Well done America. In your honour I am wearing this t-shirt, and will be going to this club.
I may sing "America, fuck yeah" a little later in my own inimitable manner.
I may sing "America, fuck yeah" a little later in my own inimitable manner.
July 4th, 2009
June 24th, 2009
FAO ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif)
markeris: My country still loves Bill Drummond
And I thought the yanks would get a laugh out it:
May 25th, 2009
Freeze the gin. Freeze the glass. Freeze the vermouth.
5 parts gin, 1 part the good bit of vermouth flavour. Ice. Shake.
I'm now out of all the bits of that bottle of vermouth that don't freeze. I wonder what it'll taste like if I just pour the gin over the vermouth ice next time...
5 parts gin, 1 part the good bit of vermouth flavour. Ice. Shake.
I'm now out of all the bits of that bottle of vermouth that don't freeze. I wonder what it'll taste like if I just pour the gin over the vermouth ice next time...
May 2nd, 2009
Dear Lazyweb,
Keyboard-wise I hear the kineses is the bomb (if you don't want a model M). I have greatly enjoyed my Microsoft natural for the last 9 years but it is now time to replace it. I tried out a Thinkpad one with track point so I don't have to reach to mouse. It's only about as nice as the Z61s, which isn't as good as my T41. So I think ergonomic proper crazy one might be the way to go. The Ms are nice but hard to get over here.
- Aidan
Keyboard-wise I hear the kineses is the bomb (if you don't want a model M). I have greatly enjoyed my Microsoft natural for the last 9 years but it is now time to replace it. I tried out a Thinkpad one with track point so I don't have to reach to mouse. It's only about as nice as the Z61s, which isn't as good as my T41. So I think ergonomic proper crazy one might be the way to go. The Ms are nice but hard to get over here.
- Aidan
Dear diary. Fuck me. Tea and toast for breakfast, then I have to shower and head to my tutorial. 10 minutes of class comedy first though, so you get this.
If you'd told me when I signed up for doing two OU courses that I'd reach this point and only be 21% bollocksed according to the official timeline I'd have bitten your hand off. A moderate constant flow of caffeine and a day off work on Tuesday and that's sorted. Woo!
Spoke to sis' jr. a few days ago, she's also remarkably bus (as is my mum. Family trait), but having a lot of fun. It'll be good to see her when she's back in a few weeks. Amusingly, we had to negotiate quite carefully to see each other since I'm off to boston a week or so after. *shakes head*
Accidently a festival due to awesome Glasgowness. Was really good to catch up with y'all, we should do it again next year. ;) Saw people who only normally come out as infrequently and randomly as I do, so end up missing a lot. Felt like a proper festival with the strung outness, having to fit meals in and occasionally working too.
And now, shower, tutorial, lunch, study, swim, dinner, theatre (Bliss+Mud), sleep.
- Aidan (who is now going to find out what they mean when they say "darwinisms". The plural threw me a little)
If you'd told me when I signed up for doing two OU courses that I'd reach this point and only be 21% bollocksed according to the official timeline I'd have bitten your hand off. A moderate constant flow of caffeine and a day off work on Tuesday and that's sorted. Woo!
Spoke to sis' jr. a few days ago, she's also remarkably bus (as is my mum. Family trait), but having a lot of fun. It'll be good to see her when she's back in a few weeks. Amusingly, we had to negotiate quite carefully to see each other since I'm off to boston a week or so after. *shakes head*
Accidently a festival due to awesome Glasgowness. Was really good to catch up with y'all, we should do it again next year. ;) Saw people who only normally come out as infrequently and randomly as I do, so end up missing a lot. Felt like a proper festival with the strung outness, having to fit meals in and occasionally working too.
And now, shower, tutorial, lunch, study, swim, dinner, theatre (Bliss+Mud), sleep.
- Aidan (who is now going to find out what they mean when they say "darwinisms". The plural threw me a little)
April 18th, 2009
April 16th, 2009
From a highly retro geocities page:
"CF: The cocktail stick is what you hang on to, when the cocktail gets you. It used to be said that if you can lie on the floor without holding on to anything, you're not really drunk. And the cocktail stick is exactly the sort of thing that is there in order to lend support and succour to those who have had a hard time of it. New York in the 1920s was the heyday, spirits, bitters, aromatics, even wine and fruit were used to produce buck's fizz... "
"CF: The cocktail stick is what you hang on to, when the cocktail gets you. It used to be said that if you can lie on the floor without holding on to anything, you're not really drunk. And the cocktail stick is exactly the sort of thing that is there in order to lend support and succour to those who have had a hard time of it. New York in the 1920s was the heyday, spirits, bitters, aromatics, even wine and fruit were used to produce buck's fizz... "
April 10th, 2009
http://barcamp.org/BarCampGlasgow
If you're confused by the URL, wait for explanatory post in the future. Or use your initiative. It'll be wicked awesome.
If you're confused by the URL, wait for explanatory post in the future. Or use your initiative. It'll be wicked awesome.
April 7th, 2009
WOOO
Virgin fixed it. Found a couple of wonderful people in moves and transfers who edited the database for me and enabled things to get turned on again without me needing an engineer visit. Still wasn't working when I got home, but a few Extremely Efficient phone calls and "no, that's not good enough, put me through to your manager" and it's click-click-click done.
Fuck. Yeah.
Now, I am merely hugely behind with my social science essay, hack Qpid 0.5 into the best AMQP server ever and serve on a jury.
No probs.
although, as a result, I won't be around online much / at all, and will be making my final public appearance for a week at Bat for Lashes tomorrow night
Virgin fixed it. Found a couple of wonderful people in moves and transfers who edited the database for me and enabled things to get turned on again without me needing an engineer visit. Still wasn't working when I got home, but a few Extremely Efficient phone calls and "no, that's not good enough, put me through to your manager" and it's click-click-click done.
Fuck. Yeah.
Now, I am merely hugely behind with my social science essay, hack Qpid 0.5 into the best AMQP server ever and serve on a jury.
No probs.
although, as a result, I won't be around online much / at all, and will be making my final public appearance for a week at Bat for Lashes tomorrow night
April 6th, 2009
Friday was a late night at the office, followed by a spontaneous "let's go for a pint and some food in West" that turned into "let's get rat arsed, overshare and get the midnight train". 5am start on Saturday and Martin and I were on the way to BarCampApacheOxford. Oxford's really pretty, I'll get the few pictures I took off my phone when I've got internet at home sorted out. There are, of course, more at the flickr tag, including several of me looking hungover and lardy.
Best bits:
the 2nd best cold open "I knoooowwwww yooou"[1] toandlosers outside and the rolling OpenID/Online Identity conversation with him and IdentityWoman that started in a beer garden and continued the next morning trying to hold onto the table (there's a pic of me at that looking hungover and lardy in the flickr set).
Hanging out with Robert in Combibos talking about messaging, concurrency and why nobody's written a good IMAP client (IMAP fucking sucks).
The couch sessions on teaching FOSS in school (where I had what I presume is a classic barcamp experience of "I should go, I said I'd do a talk now, but I am more interested in this"), Gender issues in tech and conferences and the online activism / transparency / social media ethics discussion.
Meeting the ASF members who were there, nice to put names to faces I've only seen on mailing lists before (and learn how to pronounce FOAF).
But the I enjoyed most was the energy. OMFG, so much Relentless Positivity. There was a real feeling of a desire and will to change the world for the better. Which was made all the more palpable because, of course, some of the people there already had. "Yes, we have, and we'll do it again" beats "yes, we can".
- Aidan (who is currently sitting in Rio Cafe because he has no internet, watching a man in an orange bunny suit sing Johnny Cash through a loud hailer)
[1] Best is still meetingcavalorn at the football in Whitby. That will take some beating.
Best bits:
the 2nd best cold open "I knoooowwwww yooou"[1] to
andlosers outside and the rolling OpenID/Online Identity conversation with him and IdentityWoman that started in a beer garden and continued the next morning trying to hold onto the table (there's a pic of me at that looking hungover and lardy in the flickr set). Hanging out with Robert in Combibos talking about messaging, concurrency and why nobody's written a good IMAP client (IMAP fucking sucks).
The couch sessions on teaching FOSS in school (where I had what I presume is a classic barcamp experience of "I should go, I said I'd do a talk now, but I am more interested in this"), Gender issues in tech and conferences and the online activism / transparency / social media ethics discussion.
Meeting the ASF members who were there, nice to put names to faces I've only seen on mailing lists before (and learn how to pronounce FOAF).
But the I enjoyed most was the energy. OMFG, so much Relentless Positivity. There was a real feeling of a desire and will to change the world for the better. Which was made all the more palpable because, of course, some of the people there already had. "Yes, we have, and we'll do it again" beats "yes, we can".
- Aidan (who is currently sitting in Rio Cafe because he has no internet, watching a man in an orange bunny suit sing Johnny Cash through a loud hailer)
[1] Best is still meeting
cavalorn at the football in Whitby. That will take some beating.April 4th, 2009
Virgin accidently cut me off at home a couple of weeks ago, and now can't turn it on. Useless blighters.
So, internet is limited to the 1140 characters I can expose myself as a twit with, not being able to delete cock ups is somewhat chastening too.
OTOH, I am swamped with work, uni and have slotted in a week of fun and frolics which was much needed, but I am now kind of behind with my final Social Science essay. Gonna go see Bat For Lashes on Wednesday and otherwise keep my head down.
Next was suppoused to be jury service, but I called last night (after a rather rude and sleep-dep driven session in the pub after leaving work at 8) and I have to call back on Monday. This is good as Qpid 0.5 isn't out yet so the day job is continuing to prove fascinatingly interesting.I also need to do a bit of review on the Google Summer of Code applications we got.
But that's all the future. This morning I got up at 5am, showered, picked up my rucksack and flew to Luton with Martin. We're now sitting in a square in Oxford, watching the world go buy while I binge on internet. Tonight, the semi-official geek curry + beer session before BarCampApacheOxford tomorrow.
Woo.
So, internet is limited to the 1140 characters I can expose myself as a twit with, not being able to delete cock ups is somewhat chastening too.
OTOH, I am swamped with work, uni and have slotted in a week of fun and frolics which was much needed, but I am now kind of behind with my final Social Science essay. Gonna go see Bat For Lashes on Wednesday and otherwise keep my head down.
Next was suppoused to be jury service, but I called last night (after a rather rude and sleep-dep driven session in the pub after leaving work at 8) and I have to call back on Monday. This is good as Qpid 0.5 isn't out yet so the day job is continuing to prove fascinatingly interesting.I also need to do a bit of review on the Google Summer of Code applications we got.
But that's all the future. This morning I got up at 5am, showered, picked up my rucksack and flew to Luton with Martin. We're now sitting in a square in Oxford, watching the world go buy while I binge on internet. Tonight, the semi-official geek curry + beer session before BarCampApacheOxford tomorrow.
Woo.
March 19th, 2009
Dear lazyweb,
How do I make Open Office print the annotations on a document with an arrow, like they appear in the UI?
Love,
- Aidan
How do I make Open Office print the annotations on a document with an arrow, like they appear in the UI?
Love,
- Aidan
March 14th, 2009
Reading the Linux 1.0 release mail (as it's 15 years on today) I noticed the last email address. The Microsoft patches continue to roll in for Qpid (Steve wrote about DLL builds for the C++ server recently), so this gives me warm and fuzzies. :)
I only just found out that BarCampScotland is on today! Bother. It'd take too long to get there and I have too much studying to do. I'm pondering
BarCampApacheOxford in a couple of weeks, Qpid 0.5 should be shipping around then and train time is prime reading time.
Also, John Stewart++.
I only just found out that BarCampScotland is on today! Bother. It'd take too long to get there and I have too much studying to do. I'm pondering
BarCampApacheOxford in a couple of weeks, Qpid 0.5 should be shipping around then and train time is prime reading time.
Also, John Stewart++.
March 12th, 2009
This sounds hot. I really hate those intermittent issues that only occasionally show up and you'd *really* like a couple of prints somewhere at the time. Just run your test harness in those, keep the interesting one and then figure out what the problem was in about 5 minutes. I'd love to have that for bugs that recur every time. The run + inspect/print/breakpoint + edit cycle would still be a lot shorter. Eclipse + hotswap jvm is pretty good but...
Still, like most automation, it might take the humanity out of the process a little. Some of my most caffeine tinged memories have involved hours working with that one person who gets the bug semi-regularly that, really, needs fixed. Rousseau wasn't right about everything (or, possibly, very much), but he might have been onto something.
Fortunately, nothing in life is quite so easy. Those bugs are either < 5 minutes or > 5 hours, probably including a couple at a whiteboard.
Still, like most automation, it might take the humanity out of the process a little. Some of my most caffeine tinged memories have involved hours working with that one person who gets the bug semi-regularly that, really, needs fixed. Rousseau wasn't right about everything (or, possibly, very much), but he might have been onto something.
Fortunately, nothing in life is quite so easy. Those bugs are either < 5 minutes or > 5 hours, probably including a couple at a whiteboard.
February 28th, 2009
- 23:47 getting into the Wire 7 years late. #
- 01:23 has advanced no further than an asthmatic ant with some heavy shopping #
- 01:55 "Goodbyeee" is still one of the most poignant bits of TV ever #
- 11:37 listening to R4 talk about Walpole. Everything old is new again. #
- 13:53 has delicious food and coffee from the farmers market, now to the learnin #
- 15:37 @smshllthvwls the diabetic-in-training lifestyle? #
- 15:42 holy crap, a scottish try! #
- 16:09 @boatshopping i'm trying to study as well, the cognitive dissonance of the scoreline in the background is making it tricky though... #
- 16:24 zoiks, try number two! #
- 16:25 gadzooks! Almost three! #
- 17:11 Victoire! Victoire! Did you see that Berlusconi? Did you see that? Your boys took a hell of a beating. Ish. #
- 17:41 idling wondering if the people who follow twitspammers are the same sort who fall for email spam. Also, would any of them like a bridge? #
February 27th, 2009
- 09:51 bloody hell, partick station front's finished! #
- 15:36 @lastyearsgirl_ go-oo.org #
- 18:06 is glad that the week of Epic Fail triptych is over: relationship over, tooth out, jury service summons. Next week better by definition. #
- 18:39 would go on a march with a placard saying "Please, stop this madness now. If it all possible" too, Andy Hamilton #
- 19:37 confused by friday six nations. WTF? #
- 20:51 Bloody glad he noticed this game was on. Best game of the tournament so far. #
February 26th, 2009
- 00:07 is just about managing to rationalise away the urge to post meaningful lyrics to LJ. #
- 09:29 wondering what wisdom tooth extraction is going to be like. #
- 12:41 @lastyearsgirl_ top, been told it'll come straight out but wasn't convinced by the dentists smile when she said that.. #
- 12:41 @boatshopping free drugs, innit? #
- 16:29 succeding in not playing with the hole in his mouth so far, soup and codeine for dinner. actual extraction took about 30 seconds. woo! #
February 25th, 2009
- 09:35 they fight, they fail, they die, they live #
- 12:26 wonders if other people put in little jokes in their course notes or if he's just weird. #
- 15:04 @healthbystunts we need youtube examples of types and effects of riding fast #
- 18:28 on a train full of snow patrol fans, armed only with an umbrella. An opportunity like this comes but once a life... #
- 20:03 kotcheled in the corner, laughing by the bass bin #
- 20:33 @jstedfast isn't that what... No. I can't. I'm sorry. I tried. I just. I can't. #
- 20:34 @Federico_II opportunity to bleed profusely? #
- 21:12 @lastyearsgirl_ the bumbug wasn't cool the first time around! OMGWTFDIE #
Ricardian Equivalence
via Greg Mankiw
ETA: less LOL, Krugman once again explains whey America is fucked.
via Greg Mankiw
ETA: less LOL, Krugman once again explains whey America is fucked.