Gookey

darthdingus — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 04:30:27 GMT

darthdingus — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:00:55 GMT

I've been running IE8 RTW since 11:40am and not a single new issue has appeared. In fact, the most severely broken items that have been around during the entire beta process have been fixed.

Today is a good day.

IE8 Launch Day

darthdingus — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:16:25 GMT

Internet Explorer 8 RTM launches in approximately 1 hour and 44 minutes. Hopefully everything in POL will work.

A corporation loves me!

darthdingus — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 03:55:10 GMT

I got a strange letter in my mail today. It was a pink envelope with what looked to be a handwritten address on it. It was sent to "Nadia Darwish or Current Resident"
It even had a real stamp. It was odd.
I got home and opened it. It was a Valentine themed ad for AT&T UVerse.
Man... that was surreal.

Mmm...

darthdingus — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 05:27:48 GMT

Nothing is quite as nice as having a room temperature glass of whiskey to relax.

"The same procedure as last year?"

darthdingus — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 21:11:53 GMT

"The same procedure as every year."

I give you Dinner for One. A sketch from Britain that is much more famous in Germany, being broadcast every New Year's.

Thesis.

darthdingus — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 12:02:08 GMT

"Dear Timothy McGookey,

"Congratulations! The grade sheet for your Senior Thesis Project was submitted to the Registrar's Office today, which means you have satisfactorily completed this graduation requirement. Allow me to be among the first to say 'job well done.'"

Awesome.

darthdingus — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 05:06:37 GMT

Internet Explorer 8 is trying to kill my soul.
Anyone have a good way to pull files off of a user's PC without their interaction, and have it not be flagged as hacking?

Les Misbarack

darthdingus — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 11:33:11 GMT

As much as I'd rather not associate Senator Obama's campaign with the failed Student Uprising in France in 1832, I was still humming this yesterday.
Glad to know someone else was on my wavelength.
One day more...

darthdingus — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 00:51:52 GMT

So it looks like everyone was The Joker this year, but how many were the classic Cesar Romero Joker? (Pops to bigified)

(Thanks, Imageshack)

darthdingus — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 04:41:36 GMT

Grab the nearest book.
Open the book to page 56.
Find the fifth sentence.
Post the text of the next seven sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
Tag five other people to do the same

Then he remembered the dream. The light in the dream. He hadn't solved the problem, his unconscious had. The answer had been there all the time, but he was too close to see it. His mind had been forced to devise a way to tell him. Luckily, it had.
And finally, he didn't care how he had uncovered it.
- Harlan Ellison The Essential Ellison edited by Terry Dowling with Richard DeLap and Gil LaMont.

I choose you, you, you, you, and you. Go find books.

GIT!

Baa

darthdingus — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 03:52:15 GMT

Take a picture of yourself right now.
Don't change your clothes, don't fix your hair... just take a picture.
Post that picture with NO editing.
Post these instructions with your picture.

Bam.

darthdingus — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:14:41 GMT

Your result for The Public Understanding of Scientific Terms and Concepts Test...

100% Understanding!

You scored 100% Understanding.

According to the following website: http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/seind04/c7/fig07-06.htm , the average score of the United States public is about a 63% and of the European public is about 60% on the ORIGINAL questions asked, which are very similar to the ones on this test.

I, however, had changed some of the questions on this so I no longer can compare the results to the original results on the previously provided website. Basically, most of this stuff (save for one word I used that a lot of people seem not to know) is pretty much common knowledge and if you feel you've done extremely poorly on this, then maybe you ought to go do a bit of research and learn some sciencey things!

If you did well (let me remind you...i'm letting you set your own standards for whatever you think well may be..i personally thing above a 94% is doing well), then good job! I applaud you! You might be normal after all hehe. Anyway, have an excellent day and thank you for taking this test!

(Note: the previously provided website is where the questions for this test were basically provided, though, you will find I made a few modifications. The answers are on there too.)

Take The Public Understanding of Scientific Terms and Concepts Test at HelloQuizzy

On Dear Dr. Pausch

darthdingus — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:22:47 GMT

Randy Pausch died this morning.

If you don't know who he is: for shame. He taught computer science at Carnegie Mellon and was deeply involved with virtual reality and entertainment software design. He created the Alice project among many other things.

Last September he gave a lecture as part of a series that Carnegie Mellon was doing on a simple subject: if you were to give one final lecture, what would you try to impart on your audience? Pausch essentially was giving his last lecture, though. He was dying.

Pausch had been diagnosed with a resurgence of terminal inoperable pancreatic cancer. In August 2007 he was given three to six months to live. He made it nearly a year, though his health was in slow decline. He had been off of chemotherapy since June 29th, and yesterday an update was made to his website by a friend stating that he had been moved into hospice care.

His lecture was absolutely inspirational and funny. He spent exactly no time wallowing in pity. To see what I mean, go here and watch.

Goodbye, Randy. You will be missed.

The Dark Knight

darthdingus — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:29:28 GMT

I have a three word review for The Dark Knight:
Go see it.

Where the hell is Matt?

darthdingus — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:58:03 GMT

I've been following the travels of a guy named Matt Harding for about 2 years now. Matt is a former video game developer who decided to take his life savings and go travel for a year.
To keep in touch with his friends and family, he put together the website Where The Hell Is Matt?. After his first trip, he managed to get a sponsorship from Stride Gum, and has now been on the road since 2005.

One of the things Matt is best known for are the videos that he has made of him dancing in all the places he's been.
The third video in the series just came up in my browsing this morning, and I thought I'd share.

Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo.

I love the absolute expressions of joy on the faces of most of the people he dances with (the DMZ soldier notwithstanding). Finding this was a nice, uplifting way to start my day. Also, the shot of him dancing in Gurgaon, India is probably my favorite of the bunch.

darthdingus — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:36:16 GMT

My thesis went live four minutes early. And it's working.

Rock on.

darthdingus — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 05:44:04 GMT

Thanks, ImageShack.

darthdingus — Tue, 20 May 2008 03:46:10 GMT

May 19, 2008
My darling Katherine,
I thought I could be complete, until we found each other again. Then, I realized that there was a Kate shaped place in my heart that had been waiting for you for years. You fill it perfectly, and with you I know: I am complete.
We still reference the night we really committed to one another: New Year’s 2007. This conversation was a new and exciting place for me to venture. With no one had I offered up my innermost feelings as I did with you that night, and it wasn’t without some trepidation. I felt like going out on a limb was what would bring us closer.
And it did.
That closeness and intimacy with you is something I want to jealously guard. It is what makes us, us. It is our shared moment, and as you said: Our Mythology.
There was a problem, though. I so wanted to guard our intimacy that I ended up guarding myself. I guarded myself from you, not us from others. I wasn’t protecting our closeness. I ended up unwittingly attacking it, preventing it.
That was a sin. It was my sin against us, against our commitment.
I was hiding myself from you, out of a sense of nobility perhaps? Or out of wanting to be a flawless problem solver? No matter how it is dressed, it still does us no good.
Our discussion about it could not have happened at a better time.
Yesterday, we watched Why Did I Get Married? and I sympathized a lot with the character of Sheila. She was discontent with her lifestyle, and it took a huge wake up call to get her to not only realize what was holding her back, but also to overcome it.
Over the past few weeks, I had been looking at my lifestyle the same way. I wasn’t happy with how I spent my time. It felt like I would spend all week in front of a computer, and have nothing to show for it. My books lay disused on the shelf, and I would do nothing but sit and eat.
I think the blood drive started this push for self evaluation, and discontentment. The nurse who took my blood pressure said that I was a little high, and asked if I had had any salty foods. Lunch was a peanut butter sandwich and goldfish crackers, so she said she wasn’t concerned. Still, though, I began to think about, in particular, lipids in my blood. I started to get grossed out by the notion, and yet still had no problem stopping at McDonald’s. I was in trouble, and needed something big to help me out.
I wanted to start exercising, and eating breakfast. I wanted to get away from FARK, and enhance my mind. I wanted to be a better boyfriend for you, but felt like I often had nothing to say.
Last week, I got that kick in the pants. Our argument was the impetus I was looking for. My dissatisfaction wasn’t just affecting me. It was affecting us. I realized that in addition to all of that, I wasn’t sharing myself with you.
So I share myself now.
Kate, I love you. I still want to build our future together. I want to build a long one with you. And I can’t wait until we stand up in front of our families and tell them all that we’re doing it, too.
Look at the picture. I bought this card on the day we started dating: May 20th, 2006. On the anniversary, I give it to you. This canyon is beautiful, as one heads out into the light from the darkness. But you would also head around the curve into the unknown. That’s our future. It is bright, it is beautiful, and it is a wonderful surprise waiting for us.
Come see what’s around the bend with me.

Talking to Americans like adults...

darthdingus — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 04:40:33 GMT

Kevin Horrigan ponders America's culture of ignorance (pops).
Sparked by Barack Obama's grown up conversation about race and politics from last Tuesday.
No matter how you feel about Senator Obama as a politician, I hope it can be appreciated that there is growing sentiment to move America away from the cultural kids table.

Nothing is complete without a matching Fark thread (pops).

WikiHistory

darthdingus — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:36:31 GMT

A look at what would happen if Time Travelers had the Wiki mindset.

darthdingus — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 07:03:34 GMT

Zing.

Stolen from pixipowder04.

darthdingus — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 11:22:33 GMT

Just the article someone would love to find while pulling an all-nighter.

The snark is strong with this one...

darthdingus — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:07:16 GMT

Abstinence Only Drivers-Ed. (Pops)

Expense Tracking

darthdingus — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 18:23:13 GMT

More for myself. I've taken up tracking my expenses for a month.

Date	Amount	Notes
12/21/2007	$386.00	I paid a month's rent. Aside from that, I only spent $12.00
12/22/2007	$37.09	Bought $35.00 worth of gas in Findlay
12/23/2007	$5.50	Starbuck's after church.
12/24/2007	$0.00	Can't do much better than that...
12/25/2007	$3.50	Must get better at mooching from the parents.
12/26/2007	$0.00
12/27/2007	$0.00	Was nearly going to be $2.00, but I got money back for buying my own breakfast when my folks walked away from the line I was in.
12/28/2007	$0.00
12/29/2007	$5.00	All but $1 will get reimbursed.