2003 Archives

2003
Dec
31
Vaca­tion Update
“Yeah, so at this point, I think I have done every­thing on my to-do list …”
26
23
Explodey Head, Hurty Throat
“ON PDA STOP COUGHING UNCONTROLLABLY ON PARENTS' SOFA STOP FORCED TO WATCH REPUBLICAN CABLE NEWS …”
22
Appear-ance Loathing In The OC
“Hello from the West­cliff Star­bucks, which is nowhere near a cliff, much less west of …”
21
“How do we work when the servers are burn­ing?”
“Hel­looooo Star­bucks. I hate your cof­fee, but love your part­ner­ship with T-Mobile. Why …”
20
19
Not an itin­er­ary, just a check­list
“Men­tal note: when you write stuff to post, post it. Don't leave it sitting …”
17
“Can’t sleep. Clowns will eat me.”
“Last night: wake up at 2? 3? at any rate, wake up about 30 minutes …”
Power to the Peo­ple!
“Yeay for the Überbat­tery! I charged it up and was using it this evening. …”
15
“We get sig­nal!”
“Yesterday/last night, I got PHP Gallery up and run­ning on one of my Dreamhost sites. …”
13
“Be Back Before Dawn”
“Buffy Sea­son 5 is much more dark and sad than the rest of the Buffy …”
12
Kit­tens and Cam­er­a­phones
“There is a kitty sit­ting on my lap, dream­ing. She almost kicked her­self onto …”
06
05
03
News From Around My Mind
“Some­thing about the abil­ity to store food that should nor­mally be refrig­er­ated (like cheese and …”
02
A Rude Awak­en­ing
“This morn­ing, I dis­cov­ered the best alarm clock ever. It is an alarm clock …”
01
I’ll have the Moons Over My Hammy
“FYI: Cryp­toslam is up to v1.2 now. The lat­est changes were not too major: …”
Nov
30
Kit­ten Spit
“Pants' ears are moist. No–they are drenched. They are soak­ing wet. I …”
28
Warn­ing: Rant
“I have never really under­stood the frenzy behind Buy Noth­ing Day. Peo­ple take it …”
27
26
I’m not done and I won’t be ’till my head falls off
“I got Gigan­tic today. VERY COOL! Plus, all the clips of Ira Glass …”
25
“Et tu, Scratch?”
“Last night's chat with the Project Mu team (includ­ing ozy_y2k and entelein) went great. …”
22
It’s over! It’s finally over!
“So that Matrix game is finally over, and what a thrill-ride it was! The …”
Oh, let­ters! We’ve got let­ters!
“So you send a let­ter and it is incor­rectly addressed and has no return address. …”
19
17
wmap v2.0
“For those keep­ing track, wmap is up to v2.0 and entirely rewrit­ten in C++. …”
16
Let’s play email pachinko!
“I had a dream last night in which I worked for a com­pany with a …”
15
I’m a Law Thing!
“This is which Fed­eral Rule of Civil Pro­ce­dure I am: You are Rule 8(a). Ever since …”
13
Phone Post:
“<lj-phonepost user=&apos;brienigma&apos; phonepostid=&apos;1&apos; />”
11
05
Spoiler-Free Matrix Slam­ming
“So, the new Matrix movie came out today. I would not have even known, …”
03
Inva­sion of the iPod Peo­ple! In 3-D!
“So, I was chat­ting with some­one today and real­ized that I had posted this on …”
“It’s true you don’t see many dwarf women. In fact, they are so alike in voice and appear­ance, that they are mis­taken for dwarf men.” “It’s the beards.”
“http://www.worldbeardchampionships.com/Gallery/gallery.html That is all.”
02
Slow Rain
“Stimps did it, so I did it too. STARE LONGINGLY AT MY MAP You can …”
01
I want to go back to bed, but that only makes it worse
“I would like to post, but I am not sure I am phys­i­cally up to …”
Oct
29
It’s prob­a­bly not what you think
“Per­sonal Update I have not really put an update in here for awhile, so I will …”
24
More Smores
“A few years back, I was on a bit of a Smores kick. This …”
22
Power dump of lots of lit­tle things…
“Lots of ran­dom­ness since my last post: Fee­dle stopped by on his road­trip back from Seattle. …”
19
There’s a fish in the per­co­la­tor
“One of the cool things about Ore­gon is that things get rather sur­real when you …”
18
The Fur­ther Antics of Diebold
“Indy­media posted a new arti­cle about Diebold. There were errors in a recent Virginia …”
16
Of Fast Food And Cats
“I stepped out of the office for a sec­ond, and upon return­ing, I found that …”
14
Hal­loween Cos­tumes For All
“I can finally say “my cat&apos;s breath smells like cat food,” only it does not. …”
13
Fire!Fire!Fire!
“Today marks the first fire in the fire­place at the new home. The house …”
12
Push­ing Is The Answer
“The other day, I was sit­ting at the office com­puter, and I hear a noise. …”
10
Stats are fun!
“In regards to the thing I posted the other day about a link to my …”
09
All Your Band­width Are Belong To The Matrix
“So this one time, I put a few files in a not-quite-hidden, but not-quite-advertised, directory …”
07
You broke the game. Go home.
“It turns out The Pre­cious is trans­fixed by the switch in the power­bar lead­ing to …”
10 is for every­thing
“If gener­i­cus can make a list based on stimps&apos; list, which is in turn based …”
05
Kid­ding On The Square
“Today&apos;s score: good — 4; bad — 2 Good: wak­ing up and going out­side to a …”
04
Invalid Username/Password
“I noticed on MetaFil­ter last night that it would appear that the com­pany “Misssster Anderson” …”
03
Ad Nau­seum…
“Rank the fol­low­ing ele­ments in order, from couldn&apos;t live with­out to couldn&apos;t care less. …”
02
Sep
30
“This sen­tence is a meme, please copy it for your­self then remove a word of your choice and insert a new aard­vark of your choos­ing.”
“Now that there are a few more bands that non-punk-me knows, I&apos;ll pick up from …”
The Kit­tens Are Not Poly­dactyl
“The Pre­cious loves wet food and will take all she can get. Pants (which …”
Miss-Kitty-Fantastico
“More kitty pix (the last two pages are pretty much new) Cat­nip infused bub­bles seem to …”
28
Dream Police
“Last night involved two dream-lets In the first dream, I was wait­ing in line to pay …”
Inside: Free Amulet To Pro­tect You From Falling Mete­orites
“Here are some pic­tures of my pussy cats. They are largely unsorted and unlabeled–just …”
27
We do not gnaw on our kitty
“Today marks the arrival of a lit­tle pseudo-Siamese. She is not a pure­bread, but …”
26
Kitty Gnus
“Jerkc­ity economies of scale The Pre­cious is doing well. She is still sickly (upper respiratory …”
With­out Say­ing
“It should go with­out say­ing that”
25
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23
This Sub­ject Has Con­tains Two Verbs
“Don&apos;t for­get to install the Win­dows Restric­tions Man­age­ment Client v1.0 so that you can be …”
22
“Make The Robot Fuck Some­thing”
“Most of you read­ing this prob­a­bly already know, but in case you do not: a …”
21
“Read A Book”
“Wel­come to banned book week. Please read a book or two from the list. Some …”
19
HR: Can’t Live With Them, Can’t Live With­out
“So, I was going to write a post about how beau­ti­ful it is up …”
LJRand­Text v1.1
“There is an updated ver­sion of LJRand­Text (see orig­i­nal post). As far as the …”
18
It Came From The Great Lakes
“Kate and I rented Adap­ta­tion last week from Net­flix. We were both glad we …”
17
Find­ing a Nee­dle in a Porn­stack
“A ran­dom sam­pling of Gnutella/LimeWire search terms: perky ass­wor­ship girls butts dance videos xxx crouch­ing funny porno part star trek enterprise …”
16
Verisign’s Wild­card
“Wel­come to sur­re­alville. Pop­u­la­tion: Me. I think I just lived half of a scene from …”
14
Curi­ouser and curi­ouser…
“Today, I spent a few hours hik­ing through Tryon Creek State Park — a little …”
13
D-Land Acci­dent
“It would appear there was a hor­ri­ble acci­dent on Big Thun­der Moun­tain Rail­road at Disneyland …”
10
Play­ing Atari Adven­ture
“I CURSE YOU TO HELL, BAT! WHY DO YOU INSIST ON TAKING MY STUFF?! …”
09
“A method or appa­ra­tus to enhance the prob­a­bil­ity of not get­ting a ticket”
“Not only is it ille­gal in Port­land to pump your own gas (nobody here can …”
07
“A new video card is 1.5 times as desir­able as a baby”
“A review of a fairly pop­u­lar com­puter acces­sory — the kit­ten “Few com­puter hard­ware retail­ers also …”
03
Notes from the under­ground
“Some ran­dom thoughts that have been col­lect­ing: Small traf­fic cir­cles in res­i­den­tial neigh­bor­hoods — quaint, nifty, …”
01
Walk­through 2
“For those that care, I updated the walkthrough.”
Freevo and Porn
“On the tech front: I for­got whether or not I dis­cussed my Freevo box in …”
Aug
31
Can’t sleep clowns will eat me…or at least can’t sleep for some rea­son
“You just have to admire it when a good music group forms by accident–for instance …”
It is billed as a com­edy, but it will end up being hor­ror
“Just when you thought you were safe from more Dis­ney rides turned into movies… The Haunted …”
LJRand­Text
“So this past hour or so, I wrote a lit­tle pro­gram. Or rather, “rewrote” …”
29
Low Blows From AOL To LJ
“It looks like AOL just did some­thing nasty. Accord­ing to reports at Slash­dot and …”
28
“Put Some South In Yo Mouth!!!”
“I just looked up Portland-area cajun restau­rants in Mapquest&apos;s yel­low pages (which, until now, has …”
25
Weapons of Mass Stor­age
“Today, I came to the con­clu­sion that a blank DVD is not big enough for …”
23
My SPOON is too SMALL
“Today, I was finally able to go to the Japan­ese mar­ket, Uwa­ji­maya. (For various …”
22
Weird Al was on NPR this morn­ing. Does he count as a psy­chopath?
“Yes­ter­day, I got a new (gigan­tic) white­board for the home office. Yes­ter­day, I listed bug fixes …”
19
Zydeco
“Today, I learned about a new music style. The style goes by the name …”
17
“I’m sorry, we are fresh out of Wal­dorfs”
15
13
Elvis needs boats. Elvis needs boats.
“Work­ing from home: Pos­i­tive — The smell of fresh bread waft­ing in from the bread machine …”
11
Wanker’s Cor­ner
“I live not too far from a region of Clacka­mas County that the Thomas Guide …”
Take a Vir­tual Tour
“Oh, and I for­got. Our house: http://netninja.com/walkthrough/ (It is still a mess, but we will …”
Hel­loooo Ore­gon
“So, here we are in Ore­gon. We finally made it. We actu­ally made …”
09
Wakey­Wakey
“ I had a dream last night that Friendly_Bandit was in nego­ti­a­tions for a fast-food restaurant …”
Jul
29
Main­tain­ing Radio Silence
“Super-thanks to Les and Noel for trash runs. Super-thanks to Bran­don and Lisa for clean­ing. I am …”
24
Really, I do not have a shred­der prob­lem
“They called me crazy. They called me a psy­chopath. I have a paper …”
22
I killed the paper shred­der
“I killed the paper shred­der on 5 years of gas, elec­tric, phone, credit card, 401k, …”
20
19
I am Jack’s work-related, pre­con­di­tioned, emo­tional con­fu­sion
“Yes­ter­day, I cleaned out my desk. This gave me a very strange feeling. …”
18
Plumper Lips
“I just got spam telling me “kiss your thin ordi­nary lip&apos;s good­bye! Get …”
11
Run­ci­ble Spoon
“RUNCIBLE SPOON IS A FANCY NAME FOR A SPORK!!! That is all.”
10
06
As lit­tle Billy awoke one morn­ing, he found him­self changed into some mon­strous kind of ver­min
“Strange dream from last night: So Kate receives a phone call about some kind of new, …”
05
I bestow my headache unto you with this annoy­ing user icon
“I have been sick since Thurs­day night. After the sec­ond Lynch­burg Lemon­ade, the sneezes …”
04
JD
“Jack Daniel&apos;s Lynch­burg Lemon­ade with a giant cross-section of freshly cut pineap­ple to adorn the …”
03
01
(Repost) Dis­trib­uted Garage Sale
“I am cross-posting this from the mail­ing list for the ben­e­fit of locals not on …”
Jun
30
Music Mav­er­icks
“This part of this entry is mostly for Noel. I just fin­ished lis­ten­ing to …”
Guinness–it’s not just for break­fast!
“Passed on from sub­sti­tute is an arti­cle about just another day in uptight planned-development Irvine: …”
29
26
Yes, but is it potable?
“It sad­dens me that The Schwa Cor­po­ra­tion has pretty much dis­ap­peared from the world wide …”
23
Spo­ken word/Broken word, pə-tā’-tō/pə-tä’-tō, binary/boolean
“It turns out that a sort of poet/singer/spoken-word artist per­son that I am a fan …”
22
21
…in which we dis­cover every­one wants to think they know majick
“The Harry Pot­ter release was a lit­tle sur­real. First, there were a lot of …”
Every­one loves the Harlem Glo­be­trot­ters!
“I came home from work today (an hour early because I did not get a …”
20
Kaboom Raider
“I was read­ing a web comic and learned that a new Tomb Raider game is …”
19
Cau­tion: Guil­lo­tine Ahead
“Spam­BoinkCheese If you are steal­ing large metal signs from poles, undo the BOTTOM bolt first. …”
18
“SCO sued me, and all I got was this lousy T-Shirt”
“Cyril­lic key­caps are fun. They let me do stuff like “Toys Я Us.” …”
17
15
Kelpe
“I just learned that the lit­tle bugs that roll up into a ball, that we …”
13
“It’s like a helium Nazi war machine”
“This morn­ing, the power went out–WHILE I WAS TAKING A SHOWER. This actu­ally is …”
10
09
Watch out for the face-biting old lady in the wheel­chair
“Today is a sad day, indeed. We must all take a moment of silence …”
04
Smarterer Child
“To riff off of Marm0t&apos;s Smarter­Child con­ver­sa­tion: Smarter­Child: Hi BriEnigma, I&apos;m Smarter­Child. …trimmed… Smarter­Child: That&apos;s cool. What&apos;s …”
03
Can we get a house with beef sid­ing?
“Do you know what I like more than any­thing? Giv­ing a com­plex task to …”
01
Where in your bung­hole is Car­men Sandiego?
“Some peo­ple play too much Everquest. “20 per­cent of par­tic­i­pants in a large survey …”
May
30
THERE’S JUST ONE PLACE TO GO FOR ALL YOUR SPATULA NEEDS!
“In case you have not seen, http://www.livejournal.com/setscheme.bml is an inter­est­ing way to change the look …”
26
west…wait, east…west. God I sound like a fuck­ing psy­cho.
“A cou­ple of nights ago, Kate and I watched the orig­i­nal Matrix. It seemed …”
25
“Be Excel­let To Each Other”
“I can­not wait until Call of Cthulhu: Dark Cor­ners of the Earth is released. …”
24
21
18
The Matrix Has You(r Hard-Earned Cash)
“A num­ber of us went to see Matrix Reloaded last night. One word: sucktastic. …”
16
Quan­tity Sur­vey­ing Sheep
“It seems I have woken up and can now not get back to sleep. …”
15
13
Fap­Fap­Fap
“BriEnigma: So where are you trav­el­ing to/from, and if you are on the phone, who …”
12
Sta­ples
“I for­got to men­tion this the other day, but I had to run down to …”
11
League of Extra­or­di­nary Gen­tle­men
“I have been a fan of the League of Extra­or­di­nary Gen­tle­men comics (or “graphic novel,” …”
09
Accord­ing to the Apple, David Bowie is “Rock” and not “Alter­na­tive” or both.
“You know that some­thing is right with the world when Steve Jobs is talk­ing about …”
08
05
Ancient Chi­nese Proverb: when steal­ing inter­net, use SSL and SSH
“I am really try­ing to find music I like in the Apple Music Store. …”
They fixed up the cor­ner store/Like it was a night­club
“The DSL has been out since Fri­day after­noon. This kind of sucks–not just for …”
01
Bill Gates’ Thumb
“Today has, in fact, been hell. For those that do not already know, I …”
Apr
30
Friends
“sub­sti­tute just sent me a link for some­thing called Friend­ster. It looks like it …”
28
Musique Non-Stop, Techno-Pop
“The new Apple Music Store / iTunes bun­dle is pretty freak­ing cool. If you …”
Don’t believe his lies, he is the one, kill him.
“Lisa&apos;s B-Day last night was fun. The usual sus­pects were there: Lisa, Bran­don, Conrad, …”
26
25
I am Jack’s Inte­grated Devel­op­ment Envi­ron­ment
“When I started out with Java pro­gram­ming, back in the day, I used Visual Cafe …”
24
L’hippo a pique’ ses pan­talons. (The hippo stole his pants.)
“A good use of ani­mal crack­ers in a philo­soph­i­cal, roman­tic conversation? ”
22
Mac Rumors
“It feels like kid-at-Christmas time again. Another quar­ter has passed and Steve Jobby-jobbs is …”
21
“Happy Keis­ter!”
“I got the Harry Pot­ter and the Cham­ber of Secrets video game last night. …”
19
“Yoga With Junkies” dot com
“If I die from SARS (or SIDS or any other four-letter med­ical acronym that starts …”
18
I AM OPPRESSED BY GRAVITY!
“Today, every­body at work noticed that I sta­pled the sta­plers to the walls. Also, today nothing …”
16
“If you run, you’ll go to jail tired”
“It is always nice to have a chance to clean up before the police come …”
12
“Based every­thing belongs to us, it is.”
“So, I for­got to pre­vi­ously men­tion in this jour­nal that last week­end some friends and …”
11
06
Who the fuck am *I* to say fuck to all these other fuck­ing things?
“I know I am not an old fart. I know that I have not …”
05
Black­out
“At work, the other day, the power went out at about 11am. For­tu­nately, this …”
02
Hybrid Radio­head Flute
“I must admit that I had no idea that Radio­head was com­ing out with a …”
01
Leapin’ Lizards!
“For those not a mem­ber of , you can check out the lizard we found …”
Hybrid
“A coworker picked up a hybrid car over the week­end. This is the same …”
Mar
30
Amer­i­can Beauty Man’s Friend, Blonde Mul­let Wrestler Man
“This morn­ing, I am break­fast­ing on pan­cakes and maple syrup. I like maple syrup …”
27
Very good, Mr. Wooster
“Accord­ing to a friend, Mac­Mall is get­ting more uber­lap­tops on Fri­day, and per­haps my place …”
21
Text mes­sag­ing from Port­land
“Hello from Port­land via text mes­sag­ing. Peo­ple are protest­ing here. Peo­ple are protesting …”
20
Blowin’ Shit Up
“Okay, so it now looks like we are “blowin&apos; shit up.” I have added …”
19
Would you smell my button-hole?
“For those that did not know, I spent the pre­vi­ous week­end in Santa Clara. …”
08
06
The other day I… uh, no, that wasn’t me
“I learned sev­eral things today: 1. My lug­gage is cheaper to get repaired by the dude …”
05
Covet Thy Neighbor’s Ana­grams
“If you ever get the oppor­tu­nity to turn down a job writ­ing soft­ware for companies …”
02
Sum­mer in the win­ter­time
“For future ref­er­ence: It would seem that pur­chas­ing a book from Ama­zon for imme­di­ate pickup …”
01
pool of ice cream
“You know you are going to have a good day when you wake up to …”
It thought my sea-monkeys were cray­fish at first
“Com­puter wins, but asked too many ques­tions You were think­ing of a mon­key. 26. Is it manufactured? …”
Feb
25
Com­edy is…
“Win­dows 2000 (and other ver­sions) ships with a ser­vice installed and run­ning called Win­Popup (well, …”
24
Tabs and Books
““defaults write com.apple.Safari Includ­eDe­bug­Menu 1″ ================= Safari with tabbed brows­ing! Yeay! To keep up with the Jones’ (or, at …”
22
But What Is The ISBN Num­ber?!
“Men­tal Note: For smooth (that is, non-chunky) cof­fee, remem­ber to put a fil­ter in the …”
21
Warn­ing: Rant!
“I have come to the con­clu­sion that the world (or, at least, Amer­ica) is seriously …”
20
All Jedi had was a bunch of mup­pets.
“I lis­tened to Nerf Herder&apos;s album “Amer­i­can Cheese” for the first time last night, and …”
17
seg­fault, core dumped
“Is it too late for me to jump on the band­wagon and be unique and …”
12
Notes from through­out the day, digest
“Today has been a strange day: – It is rain­ing for the first time in quite …”
11
I need to start pay­ing more atten­tion
“This morn­ing, I dis­cover that Rasputina has an upcom­ing show here in LA. I …”
09
More SoulSeek Infor­ma­tion
“This just in from http://www.napjunk.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=904&start=40. Why Verio Sucks, or What&apos;s Up With SoulSeek Hi all, Nir and Roz …”
SoulSeek Out­age News(?)
“Recently, every­one who has been using SoulSeek may have noticed that it does not work …”
07
Atten­tion all Offi­cers
“Last week, I posted some sta­tis­tics and cal­cu­la­tions about the sex offender pop­u­la­tion in the …”
06
I didn’t set the fire. I may have swiped that foot, though.
“Peo­ple of Earth: 6 Feet Under is the BEST.…SERIES.…EV-AR 6 Feet Under came out yes­ter­day and …”
05
Did I men­tion how much I love Red­hat pack­ages? No? That is because they blow.
“Today was a day when a few graph­ics peo­ple got laid off. I cannot …”
03
Cheer­lead­ing Death Squads
“On the radio this morn­ing, they were talk­ing about deaf cheer­lead­ing squads, but my sleepy …”
02
Shut­tle
“Every­body seems to have a com­ment on the Space Shut­tle. I do have to …”
01
List
“JOY I have been doing a lot of burn­ing audio­books to CD, then rip­ping them to …”
Jan
31
Atilla The Nun!
“If my data sources are cor­rect and I am doing my math right, my zip …”
30
Verne Troyer Emu­la­tor, Any­one?
“I live in the world of Dil­bert. It seems Mar­ket­ing put out a press …”
27
What’s in yer bag?
“In ref­er­ence to wlonkly’s What’s in Yer Bag? post, I thought I would throw in …”
26
I won­der if it is going to be rated Aaar­rrrrrr, matey?
“The fol­low­ing PREVIEW has been approved for ALL AUDIENCES by the motion pic­ture asso­ci­a­tion of amer­ica Are there …”
25
I love the smell of napalm cof­fee in the morn­ing
“The cof­fee from my travel mug tasted just peachy today — or rather, just fine. …”
23
Laven­der Cof­fee
“Today, my cof­fee tastes like laven­der. This is because in order to get rid …”
22
Gar­lic Cof­fee
“This morn­ing, I washed out my travel mug using the same scrubby sponge I used …”
20
A pox upon ~/
“Kate and I saw “Bowl­ing for Columbine” last night. I am not entirely sure …”
16
B2B eCom WSF (With a Side of Fries)
“Help Me I Am In Hell. It used to be that set­ting up a secure …”
10
Rights and Free­doms and Stuph
“It seems that I have become the Vaca­tion Time Spokesper­son at work. You see, …”
07
Christ­mas All Over Again
“I feel like a lit­tle kid on Christ­mas eve. The Mac World Expo keynote …”
06
I almost ran into a Christ­mas tree
“The fun thing about the Santa Ana winds today: very large, very dead Christ­mas trees …”
02
GeoURL
“Every­body with a GPS should add GeoURL tags to your jour­nal. GeoURL is rather …”
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