So hoyhoy invited me to go linucon and now I’m sitting here surrounded by geeks with hoyhoy nowhere to be seen. I guess this still doesn’t make up for the day I invited him to play air-drums, but I am counting this against my debt.
esr is looking over my shoulder so I guess I should mention him. Eric, keep your eyes on your own work.

[Update]: So I look over next to me and there’s a girl writing in a composition book with a Pilot Varsity. So I whip mine out and we talk a bit about the only disposable fountain pen in the world. It turns out she’s a “journalist” here to interview Wil Wheaton.

Below is a short proof of the Ternary Goldbach Conjecture in the form of a poem. For the sake of art and brevity it treats Szemerédi’s Theorem as axiomatic.

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It’s too hot to blog. This is just a placeholder where, in a perfect world, there would be some kind of witty comentary or a touching story.
Here’s the deal: It’s all about the calendar. The calendar only writes a month if there’s an entry for that month, and if I don’t have and entry for a month there will be a year with fewer than the normal 12 months. Obviously this only applies to the calendar view and not real life or I would always skip August. Anyway, there are less stupid ways to deal with this problem, but apparently a little pressure to write something isn’t the worst thing that could happen to me.

These jokers have been hotlinking a couple of my pictures for quite some time now.The traffic has risen above the noise with the new school year approaching and so I take a minute to contemplate my options.
Of course there’s always the option of ignoring it as I have been, and there are easily implementable technological means to stop it. I don’t really want to disallow hotlinking, because certainly it’s mostly used for good and not evil; this particular one just bugs me a little. I mean it’s a community college! Every image on the page, except for my two, is hosted by the community college server. It’s just me that someone decided to punk out for bandwidth.
I like gregh’s method of adding a banner with copyright statement to the picture (I think this is a nice way to deal with the problem, but I can’t spend my whole life trying to copy all of gregh’s good ideas).
So obviously I’m thinking of replacing these two pictures with something more interesting. Thoughts that immediately spring to mind are things like just flipping them upside down, drawing stickmen in a similar pose, a text-star that says something like “Students get to kill a live goat in this class!!!” or “Personal cadaver required for final”. Oddly enough the size is noted in the page, so using a full-size hoyhoy screenshot won’t work. email me your best (G-rated) ideas and if I’m still in a bad mood in a few days we’ll implement the funniest ones.

I posted an article I was working on for Steve to fill a little space in Command. For whatever reason he decided that a little blank space wasn’t so bad after all.

This weekend I’m playing at Stubb’s in a band that’s playing right before The Derailers. That’s not the official site. I’ll give you the official site, but not before I warn you that it’s flash and plays music (argh). Okay, you’ve been warned here’s the official SonyNashville site: Caution!. I’m also playing in a band that’s playing right before the band that’s playing right before The Derailers. This band has neither website nor name, but it includes my boy Deke and the the soul of Austin’s own Gravity Test; Tony and Barton.
Sunday I’ll be Rappelling from the ceiling of Great Hills Baptist Church. Two shows, 0830 and 1045 CDT.

My favorite computer seems to be dying. It’s an Inspiron 7.5k, 466 Mhz Celeron. The specs seem a little tired nowadays, but that big screen at 1400×1050 made it a very comfortable laptop to me. 6 xterms per workspace with space to spare. -Well, space for something really skinny. It still runs just fine, just doesn’t always communicate with the kbd and monitor. -Not a good trait for a laptop, but dying this way has given me the luxury of making sure I have everything important backed up before I try any drastic lifesaving measures.

I was just re-reading a little article hoyhoy wrote about drummers. I was listening to a little Bela Fleck today and I thought it was hoyhoy: Maybe that doesn’t say anything about my ability to discern drummers, but I don’t remember ever trying before.

Fresh back from a little schooling in The Woodlands, Texas; and it’s good to be home. I think that’s the first time I’ve been to a school all alone. I had to rely on only three alarm clocks and a wakeup call to get myself going in the morning. It wasn’t easy, but I made it to class on time everyday.

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Tone
Played at the Nutty Brown Cafe with the UC guys last night. It was a really nice time; lots of friends and relatives showed up, a nice waitress brought me a big coffee dispenser right up on stage, and I was really pleased with my tone. A saxophone player who was near the stage went out of his way to compliment my tone, so I’m pretty sure I wasn’t just imagining the warm, creamy goodness of my rig.
The rest of the story, though, is that I was hearing from people that I wasn’t coming through very well in the mix. Even my dad said that I needed to be a little louder, and in all the years he’s had the opportunity to say that to me I think that’s the first time. I was, as is my habit, miking from off-center. That’s probably the first thing I’ll try changing; my sound was set on full-butter and maybe a little off-center was all that was needed to wash it out. Maybe I’m just looking for the wrong sound for such a large band -lots of sonic action in my tone-space up there.
Anyway, not subjecting others to the full barrage of atonal sputum I’m putting out may be the best thing that can happen. And I enjoyed the show…

I finally put up a little Web of Trust page. It’s content poor at the moment, but at least I have something. So get yourself a certificate and join the cool kids! It doesn’t seem as elegant as the OpenPGP decentralized web of trust model, but it’s probably more likely to actually work. *shrug*

Fence Update: Sorry for the delay, I’ve been busy. The City decided to just end the fence where they thought it looked nice, and we had to finish it out. We did have a visit from Councilman Liz and then some sort of late-night summit meeting across the street wherein the major players in the Liberty Hill Cabal furrowed their brows and called The Man to try to talk him into doing something, but I can hardly imagine what. Anyway, we haven’t heard a thing about it since the cement dried, except that Councilman Janet and her husband came over to look at it. They said that the city should have abided by the agreement. I guess that’s why no one mentioned it to her.