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. ...
Friday: Ordered take out from Kabul. Good stuff. Saturday: Spent a few hours getting Quicken caught up. Thank goodness for electronic bank info in QFX form. Still have some time I need to spend to put everything in categories. Went shopping for cat food and got some kitchen supplies. (V-slicer, temp probe, pint-size measuring cup, some champagne vinegar). Made ramen. (Ramen packages, water, chopped broccoli, 1 egg dropped in when hot. I put some pickles and pickle juice in mine.) ...
Back from Sacramento. A bit tired but I will live. More on that later. And now Homestar Productions presents, What I Saw Last Week a Strongbadlib No, seriously. I’m a pretty strong person. But I saw this one head last week and boy was it dorky. This neat guy was at Lyons and he started snoggingsocks. I was like, ‘holycrap! You’re snoggingsocks.’ He told me to stop spanking him. I munched on his shoes.
Thursday: space_parasite and I stayed late at work.. It wasn’t especially difficult, just a lot of waiting for people to be sure things were OK. Got done about 10:00 pm. Friday: Don’t remember much about Friday… I left work about 5:30 and came home, stopping at Jiffy Lube on the way to get an oil change. (We were expecting to go to Healdsburg this weekend but didn’t, and I am also going to Sacramento this week so I wanted the oil to be OK even if the rest of the car still needs to be seen for other maintenance) ...
Whoops, I almost forgot my Weekend Report! Friday was busy trying to complete a project for work. Everything was working great (thanks to some hard work and fancy footwork on the part of my team, you guys rock!) but we decided not to announce the thing until Monday, mostly because the documentation wasn’t 100% there. I wanted to get the 2 applications to share common passwords, which would be a cheap way of getting people to use the app I *want* them to use, because they need the password for the other thing they *need* to use. That wasn’t quite happening Friday so I gave up on it and went home. ...