Author Archives: Stephen

4th of U2

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.

What Do You, The Sparkly Vampire, Choose to Do?

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

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

[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

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

Hello Kitty followed me from Japan.

25 or Bzzz to Vrrr

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

I’ve got football fever, and it’s expressing itself in meme mashups.

What I Learned in the UK About the Military

They play their best music while running away.

Be Only What You Can Be

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 [...]