Tue, 03 Mar 2009
Schilly vs djb
I wonder, in a Jerry Springer kind of way, what would happen if Jörg Schilling were ever to start a discussion with Daniel Bernstein.
Perhaps I should go out and buy some popcorn in preparation.
Sun, 10 Jun 2007
The world according to spammers...
- Nobody can get it up anymore
- Everybody's horribly sick (and needs illegally acquired medicine)
- The world below the equator is full of dead filthy rich people who need their money transferred off some obscure account by someone above the equator
- The world above the equator is filled with filthy rich people who win the lottery every other day. Twice.
- ... and to fix that, luckily there're stock markets that work, with guaranteed interest rates of 20% or more.
- And last but not least: everyone has five pentabytes of diskspace.
Now if only.
Tue, 22 May 2007
VT4
In response to my Battlestar Galactica post of yesterday, Jonathan Carter wrote:
I just switched to VT4 and all I got was a login prompt :/
Grin. Obviously I didn't mean that VT4.
Sun, 25 Feb 2007
The cool kids
Primary school is a long time ago. Still, every time I buy me some new toy, I somewhere in the back of my head wonder how this will have an influence on my social standing.
I have this Nikon D50 since a few months now, and have brought it to FOSDEM. Mostly to take pictures, but, well, I did think it'd make me look good—at least slightly so.
Turns out everyone and their dog has one. Guess I'll need to take my flute next time. Or, well, convince nattie to sing Aria 14, and then follow that up with Aria 15.
Sun, 11 Feb 2007
Names
I'm not very good with names. Given names I can manage, but I quite
often forget what people's last names are. However, I'm not all that bad
in remembering what I know people from. I've taken up the habit of
calling people by the project they're known by if I can't immediately
come up with their last name. This works, as people usually know who
you're talking about if you mention, say, Dries Drupal
, Philip Tinymail
, Thomas Gstreamer
, Guido Python
, Theo OpenBSD
, etc. It doesn't sound as
good when you say Linus Linux
, but then usually everyone knows
who you talk about when you just use his first name.
I do wonder what I'd be known by, though...
Wed, 24 May 2006
Duck with whisky
One of the classic recepies that get forwarded by mail over and over again to me is the following. It's usually in Dutch, but I've translated it:
Get yourself a duck of about 1.5 to 2kg, and two large bottles of
Scottish whisky, bacon strips and a bottle of olive oil.
Put the bacon around the duck, and treat the inside with pepper and
salt.
Preheat the oven for 10 minutes at 180 degrees Celcius.
Fill a large glass with whisky.
Drink the whisky while the oven is preheating.
Put the duck on a fireproof platter and fill out a second glass of
whisky.
Drink out the second glass of whisky and put the duck in the oven.
After 20 minutes, put the oven to 200 degrees celsius and vill 2 glazzes
of whisky.
Drink out the glazzes and pick ub the piecez of the first glazz
Fill anozzer half glazz and drinkit.
After halven our, open the ovven to cheq the duck.
Fetch the burninjury oindmend in the bathrthroom and pud it on the
ubber zide of the lef thand.
Vill anozzer two glazzez of whiskey.
Open the ovven after the first glazz izz embdy and biggub the
bladder.
Pud the oindmend on the inner zide o the righdhand.
Biggub the dug.
Biggub the dug again and use a towel to rrremovve the oindmend from the
dug.
Degreaze th hand with visky and biggub the oindmend dube whisj is laying
onthe ground.
Clean ub the brokan glazz and put the dug bag in the ovven.
Pig ub the dug and open the ovve firs.
Open the segond boddle of bisk and pud id straight ub again.
Get ub from the fllloorr and puz the bagon under ve cabined.
Geddub again and siddown aniwey.
Pud the boddle on the flooj.
Dring fromve boddle since the glazzez are borken or unreadjable.
Switch ovv the ovven, gloze your eyez, and ffffall over.
No, I didn't try it. But it might sound like something nice for a DebConf in Edinburgh...
Thu, 16 Feb 2006
You're wrong, Erich.
That joke does translate to other languages. Not only does the dutch word for "Flower" sound exactly the same way as the dutch word for "flour", it's actually even written the same way: "bloem".
Wed, 11 Jan 2006
Blondes.
How to keep a blonde busy.
That's a really good one.
Mon, 28 Feb 2005
Multinational domain names.
SuSE should be a swedish-based company, RedHat an Austria-based one, and Debian should create its headquarters in the Netherlands Antilles.
Or am I really being lazy here?
Some mail is welcome in /dev/null. Real mail, however, is welcome at my email address
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