Jill’s in Nantucket for some wedding, and I miss her. I’m also glad I’m not a bachelor, because I think I’d die of malnutrition. My diet the past few days has been:
Peanut butter and crackers
Granola
Leftover spaghetti
Bread
Water
It’s not that we don’t have anything else; I’m just too lazy to make it (although we are low on groceries). And J just called and said that the ferry isn’t running today because of the wind. Bleh!
On my code page, my project called DrBuck is described. It’s the biggest script/program I’ve written, and it is all in shell code. Well, writing in shell is a bit slow, inefficient, and not web-ready. Yesterday and today I’ve been working on a web version obsessively. It’s written in Perl, which is a great CGi language and a lot faster. The only problem is that I don’t know it very well, but I’ve been learning. I think I learn faster when I have a goal in mind.
DrBuck is a finance program. My goal is to make it easy to use, fast, and informative. For now it will be just for Jill and I, but in the near future I hope to make it easy for anyone to use it using an SQL backend for user accounts.
For those of you unfortunate enough not to be familiar with Mystery Science Theater 3000, it was a low-budget show that ran a few years ago featuring a few robots and a guy trapped in space. They were forced to watch awful movies and spent the entire time making fun of them.
The show has since been cancelled, but Jill and I still watch an episode from time to time. Tonight’s was a 1964 movie entitled “The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies”. No, really. Here’s the link on Wikipedia about the movie. The movie was hailed as the first “Monster Musical” and if that’s not enough to make you squirm, try watching it. The fun part is watching the trio on MST3K make fun of it!
October has been a good month! Last week was the Gordon college reunion (my 5 year) and it was really a lot of fun. It was great to see friends, old roommates, and profs and was just a very enjoyable time! The same day i also went to the Pirate Museum, which I highly reccommend! It was great – just try to get there when they open if you can, we got a private tour! Later in the day the line was down the street….
And then today we celebrated 2 birthdays, though we have 3 in the family. So happy birthday to Julie & Jenny, and Iraida! We had a fun dinner today and the kids enjoyed decorating the cakes!
A brief update from GeekLandâ„¢
1) Today my cable modem decided it was lonely and needed some lovin’. So it booted me off the internet for half a day until I called and had it reset. That explains my sites being down. After I got it back up, my IP had changed, so I had to modify the name servers to reflect this change.
2) Postfix/Sendmail is still not working on my server iMac, I used Fink and installed the latest version, but I had some trouble setting it up so that the system would use it – any geeks know how to change the default go-to place for binaries? I already changed the $PATH variable, but that doesn’t seem to help. Maybe I have to change this for root or www users?
3) My effects processor was put on hold… apparently someone had put some money down awhile ago on the unit I bid on, and it wasn’t supposed to have been sold on ebay. I’m hoping it gets sorted out and my early Christmas present sent!
4) In IE (mac version), my blog page looks really cruddy due to a CSS issue (“float: left” and margins, I think) with the sidebar. I’m wondering if anyone else using IE sees a blog page not like the other pages? It bugs me to fix something like that, since I hate IE, but I guess lotsa people use it.
5) If you leave comments, you’ll notice an additional field to help keep spam in check. Until today, I was getting ~80 comments per day that I had to sift through, and almost all of them were spam. Hopefully this simple step will save me a lot of time.
I’m currently infatuated with a certain guitar effects processor, the Line 6 PODxt Live. The processor I use now is this one, a Digitech RP-5:
It’s about 10 years old, and has served me well, but it’s time for something new to go with the great amp I got last Christmas. It buzzes, some of the buttons/pedals are broken, and it’s… well, old. It’s not even sold anymore, since it’s obsolete. Enter the object of my lust:
The problem is it’s around $350 on Ebay. But the thing is 100x better than my current pedal, and I’ll never have to buy another (I hope). I’m trying to convince Jill to let me get it now and get nothing for Christmas AND my birthday. I’m also trying to sell things that are lying around the house to raise a little cash. This thing is a very good seller, and rated a great deal for what you get (believe me, I’ve read all the reviews).
One of my favorite characters – guess who!
