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Entries from November 2006

Per my brother

November 28th, 2006 · 1 Comment

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

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Forgive me, Father, I have sinned…

November 22nd, 2006 · No Comments

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 range in ISO 8859-1.

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Old and new

November 18th, 2006 · No Comments

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!

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I totally want to make one of these

November 17th, 2006 · No Comments

An NES guitar

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Extra-special Trail Mix

November 17th, 2006 · No Comments

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 […]

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