Astral projectionist threat.

[reddragdiva]

• A tantalising platter of winged penis lovingly made in cast glass.

• Just when you thought supermodels couldn't get any stupider.

• What is this I don't even (NSFW for artistic nudity).

• Unicorn poop cookies.

• My Wikimedia blog: SOPA blackout post-mortem; Open Street Map beats Google Maps for business use.

• Rocknerd: The Damned, January 20, 2012, Melbourne (by tcpip), Just three more!

"If you delete the web-pages we asked, it's gonna be fine or else my friend, an astral projectionist is going to bring you to justice" — actual threat received by RationalWiki.

Huge success at work automating every aspect of deployment with mod_brainfuck Ant (with ant-contrib). Building a full-sized working replica Titanic from toothpicks, complete with iceberg. Bletcherous spaghetti hidden behind innocuous-looking macrodef or target calls. Lots to go, but we might even get all our stuff shifted to the new hosting in time. If your hammer is Turing-complete, one day you will have to use it as a screwdriver, spanner, soda siphon and nail.

(This is the largest substantial piece of actually useful coding I've ever done. I'm getting the thing where you wake up with the solution to yesterday's problem and have to LOG IN RIGHT NOW to get it down.)

Yesterday's problem is generating an arbitrary number of htusers files. With one, it's easy, the data goes like this and the code will follow obviously:

apache.htusers.file = appname-htusers
apache.htusers.list = user:letmein,admin:irl33t,bob@example.com:keepmeout

However, one app just has to have two htusers files. And if two, then later three or four. So my question is: how to human-obviously represent the data for an arbitrary number of htusers files as name-value pairs in a .properties file? For now I've special-cased that app, but I'll need something better later. Update: The answer is to use an .ini file.

arkady is writing a novel (with cavalorn, eithin and me sniping from the sides), so is using the "inspiration shall strike every morning at 9:30am" method, and cranking through it nicely. And is successfully writing on an Android phone in a Google Doc when out and about. I've decided if I want to make music then I need to make music, and have determined that I shall write a complete something every day for a month. Even if it's entirely terrible, it just has to be a done and completed thing. This is in fact causing new stuff to pop into my head. I recommend the method. (I'm not linking any of it sans polish, because it's literally just sketches in LMMS. I might later.) If you can actually play, just get a guitar, a microphone and a copy of Audacity to record into, and PRODUCE.

Does anyone just happen to have the rule sheet for the In The Night Garden Rainbow Adventure Game? We just got it for 50p complete except the rules ... boardgamegeek doesn't seem to have heard of it.

Comments

[fluffymormegil]

The strange dance thing worked in a bizarre way until the man in underpants with a tube held in his teeth came on stage.

[reddragdiva]

SQUEAK. SQUEAK.

[greylock]

A tantalising platter of winged penis lovingly made in cast glass.

I'm just assuming this is Hannah Montannah related.

Just when you thought supermodels couldn't get any stupider.

Good lord.

And is successfully writing on an Android phone in a Google Doc when out and about.

Unpossible.

[arkady]

More possible than you might think. I've written just under 1K words on my Samsung Galaxy using Google Docs; probably helps that you can turn it sideways to expand the width of the keyboard and that my fingers are small. I wouldn't want to use it as my main method for writing - but it's useful for when I get an idea and I need to get a rough draft down for tidying up later. And passes the time when waiting over an hour at the fracture clinic.

[greylock]

I struggle to write even a simple text without mis-typing (or Autocorrect automagic), so I top my hat.

[reddragdiva]

I tried using A's phone for Gmail yesterday and got that feeling of wanting to smash it to bits with a toffee hammer. Your mileage will certainly vary.

[fluffymormegil]

Also, the glass penis vendor is a fine piece of nominative determinism.

[ciphergoth]

Is it just me? I thought the dance thing was the right kind of insane.

[reddragdiva]

It certainly seemed a coherent example of ... whatever it was.

[reddragdiva]

I can't work out if the skateboard squeak was originally choreographed or serendipitious.

[tcpip]

Elle McPherson's denials remind me of Ron Paul's.

[reddragdiva]

You're just having a severe case of Paulbot fatigue.

[tcpip]

Argumentum ad nauseum is a very poor approach to a discussion.

[reddragdiva]

And now a sockpuppet! Paulbots are heartening.

[dakeyras]

A tantalising platter of winged penis lovingly made in cast glass.

The one thing that strikes me most about that page is that he really needs someone to proof-read his page - spaces missing, extra spaces, can't spell "prosperity", "length", "weight" or "height"... that sort of thing just totally destroys the aesthetics of the concepts for me.

[holdthesky]

I have a perl module which exports just one method "go" which should be called "do it all in parallel by starting a server, sshing onto a remote machine, execing yourself, do all the work and exit in the INIT block, collate the results and pretend this method does nothing". But go is quicker to type.

[reddragdiva]

Our eventual goal is to be able to say "Puppet, go completely set up this app on that node." "Righty-ho!" it answers, and comes back with "done!" a while later. This is building the very low building blocks for it to be able to do this. Every building block is in fact useful however far we are along the way.

[holdthesky]

I used to dev at a place which went through a puppet phase where ops could do nothing because they couldn't work out how to do it with puppet and didn't have the time, anyway, because they were trying to work out how to use puppet, :-).

[reddragdiva]

This is why I'm starting with what we have, and always having something more useful rather than less ;-)

[reddragdiva]

We plan to get Puppet to do its work via the ant stuff I'm doing now, and to do things like install and update packages and in-house debs.