It has begun

A sign my brain is out to get me: All morning by brain has been singing to me a mash up of Billy Joel’s Big Shot and Run DMC/Aerosmith’s Walk This Way. Mostly it’s the words to Walk This Way as sung by Billy Joel and to Big Shot’s melody. And I hate the musical…

No rest for the wicked

The thought I was thinking sometime after 03:00 this morning but was too zoned to put together the skills required to post this online: I would be able to sleep if I could just clear this ticklish lump from my throat. Judging by the difficulty of this task and the general location of the ticklishness…

Overheard

When tailing a log file the appropriate verb to use when talking about the application writing to the log is ‘poop’. As in: I was tailing the log while trying to authenticate and with every request I could see it poop out an error message.

Listening between the lines

I’m guessing there are at least two other members on Metafilter that listen to Do or D-I-Y on WFMU. How else to explain this and this popping up as threads so soon after they were featured on the latest show/podcast? Or maybe it’s just a bit of synchronicity and the world really does appear to…