Voder-Vocoder

Spent a load of money on my car today. Battery, belt, & oil. It’s probably all worth it.

I’ve also decided to reread “Oceans Unmoving” because it made no sense the first time through. It’s a good self-contained story. (I’m assuming that it will end in the next week or so.) It reads better as comic book than as a daily comic strip. The author would also benefit from more editorial input.

This weekend, I watched the first series of The IT Crowd. Some of it was brilliant, and some of it was less so. The first episode is my current favorite.

I believe that every TV show should have limited runs. Tell your story, do a handful of variations on your theme, then end it. Bringing back Family Guy was probly a mistake; the new episodes don’t add much. That said, there are no hard-and-fast rules on how many episodes is enough. FMA tells a single story in fifty-one episodes. Most sitcoms should be ended after a dozen episodes.

I loaned someone my copy of Data Structures & Problem Solving Using Java by Mark Weiss a while back. I forgot who, and I want the book back.

UPDATE: It would appear that Chris Wilson has it.

It had been decided back when the last king died that the kings (or chieftains, or scoutmasters, or whatever the hell they called themselves these days) of Arnor were not the royalty of Gondor.

Pilot scripts:

#!/bin/sh
## $HOME/Palm/pilot-xfer-install
export PILOTPORT=/dev/ttyS0
export PILOTRATE=115200
if ! (/bin/ls -l $PILOTPORT | grep -q rwxrwxrwx) ; then
    echo "sudo chmod 777 $PILOTPORT"
    sudo chmod 777 $PILOTPORT
fi
exec pilot-xfer -i "$@"

and

#!/bin/sh
## $HOME/Palm/INSTALL_EVERYTHING.sh
exec $HOME/Palm/pilot-xfer-install \
    $HOME/Palm/Docs/*.pdb \
    $HOME/Palm/Apps/*.prc

#!/bin/sh
## track-numbers.sh
## (C) 2006 Hal Canary
## DTPD
for NUMBER in $(seq -w 1 99); do
    if (/bin/ls *${NUMBER}* &> /dev/null); then
        id3tag -t ${NUMBER} *${NUMBER}*
    fi
done

“There are few things that are so unpardonably neglected in our country as poker… Why, I have known clergymen, good men, kindhearted, liberal, sincere, and all that, who did not know the meaning of a ‘flush’. It is enough to make one ashamed of one’s species.” — Mark Twain

“Switchgrass has the potential to produce the biomass required for production of up to 1000 gallon of ethanol per acre.”

Each American, on average consumes 1023 gallons of oil per year.

As of 1997, there was 1.4 acres of farmland per person in america.

You can either eat meat OR drive cars once we run out of petroleum.

I’d like to thank everone who contributed to the tonight, including the revelers, the buyers-of-drinks, and the drivers-to-home, and the conspritors.