fiddle2 monthly archives
Date: 2003-06-28 00:48:48
(Author: trav)
Link:
http://travis.kroh.net/archives/001877.php
Because Esther did it, and I kinda like this one.
First and Last...
First bike: A really old blue one. With training wheels.
First best friend: Hm... Dusty Kerzmann
First real memory of something: sitting on the tireswing in my backyard
First car: Old Red: a 1977 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme my sister had before me and my brother later destroyed.
First date: My first real date was probably Junior year: Liz Drulow.
First kiss: My first real kiss was sophomore year: Maria Novotny.
First break-up: JoNall Schwindt. Dropped me and married someone else. That smarted a little.
First job: McDonald's. Age 14.
First screen name: "The Crow" on Alamak Chat circa 1996.
First self-purchased album: I bought Ace of Base's The Sign from a friend
First funeral: The first I really remember was my grandpa in 1990.
First pet: Mertle the turtle. My brother caught it at Painted Woods Creek and we kept it in my wading pool in the back yard for a couple days before letting it go.
First president voted for: Nader '00
First piercing/tattoo: None.
First independent home: 370 Johnson Hall. Stayed there for three weeks before moving to 402 Thompson Hall, where I lived for three years.
First house/flat/apartment: We used to live in an apartment in Washburn before my parents bought the house. I have one very, very vague memory of it.
First love: Nell.
First enemy: Matt Binsfeld in elementary school.
First big trip: Seattle, I'd imagine.
First play/musical/performance: We did music programs in elementary school twice every year.
First sport played: Basketball. I sucked.
First music you remember playing in your house: My mom's shitty Christmas music. She still plays the same tape every year with the friggin' Statler Brothers and Kenny Rogers and shit. I've almost grown to like it out of sheer repetition.
Last library book you checked out: O'Reilly's Programming Perl. Due back two weeks from now.
Last movie seen: We just watched part of Pushing Tin tonight. I slept through most of it.
Last book read: Completely? Stephen Levy's Hackers; last summer.
Last cuss word uttered: Undoubtedly 'fuck' or 'fuckin'. Who's keeping track?
Last beverage drank: Coca-Cola
Last food consumed: "Battered fish portions" and tater-tots.
Last crush: Awww, Kiki
Last phone call: see above
Last TV show watched: Last Comic Standing on NBC
Last time showered: 7:10 this morning.
Last shoes worn: Black, Old Navy flip-flops
Last CD played: Norah Jones, Come Away with Me
Last item bought: Two newspapers for Nic & my mom, cuz I was on the front page today.
Last downloaded: The Animatrix
Last annoyance: Walking on wet ground while wearing flip-flops.
Last disappointment: Not being able to grab coffee with my brother this morning.
Last soda drank: Coca-Cola
Last thing written: PHP code
Last key used: Shift
Last words spoken: "G'night, baby." (Nic's asleep.)
Last sleep: On the couch this evening when Jess went to go get movies. I didn't wake up until she was mostly through Pushing Tin
Last IM: My friend Brian who recently moved to Idaho.
Last weird encounter: Dick Jacobson asking me if I wanted to be famous.
Last ice cream eaten: Chocolate Haagen-Dazs
Last time amused: Ty telling the story about how the smell of vanilla-flavored Slim-Fast makes him think of pulling calves.
Last time in love: Awww...
Last time hugged: Jessica before dinner.
Last chair sat in: My desk chair at work.
Last lipstick used: Chapstick
Last underwear worn: Nell gave me some boxers long ago that have a big, yellow smiley face on the front of them.
Last bra worn: Heh.
Last shirt worn: Dark blue tshirt that says "FLORIDA" in orange block letters.
Last time dancing: Today, in the service center to "Particle Man" by TMBG.
Last web page visited: Jason's Blogrolling.com
Comments:
"Awwwwwwww... you have a crush on me?"
(1 comments)
Date: 2003-06-27 14:30:39
(Author: trav)
Link:
http://travis.kroh.net/archives/001873.php
Sometimes weird messages show up on my cell phone from people who mistake my SMS form for a search box. I'll get stuff like Dave Matthews mp3 Lillywhite and the like.
I have to say that "Disposing Bodies"+acid takes the cake, though.
Comments:
"Obviously with the "disposing bodies" comment they've never seen Forensic Files or The New Detectives. Pflt amateurs. :)"
"Acid works though. Until your family accidentally lets slip that you put your missing brother in the acid-filled fridge out back. Then, of course, the game is up."
"Since they're asking my weblog about how to dispose of a person ([s]he doesn't specify whether or not the body is living, mind you), I think it is in fact safe to assume [s]he's an amateur."
(3 comments)
Date: 2003-06-27 09:19:09
(Author: trav)
Link:
http://travis.kroh.net/archives/001869.php
With the RIAA's recent announcemet that they'll be suing users of P2P networks, I was interviewed by the Forum (your@mom.com, passwd: asdf) about copyright issues. Little did I know, this story would run today on the FRONT PAGE. With picture.
That's a picture of me in my office--notice the red stapler on my desk, and the Cheeky Girls poster in the background. =)
Comments:
"You're so cute."
"Very Cool hon!"
"I made the Moorhead State paper once. With picture. In headphones, no less."
"Oh, you are so adorable. Wanna date?"
"Cute pic travis. Hey, was was your exit role from NDSU-ITS? Did you get your coveted position with the server crew?"
"Nah, I think it would have taken quite a bit to pull me from my desk in the Service Center. I miss them!"
(6 comments)
Date: 2003-06-26 07:24:22
(Author: trav)
Link:
http://travis.kroh.net/archives/001862.php
Furthermore, PHP and Zend's tools will have trouble penetrating small to medium-size businesses that do not have IT staffers who are capable in Web scripting, according to Meyer. "They need more robust tools to seamlessly build their applications," he said.
- Yahoo!: How Far Can Zend Take PHP?
If they're not capable in scripting, why are they on your IT staff?
Seriously, if you're so inexperienced in any kind of scripting at all that you can't figure out PHP in an hour, what good are you on an IT staff? Your usefulness is pretty much limited to rebooting Windows servers, and you're probably being paid too much.
[via Jason]
Date: 2003-06-25 02:10:22
(Author: trav)
Link:
http://travis.kroh.net/archives/001860.php
i think ur totally, lik, a dipshit cuz u suk!!!
Comments:
"That's so cute, a pre-teen trying to sound cool. Stupid-head would've been a better adjective than dipshit, I think. "
(1 comments)
Date: 2003-06-24 22:52:43
(Author: trav)
Link:
http://travis.kroh.net/archives/001857.php
Everything that keeps me together
is falling apart.
I got this thing that I consider my only art
of fuckin' people over.
- Modest Mouse, "3rd Planet"
Date: 2003-06-24 07:30:10
(Author: trav)
Link:
http://travis.kroh.net/archives/001852.php
There's been a lot of talk lately about weblog standards and protocols and open standards and whatnot--and something about it worries me.
I'm all about open standards. I've worshipped HTML for ages, and welcomed CSS, XHTML and XML. I'm all about making stuff that can play nice with other stuff, but after watching the development of RSS standards, I think it's important to remember some key features any standard has to keep in mind: optional complexity.
One of the things that makes web creation so attractive and widespread is its layered nature. Elaboration available for those who desire it, but simplicity available for those who don't. If you want, you can use JavaScript, CSS, and a host of server-side manipulations of a site to make something that's really impressive. If you don't want that, you can simply throw some HTML into a file, and spit out a web site "Voila!" style.
I'm hip with XML, but I haven't given much mind to tweaking my RSS feeds. Why? Not because I'm not interested, but because I can't be bothered to figure out its intricacies. I've seen the code before, and it hasn't been very inviting. Movable Type templates have the same problem. More rarely did I ever find someone who used a generic Greymatter template, but an unreasonably high percentage of MT users use templates made by someone else. I think part of this is due to the complexity of the template syntax. For some reason, whether they're simpler or not, GM templates appear to be more inviting.
Therefore, whatever we do with standardizing archives, posts, and CMS interoperability needs to be inviting enough so people will use it (otherwise it's worthless), and flexible enough so CMS vendors will purely implement it (otherwise it's just as worthless--look at what almost happened to JavaScript).
[via Joi]
Date: 2003-06-22 13:16:34
(Author: trav)
Link:
http://travis.kroh.net/archives/001849.php
El Duderino: when are we all goin to your place?
kroh: get_drinking_time(date()) {
return rand(time());
}
El Duderino: that was stupid
kroh: ...and the MPAA says that source code isn't free speech.
Date: 2003-06-22 12:48:38
(Author: trav)
Link:
http://travis.kroh.net/archives/001848.php
A timeline of Copyright law in the US.
Did you know that each time the copyright of Mickey Mouse has come up for expiration, Disney has successfully lobbied for an extension of copyright law? It's now up to 75 years after the death of the author (for works-for-hire, like Disney shit, it's 95 years after the first publishing, or 120 years after date of creation, whichever comes first). The Founding Fathers, in the Copyright Act of 1790, had fourteen in mind.
Date: 2003-06-19 15:31:00
(Author: trav)
Link:
http://travis.kroh.net/archives/001843.php
You know what I really crave? The same kind of documentation for JavaScript as they have for PHP.
Date: 2003-06-16 15:44:54
(Author: trav)
Link:
http://travis.kroh.net/archives/001824.php
Today I found myself bothered that Fran's blog isn't hosted on kroh.net: I'm unable to arbitrarily alter her MT templates to suit my immediate needs, as I am with the others.
Comments:
"'EY! Don't touch my shit man. I like it the way it is."
"You're magic, Travis. You do no technological wrong."
"I am not your puppet!
What would you like me to change? The suggestion box is OPEN."
"I'd like to point out that to date, I've never modified your templates, Bianca. =)"
"Oh ok, Everything is copesetic then."
(5 comments)
Date: 2003-06-14 23:59:10
(Author: trav)
Link:
http://travis.kroh.net/archives/001815.php
So I'm working out on my porch (have I mentioned that I love my cellular modem?), because it's a really gorgous night, and I'm using one of those keep-the-bugs-away candles, right? Earlier, a mosquito flew into the flame and burned to death.
Somehow I don't think that's what the folks at Off! had in mind.
Comments:
"I bet that looked and sounded cooool. *sizzle*"
(1 comments)
Date: 2003-06-14 23:29:45
(Author: trav)
Link:
http://travis.kroh.net/archives/001814.php
I really want one of these for Lauren.
Comments:
"I really want Lauren."
(1 comments)
Date: 2003-06-14 17:12:06
(Author: trav)
Link:
http://travis.kroh.net/archives/001813.php
The corporate filtering system, which is the system that brought you (in my humble opinion) a piece of crap like "Mambo No. 5" and didn't let you hear the brilliant Cat Power record or the amazing new Sleater Kinney record*, obviously doesn't have good taste anyway. But we've never paid major label/distributors for their good taste.
- Courney Love, "Courtney Love Does the Math"
I remember reading this article when it came out in 2000, and I post the link not only because it's a great read (based off this article, which I also read about the same time†), but because since I read it, Missy has introduced me to the "brilliance" of Cat Power and Indienow radio has indroduced me to the "amazing" Sleater-Kinney. I've always kind of liked what Courney Love has to say, even though I wouldn't trust her any farther than I can throw a 32" television.
*I don't think they want to be that big, though, according to this interview with Carrie.
†though I don't remember how I stumbled upon either of them. The links were resurrected from my memory by Jason.
Comments:
"Just wait until you get my new tape, Travis. There's hot Cat Power Covers Record action on that sumbitch!"
(1 comments)
Date: 2003-06-14 12:50:15
(Author: trav)
Link:
http://travis.kroh.net/archives/001812.php
Why is it that every twenty minutes they come up with a different way to pull the ring off a gallon of milk?
Quarts of oil and 20-ouncers of pop both have different ring-removal methods, but at least they're consistant. The milk in my region seems to have some sort of ring-removal method commitment complex. Hell, once I saw a modificaton on the 'pull-the-tab' style that had THREE different tabs on it, and you could elect to pull any of the three tabs to tear the ring off the bottom of the cap. Seriously, is there anyone who buys a gallon of milk and takes it home screaming "I can never find the fucking tab! They should put more of them on here!" Cass-Clay probably just hired an engineer full time before realizing that they don't need one, because they're a dairy company, so he just sits around all week designing new bottle caps.
Or maybe I just need to get out more.
Date: 2003-06-13 21:01:43
(Author: trav)
Link:
http://travis.kroh.net/archives/001811.php
Hmph.
Date: 2003-06-13 14:45:42
(Author: trav)
Link:
http://travis.kroh.net/archives/001808.php
Last night, I had an Arachnophobia-style dream involving that damn spider, and all her kin. I don't know whose house we were in, but I was irritated that they didn't have any spray Raid.
Comments:
"That 5 inch f**ker in my toilet! ARGH! "
(1 comments)
Date: 2003-06-12 08:13:32
(Author: trav)
Link:
http://travis.kroh.net/archives/001803.php
Which book of the Bible are you?
I am Ephesians.
Comments:
"I'm Psalms! "You're just a song waiting to happen." That was really awesome."
"
You are Proverbs.
Which book of the Bible are you?
brought to you by Quizilla
"
"Duuuude! I'm Ephesians TOO!! "...because we're related...""
"I am Romans....hmmmm....interesting! :)"
"I love this I'm Romans!!!(my fav. book too how odd?!)"
"I am REVELATION. Is anyone surprised? No? No one? Okay then."
"I am REVELATION. Is anyone surprised? No? No one? Okay then."
(7 comments)
Date: 2003-06-11 22:54:40
(Author: trav)
Link:
http://travis.kroh.net/archives/001802.php
This year, I'm celebrating by having my crontab access denied, and taking a nap for most of the day. Now I'm compiling 2.4.18 on Cupertino.
Whee.
Comments:
"I love you, boy. What a day."
(1 comments)
Date: 2003-06-09 22:58:46
(Author: trav)
Link:
http://travis.kroh.net/archives/001788.php
A watch that runs the Palm OS. Too cool.
I also find it humorous that the three people that left Palm to start Handspring (I have an olde skool Visor, btw, which has the same amount of memory as the aforementioned watch.), just were bought back into the company.
Date: 2003-06-09 17:42:27
(Author: trav)
Link:
http://travis.kroh.net/archives/001787.php
Some lady thanked me (even though I don't know who she was). I let her change lanes while she was driving in her truck.
Comments:
":) That's because you are a Texan!! You drive friendly!!"
"HA!"
"Nic gets it. :)"
"So do I! Me! Me! Attention for me!"
"I also laughed because your sister said you drive friendly. BUT I SHOULDN'T HAVE SAID THAT. Look what happened."
(5 comments)
Date: 2003-06-09 14:05:59
(Author: trav)
Link:
http://travis.kroh.net/archives/001785.php
I'm falling in love with Sleater-Kinney.
Comments:
"right on!
now nobody can say that you're no rock 'n' roll fun.
;o)"
"That song, in particular, is inspiring the bulk of my developing lust."
"Good! Maybe you should go see (or did it pass?) Pearl Jam this year! THEY OPEN.
THEY RULE."
(3 comments)
Date: 2003-06-09 11:08:33
(Author: trav)
Link:
http://travis.kroh.net/archives/001783.php
...And I'll tell you what, while we're at it,
you can keep the pentagon,
you can keep the propaganda,
you can keep each and every tv
that's been trying to convince me
to participate
in some prep school punk's plan
to perpetuate retribution.
To perpetuate retribution.
- Ani DiFranco, "Self Evident"
Comments:
"It don't take a weatherman to
look around and see the weather,
Jeb said he'd deliver Florida, folks
and boy did he ever..."
(1 comments)
Date: 2003-06-08 19:04:32
(Author: trav)
Link:
http://travis.kroh.net/archives/001779.php
This excerpt of a cross-platform, cross-browser vulnerability went out to Bugtraq yesterday, and I started laughing my ass off...
Synopsis:
--------
Opera, Mozilla & Netscape with javascript enabled are vulnerable
to remote command execution. This has been tested on Microsoft,
and many many Unices. Macintosh may also be vuln.
Ironically enough, IE is unaffected.
Ironically enough indeed.
Date: 2003-06-08 14:50:56
(Author: trav)
Link:
http://travis.kroh.net/archives/001776.php
Yesterday, Kate had a vote as to whether or not Gollum was the Jar-Jar Binks of LOTR. She accomplished this by having people email her, and then she counted them by hand. I reckoned I could write a script to do that before the day was out.