People on the bus wearing

People on the bus wearing matching bright red disney world 2005 tshirts.

also, a most excellent video. via xkcd.

Which Eddie Izzard Quote Are You?

Original Sin
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One thing you could do is put out a series of albums all called "Monkey" but with an increasing number of exclamation marks on each one. then, in the press you refuse to differentiate them by the number of exclamation marks, only by how emphatically you shout the word "monkey." act confused and incredulous when people can't figure out which one you mean.

fuck algebra

i have been known to complain that a familiarity with calculus should be something that's expected of all college graduates, much in the way that a vague familiarity with hamlet is. i mean, i'm not asking for history majors to be able to solve differential equations here, but they should know what a derivative is, and maybe an integral.

but i don't even know why i bother to think these thoughts when a journalist for the fucking london times CAN'T EVEN MULTIPLY. Ok, it's not like i'm really so hot at arithmetic myself, but if i was going to publish an article in, well, anything, let alone the sunday fucking times, you can bet i would check to make sure that my arithmetic was right. plus i own a calculator. EARTH TO STUPIDHEAD: 2^16 is 65536, not FOUR BILLION.

ok, so actually he got that right, but somehow managed to decide that a 16-bit binary number could have 2^32 values. again, STUPIDHEAD. and i don't bring that name out unless i really mean it.

IPv4 addresses have 32 bits (not 16) and IPv6 addresses have 128 (not 32) bits. and what the fuck is up with all of the scare quotes? "internet address", "16-bit", "32-bit". It's not like the guy you talked to just made these terms up, that's what the fuck they're called. guy from the times: you are officially as retarded as the people at the cheesesteak place that put up a sign that says "This is America, speak english" with superfluous quotes around the words "speak english." at least they make delicious cheesesteaks; you've probably never even made a proper tea, which we all know is england's gift to the culinary landscape.

my hair is too short

i got my haircut today. it looks ok but is a bajillion times shorter than i asked. like, i don't remember my hair ever being this short, ever.

in other news, people are annoying. there is no such thing as a computer lab or reading room at this school without an obnoxious person talking on a cellphone, listening to music on their headphones so loudly i can sing along (gloria! gloria!), or in this case teaching a class on how to make a webpage in the next room and SHOUTING THE WHOLE TIME.

to complete this generally misanthropic whiny post, let me say again that the keyboards on macs suck. they make my hands hurt, which granted doesn't take too much but holy shit they are the worst.

moments of pure geekitude

did you know that the cvs pserver protocol uses the strings "I LOVE YOU" and "I HATE YOU" to report successful and failed authentication respectively? it's true!

when i went to write this post, i had some other geeky moments to recount, but i can't think of what they were now. i thought the cvs bit was funny enough to post on its own however. i should write a song where i alliterate chorizo with chortle.