Posted by hank, Tue May 27 17:30:00 UTC 2008
My left hand is currently incapacitated due to the wonders of modern science. I had an enchondroma, which is a cartilage tumor, in my left index finger. They cut it out today, and now I have a large blue brick attached to me. I think I will be spending my days at home high on oxycontin for the next week or so, which means more internet play time, but I won’t be coding much since it took me almost 5 minutes to type this post.
Posted by hank, Wed May 14 21:57:00 UTC 2008
You know what would be awesome - forcing the UK to commit copyright infringement by simply watching a copyrighted movie in public in London. You’d have to watch out for some things, but if you did it you could legally request a copy of the footage under the Data Protection Act, putting them in a tricky position with the MPAA. As they recorded it in the first place, they are already in violation of copyright law. It would rock. Someone needs to do it.
Posted by hank, Thu Apr 24 21:26:00 UTC 2008
I was listening to “Ends” by Everlast on the radio today on my way to work. It was going alright, but I noticed that there are quite a few things you can’t say on the radio that are surprising.
Now, I realize that much of this has to do with context, but come on… You can’t say smoked the finest green? What’s wrong with the word whore anyway? Concubine is in the Bible, and that’s a synonym, so… Would it be OK to say that on the radio? Do we need to censor Christian radio when they say concubine?
So, I looked into it, and found this. Interesting…
Posted by hank, Wed Jan 02 00:13:00 UTC 2008
I finally found where Angband saves are stored in Ubuntu thanks to the helpful file listing it provides. It’s all in /var/games/angband, and the save directory looks like this:
root@rofl:/var/games/angband/save# ls -al
total 60
d---rwx--- 2 root games 4096 2008-01-01 23:57 .
drwxr-sr-x 9 root games 4096 2007-12-31 16:18 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 hank games 45651 2008-01-01 23:57 1000.Hank
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root games 47 2006-11-13 01:20 delete.me
The inside of 1000.Hank is complete binary gibberish, but at least I can back it up now and move it between computers. This is so encouraging me to cheat. To find out more about angband, read this article.
Posted by hank, Fri Dec 14 01:30:00 UTC 2007
So, I keep seeing people posting comments around that say Ron Paul is a racist, and most of them refer to a 1992 mailing list post he allegedly wrote. This posting was controversial because it portrayed inner city Blacks in a bad light. It was protesting against the lack of police action against rioting, the Rodney King scandal, and inner city crime committed by Blacks. Now, I don’t think he was inferring that only Black people commit crime, or are predisposed to it by their race; quite the contrary in fact.
Posted by hank, Sun Nov 25 17:55:00 UTC 2007
I took this test to see which current presidential candidates my views align with, and got some pretty surprising results:
It’s based on this table of the candidates views on popular issues, and how strong your feelings are on each one. A good tool indeed, and it should be publicized as a guideline for voters by our caring media since we all want voters to make informed decisions…
The graph led to this:
I have no explanation for this picture.
Posted by hank, Wed Oct 31 23:33:00 UTC 2007
It’s time to raise the taxes on the rich in this country. I can’t believe that Warren Buffett only pays 17.7% on his $46 million. Why am I stuck paying 20-30%? That’s stupid. I hope the next president realizes this and fights to lower taxes drastically for anyone making sub-upper-level-executive salaries.
I started trading options about a week ago, and made a little profit on Boeing. Redhat started taking off today, and I might buy a call on that. Watch Redhat!
Posted by hank, Fri Oct 19 00:16:00 UTC 2007
I’m so glad he was such an idiot. They totally forensic-ed his face!
The unidentified man appears in around 200 photographs discovered by police on the Internet, in which he was shown abusing 12 young boys. Investigators believe they were taken in Vietnam and Cambodia, possibly in 2002 and 2003.
Reminds me of that first episode of Dexter…(Spoiler Alert)
Here’s another picture of him - they ended up catching him.
Posted by hank, Wed Oct 17 23:55:00 UTC 2007
So, I decided to search for ralree tonight, and of course my blog came up as the first result. I just thought it was funny what they chose as a description for my blog, which happens to be part of a code paste from a few days ago…
I'm a computer programmer from Ellicott City, MD.
I go to OSCON every year, write random code, and blag about it here.
I enjoy cooking,
reviewing beer, hiking, kayaking, and watching movies and television shows.
Email me: ralree@gmail.com
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