I may be abusing the term BIRG here, but I just saw two people BIRGing by wearing Harvard shirts while going to get coffee. If I had more time I’d try to articulate why this annoys the crap out of me, but fortunately I’m rather busy getting ready for a graduate level database systems exam. [...]
Have a look at some lovely dmesg output I was getting when sound died:
[21468.992000] irq 18: nobody cared (try booting with the “irqpoll” option)
[21468.992000] [<c015b594>] __report_bad_irq+0×24/0×80
[21468.992000] [<c015b852>] note_interrupt+0×262/0×2a0
[21468.992000] [<f88dbe35>] tg3_read32+0×5/0×10 [tg3]
[21468.992000] [<c015aab0>] handle_IRQ_event+0×30/0×60
[21468.992000] [<c015c23b>] handle_fasteoi_irq+0xbb/0xf0
[21468.992000] [<c0106b1b>] do_IRQ+0×3b/0×70
[21468.992000] [<c0106b20>] do_IRQ+0×40/0×70
[21468.992000] [<c012da61>] irq_exit+0×51/0×80
[21468.992000] [<c0118735>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0×55/0×80
[21468.992000] [<c0105223>] common_interrupt+0×23/0×30
[21468.992000] [...]
I’m trying to come up with a decent testable hypothesis. Basically my impression is that in any relationship (work, romantic, whatever), you have something like a 1 in 4 chance of the other person being dependable about answering calls regularly, calling you only when necessary, etc. Things contributing to this:
People leave phones on silent, don’t [...]
There’s a fire at my apartment complex. They seem to have it under control now. Word on the street is that it was somebody trying to have a cookout on their porch. Totally haven’t verified that bit at all, though.
The above is from my photostream on flickr. The following one is from nivex6’s photostream on [...]
Last night, like the night before, I woke up with a coughing fit several times. Three times last night, to be precise. The difference last night was that the coughing was so abrupt and violent that I woke up my darling bear, too. She was very understanding, but this is getting old fast. I’ve been [...]
Work:
And Play:
Palmer is not a dull boy.
I have a GUI again, and I feel a bit dumb for having filed the bug. Turns out an install with a fresh daily alternate iso fixed the issue. Next time I’ll wait to see if a fresh install fixes if I’m running the development branch.
My GUI-less weekend was fun. I learned some valuable [...]
I remember middle school. I remember listening to this song on a cassette tape. I feel… dated.
Got a response to my letter about my flowchart from KSR via email:
Dear Cristobal,
Thanks for your note. I recently saw the reference to this on boingboing, although I did not fully track or understand it, after someone sent me there concerning a different matter entirely. As you will see if you read my book Antarctica [...]
I already tagged a link to an educational short on why the Iraq War is illegal, but I’m afraid I didn’t do it justice with just a simple link. I’m not sure if there was a straw that broke the camel’s back, but I feel I have to make a clear public statement and call [...]
