Nothing To Report
It’s been a few weeks since my last posting, and other than a few enjoyable outings to the Hill Country in which I communed with nature, a spur of the moment trip to Vegas* and a day trip to the Shiner Brewery (Dee-runky-poo!), there is nothing exceedinglyinteresting to report.
I finally get my shipment in on the 9th, which means I get my camera, so thereafter I’ll be taking lots of pictures, not the least interesting of which will be my bizarre steering wheel tan lines, and the pictures I plan to take of the country roads whose asphalt occasionally reverts to liquid form in the midday sun, or the two Texas longhorn steers I have befriended (purely platonic you sickos), or the cactus whose thorny transgression upon my big toe has spawned plans for a revenge killing, or the erstwhile nest of Texas Red Wasps (Polistes carolina)** I dispatched with a few deft sprays from a garden hose and only a few episodes of girly arm-waving and very little fleeing in panic, plus many more of the curiosities I have found that are making me dig my adopted home more and more as time goes by (really, not being sarcastic this time).
All is well with work, everyone is cool enough, and we’re planning an office outing to South Padre Island sometime this season, which is good, ‘cause that way I can dip across the border and get my illicit-and-currently-dwindling supply of licking-toads replenished.
Woot. Hope you're enjoyin' your summer too.
* I came off the Pai Gow table flush, but I spent all of my winnings on worthless Elvis memorabilia. I swear, every time I go to Vegas or Atlantic City, I turn into a retard who can't resist shiny things. I'm beginning to think that they pump small amounts of nitrous oxide through the ventilation ducts.
** Picture the largest wasp you have ever seen, and triple its size. Then paint it Devil’s Arse Red and steal its cookie.
15 Missives So Far
01 mokiejovis said on Wed Jun 7 9:17:34 EDT
Sweet jesus. Not to say that I doubted, but I did some googling for that wasp. And I was not happy with what I found:
http://www.beeville.net/Nature/Cicada_Killer.htm
You see that? Not only is it the size of a motherfucking cicada, it is the size of a motherfucking cicada it murdered.
02 TheIdleReceptionist said on Wed Jun 7 17:30:05 EDT
That wasp will haunt my dreams.
I guess that's why you don't mess with Texas. (THAN Antonioh THeHas to be precise.)
Does it disturb anyone else that my word verf is "elvis"? Hinky, do you write your own word verfs or is your server on some of that nitrous, too?
03 josh said on Wed Jun 7 21:53:34 EDT
No worries about the wasp. Much like moi, he is a gentle giant. Also like me, he bares his ass when he feels threatened.
I mess with Texans as much as possible, but usually in the form of complex arithmetic and impromptu spelling contests.
Oh boy! Someone asked! Now I get to brag a bit!
The answer is yes, I wrote the script that does the captcha words. I also wrote or edited nearly every other piece of the code, with the help of these two guys working on this project. I also do the "artwork" and the layout stuff, too. In fact I am about to flip this blog again: here's a preview.
Muahhahaa... too much information.
04 tfg said on Wed Jun 7 21:56:31 EDT
I think I found a bug. When I post a comment, it reverts to the last comment made before posting it.
05 josh said on Thu Jun 8 0:23:02 EDT
Pretty bizarre, man. Here's the data the system collected:
Seems like you refreshed a few times in there. Did you actually post a comment that got eaten? I'll be the first to admit that my session-handling script is a bit on the kludgey side, but this one's new to me. Let me know if it happens again.
06 mokiejovis said on Thu Jun 8 7:48:19 EDT
yow- just saw what tfg is talking about. I put in my captcha. It tells me I'm not human. Then YOUR details are in the box, and here is the content in the comment box:
Pretty bizarre, man. Here's the data the system collected:
Seems like you refreshed a few times in there. Did you actually post a comment that got eaten? I'll be the first to admit that my session-handling script is a bit on the kludgey side, but this one's new to me. Let me know if it happens again.
Also, when you made the link live from my previous comment, you put in an extra quote or something. Why don't you just use regex to make URIs in comments live?
07 josh said on Thu Jun 8 9:23:34 EDT
Curiouser and curiouser. I think it might be something to do with Mediatemple and their changeover to Xen clusters and a misallocation of the session temp directory.
The answer to your regex question: I already use a customized version of Smartypants, and I had a considerable amount of trouble getting a URL-specific scheme to work properly with the HTML entity replacement and the autop() formatter. Early attempts were not so pretty.
08 TheIdleReceptionist said on Thu Jun 8 9:51:17 EDT
Wow! The new look is quite fab. Maybe you can help me out on the little pile of visual shizz I post at.
Word verf: "derelict." Makes me think of Zoolander's "DERE-LIIIIIIIICTE!"
10 TheIdleReceptionist said on Thu Jun 8 14:59:58 EDT
I would have made word verfs like, "You smell" and "poopiepants" because I am 12 years old.
11 tfg said on Sat Jun 10 23:53:42 EDT
What mokie described is what happened to me. I refreshed several times to see what comment was posted.
12 vanessa said on Sun Jun 18 12:47:15 EDT
summer is finally beginning to come around in these parts too.
not much I can say about that but "yuck, hot"
pictures?
14 josh said on Wed Jun 21 0:20:49 EDT
V - I think I finally know where the USB cable is for my camera, and I plan to roll in to Boerne to use the local Whataburger's free WiFi to upload 'em to flickr. Stay tuned, eh?
Bubs - I am stuck out here in the boonies, man. I have a lot of busywork keeping me from posting, and I am spending the 2 hours or so I have at night in the outdoors looking at the stars or fishin'. As oppressive as the heat is, this place I've staked out in the hills is amazing. It's like the savannah, man, you and your pops'd love it.
I'm also on a "waiting list" for DSL, so for the time being, I am saddled with dialup, which in and of itself depresses me into staying offline.
New post soon.
15 Mad said on Wed Jul 12 11:42:35 EDT
Come the revolution Mr Spammer we shall hunt you down and kill you. Slowly.
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