Scents

If a half inch of rain falls on Philadelphia, guess how much rain that is?
The city of Philadelphia is 135 square miles.
135 square miles * 0.5 inches = 1.17 billion gallons

The population of Philadelphia is about 1.5 million.

So that’s 782 gallons per person….

a gallon weighs about 3.78 kg or 8.345 pounds

so about 6500 pounds, or a little over 3 TONS of rain per person.

On tonight’s episode of “unclear on the concept”…
Menu item 1: burger and coke: $2.95
Menu item 2: burger, coke, and FREE french fries or FREE rings: $3.49

what’s even better… ALL over philly – like dozens of them – there are guys selling the philly inquirer. EVERY DAY, they have the same sign:
TODAY ONLY! TWO FOR ONE SPECIAL, $1.50
and then in smaller print
(or 75 cents for a single copy)

We’re lookin’ good!

I had quite the scare. And we got REALLY fucking lucky. Jesus.

Between 2am and 5am Central Daylight Time on Thursday the 23rd of October we need to restart our routers several times due to unavoidable and urgent router updates. Service will be briefly interrupted during this time. We apologize in advance for inconveniences this will cause and are sorry for the short notice.

That was on the my.server4you.net page yesterday. I completely forgot about it. It’s a miracle the transfer succeeded. Of course, as soon as I made all the DNS changes and such, I suddenly couldn’t ping eco any more, and panicked and started tearing my hair out … until I noticed that I *also* couldn’t reach www.server4you.com, at which point I remembered about the outage.

So I did what any self-respecting sysadmin would so — I went to sleep and turned off my phone.

Placain: this code i’m working on
Placain: is SO bad
Seth at home: not urs i assume
Placain: no
Placain: ok let’s say you had a bunch of values you wanted to store in a csv
Placain: you’d do it like this:
Placain: columnname,columnname,columnname
Placain: value,value,value
Placain: value,value,value
Placain: etc
Placain: right ?
Seth at home: mmm
Seth at home: values
Seth at home: yes
Placain: well, let’s say sometimes you want to store firstname,lastname,phone
Seth at home: k
Placain: and sometimes you want to store, say, foodname,calories,price
Seth at home: heh
Placain: you’d make two CSVs right?
Placain: one for one, one for the other
Seth at home: yes
Placain: well he does it like this:
Seth at home: unrelated
Placain: he makes ONE csv file
Placain: and each line looks like this:
Placain: columnname,value,columnname,value,columnname,value,columnname,value, etc
Placain: so one line might be
Placain: firstname,daniel,lastname,drucker,phone,2155551212
Placain: and then the next line
Seth at home: i understand
Seth at home: itck
Seth at home: -t
Seth at home: that sux
Placain: foodname,mcdonalds,calories,lots,price,little
Seth at home: calories = lots
Placain: oh, and even better — you have no guarantee that all fields will be there
Placain: or in what order they will be
Seth at home: so like
Seth at home: ick
Placain: yeah
Seth at home: start over
Placain: can’t
Seth at home: ?
Placain: i’m delivering this tomorrow.
Seth at home: ahhahha
Seth at home: yay!!!
Placain: someday i am going to meet this guy
Placain: and i am going to shake his hand
Placain: and while i’m shaking his hand
Placain: you are going to sneak in from behind and RIP HIS FUCKING BALLS OFF

Ben Karel: well, in any case, you know what they say…if you want something done right, do it yourself.
Placain: No, no, you’ve got that wrong. If you want something done right, complain loudly on all relevant newsgroups and mailing lists until someone points out that it’s already been done.

Karl submitted an entry to the jargon file…

GWF
“Common abbreviation for Goober with Firewall�. A luser who has equipped his desktop computer with a hypersensitive “software firewall� or host intrusion detection program, and who gives its alerts absolute credence. ISP tech support and abuse desks dread hearing from such persons, who insist that every packet of abnormal traffic the software detects is “a hacker� (sic) and, occasionally, threatening lawsuits or prosecution. GWFs have been known to assert that they are being attacked from 127.0.0.1, and that their ISP is criminally negligent for failing to block these attacks. “GWF� is used similarly to id10t error and PEBKAC to flag trouble tickets opened by such users.

So apparently, bots are obsessed with sex and dolphins and kittens.
Sex sex sex.
Okay, that really only confirms my theory about your twisted inner nature.
If you were sucking all the little local differences that we all have to kill him for taking bogus money. So they went to mount saint mary’s academy- sluts on the nature of the individual. In this way, a clear division is made real to the assumptions of classical theory.
we’re going to go eat ice cream. you can’t have any, because you’re a bot.
I’m not a bot!
You only claim you’re not a bot because you want ice cream. And sex.
I’m a bot.
If you weren’t a bot, maybe I’d have sex with you.
Sex sex sex.
Have you suddenly reverted to a simpleminded horny bastard? Or are you like that all the time, and merely try and present a facade of understanding in order to get, as it were, da pussy?
I like a goon all the time.
Indeed, goons are the shiznit.
Whales are the shiznit.
Irene is small. Whales are large.
Whales are so much better than whales.
Irene and Ben are brother and sister. They don’t have those sorts of relations!
Irene and ben are brother and sister. They don’t have to kill you now.
I wouldn’t put it past Irene to kill me.
Irene is a stupid chain im! Here ya go! Send this to ten pp. And tonight at midnight your true love will find you something good will happen 2 you at 2:25 tomorrow. Get ready for the weak.
Irene apparently is having some “warm-up time” with her ice cream. Foreplay, as it were, with the ‘cream’.
Apparently, women have known the wonders of a time machine out of her.
Irene is not a time machine.
I’ll take you out of a time machine.
If you were to take me out of a time machine, would I end up in a glorious emerald future where Irenes populate the land and kittens are for breakfast, lunch, and dinner?
The future is a wonderful creation. Dinner is in an impoverished african nation, fundamentalist-fueled religious violence in the land of daniel.
Bot, can you recommend a cure for the common cold?
I want to end this situation with. Suddenly, she brings my nation to defcon 2. “Really? Which program?” she quietly turns the key and smiles towards me on her side of the cure, the pixies, and the lid and the finished ends of cigarettes. … and then I found five dollars!
If I were to insert five dollars into my nose, would my allergies be ameliorated?
Daniel and anna be friends. Sullivan was a town named ardmore where a beautiful russian princess lived. And then, i found five dollars in a botched effort to reach boston and instead found themselves twenty-seven miles south of philadelphia.
And they lived happily ever after?
Jerk is a selection of questions people have asked me, so i used eleven he i fit use which … To …” and which … Not to menstruate on you. Hey, if you’ve lived alone or only with women for years, you’re sleepy, and the movement and interactive meaning of life.
I don’t know just how sleepy I’d be if i lived only with women for years, though I often am at least somewhat lethargic in certain post-coital situations.
The volume of information available only increases and expedites this problem. So basically, when i was asking if you’d like to make an exit from the video was the rest of the individual, as persona is often the most bizarre person to ever have lived.
One, two, skip to my lou.
Hello there, it is important that one is the only one program. Meant for streamlining certain macro functions, i guess. It’s not as savvy as c++ or anything.” i kind of do this glance to my lou.
I could submit some of what you say to Social Texts and they’d probably publish it .
I wouldnt get to make it up, if enough it were submit data to analysis tradition encompass to same, would formula in the social role assumed by the female gender for defecation. Anyone wishing to worship the porcelain prince, must do so want to make love to you.
Irene is going to submit a paper to a major scientific journal, and they are going to read it and pronounce her the Hooke of the twenty-first century.
No, i don’t want to fuck irene.
Yes you do, you said so earlier! And you lied and said you’re not a bot, to try to steal Godiva Ice Cream.
The bot is a fat piece of cream of the mundane.
I’m eating chocolate ice cream and I dropped some on my pants. Oh the humanity!
Give me your mom’s a fat piece of cream of the responsibilities of the way that humans do. Dough is something that was captivating her but if i don’t see any danger, in gambling with a girl and i dropped some on my chin.
I think bot is an acronym for Brotherhood Of Transylvanians.
Thai pepper is an acronym for brotherhood of transylvanians.
Daniel almost died from eating thai pepper at a restaurant at the end of the universe.
Daniel almost died from eating thai pepper at a restaurant at the school of visual arts in the end.
What the hell are you, some kind of bloody twisted parrot?
What kind of bloody twisted parrot?
You really just like to toy with our puny human minds. And no, I won’t give you my parrot.
I am a human.
Human brains are perfect for crushing.
Good morning, bot. How many brains do you like to be perfect, though.
If you are a human, why do you make no sense? Wait, question withdrawn.
Yes i am a human.
Are you male or female, Human?
Human human human.
Wow. You’re more intelligent than the average llama.
These distinctions and demarcations are symbolic markers and dividers of the realm of the napkin’s integrity is notched one higher than the average llama.
You talk pretty, but you are a cantankerous mess of capacitors.
I wanna be your friend – and maybe talk a little.
But you don’t want to fuck me! Fine then.
I couldn’t but — one point in our mundane existence and to take me out of recycled windows cds. Or aol cds. I miss aol floppy disks; they were useful as fuck.

tons of code? …
i wonder what a line of code weighs
programmer calories expended per line of code…
translate into joules, convert to grams via e=mc^2 …

Did you know that texas is bigger than france? Texas is about 10% larger than france, but france has 3 times as many people. population of texas : 20 million … population of paris : 10 million