_____ _____ _____ ___ _____
|___ | |___ |___ |_ | | _ |
__| |__ __ __| | | | | | | |_| | _____ _____ __ __
|__ | \/ ||__ | | | | | | _ | | ___| _ | \/ |
___| | |\/| |___| | | |_| |_| |_| |_| |___| |_| | |\/| |
|_____|_| |_|_____| |_|_____|_____|_|_____|_____|_| |_|
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Disappointing people, one at a time, since 1967.
Now only $0.54^H^H33 a day.
Continuous improvement ... free!
Now with Style! A puzzle wrapped up in an enigma.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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| _ | | _| |_
| |_| | |___ _____ _ |_ _|
| _ | _ | _ | | | | |
| | | | |_| | |_| | |_| | |
|_| |_|_____|_____|_____|_|
It appears that internet 2.0+ has even ruined the concept of a vanity page.
Initially, vanity pages were set up by lonely single white people who
wanted to share their loneliness with the other 11 people who were dialed
in to the real internet through their local internet provider. I suppose
it was about marketing, if that marketing was selling belly button link.
A good definition of a vanity page is:
An Internet domain, particularly in the .com or .org
top-level domains, apparently created for no reason
other than boosting the creator's ego.*
I'm not sure if the content of my pages boosts my ego, but there really is
no real other reason for their existence. Over the years there's been a
great deal of self-deprecating narcissism within these pages. Now, it's
mostly a collection of mental flotsam that, in reality, could be organized
for free** with a Google account. Instead, I spend thirty-three cents a
day to keep this domain active. In return, I get to play with hypertext
markup language, which I quite rather enjoy, use one of my favorite
internet protocols to transfer files around, make ASCII title blocks,
weep quietly at the new reality of one space after a period and spew
mildly benign rhetoric for the handful of people who have remembered my
URI*** to read, shake their heads, and question our relationship.
* From the Jargon File
** Not at all free.
*** It's only a URL if the the protocol is included.
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| _ \|_| | |
| |_| |_ ____ _ _ ____| |_____
| _ <| | __| | | | __| | __ |
| |_| | | |__| |_| | |__| | |___|
|____/|_|____|___ |____|_|_____|
| |
|_|
WB TT DT ST
1: Raleigh Rocky 26"x1.50" 41.5" 22" 24" 18.5"
2: Raleigh Rocky 26"x1.95"
3: Sekine 26"x1.35" 40.5" 21" 23" 19.5"
4: Giant Halfway 20"x1.75" 39.5"
5: Dahon 16"
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____ _
| _ \ | |
| |_| |_ ________ _____ _____| |___
| _ <| / _| _ | | | | _ | |_ |
| |_| | / | |_| | | | | |_| | | | |
|____/|_| |___\_\_____|____ |_| |_|
_| |
|___|
This content has been moved somewhere else.
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_____
| ___|
| | _____ _ __
| | | _ | / _|
| |___| |_| | /
|_____|___\_\_|
Dodge
- 1968-1970 Charger
- 1970-1974 Challenger
Ford
- Torino Talladega
- 1969 Mustang Mach 1
Honda
- first generation Civic
- 1999 Accord EX V6 sedan
- first generation NSX
Mercury
- Cyclone
- Cyclone Spoiler II
- Marauder
Plymouth
- Barracuda
- 1968-1974 Roadrunner
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| ___| _| |_
| | _____ __ __ _____ _ |_ _|__ _____ _____
| | | _ | \/ | _ | | | | | / _| _ | _ \
| |___| |_| | |\/| | |_| | |_| | | / | |_| | | | |
|_____|_____|_| |_| ___|_____|_|_| |_____|_| |_|
| |
|_|
Typical software reinstalled when I crash my Raspberry Pi OS installs:
- firefox-esr - gimp
- gftp* - xfonts-intl-asian
- geany-plugin-spellcheck - gnugo
- vim - asunder
- audacious - lame
* Remember to copy over the bookmarks file from the .gftp directory from
the old install because you very likely do not have the username and
password written down anywhere handy.
My .vimrc file
set nocompatible
set nowrap
set ruler
set showmode
set showcmd
set smartindent
set tabstop=4
set shiftwidth=4
My userChrome.css file (because Firefox is only real web browser)
/* Display the sidebar on the right */
#browser { -moz-box-direction: reverse; }
#sidebar {max-width: none !important; min-width: 0px !important;}
/* Red text on active tab */
.tabbrowser-tab[selected="true"] {font-weight:bold
!important;color:rgba(255,64,64,1) !important;}
about:config things I've set
ui.click_hold_context_menus set to true \
dom.disable_window_move_resize set to true \_ this stuff allows
dom.disable_window_flip set to true / right-clicking
dom.event.contextmenu.enabled set to false / where blocked
geo.enabled set to false
dom.max_script_run_time default is 10; normally set to 30
general.useragent.override Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux armv7l; rv:45.0)
Gecko/20100101 Firefox/45.0
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:48.0)
Gecko/20100101 Firefox/48.0
ui.SpellCheckerUnderlineStyle (Integer) 0:none, 1:dotted,
2:long dots, 3:line,
4:double line,
5:wavy line (default).
ui.SpellCheckerUnderline (String) default is red #FF0000
ui.SpellCheckerUnderlineRelativeSize (Integer) default is 100, 200, 300
Flash will be the death of us
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
about:plugins
sudo cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/
Playlists
~~~~~~~~~
In the SANDISK directory:
find . *.* > /home/username/Music/pl-all.txt
In vi:
:1,$s/\.\/// this removes the ./ at the front of every line
:1,$s/\//\\/g this replaces all the / with \ throughout the entire line
then save the file. At the prompt:
sort -u pl-all.txt -o pl-all.m3u
Edit, and enjoy.
How I hacked away the "/bin/bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change
locale (en_US.UTF-8)" error on my Slitaz box:
I edited the /etc/locale.conf file to read:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
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_ _ _____ _ _ _____ _____ _ _
| | | | _ | || | _ | ___| \ / |
| |_| | |_| | || | |_| | |___ \ \/ /
| _ | ___| || | _ |___ | > <
| | | | | |__ ||_| |___| |/ /\ \
|_| |_|_| |_|_____|_____|_/ \_|
25 years ago I bought an HP48SX calculator, quite possibly the world's
greatest scientific calculator (if you look past the fact that it used SRAM
for internal memory, weird proprietary memory cards that likely needed
batteries for "permanency" and weird proprietary interface cables. Plus,
it's slow as fuck). I don't use it much now, apart from powering it on
yearly to see if the batteries need replacing. As I am paranoid that all
the programming I did in it may eventually disappear, I've decided to type
out the code stored. Really.
Notes to self: There are certain "extended" characters that plan ol' ASCII
does not have. I've tried my best to make them clear. If in doubt, read the
manual. You've saved it, haven't you?
'CLOCK'
<< { #0d #0d } PVIEW ERASE 1 131 XRNG 1 64 YRNG { #0d #0d } PVIEW FACE
HANDS 10 WAIT TEXT >>
'FACE'
<< (54,54) (44,44) (41,32) (44,19) (54,10) (66,7) (79,10) (88,19) (91,32)
(88,44) (79,54) (66,57) 1 12 FOR V PIXON NEXT >>
'HANDS'
<< TIME HMS-> DUP IF 12 > THEN 12 - END 30 * 'H' STO TIME FP HMS-> 360 *
'M' STO (66,32) H SIN H COS R->C 20 * OVER + LINE (66,32) M SIN M COS R-> C
25 * OVER + LINE >>
'SUNSHINEOFYOURLOVE'
<< 587 .2 BEEP 587 .2 BEEP 523 .2 BEEP 587 .2 BEEP .2 WAIT 440 .2 BEEP
.2 WAIT 415 .2 BEEP .2 WAIT 392 .2 BEEP .2 WAIT 294 .2 BEEP 349 .4 BEEP
294 .2 BEEP >>
'ECONVERT' -- This program converts the last variable in the stack between
L/100KM and miles/Canadian gallon. Really.
<< -> NO << 100 1_km/l CONVERT UVAL / NO >> >>
'MEMOMAKER'
<< "Info Store 1.2B\n[ENTER] to save." { "" { 1 0 } [alpha] } INPUT ->STR
DUP SIZE IF 0 [NOTEQUAL] THEN "CAUTION! Will overwrite existing variables.
[alpha]-lock is on." { :Store as*" [alpha] V } INPUT OBJ-> STO ELSE DROP
END >>
'MEMOVIEWER'
<< "View-It-All v1.1B\n[ENTER] to escape.\nNOTE: [alpha]-lock is off!"
{ ":DISPLAY:" } INPUT ->STR DUP SIZE IF 9 [NOTEQUAL] THEN OBJ-> DTAG RCL
CLLCD 1 DISP 7 FREEZE ELSE DROP END>>
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_ _ ___ _____ _ _ _
| | |_| _| __| | ___|_| |_| _| |_
| | _ _____ |_ __|___ _ ___ | |___ _ _____ _ ___|_ _|___ _ ___
| | | | ___| | | _ | / __| |___ | | _ \ | ___| | __ | / __|
| |___ | |___ | | | |_| | / ___| | | | | | |___ | | |___| /
|_____| |_|_____| |_|_____|_| |_____|_|_| |_|_|_____|_|_____|_|
My shortlist of personal left-handed and left-dominance issues
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- pens and mechanical pencils that eventually unscrew themselves (pretty
much any tool that is threaded will come apart if I don't continually
tighten it. Examples: x-acto knives, safety razors.
- utility knives can be dangerous as the locking mechanism is on the wrong
side
- hand rotary tools (Dremel)
- credit card swiping
- binders and coil notebooks
- tape measures (they read upside down)
- zippers
- scissors
- can openers
- knives in general
- locks and door handles
- teaching others to tie laces
- push broom handles
- track pads on laptops "set" for left-handed use
- winding mechanisms
- setting clocks
- setting most electronic devices; the layout is very often right-biased
- cameras with viewfinders
Many left-handed people complain about computer keyboards, especially those
with numeric keypads. I've found them to not be a problem if the mouse is
set to the left side of the keyboard and the mouse buttons reversed. This
setup is well balanced.
I have problems with ironing, or using any power tool with a cord. This,
however, might be function of how terrible I am with ironing or using power
tools in general. Hand rotary tools, like a Dremel branded tool, are
especially dangerous. Holding the tool in my left hand causes a great deal
of kick back because of the right-handed rotation of whatever bit is being used.
I initially thought the tool just basically sucked and people were afraid
to criticize it for fear of being ostracized, much like openly expressing
that the Tragically Hip aren't a particularly good musical group. No, the tools
suckiness rests squarely in my sinister ways.
I learned, rather poorly, to play the guitar as a right-handed person because
all my "teachers" were right-handed.
Most of these I have learned to accommodate, but, without fail, not before
failing at using initially. #beinglefthandedisafuckingjoke
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_ _ _
| | |_| _| |_
| | _ ___|_ _|
| | | | ___| |
| |___| |___ | |
|_____|_|_____|_|
Lists - Oh, yes, please, more lists, there can never be enough lists on the inte
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_ _
| | |_|
| | _ _____ _ _ _ _
| | | | _ \ | | | \/ |
| |___| | | | | |_| |> <
|_____|_|_| |_|_____|_/\_|
Yes.
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__ __ _
| \ / | |_|
| \/ |_ _ _____ _ _____
| |\ /| | | | | ___| | ___|
| | \/ | | |_| |___ | | |___
|_| |_|_____|_____|_|_____|
Musics I have playlists for Here's a shortlist of music I'm
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ currently playing ad nauseum
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1. Babymetal
2. Perfume
3. Jakalope 1. No Small Children
4. Chixdiggit! 2. Reverend Horton Heat
5. Lee Aaron 3. Baby Metal
4. Ken Yokoyama (et al)**
6. AC/DC
7. Ken Yokoyama (et al)**
8. Hinoi Team
9. Me First And The Gimme Gimmes
10. Pixies
11. Hotei
12. Hanson Brothers
13. Donnas
14. Cantoy
15. Headpins
16. Judy and Mary
17. Yelle*
18. No Small Children
* I forgot what this was supposed to mean
** Includes: Ken Yokoyama, Hi-Standard, BBQ Chickens
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| _ | _| |_
| |_| |_ ___|_ _|_____ _
| ___| | __ | | / __| | | |
| | |_| | |___| | / | |_| |
|_|_____|_____|_|_| |___ |
___| |
|_____|
haiku senryu
~~~~~ ~~~~~~
the autumn leaves of the smoke that rises
colors many silently grey from the computer case
lie under the snow does not bring me joy
spring sunshine chases an empty in-box
winter's blue snow and cold air does not mean no one loves you
happy orange warmth but it feels that way
freckles on your nose
a cute wrinkle when you smile
memories always
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| _ |
| |_| |_ _____ ____ _____ _ ___ _____
| ___| | _ | __| _ | / __| _ \
| | |_| | |_| | |__| |_| | / | | | |
|_|_____| ___|____|_____|_| |_| |_|
| |
|_|
NOTE: This is my original, groundbreaking text for microwave popcorn. The
process has been modified based on experience gained. Some of the
insights are scattered in the Brog above.
DIELECTRIC HEATING OF DIHYDROGEN MONOXIDE IN ZEA MAYS L. VAR. EVERTA USING
NON-IONIZING ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION
Time:
5 minutes
Materials:
- 1/4 cup (60 mL) of popping corn
- 1 1/3 tablespoon (20 mL) of cooking oil that will not smoke when heated
in the microwave
- salt to taste
Precautions:
Hot oil is hot. So is steam.
Hazards:
Popcorn is addictive.
Procedure:
Mix popcorn, oil and salt together in an appropriate vessel suitable for
mixing popcorn, oil and salt together. Once the popcorn is uniformly coated
with oil and salt, dump the mixture into a brown paper "sack lunch" bag (1).
Fold over the top of the bag twice to seal; folds of 2/3 inch (15 mm) are
appropriate; use "origami" corner folding for extra style points. Place bag,
bottom down, in microwave. Microwave on the highest power setting available
for 90 seconds (2). Remove bag filled with delicious popcorn from microwave.
Handle bag carefully as it is hot and oily and take caution opening to avoid
steam. Enjoy.
Too little oil results in poor popping performance. The popcorn is
surprisingly "light" tasting as the paper bag absorbs a great deal of the oil
while popping.
----------
(1) Taking the time to mix the popcorn, oil and salt well before dumping
has empirically shown to yield a more evenly salted end product in
comparison to adding the salt after the popcorn/oil mixture are
dumped in the bag.
(2) Cooking time is equipment dependent. It will take a few tries to
narrow the cooking time down to where popping is maximised and and
burning is minimised. Using an LG ("Lucky Goldstar") 0.8 cubic foot
microwave, this "max/min" time is 75 seconds. An older Danby
"Designer" 0.8 cubic foot microwave produces similar results in
92 seconds.
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| _ | | |_|
| |_| |_____ ___| |_ _____
| /| _ | _ | | _ |
| |\ \| |_| | |_| | | |_| |
|_| \_\___\_\_____|_|_____|
Key presses for setting certain options on my Freeplay Summit radio:
1 + power AM 10 kHz
2 + power AM 9 kHz
3 + power 12-hour clock
4 + power 24-hour clock
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| ___| |
| |___| |_________ _ _ _____
|___ | _ | _ | \ / | __ |
___| | | | | |_| |\ \/ /| |___|
|_____|_| |_|___\_\ \__/ |_____|
My double-edge safety razors Favourite double-edges
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Gillette Slim Adjustable 71g 9.2cm TTO Wilkinson Sword Classic
Wilkinson Classic 45g 10.6cm 2P Dorco ST-301
Weishi 57g TTO Feather Hi-Stainless
Baili 72g 9.4cm TTO
Feather Popular 35g 11.5cm TTO
Dorco 12g 11.0cm 2P
TTO: Twist To Open 2P: Two-piece
While I only started to shave with a safety razor in my 48th year,
shaving is no longer a chore; I truly do look forward to putting blade to
skin, even if I've reduced the ritual to ten minutes.
I have two favorites: the Feather Popular and the Dorco. Both are
light-weight razors, which appears to be counter-intuitive to modern
shaving culture. I also love their long handles. Liking the Dorco is a
true surprise. It weighs very little, yet I feel no inclination to push
the blade against my skin to shave with it. Very odd. I prefer the feel
of full metal body razors, but with a good lather of soap, the plastic
Dorco performs very well.
Shaving
~~~~~~~
The correct number of blades a razor should have is one. Any more and the
razor is a gimmick. There is no need for more than one. "Lift and cut"
should be more properly coined "lift and in-grow".
If shaving is painful or irritating, it's being done wrong. The daily
task of whisker reduction should be meditative and enjoyable. Shaving
should be a task to look forward to, not something to dread or avoid.
Shaving should be far from routine; it should be a continuous improvement
exercise on mastering the tools and the technique of whisker reduction.
I have also become a quiet evangelist for cold water shaving. All of the
bad press about cold water shaving is just that. It is, by far, a more
pleasant way to reduce the whiskers.
Observations and Benefits
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1) Less water is wasted, especially the initial minute or so to get hot
water out of the tap.
2) A side-effect of the less water used is that I spend less time shaving
or have more time to shave.
3) The soap brush still hydrates properly.
4) The soap still foams.
5) Marginal, if any, irritation.
6) Weepers weep less and happen less often.
7) Whiskers are cut as close as hot shaving.
It's literally win-win on every point. And, just like hot water shaving,
the caveat is that the water be soft. Hard water makes everything suck,
shaving especially so.
I appreciate the long-running trend of men looking like hobos with three
plus days worth of whisker growth, regardless of the trim level, because
I don't have to put the full effort into reduction to look presentable.
This statement might seem hypocritical; while it is important to do one's
absolute best, time on Earth is finite and if I need only ten minutes to
evolve, why should I spend fifteen when it will go unnoticed?
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_ _ _____ _ _ _____ __ __ _____ _____
| | | | _ | | | |___ | \ / | _ |___ |
| | /\ | | |_| | | | | __| | \/ | |_| | __| |
| |/ \| | _ | V |/ ___| |\ /| | ___||__ |
| /\ | | | |\ /| |___| | \/ | | | ___| |
|__/ \__|_| |_| \_/ |_____|_| |_|_| |_____|
"Because sometimes I can't get music CDs encoded with other's shitty
software."
Step Uno: extract CD audio files with cdparanoia.
~~~~~~~~~
~/Music/rip/$ cdparanoia -B --
This extracts all the files on the CD into individual files, sequentially
numbered, starting with track01.cdda.wav. It's easier to extract the entire
CD and just delete the final MP3s that aren't wanted.
Take care to deal with any WAV files that might have been created from
previous rips. Either MV them to a temporary directory or RM them. The
script below ASSumes that the WAV files present are the correct ones.
Step Due: Edit a simple text file used for creating and titling the MP3
~~~~~~~~~ files.
Go to freedb.org and get the track listing of the CD being extracted.
Viewing the "Disc-ID" link to get the song titles is easiest. Create a text
file that looks like the example below:
---BEGIN sample.txt TEXT FILE---
Single
Artist
Album Title
2017
This Is A Song
So Is This
And This Is Also
A Song
This Is The Last Song
----END sample.txt TEXT FILE----
The first line tells the script to deal with single/multi artist CDs. I need
to look at what the script below is actually doing before I discuss dealing
with multi artist CDs. I really don't think the script as written deals with
multi artist CDs properly. The above text file has five tracks. Take care
to not leave empty lines in the file.
Step Tre: run the WAV2MP3 script.
~~~~~~~~~
Duh. Execute the BASH script below.
~/Music/rip$ bash wav2mp3 < sample.txt
This redirects the contents of sample.txt into the script. The script is
just a bunch of read statements executed in sequence, hence the necessity
for the text file that is being redirected into the script to be in the
correct order. Lots of "ideas" in the script should be self-evident. Read
the MAN pages for stuff that isn't.
---BEGIN wav2mp3 SCRIPT---
#!/bin/bash
filler="00000000"
read multi
echo $multi
read artist
echo $artist
read album
echo $album
read year
echo $year
for l in `ls track*wav`
do
if [ "${multi:0:1}" = "M" ]
then
read martist
dartist="va"
read track
else
martist=${artist}
dartist=${martist}
read track
fi
tn=${l:5:2}
dartist=`echo ${dartist} | tr "[:upper:]" "[:lower:]"`
dartist=`echo "${dartist}" | tr " " "_"`
dartist=`echo "${dartist}" | tr -d "'\"" `
dtrack=`echo ${track} | tr "[:upper:]" "[:lower:]"`
dtrack=`echo "${dtrack}" | tr " " "_"`
dtrack=`echo "${dtrack}" | tr -d "'\"" `
dalbum=`echo ${album} | tr "[:upper:]" "[:lower:]"`
dalbum=`echo "${dalbum}" | tr " " "_"`
dalbum=`echo "${dalbum}" | tr -d "'\"" `
dest="${dartist}-${year}-${dalbum}"
if ! [ -e ${dest} ]
then
mkdir -p ${dest}
fi
lame -b 256 -m s -q 2 --ty ${year} --tg 17 --tl "${album}" --tn "${tn}"
--tt "${track}" --ta "${artist}" ${l} ${dest}/${tn}-${dtrack}.mp3
done
----END wav2mp3 SCRIPT----
Please make sure to edit the "lame" line to be all one line as I had to break
the line into two to conform to the formatting of this page.
Step Quattro: Enjoy the MP3s.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Enjoy indeed. Sometimes the tags might not be "right" or how I want them.
When that is the case, I will load up a tag editor, "EasyTag" for instance,
and fix accordingly.
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-30-