“Taa tia taa too daa duu taa taa tiaa taa too daa duu; Taa tia taa too daa duu taa taa tiaa taa too daa duu...”, Yxi attempted to lead again.
In a rich baritone belch that impressively incorporated practiced nasal singing complete with circular breathing Kyf interrupted, “Kaa kaa mala daa diaa booo booo; kaa kaa mala daa diaa booo booo...” Before Yxi could reprimand Kyf derailing musical instruction again Alauri blurted out in manic giggle, “He said caca!”
I propose a measure of computing power: a sixtyfour.
I base it on the computer I used for the longest continuous time: a Commodore 64. While that experience is far from universal, I have a lot of good company.
Today is pretty decent so far. I've got a nice spring in my step, though I'm fairly certain most of that is hypercaffeination. My machines at the day job are all humming along like the good little collection of hamster colonies they are, hamsters all spinning their wheels productively.
Rule 34 has been stated as "If it exists, there is porn of it." As a corollary, if it exists and can be turned into any kind of fetish (sexual nature optional), there will be fundamentalism of it. Both pro and con. And to go meta on you now, that fundamentalism is itself a thing that exists.
This is perhaps the only occasion I can think of that the tl;dr circuit-breakers in much of the internet is a good thing.
Partly to pare down the site, partly due to changes in how DISQUS renders, and largely due to the fact that social networking is now so ubiquitous: I have completely disabled comments. If you have comments, feel free to just make them aloud among your circles and link to them.
If you want me to respond, just do so publicly in a place I'm likely to see it. I'm @random9q on Twitter, and am connecting a few other viable options as well. I can't guarantee I'll see it, but count it likely.
You want to know the reason the arguments defending DOMA and Proposition 8 before the Supreme Court are so weak?
The real reason?
It is because they're struggling not to say, "We think you ought have decided Lawrence v Texas differently, and we're utterly offended by your decision. We resent having to come up with a formalism defining marriage that fits our assumptions, because the whole issue could have been avoided if homosexuality were still illegal."
This morning this website took a momentary hit. A routine update failed in a way that completely blew up the scripts for the site. That shouldn't happen. Needlessly frustrating.
I was able to eventually patch it back together using only my phone. What the hell, I'm living in the future apparently! Not perfect, but that's a feature and not a bug.
Maybe you've heard of the analog loophole? That's what the recording industry and the music pirates and the anti-DRM crowds and all decided was the best name for the fact that you could always find a way to rip MP3 files off of CD via playing it as an audio track rather than reading digitally. No matter what kind of cooperation they got from major hardware and software vendors.
