Bailey

I'd have to hide under a rock, I'd blush so much.

Aria

I'll have to bring a rock, so there's one handy.

Bailey

Because Vermont doesn't have rocks.

Aria

Exactly! Only green fields and fluffy clouds!

Bailey

And Rainbows! Don't forget the rainbows!

Aria

Rainbows and Unicorns! I hear just about everyone in Vermont has a unicorn now. I mean, Vermont has McDonald's, right?

Bailey

Yeah.

Aria

I hear that they're considering renaming the Golden Arches to the Golden Bridle. They're that popular.

Bailey, entirely credulously

Really?

Aria, grinning

No, not really.

Be quiet already!.

CodeRay. Syntax highlighting for Ruby, C and HTML plus others.

Some sites are awesome. Some aren’t. I pity the fool who don’t get the joke.

Funny eBay Feedback.

USB Device Authentication.

Urban Knot Theory. Teaching topology in sewers outside of Manchester. Unschoolers are everywhere.

Listening to Interpol, Indigo Girls, 54-40, Counting Crows. I get reminded of saromia, lightwalker, Neal, anandabrat. I think this is half of why I listen to music. It’s the best key to my memory I’ve got.

SIOC Project, Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities. Neat idea. I want to build some RDF tools I can stand and play around.

The beginnings of a GNOME Dock that actually works (Digg it)

A cure for cancer? (Did anyone notice this this week? I did, I saw it everywhere.)

Hungarian Popcorn Seasoning

• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon powdered european oregano
• 1 teaspoon garlic powder or granules
• 1 teaspoon paprika

Grind finely with a mortar and pestle, and sprinkle over popcorn.

Don’t use GoDaddy. Besides, do you like looking at all those ads to register a name? For that matter, don’t use Network Solutions either, because they’re pain.

MouseHole is a personal web proxy written in Ruby. Some ideas for scripts I had were:

• Semantic Web interpreter and cataloguing agent
• Del.icio.us integration, adding bookmark toolbar to pages.
• Language-learning aids, á la Mauricio’s scripts.
• Intercepting music streams and ripping them as they’re played.
• Auto-downloading music and storing it catalogued by ID3 data

I wish that mouseHole scripts could intercept by MIME type rather than by URL. That’d be awesome.

So there’s now a Western slope Craigslist. I’m so glad my customer in SF called and told me!

Aria.goodfeelinz << "Knowing you've made a friend go 'yaaaay!'"

Dell Financial Services Direct Sales (that means “cheap refurbished business class computers”)

ZFS on FUSE/Linux, and its wiki.

Greylisting with greylistd and exim, way more efficient with CPU time than my Postgresql solution.

Rather cute

Since Chris2 tagged me, here goes. Much of this gets talked about here where people on my friends list read, but not much escapes publically.

• I have no college degree. I never attended high school. I didn’t even actually officially enroll in middle school. My highest formal education is the fourth grade.
• I’m transsexual. I live in a tiny town in the rural US, and it works out fine.
• I run a small internet service provider. I bought it from its previous owner after working for him for 8 years. I walked in looking for internet service; I walked out with a job instead. I’ve been doing it pretty much since.
• I’m vegetarian, and while I can make claims of moral superiority, the real secret is that I just don’t like any meats.
• I believe in honesty, directness and independence in unusual ways.

I’m gonna tag scytrin and wolftracks

Strange maps.

Report on transgender-related health priorities. (PDF)

Encyclopædia of the unusual at Wikipedia, including some of my favorites — Banksy, Navel lint, Trojan room coffee pot, Utah teapot, and Cadigan.

this made me think of you.

Famous people who were once homeless (Mirror)

Hyperinflation Banknotes. My mother’s family lived in Argentina through the seventies, eighties and ninties, and have seen the currency reforms.

Gluster, free cluster-computing software. Potentially very exciting to me as it develops.

Links for autodidacts. Thanks, chris2.

Quantum mechanics making a (qu)bit of sense.

FDR and the New Deal can bite me. I work entirely too hard to spend this much of my life figuring out what 12.4% of my income I need to give the Social Security Administration.

The nbtsc.org server should be back up now. Its power supply died, and it took a while to get up there to fix it. Sorry ‘bout that.

Me: Why are you grinning?

Bailey: I’m not! I’m upside-down so frowns look happy!