fleshyorgans

Journal of a software engineer with a romantic heart

Per my brother

Just so you know: the volume of the caspian sea in teaspoons is 15,865,539,451,543.79 tsp (approximately)

Forgive me, Father, I have sinned…

I have written code that looks like this. foreach ($row as $k => $v) {  if (is_numeric($v))   continue; $row[$k] = preg_replace(“/([\\xC0-\\xDF])([\w|\W])/e”, “‘\\1′.chr(ord(‘\\2′)-64) “, $v) ; } Incidentally, had to do som strange copy/paste action to get that line to not break wordpress. And FWIW, that preg_replace effectively converts windows-1252 characters out of the unused overlap [...]

Old and new

Scored a rotary phone from Goodwill, today. Actually, is that really “scoring”? Anyway, it’s kind of cool sitting next to the wireless router in the kitchen. Neat juxtaposition. Pulse dialing for the win!

I totally want to make one of these

An NES guitar

Extra-special Trail Mix

My girlfriend bought some trail mix at Martin’s, a local grocery store. Not only did she get food, she also got a friend. I couldn’t get a decent photo cause the guy could move really quickly for his size! Not sure what he is, but I’m pretty sure he’s not unsafe. Yeah, she ate a [...]

Getting flash sound in Linux

I’m currently using Songbird as my music player at work. It looks pretty cool — mainly I’m using it for the music library feature. It’s basically iTunes but open source. A happy coincidence/side-effect to using this is that installation effectively solved the sound problems I had with sites such as YouTube. No sound from flash [...]

Screenshot of my Xgl desktop

Also, this is what I was talking about with that Xgl post. This is a screenshot of my desktop, mid-rotate. Xgl is really nice… all the eyecandy things are actually really useful in terms of giving you feedback about what you’re doing. And conceptually, having a sort of spatial representation of the virtual desktop paradigm [...]

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