http://redefine.dyndns.org/~andyr/blog/archives/2008/08/india-movies.html

http://redefine.dyndns.org/~andyr/blog/archives/2008/08/survived-india.html

bostonsteamer

$ ruby script/console
>> vm = VmInstance.find(315)              # there's a VmInstance with ID = 315
=> #<VmInstance id: 315, ... >       
>> vm = VmInstance.find_by_id(315)        # equivalent to the first command
=> #<VmInstance id: 315, ... >
>> vm = VmInstance.find_by_id('315')      # DA-BFs also take a string, since attributes can be strings.
=> #<VmInstance id: 315, ... >
>> vm = VmInstance.find_by_id('315asdf')  # When the head of the string matches, the method returns a record?!
=> #<VmInstance id: 315, ... >

crschmidt

• 17:10 Spending time at Dana Park, watching teenage flirting, family parties, baseball playing, and martial arts practicing (including pink hair) #
• 00:21 Beer + cider + ice cream combined with good friends results in another pleasant evening out in harvard square. Also finished my book. Yay! #

brad

• 13:17 OH: to his dog, "well, whoever she is, she sure as hell ain't good enough for you buddy..." #
• 16:06 Helped kid whose shoelace got stuck into end of moving walkway. Karma for today? Check! #

brad

• 10:21 OH: "what?! Families can't wait for each other at the arrival gate anymore?" #
• 19:01 OH: hoed up girls in hotel elevator: "I feel weird without my wedding ring on!" #
• 21:50 Class reunion. Um, yeah. #

crschmidt

• 13:53 Anyone going to www.mapworldforum.org/geodevelopers/ ? Should I go if given the oppourtunity? (Geo devs, India, February 2k9) #

http://redefine.dyndns.org/~andyr/blog/archives/2008/08/sebby-chan-resi.html

http://redefine.dyndns.org/~andyr/blog/archives/2008/08/starbucks-at-th.html

http://redefine.dyndns.org/~andyr/blog/archives/2008/08/sick.html

brad

• 18:30 Fire Eagle launch party @ 330 Ritch #

http://www.revfry.com/2008/08/14/killing-tasksprocs-in-vista-from-the-command-line/

http://www.revfry.com/?p=346

I’ve been having issues with Vista, of course.  It can get into a state where SOMETHING on the system freaks out and I can’t even pull task manager up.  I can see it’s icon in the dock going all crazy, but I can’t bring up the task list window and try and fix problems.

What I really wanted was top for windows.  But I couldn’t find that, sometimes being all graphical is a bad thing. But I did manage to find something close enough to what i was looking for: taskkill.  Use it thusly,

taskkill /IM taskmgr.exe

This should kill off that pesky process/app gone mad.  As it was I ran it on task manager and my system returned to normal. So next time you need to kill something like firefox and task manager just won’t come up - how likely is that, really? - try taskkill.

P.S. I have a Core 2 Duo T7300 2.0Ghz system with 2 Gigs of RAM and my experience “Rating” is 3.4.

I loath you, Vista.

http://www.revfry.com/2008/08/13/must-remember/

I’ve been trying to remember to blog I’ve got a number of good fixes to document including wp-hascash error corrections and getting wifi to work properly in Ubuntu with an Atheros chipset. But I’m just so overwhelmed with work and life. Oh well. Soon.

http://www.revfry.com/2008/08/05/dear-retailer-suck-it-up/

So, there I am getting my lunch at a chain eatery. I have their stupid little club card and decide to cash it in and pay for some of my meal with it. After much sliding of cards and punching of touch screens the clerk finally tells me I’ll owe .54 cents. So I make to hand him my debit card and he looks at me like I’ve just shit in my hand and I’m now trying to hand it to him.

“No. No mang. We canna do that. 54 cents no. You got cash?”

“No, I don’t have cash. Just my card. Just run it.” I hand it again.

“No, not 54 cent. We take charge for that. Not 54 cent.” he continues to stare at me like I’m hiding money in my pocket, and just won’t give it to him.

“Not my problem. Just run it.”

“You no want sandwich then?”

“*sighs* just keep the chips.” I give in.

“There you take your free sandwich.” he sneers at me and goes back to making sandwiches.

Oh, my free sandwich? Yeah, we have an agreement. You’re offering me these silly points if I’ll eat at your place and fill your system with my sales statistics. So let’s not act like you, joe sandwich slinger, have just bent over backwards and given me food from your kids mouths.

But, that attitude isn’t really my complaint. I’m annoyed that companies will always have this Atlas’ burden take on the surcharge for purchase below certain amounts or for using debit for gas. Buck the hell up. It’s not my problem. Don’t put your operating expenses off on me, in my face.

I don’t come in to work and tell my boss, “I had a crappy time getting out of bed this morning and had a flat tire on the way in. You’re gonna need to give me $50 out of pocket for today.”

Noooo I have that kind of thing wrapped up in what I make. Maybe I get a cost if living raise once a year. That’s how it works. And if I can’t swing it on what I’m making I change jobs to raise my salary. I don’t flipping nit pick my boss everytime I see him.

It’s your business. Don’t throw the fact that it costs you more to run sub $5 charges in my face. Structure your pricing to deal with it. And stop complaining about taking my money. Jeez. Pisses me off.

I don’t know how many times I’ve stared down gas station attendents over crap like this. Your problem. Not mine. Run your business or don’t.

And don’t get me started on places that only take cash. OMG! Catch up with the world, people.

And then there are stores that close before I even get off work. So you WANT to fail? All these businesses so don’t want my money!

*heaving chest and smashed keyboard*

Okay, got that off my chest. Have a nice day.