We’re off for 4th of July celebrations, even if it is the 2nd. Here’s the song “4th of July” from U2 to get you in the holiday mood, assuming your holiday mood is fueled by trance-y instrumental pieces.
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In the Armory
Author Archives: Stephen
What Do You, The Sparkly Vampire, Choose to Do?
June 30, 2010 – 7:06 pm
Given my enjoyment of older styles of videogames, is it any wonder that I’m charmed by Twilight redone as an 8-bit JRPG?
Tik Tok
June 29, 2010 – 10:45 pm
I’m not sure why this is as entertaining as it is, but hey! That’s the internet!
Changing Uptime to Use More Relevant Units
June 25, 2010 – 8:45 am
[stephen@sargent ~]$ uptime
8:58:08 up 10 Isner-Mahuts, 06:10, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
For those of you wanting to actually make the change to uptime.c, note that, instead of
updays = uptime / 86400;
uphours = (uptime – (updays * 86400)) / 3600;
upmins = (uptime – (updays * 86400) – (uphours * 3600)) / 60;
use [...]
A Tribute to My Dad
June 24, 2010 – 5:16 pm
My brother Andrew wrote a tribute about our dad for Father’s day.
A father’s tough love is a cultural cliché – walk down the Hallmark aisle in May, and you’ll be assaulted by pink and white frilliness that proclaims a mother’s tenderness while the next month, the same aisle is festooned in blue and brown straight [...]
What I Learned in the UK About Multinational Corporations
June 18, 2010 – 6:14 pm
Hello Kitty followed me from Japan.
25 or Bzzz to Vrrr
June 17, 2010 – 4:52 pm
I’m really enjoying the new kick horn section that the band Chicago is using.
[Audio clip: view full post to listen]
Never fear: I’ll soon move on to other obsessions.
Vuvuzela Cat
June 15, 2010 – 7:02 pm
I’ve got football fever, and it’s expressing itself in meme mashups.
What I Learned in the UK About the Military
June 15, 2010 – 1:40 pm
They play their best music while running away.
Be Only What You Can Be
June 10, 2010 – 5:59 pm
My uncorrected eyesight is terrible. I started wearing glasses in second grade and contacts in third grade. My optometrist had me wear rigid contacts in the mistaken hope that it would keep my eyes from continuing to degenerate. At this point I am nearsighted enough to need nearly eleven diopters of correction. Without my glasses [...]