After some discussion on today, I added a couple of friends to my list. Just some folks who I thought it would be interesting to keep track of, either because we seem to be of like mind, or because we disagreed but were friendly about it :) The new additions are in the Fuschia category because of connection via the polyamory community.

Downstairs neighbor finally moved out! The new tenant says she is renting the place and will buy it as soon as she gets the loan figured out. Excellent! For those of you new to this journal, downstairs neighbor was a pain in the ass for quite a while, both making noise and also turning around and complaining about me after I had complained about him. Kind of an angry, bitter guy. Oh well, hopefully he will find something or somewhere that makes him happy. Having a new neighbor definitely makes me happy.

Friday: Did laundry. Lazy day. Went to the 7-11 for some ice cream. Watched fireworks out the window. Reassured kitties that everything was OK. Saturday: Made pickled eggs using something similar to this recipe: 12 hard boiled eggs, peeled (make that 7) 1 T salt 1 1/2 C cider vinegar (make that 1C cider v. + 1/2 C wine v.) 1/2 C water 1 1/2 tsp. sugar 1 tsp. white peppercorns, crushed (make that 1 tsp crushed + 1 tsp whole black pepper) 1/2 tsp. crushed allspice (make that 1 tsp pickling spice) 1/2 tsp. ground turmeric (skipped) 1/4 tsp. celery seeds (skipped) 2 shallots, thinly sliced (skipped) ...

Spamassassin seems to still be working well. Once in a while (like once a day) I get a spam that slips through the net… then I go to the spam folder and see another 8 more that were caught. Nice. Anyway, I’m saving the statistics below for my future reference. After collecting 552 spams and 1053 not-spams, I erased the cache of learned messages, re-learned them all, then reprocessed them all as incoming. The spam was all at Bayes_70 and up and the good stuff was all at Bayes_30 and below (apart from one bounce from a spammer, bayes_44). Not surprisingly, after learning the target set, Bayes became quite good at processing the same set :) ...

OK I know I’m a bit late for this meme, but I’m bored right now. So go ahead and Ask me anything… If the poll thingy doesn’t work for you (like if you don’t have an LJ acct) then just post a followup. Anonymous followups OK (questions and answers will not be hidden though)

I saw Catch Me If You Can on pay-per-view. It’s based on a true story (or at least “inspired by” a true story) of Frank Abagnale Jr. (Leonardo diCaprio), a high-school student turned con man, who impersonates an airline pilot, a doctor, and a lawyer. Christopher Walken is his father (Frank Sr.) and Tom Hanks is the sometimes-hapless FBI agent. It was pretty good actually, worth renting sometime. Sort of action-oriented but more in the spy-thriller way and not in the blowing-up-stuff way.

4th batch is now in the fridge and should be ready to eat next week. Recipe below. Sours: Cucumbers and onions w/vinegar, salt, sugar, mustard seeds, celery seeds, pickling spice, garlic Dill the 1st: cucumbers and onions, less sugar, dill seed and dried dill, omit celery seeds Dill the 2nd: carrots and onions, less cider vinegar, more wine vinegar, dried dill, dill seeds, ground ginger, onion flakes, pickling spice Dill the 3rd: cucumbers and onions, sliced super thin, same recipe as the 2nd, fresh dill (not dried) and granulated garlic (not fresh) Dill the 4th: cucumbers and onions, normal slices, fresh dill and fresh garlic. ...

Thursday: I was going to take off about 1630 but ended up staying until 1830 mostly working on the zone file for smo. The thing that took such a long time was converting the saved secondary zone which is a semi-ordered not-quite-human-readable dump of data into an ordered file (mostly). Gory details: We moved the primary publish point for the zone in preparation for shutting down smo name servers (but keeping smo domain names resolvable). It has a twisted thing that reads the hosts file and creates a dns zone from that – complete with CNAMEs where there were aliases for the machine, reverse entries, and it even makes TXT records for the comments. (We will be weaning people off of using /etc/hosts - on the production side we use DNS for just about everything anyway, save for “loghost” and a couple Sun machines that need /etc/hosts to learn their own names.) ...

After building up a catalog of 951 good messages and 388 spam messages, Bayes is getting quite good at categorizing my mail. This is out of a set of 1339 messages classified by me, by hand. neko-base> foreach j (BAYES_{01,10,20,30,40,50,60,70,80,90}) foreach? echo -n $j foreach? egrep $j mail/track-spam|wc -l foreach? end BAYES_01 2 BAYES_10 0 BAYES_20 2 BAYES_30 6 BAYES_40 0 BAYES_50 0 BAYES_60 22 BAYES_70 32 BAYES_80 31 BAYES_90 88 neko-base> foreach j ( BAYES_{01,10,20,30,40,50,60,70,80,90} ) foreach? echo -n $j ; egrep $j mail/track-good|wc -l foreach? end BAYES_01 64 BAYES_10 12 BAYES_20 11 BAYES_30 8 BAYES_40 0 BAYES_50 0 BAYES_60 0 BAYES_70 0 BAYES_80 0 BAYES_90 0 neko-base> grep -c BAYES mail/track-* mail/track-good:101 mail/track-spam:183 Overall here is the distribution of actual spamassassin scores. (Spamassassin was not used on all 1339 messages :) ...

I really want to go on vacation, maybe to Vegas or something. I think I will take the week off July 25 or something. I would really like to move but I haven’t been motivated to look for anything and I am sure not motivated to fix up this place. I would like to run a d&d game. Sitting here thinking about it might make me more prepared, but more prepared doesn’t mean better. Doing it multiple times will make me better, at least more so than waiting longer to start. ...