Monthly Archives: September 2015
I hereby certify that it is entirely impossible…
I hereby certify that it is entirely impossible to translate a California Birth Certificate. Informant? Attendant? Registrar? Certifier? Birth Recorder? What? It would also help if the people who filled out those forms put the data into the field that the fields are for, and not some other random data. E.g. field name: License number…
I have a theory for my pain in…
I have a theory for my pain in the butt. http://openpiriformis.org/wiki/User:J12t/History#A_Theory.3F
What’s that wet stuff falling from the sky…
What’s that wet stuff falling from the sky all of a sudden? #california #drought
Where’s today’s edgy political writing?
just finished Mark Twain’s “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court”, the grand daddy of countless funny movies, but also a brilliant anti-slavery polemic, and anti-many-other-things besides. Has that kind of writing all but disappeared? Or am I just not plugged into the right places? There sure is plenty of wrong in the world that…
watering – Moisture sensors in connection with drip irrigation – Gardening & Landscaping Stack Exchange
Today’s great idea: open-source seeds aka the anti-Monsanto. By Adam Starrh in http://gardening.stackexchange.com/questions/20674/moisture-sensors-in-connection-with-drip-irrigation/21789?noredirect=1#comment25219_21789
Vodafone ‘hacked journalist’s phone to trace whistleblowers’ | The Australian
Not just gov’ts hacking into cell phone accounts. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/media/vodafone-hacked-journalists-phone-to-trace-whistleblowers/story-fn9ymmvo-1227523487683
On my MacBook currently running a bunch of…
On my MacBook, currently running a bunch of Mac apps, plus two VirtualBox Arch Linux instances, plus an additional Linux container running @uboslinux.
For the first time in a long time…
For the first time in a long time, somebody called me “Doctor” today. (He was Chinese, perhaps the Chinese have a similar attitude to titles as the Germans?) I’m afraid there was some awkward silence after that, because I had forgotten how to respond. The common looking-oh-ever-so-slightly-superior kind of thing is not something I know…
Do I really want to know what a…
Do I really want to know what a “Principal Orchestration Engineer” might be? The guy plugging in all the musical instruments?