rachel, christina, and i just traumatized dozens of northside patrons by actually — gasp — dancing to the music that the deejay was spinning. that was pretty awesome.
then rachel and i sat out on the curb at milwaukee-north-damen for forty minutes or so and speculated about various things, such as how come nobody who passed us actually appeared to be poor. and god bless the bartender at elliott’s tonight who was serving me doubles of a’bunadh for $7 apiece. you are truly a generous, benevolent person.very bad days seem to occur here with some regularity.
now, i think i’ll go meet up with some friends and drink heavily.decided the other day to attempt — again — to move from my antique firebird browser over to firefox, the latest and greatest. since it’s actually the same project, just renamed, you’d think that this would be easy and painless. you’d be wrong, at least if you were me.
two painful days later, i’m back. fuck it. that piece of shit is the buggiest damn thing i’ve ever exterted far too much effort on trying to DTRT. half of the firebird extensions i depend on don’t work for it and — if they even have something i can substitute at all — the substitutes don’t encompass the full functionality i depend on. it exhibited waaaay too much outright buggy behavior — such as new windows that wouldn’t allow me to type in them at all, and even after focusing on the new window, anything i typed would go into the old window — and too much annoying behavior — like when i was typing in a text box, i would hit the apostrophe key and it would pop up a Find dialogue at the bottom of the page and move my focus there and BEEP A LOT at me because, hey, i was *typing* there. even after i moved all of my mozilla and firebird preferences and registry and other crap out of the way, and downloaded the firefox version dated 5 november and reinstalled, and then declined to import any settings from other browsers, it still acted like that. so i give up. back to firebird. firefox can have me when their fucking browser actually works. i’ll just cope with firebird crashing intermittantly. at least *it* can fucking save my tab sessions.from an aim conversation:
OMFG… so i’m sitting here reading andrewsullivan.com between comments… i dunno if you read a lot of blogs or not, but i like him a lot. anyways, he often posts excerpts from the emails he gets
one of the ones he posted today… so hateful. this email … “I think [the 11 states passing their anti-gay amendments] sends a very clear message — true Americans do not like your kind of homosexual deviants in our country, and we will not tolerate your radical pro-gay agenda trying to force our children to adopt your homosexual lifestyle. You should be EXTREMELY GRATEFUL that we even let you write a very public and influential blog, instead of suppressing your treasonous views (as I would prefer).”
good fucking lord.
…
this election does really say that anti-homo measures win.
moral values == we dont want anyone having any other kinda sex
this’s a fucking challenge
words cannot express the horror i feel at someone saying that
we’ll take away your right to speak if you’re gay
my fucking god
:(
to whom is that behavior okay?
i dont know what to do or say about it
how do you live with yourself?
i’m disgusted
apparently easily amongst all your simularly homophobic neighbors
i guess
good god.
oh well. fuck them. i’m not taking it back.
fuck them
it’s no longer “they’re harmless and misguided”
they’re no longer harmless
I LIKE GIRLS. I LIKE BOOBIES. I INTEND TO CONTINUE TO LIKE GIRLS. I WILL PROBABLY EVEN SLEEP WITH THEM IF ONE EVER ASKS ME OUT.
AND IT’LL BE BETTER THAN YOUR VANILLA-ASS MISSIONARY-POSITION LIE-BACK-AND-THINK-OF-ENGLAND SEX
lol
me2
so put that in your pipe and smoke it, bitch :-)
i like innies and outties and all the neat things i can do with them in my mouth. kiss my queer white ass
(can we get bumper stickers of these?)
hatched a crazy scheme this past weekend that i thought would fix the critical failure of DOOM! last thursday — namely, we’re supposed to quarantine mail messages over 90% likely to be spam, which works fine, but the problem is that we use a fuzzy-matching system such that you can basically invent email addresses for an individual, and you can’t quarantine a message under a non-canonical mailing address or they’ll never be able to access it. we were hacking this by using a gigantic map to verify if an address was canonical, and two layers of miltering to catch pre- and post-canonicalization, but it takes a lot of go-juice to check an 87,000 line flat file multiple times per email message. have spent all week trying to get the crazy scheme to work, including drafting a coworker to hack some of his code and help me, … only to realize today that it won’t fucking solve the problem at all, it only works for anyone who doesn’t forward their mail.
and it was so good! it would have eliminated so much processing overhead, it would have been so slick! i almost cried when i realized it wouldn’t work, and then went to david and he confirmed that yeah, it won’t solve the problem. i can’t believe i didn’t see that earlier, before i spent so much time working on setting up a prototype. am so angry with myself. so now david and i have come up with about half a dozen more schemes trying to get this to work, and they’re all — frankly — fucking nuts. anything we do to make this work is going to make things even more complex. i fucking hate ph. i wish we’d killed it a thousand years ago and didn’t have to deal with this it’s-an-email-address-that-isn’t-actually-an-email-address shit. life would be so much better if each individual had only one fucking address! am so frustrated. this project is hellish.
