Given my enjoyment of older styles of videogames, is it any wonder that I’m charmed by Twilight redone as an 8-bit JRPG?
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In the Armory
Monthly Archives: June 2010
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 […]
My crochet habit and my Doctor Who habit collide
June 23, 2010 – 10:24 pm
This is without a doubt my favorite thing I’ve crocheted so far. I worked on him while in the UK, so I think he is sufficiently British. Blessed even.
The cuddly Doctor is going to Alana over the Fourth of July weekend and I will be so sad to see him go. I think I’ll […]
Smaller Pants
June 23, 2010 – 1:57 pm
I got a wake up call right after the first of the year.
I went to the doctor for a sinus infection and my blood pressure was high. So high in fact, that my nurse practitioner was afraid I would have a stroke. She ripped open a sample box of BP meds and stood and […]
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:25-or-Bzzz-to-Vrrr.mp3]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.