Hey, St. Louis natives! I’ve got your Wednesday night all planned out! You should come and watch me and my improv troupe perform next Wednesday, September 26th at the Comedy Forum in St. Peters, MO. Doors are at 7:30, show starts at 8:00, and it costs $10 or less to get in (be sure to mention that you came to see ‘See You Next Tuesday’.
Our troupe will be battling versus another improv troupe, to establish who is best. Or, who can make the most dick jokes. If you come, you’ll be treated to a climactic battle that may well be the most dramatic event … of the evening. In STL. Well, the suburbs.
September 22nd, 2007
I just found out about the hddtemp package under Debian. It, unsurprisingly, reports the internal temperature of a hard drive using the drive’s built in sensors. Until yesterday, I had no idea that it existed.
Today, I’m engaging in the first of a several day course of airflow experiments to optimise webserver cooling at my desk.
September 19th, 2007
#include <stdlib.h>
#define RANGE 365*120
int main()
{
int days = 0;
int presents = 0;
while(true)
{
presents += (days++%365)?0:1;
/*Do Stuff*/
if( days >= rand()%RANGE)
return 0;
}
}
September 15th, 2007
I’m paying about $15 a month for a landline phone connection, and it doesn’t bring me much joy. I don’t give the number out, nothing is hooked to the phone jack, and I have no idea if it rings. I don’t really want a landline, but I enjoy DSL. So, I decided to go along with AT&T’s, “we force you to pay for useless late-steam-age bullshit before we’ll even consider selling you services relevant to the current century” sales program. [0]
However, for $15/month, I should be getting some joy out of this thing. Obviously, I need to gin up some sort of automated answering service to mock people who call that number.
Maybe the system should play a never-ending loop of, “I’m Henry the Eighth I am”. Maybe an mp3 of uncontrolled sobbing.
Maybe I should have a calm voice saying, “Think on your life choices to date. Are you proud of them? Are you proud of where they’ve brought you? Is this how you see your life continuing…?”
[0] I’m aware that AT&T is contractually obligated, in many markets, to offer naked DSL. However, they only offer their slowest speed through that system, and they make it hard to order.
September 11th, 2007