

October 14, 2008

FriendFeed consolidation

@original_mikz using info which requires decoding from second source for important announcements == design fail (via Twitter)

Twitter posted a message on Twitter
“@original_mikz using info which requires decoding from second source for important announcements == design fail”

October 14, 2008 07:26 PM

experiencing first impulse from book I'm reading: desire to return to Iowa and take up farming. (via Twitter)

Twitter posted a message on Twitter
“experiencing first impulse from book I'm reading: desire to return to Iowa and take up farming.”

October 14, 2008 07:25 PM

now have a new band name: Unheralded Botanical Catastrophe (via Twitter)

Twitter posted a message on Twitter
“now have a new band name: Unheralded Botanical Catastrophe”

October 14, 2008 07:11 PM

amused that BART operators continue to use meaningless-to-passenger terms. Platform 2? What does that even mean? Call it inbound! (via Twitter)

Twitter posted a message on Twitter
“amused that BART operators continue to use meaningless-to-passenger terms. Platform 2? What does that even mean? Call it inbound!”

October 14, 2008 07:06 PM

forced to endure overhearing a boring story, told loudly and haltingly. It's like the web without a close keyboard shortcut (via Twitter)

Twitter posted a message on Twitter
“forced to endure overhearing a boring story, told loudly and haltingly. It's like the web without a close keyboard shortcut”

October 14, 2008 06:57 PM

posted five more messages on Twitter

Twitter posted five messages on Twitter
  • “seem to have missed the cut off for them stopping the bus shuttle inbound from my BART station, the train they keep promising us just sh ...”
  • “@JEHendon oh, good answer! Mindbites can be naesty. A mind bit my sister once”
  • “@churl2 it's the enveloping monsters which do the most harm. Especially when they then mail you COD”
  • “question of the morning: how can a mouthless monster threaten to bite you?”
  • “some days all I have to say to twitter is 'on' and 'off'. This looks like a different kind of day, already”
See all Twitter activity in Shannon Prickett's feed »

October 14, 2008 06:40 PM

October 13, 2008

Manjusri Blog

You’ve Got Your Cargo in My Cult

Island of the Sequined Love Nun is a novel I will confess to buying solely because of the name.  Names, actually.  One name was the title, which was titillating, and the other name was that of Christopher Moore.  I’d previously enjoyed his novel Lamb and so I was interested in reading others by him.  This is the first other one I’ve read and it did not disappoint.

It’s a small scale picaresque of a lovable loser who is driven from scene to scene by the actions of others until he has finally had enough and then his will drives him from scene to scene.  There’s quite a bit to like in this book, from a naked bitch goddess to a cautious and thoughtful tribe chief, from a cannibal to a fruitbat.  This is a fun, fast-paced romp which even has a couple sex scenes, neither one with much romance to it.

Things I liked about this book

  • good pacing, chapters weren’t any longer than they needed to be
  • a naked drunk petty goddess
  • the presentation of an exotic location
  • a Brooklyn descended post-mortal protector

Who might like this book

  • people who think that Tim Powers is too serious when he writes about spooky cults
  • people who’ve always wondered what happens to people who cross Texas matrons
  • fans of pilots
  • fans of cannibals

Who might not like this book

  • men with castration anxiety
  • sharks
  • strict realists who are looking for a wholesome morally uplifting snore-fest

by binder at October 13, 2008 03:01 PM

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savoring the compulsory scatter brainedness which accompanies WAY too much coffee (via Twitter)

Twitter posted a message on Twitter
“savoring the compulsory scatter brainedness which accompanies WAY too much coffee”

October 13, 2008 02:37 AM

October 12, 2008

Manjusri Blog

Simple Nerdy Pleasures

Sometimes I find myself typing something over and over in a bash window and even with tab-completion, it’s still boring and tedious, in a sort of first-world no-one-is-killing-me fashion. But it’s still more work than I want to be doing, as a terminally lazy softcase. So I wrote a little one-off script to do the work for me. Like so:


#!/bin/bash

echo Indexing $2 as level $1/$3
if [ ! -d by-start-level/$1 ];
then
mkdir by-start-level/$1
fi
cd by-start-level/$1
ln -s “../../$2″ ./$3
cd -

The effect I’m going for here is to end up with a symlink farm of files, indexed by minimum character level.  Pulling that out of the files themself is more work than I wanted to do, but it’s easy enough to open a file, eyeball grep out a number, and then call the script with the original name, character level and destination short name.  As a side-effect I can group otherwise unrelated files thematically.  So I can have a set of adventures designed for 5th level characters with a short handle of run_this_next-1, run_this_next-2 or use-these-maps-4 or whatever.

by binder at October 12, 2008 07:10 PM

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October 11, 2008

FriendFeed consolidation

just read the best RPG EVAR thanks to @airshipjones. XXXXtreme Street Luge. Scratches my itch to be Vin Diesel (via Twitter)

Twitter posted a message on Twitter
“just read the best RPG EVAR thanks to @airshipjones. XXXXtreme Street Luge. Scratches my itch to be Vin Diesel”

October 11, 2008 02:14 AM

Perceptuion: 10 parts per million of the law (via Twitter)

Twitter posted a message on Twitter
“Perceptuion: 10 parts per million of the law”

October 11, 2008 01:15 AM

planning my Halloween costume for San Francisco: Sexy Hypothermia Victim (via Twitter)

Twitter posted a message on Twitter
“planning my Halloween costume for San Francisco: Sexy Hypothermia Victim”

October 11, 2008 12:18 AM

October 10, 2008

FriendFeed consolidation

the sign at BART has told me my train will be here in 16 minutes for over half an hour now (via Twitter)

Twitter posted a message on Twitter
“the sign at BART has told me my train will be here in 16 minutes for over half an hour now”

October 10, 2008 05:14 PM

watching flares burn down as the CHP hauls off somebody's car and the driver sits in the back of a patrol car (via Twitter)

Twitter posted a message on Twitter
“watching flares burn down as the CHP hauls off somebody's car and the driver sits in the back of a patrol car”

October 10, 2008 04:48 PM