Yow!

Go. read. this. now.

You don't have to agree. But seriously, read it.

-transiit

Tip and Ring

My brother is starting a vlog. As ViscousPlatypus said "It's like watching linux porn!"



I do not know the final home of said project.

Your Science Fun Fact of the Day

From Wikipedia

Protein is a crude proxy for purines; a more precise proxy is muscle. Apart from the notable dietary purines above, the main source of dietary purines is DNA and RNA, via their bases adenine and guanine. All sources of dietary protein supply some purines, but some sources provide far more purines than others. Meat (particularly dark meat) and seafood are high in purine because muscle cells are packed with mitochondria, which have their own DNA and RNA. In a large prospective study, high consumption of meat and seafood were found associated with an elevated risk of gout onset (41% and 50%, respectively). High consumption of dairy products, high in protein but very low in DNA and RNA, was associated with a 44% decrease in the incidence of gout. Consumption of the more purine-rich vegetables or a high protein diet per se had no significant correlation.

Now, if you happened to suffer from Gout, a condition in which uric acid begins to build up and crystallize, causing severe discomfort, you might take pause to think about the seafood consumption, tasty as it might be.

Next time on "Your Science Fun Fact of the Day", top 10 reasons why you shouldn't jab rusty bits of metal into your eyes.

-transiit

Aw, crap.

One of the chief problems of having delusions of grandeur is that it makes it really hard to realize when you've gone to sleep.

sitting in chair, reading stuff at computer, still awake...sitting in chair, still awake, sitting in chair, hey let's go on a tour of a factory and teach the viewers how spaghetti-o's are made. Wow, look at all the steps. This is where they...

aw, shit, fell asleep in my chair again. Stupid brain.

To bed!

-transiit

Some Projects Defy Explanation

Sausage. With a moustache. And a monocle.

Bed soon. Feelin' ill.

What?

I was just outside smoking a cigarette, and looked down to see Bob (longtime readers might recognize that as my apartment complex's resident skunk) run by my feet. Apparently, I've become something of a fixture here. Maybe it really is time to move.

Yup. A good sign I need a new outlet.

Anybody want some used bologna?

Is that dread? No. What is it?

Remember a couple months back when I posted about not having anything to wait for (or at least feeling like I had little to look forward to)

Strangest thing. The last couple weeks I keep getting the feeling like something big is coming. I looked at the development schedule for work, and we'll be busy, but nothing huge. I know QC is a half dozen or so weeks off, but I don't think it's that.

I'm not sure what it is. Just have a feeling that a big change is just around the corner.

While I go figure that out, go read this opinion piece that I stumbled upon courtesy of Consumatron

Still cleaning.

But I will say that in this break, I've come to the decision that sendmail configuration is not worth the feature set in most cases, and getting emails saying one of my servers is now on such-and-such block list shall bug me no further, as the only information they're willing to give me is that their HIGHLY SECRETIVE algorithm detects ALL SPAM HOSTS by blocking MACHINES THAT HAVE BEEN HACKED AND ARE NOW SENDING OUT SPAM.

I'll give you a hint. I didn't tell that mail server what it's domain was, and now email is bouncing for a few domains because by my best guess, the CBL is about as smart as a box of rocks. My guess is that seeing email coming from "localhost" ran me afoul of their sophisticated detection methods, as I've been monitoring outgoing port 25 traffic since the first time they listed me.

Fuck it. I hate spam as much as the next person, but it ain't an easy problem to solve, and blacklists still don't fix the situation. The problem is that there are shitheads in the world that believe spam is ethically valid, and the misguided few that they profit from.

Argh. Frustrated. Enough. Back to cleaning.

-transiit

Cleaning.

There was a time a few years ago that I lived with someone else. Neither of us were terribly well-organized, but my prowess at finding missing things suggested that I was at least aware of how to navigate the clutter.

So when I went to living alone for the first time in my life a couple years ago, I briefly got serious about getting things in order. Briefly.

Made a couple serious attempts to organize since, all of which have been a bit stunted, getting to a "Well, still not perfect, but way better than it was." stage.

I should be working on this right now, as one of my goals for the evening was to get started down that path again. Instead, I'm sitting here writing this. Amazing the distractions one can find rather on the path of procrastination.

Ok, fine, I'll go start. Geez.

-transiit