| black hat |
[Jun. 29th, 2009|09:17 am] |
Lately there's this guy at work who wears a black hat. Suspiciously like an xkcd black hat. Does the guy read xkcd? who knows.
I work my 'make me a sandwich' shirt the other day. Same day, black hat guy is talking to someone in my team and I walk over and say, 'I've got my eye on you,' in a suspicious voice. raise eyebrows, point to hat. |
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| VNC into my phone |
[Jun. 16th, 2009|09:37 am] |
a little delighted with being able to vnc into my phone (not just out of). this works when connected over usb. Also, it seems to be only read only. I have not played around with making it controllable.
if you have root:
get http://code.google.com/p/android-vnc/
install and make executable
adb push fbvncserver /data/local
adb shell chmod 777 /data/local/fbvncserver
port forward and start it up
adbforward tcp:5900 tcp:5901
adb shell /data/local/fbncserver
Then you can use your vnc client to localhost.
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| Chemical engineering leads? |
[Jun. 5th, 2009|01:14 pm] |
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My little brother just graduated with a chem e degree. yay. So, does anyone have any chemical engineering job leads I can pass on to him? |
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| first post |
[May. 9th, 2009|08:40 pm] |
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tap tap this thing on? |
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| logcat |
[May. 9th, 2009|08:30 pm] |
Being able to tail the logs on my phone when I hook it up to my laptop makes me happy.
W/dalvikvm( 206): threadid=31: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x4000fe70)
E/AndroidRuntime( 206): Uncaught handler: thread PowerManagerService exiting due to uncaught exception
E/AndroidRuntime( 206): *** EXCEPTION IN SYSTEM PROCESS. System will crash.
E/AndroidRuntime( 206): java.lang.NullPointerException
E/AndroidRuntime( 206): at android.content.ContentQueryMap.(ContentQueryMap.java:65)
E/AndroidRuntime( 206): at com.android.server.PowerManagerService.initInThread(PowerManagerService.java:414)
E/AndroidRuntime( 206): at com.android.server.PowerManagerService$1.onLooperPrepared(PowerManagerService.java:374)
E/AndroidRuntime( 206): at android.os.HandlerThread.run(HandlerThread.java:59)
E/AndroidRuntime( 206): Crash logging skipped, no checkin service
I/Process ( 206): Sending signal. PID: 206 SIG: 9
I/ServiceManager( 32): service 'package' died
I/ServiceManager( 32): service 'SurfaceFlinger' died
I/ServiceManager( 32): service 'power' died
I/ServiceManager( 32): service 'batteryinfo' died
I/ServiceManager( 32): service 'usagestats' died
I/ServiceManager( 32): service 'telephony.registry' died
I/ServiceManager( 32): service 'meminfo' died
I/ServiceManager( 32): service 'cpuinfo' died
I/ServiceManager( 32): service 'activity.broadcasts' died
I/ServiceManager( 32): service 'activity.services' died
I/ServiceManager( 32): service 'activity.senders' died
I/ServiceManager( 32): service 'activity.providers' died
I/ServiceManager( 32): service 'permission' died
I/ServiceManager( 32): service 'content' died
I/ServiceManager( 32): service 'activity' died
I/ServiceManager( 32): service 'battery' died
I/ServiceManager( 32): service 'hardware' died
E/installd( 39): eof
E/installd( 39): failed to read size
I/installd( 39): closing connection
I/Zygote ( 205): Exit zygote because system server (206) has terminated
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| (no subject) |
[Apr. 23rd, 2009|11:07 am] |
This ApplicationContextAware class is annoying. So it makes me think this year I can be a implementation of ApplicationContextAware for halloween. I haven't figure out what the implementation costume is, but I'm sure I will need jars of beans for it.
I will run from my nemesis, the Dr. Dependency and his evil injections.
(jelly beans or chocolate covered espresso beans. both! different jars and different colored jelly beans in different jars. oh how corny.) |
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| Security questions |
[Mar. 31st, 2009|03:23 pm] |
Overheard on twitter
post
JPMorganChase CC has the worst security questions - Reqs 3, only offers 3 options and none of them really work for me. FAIL."
reply
Q: "Why on Earth are you wearing a turkey costume?" A: "I'm not wearing a turkey costume on Earth. I'm wearing a turkey costume in space."
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| WOHOOOO |
[Mar. 25th, 2009|02:39 pm] |
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Pragmatic Bookshelf now available in Kindle flavors! |
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| wtf |
[Mar. 23rd, 2009|08:42 am] |
Carl's cousin and niecen are visiting this week. They are both women. I hope
his niecen was being sarcatic when she said that she thought women shouldn't
write fiction because they have agendas. then she gave an example--Mecedes
Lackey wrote about a boy in the closet who was helped by his horse to come
out.
oh my god. I have no idea how to respond to her.
I think men shouldn't write?
...we were also having a conversation about gay people. They live and let
live except that they don't think gays should be able to marry, and they
don't like it when gay people throw their gayness in their face.
I replied to that by saying that straight people throw their straightness in
their face all the time.
Then said that the government should get out of religion and stop
sanctioning marriage and leave it up to the churches to bless their unions.
rather let the government define a legal state with all the priveleges and
protections now defined as marriage.
Ps. I'm tempted to share my lesbian porn stash. |
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| Sabbatical |
[Mar. 9th, 2009|10:13 am] |
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A sabbatical would be nice. Maybe 6 months. after that I'd get antsy and might want a paying job. But I'd like to relax for about a month, then play around with mobile apps, maybe research accessibility. |
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| (no subject) |
[Mar. 9th, 2009|10:02 am] |
Precis: I respect openness and transparency. I do not speak of mere software engineering, but of life. The fumblings as I learn can benefit others who are too shy to bare the foolishness everyone has. Teachers get scorned with "those who can, do. those who can't teach." But teaching is a higher calling. I thought it was noble to teach in all things. I wanted to be a teacher even in elementary school. Knowing is joy, and I want everyone to share in this. [on edit: corny! blahblahblahblah]
That shared with you, at work, this attitude has been to my team's detriment. For one example, Our team has been called to task because I seem to work on my teammate's cards with him. This is a double standard. From the beginning of the project each group has shared in the design of their systems. Why not mine? Fine. I will forgo openness and not share information. This is what the system rewards. Is this agile? Pairing is openness. Group pairing is penalized. Second example, I share paths my mind takes while I carry out a task. Result? I seem ignorant about my cards, or the entire system of things. Wrong.
This reminds me of college, when I worked in the cognition and memory lab. My professor told me that at first he thought I was an idiot but then he began to see that I was brilliant. It was just that I did not share all the leaps of logic to reach from one part of the conversation to the next.
I'm sick of talking to you people sometimes. |
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| Guilty reading |
[Mar. 8th, 2009|01:20 pm] |
I've been over indulging in my tendency to read many things at once. The kindle makes this too easy. I'm stalled at the beginning of Underworld while having read any number of dark urban fantasies. trash fantasy, when someone asks what I'm reading. I'm too embarrassed to admit titles.
I'd like a kindle feature for these never ending fantasies: a series dekrufter. I hate when authors have to revisit what has happened before in stories ad nauseam in case we've forgotten their character's motivation. I should be able to press a button to turn off the kruft unless I've forgotten. flip, look at the source code, flip, recompile the story.
Speaking of explaining a character's motivation, I apologize to anyone who has had to sit through that in any of my stuff. I'm sorry. I'll never do it again. These dark urban fantasies have way too much blah blah blah let me tell you what you should think blah blah blah until they get to the action. my eyes glaze over until I get to the dialog. or I trim down the blahblah in my head. They give me the same feeling I get when I want to rewrite some code just because it is annoying to read.
probably I need to work out the blahblahblah to figure out the characters, but not let it out into the real world. unless in very short form. |
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| (no subject) |
[Mar. 5th, 2009|07:47 pm] |
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I'm tempted to cut down expenses for a few months to save up extra, then quit my job for about six months in order to work on whatever I want to. |
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| Halting State |
[Feb. 8th, 2009|07:38 pm] |
some of my favorite quotes from Halting State
"I don't understand these folks' tongue, Liz. They're space aliens from the planet IT industry. Maybe someone from ICE can talk techie to them? It's like the joke about the post-modernist gangster who make you an offer ye cann nderstand."
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"So you open your mouth and listen to yourself say, 'I want eight thousand a day. Plus expenses.' This is the polite, industry-standard way of saying 'piss of, I'm not interested.' You did the math over your morning coffee: You want to earn 100K a year, what with those bonuses you've been pulling on top of your salary. (Besides, a euro doesn't buy what it used to.) There are 250 working days in a year, and a constractor works for roughly 40 per centof hte time, so you need to charge yourself out at 2.5 times your payroll rate, or 1000 a day in order to meet your target. Not interested in the job? Pitch unrealistically high. You never know...
'Done,' says Mr. Pin-Stripe, staring at you expressionlessly. And it is at that point that you realize you are well and truly fucked.' |
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| Missing Stripes |
[Jan. 2nd, 2009|12:45 pm] |
We haven't seen Stripes for weeks now, and I've mostly given up on his return. The first few days he went missing were bitterly cold. If he didn't find shelter he probably froze to death. I'm hoping that someone took him in and hasn't checked to see if he already has an owner. I recently got a chip for him, and this happened right after.
He was a great dopey cat. He had very solid muscles, and didn't jump to well. He was a good hunter--We had to dispatch a very wounded rabbit once. I rescued a flying squirrel from him. He'd leave mouse guts around. I had to get a butterfly net to catch the birds he'd let loose in the house. He was born outside to a stray or feral cat and even though Carl adopted him as a kitten he was still a little wild.
I loved how he'd escort us around the neighborhood if we went for a walk.
He had beautiful tiger markings. |
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| online diagram sharing |
[Dec. 27th, 2008|02:28 pm] |
Is gliffy best in show for sharing diagrams? It seems like a no brainer for a google docs feature.
Any online white board sharing tools you can recommend?
I want to brainstorm on a design with some people in Ann Arbor. |
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