The Road Atlas
A coworker posed the following question to me about 8 days ago: "How did people get around and take trips before gps?" I should have smiled sweetly and said:
"The legends tell us that in ancient times, there was a sacred relic known as The Road Atlas and many battles …
read moreAsh Juniper Limerick
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read moreCored figs.
To the tune of Black Sabbath's "War Pigs," inspired by a parody fragment from Matt Dibb in response to a coworker's observation that the office mini fridge has a label that says "Sabbath Mode: Back"
FTFY
A while back I upgraded the server, partially breaking my blog in the process. Rather than wade through the maze of Drupal modules I had installed to make things livable, I took the opportunity to move to Wordpress. Maybe I'll blog more. :P
read more(Who?) Can you dig it?
Who's the slick Time Lord with a space machine and all the chicks? (Who?) Can you dig it? They say that cat Who is one bad timeline mucker! (Shut Yo' Mouth) I'm just talking 'bout Who!
read moreDennis M. Ritchie
It seemed apropos, given Dennis' passing, to post it now.
Hopefully, those who might be offended will remember that imitation …
read moreTwo Turntables... and a Microcontroller - Part 1
My father is into HO railroading. He's got quite the layout in-progress in his garage. However, he's having trouble finding DCC turn-tables for his engine-yards. The ones he can find are expensive and back-ordered. My brother and I decided it would be a fun project for an Arduino (or three …
read moreRegex for Java in Unicode...
Think The Producers' "Springtime... in Germany" when reading the title, it might make slightly more sense...
A friend of mine was recently posed a challenge by hir instructor in an introductory Java class. The challenge was (sic.) "I was recently writing a program to generate usernames from the first seven …
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Unix …
read moreIntegrated Gallery While You Post...
I wanted to use Drupal to post pictures, much as LiveJournal can. However, I already have... an image gallery. And, while it is a good and wondrous thing to have the gallery integrated with Drupal, what I really wanted was to be able to nicely choose images mid-post, without having …
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