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07 06 2010

Gonna try to post todos that are getting long-term procrastinated here. This serial procrastination is fucking un-believable and hopefully public self-shaming will put an end to it. Keep me honest!

Todo:
– [.5 hrs | 9/2009] Send back Electrolux trim piece. It’s a $178 refund once I do, but it just sits in my office collecting dust.
– [.5 hrs | 1/2010] Call Electrolux about the range burner that doesn’t light right and the knob that has paint stripped off
– [.5 hrs | 5/2010] Call Sears to come and properly fix the door switch on the new fridge that I currently have Macgyvered together with some paper taped to it
– [4 hrs | 1/2010] Fix apphoto so it automatically bins things up (fixed # of pictures per month, automatic splitting by year)
XX [.5 hrs | 6/2010 (7/2010)] Build a batch script so I can drop movies onto it and have them ftp right up to the website
– [4 hrs | 6/2010] Build some brains around the movie portion of the website. It should be more similar to the photos site
– [4 hrs | 6/2008] RSS feed for photos and movies
– [8 hrs | 6/2008] Comments for photos and movies. I keep getting close, but mysql and php and $SESSION fucking HATE each other. Why can’t they all just get along.
– [2 days | 6/2007] Clean out the basement. Completely
– [2 hrs | 6/2007] Clean the hazardous waste out of the lawnmower shed
– [4 hrs | 1/2010] Take the garbage to the dump
– [8 hrs | 1/2010] Replace the 4 billion year old sump pump. It’s working on raw faith alone at this point
– [8 hrs | 6/2007] Put up a guard rail on the back porch. It’s just open, and totally dangerous
– [1 hr | 6/2007] Put some non-slip stuff on the back porch steps
– [8 hrs | 1/2010] Replace the doorknob and locks on the front and back doors. Back door is a fire hazard… it requires an advanced degree and some lock-picking skills to open it from the inside.
– [2 hrs | 6/2007] Curtains for front door and entryway window
– [.5 hrs | 1/2010] Scrape previous owner stickers off bedroom walls
– [4 hrs | 6/2009] Install range hood
– [2 hrs | 6/2009] Screens for upstairs bathroom window
– [.5 hrs | 6/2009] Replace screen on back screen door
– [2 days | 6/2007] Install railing upstairs
– [8 hours | 6/2007] Install hand rail on stairs
– [4 hours | 6/2007] Fix gutter
– [4 hours | 6/2007] Get contractor to build roof sorta thing over entryway to basement stairs / make some way for basement stairs to drain
– [8 hrs | 6/2009] Clean moss off roof and install strip to keep it from coming back
– [.5 hrs | 6/2010] Fix Thatcher’s last name with SSN
– [.5 hrs | 6/2010] Return Moore’s baby rocker thing (been sitting in the trunk of my car for a month)

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07 06 2010

Same-sex marriage. It’s really pretty stunning that whether to allow it or not is a controversy. What kind of bible-thumping morons are running this country anyway? Don’t answer that, the answer is ‘Democrats’, and that only makes it more depressing. Only someone whose mind is clouded by religious bullshit could have a problem with gay people getting married. And ‘civil unions’… good lord. What kind of two-faced bullshit is that. What an embarrassing side of history to be on. I seriously pity anyone stupid enough to believe a civil union is a good end solution. It’s like so many American ’solutions’ to problems… just barely enough to scrape by in a miserable sort of way, without really addressing the fundamental issue.

Really the feds should send out a questionnaire to every married couple that asks if they support gay marriage (majority support would legalize it). Anyone who answers that they oppose gay marriage should have *their* marriage converted to their state’s equivalent of what is available for gays. States with nothing gets your marriage just annulled. States with civil unions get you separate and unequal rights.

Cranking it up a noth, do churches even really have a right to prevent two gay people from getting married by their church because they’re gay? This is the spot where most lefties start to get mushy. The correct answer is quite easy with a thought experiment though: do churches have a right to prevent to black people from getting married because they’re black? Totally fucking obviously not. You don’t get to screw over anyone just because of what they are.

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06 19 2010

Dishwasher pro tip:

When possible, group items you put in the dishwasher together if you plan to put them away together.

This is most important with silverware. It takes very little effort to group spoons with spoons, forks with forks and knives with knives on their way into the machine. Then, when you go to put them away you can just grab the whole batch and toss them in the drawer.

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06 17 2010

We gotta get this shit under control. What the fuck, man.

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06 16 2010

I’m a digital pack-rat. I save *everything*. It’s getting hard to track it all though.

In the old days, I just archived off my email every once in a while. I used ‘talk’ a ton back in the late 90’s, and there wasn’t really any way to save those, though I’d just kill to have those logs now.

These days, there’s a bunch of stuff to keep track of. The good stuff just does it all itself. This public blog is all nice and automatic. The ‘family’ blog — same same. IM is a little tougher though. Trillian keeps a nice log of everything, but they stick it in Program Files, so it’s super easy to fuck up and lose it all when you reinstall. I have a pretty bitchin’ backup system, but I think I’ve never added the trillian logs to it. Wooooops. Plus I have trillian on like 3 different machines, so I gotta be sure to back up all of them, even though they all go through the same account. Everything is all so distributed and crappy.

Next is facebook. I don’t think there’s really any nice way to back that stuff up at all. There’s a firefox extension to do it looks like. Nice job idiots… just make a program would you? A firefox extension is useless to me (although maybe it’s the only way). Almost everything on facebook is a useless waste of time, but everyone once in a while there’s something, and I want to have it backed up somewhere, so I can go find it when I’m 60 and just wanna go back and re-live my digital youth.

Sidebar: I’m yearning just yearning for the day that facebook is replaced with something that does not suck.

I’m starting to think that the wave of the future is for me to have my own secure block of data somewhere in the cloud, and everything I bounce or post on the web I want to get stored here. Every facebook post. Every blog post. Every email. Every IM. It should all pass through this block and get saved there. It would sortof a content-aware storage proxy… thingamajiggie.

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06 10 2010

Wow, that’s crazy. Actually NYC’s number is even more amazing, though they probably got there more by virtue of high density than a particularly high number of degrees. Seattle is very non-dense.

Data shows San Francisco is full of nerds – Boing Boing.

Looking at this shit per square mile is actually probably pretty pointless. The more interesting number is % degrees / population.

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06 07 2010

Wah so there’s all kinds of badass firmware mods for the Theater+ (I guess the insiders call it the FAT+). Including an option to make it use it’s USB-attached drive into a little NAS (inside the thing is just a little linux install, so of course firmware modding can do pretty much any sort of computer stuff, like ssh, web client, bt, etc…). Wicked… This sorta thing is gonna get even better when everything is built on Android instead of Linux. Maybe :)

Update: lol, seagate actually released the entire os of the thing under GPL, so the ‘mods’ are even fairly legit (they’re actually linked of the seagate forums themselves). Schweet.

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06 06 2010

That drip in my basement water main supply line is nothing, that drip in my basement water main supply line is nothing, that drip in my basement water main supply line is nothing, that drip in my basement water main supply line is nothing, that drip in my basement water main supply line is nothing, that drip in my basement water main supply line is nothing…

I’m so not in the mood for that thing to go. This year has been expensive enough already.

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06 04 2010

p4tar, p4untar, p4shelve… where have you been all my life?

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06 03 2010

The bigger the chunk of salt, the better it tastes.

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