Feeblemind

Well done, you douche-nozzles. You held all of the cards, but you managed to fuck-bungle it anyway. Again.

You could have fought for what is important (Social Security, Medicare) and what is obvious (some people are really fucking rich and could stand to pay some more taxes, big corporations are making a mockery of our tax laws and paying nothing, the economy sucks and we need more jobs). Instead you all wet your pants, rolled over, and let the in-bred, fuck-tard tea-baggers have every goddammed thing they ever wanted.

You don’t negotiate by giving away all of your bargaining chips before the other side has even made an offer. And you certainly don’t negotiate with ignorant, shit-spewing morons who think it would be a good idea to hold the country hostage over their dumb-assed, rock-stupid ideology. And you really, really don’t then reward the partisan ass-suckers by giving in to their dirty fucking tricks.

I hope you’re happy with the shit sandwich you just wolfed down, you dumbfuck cock-lords.

I’ll be dipped in shit if I am ever going to vote for you weak-assed surrender monkeys ever again.

Just in case you missed it:

Fuck you.

Yet another random ten, because it’s the only thing that I remember to put on this here blog (minor funny things have been going to facebook, because then everyone is forced to read them…)

New and improved with categories – not official ones, but ones I made up – because it amuses me.

1. (Nerdcore) Gonna Be Your Man – MC Frontalot
2. (Goth) Blue Lights – Fictional
3. (Industrial) Machine – Theatre of Tragedy
4. (Industrial/Goth) Darkangel – VNV Nation
5. (Industrial/Goth) Legion (Anachron Mix) – VNV Nation
6. (Metal/Parody) All I Want For Christmas (is to Rock) – SNIPER (Chris Hardwick)
7. (Industrial/Goth) Illusion – VNV Nation
8. (Industrial/Goth) Standing – VNV Nation
9. (Industrial) Infinite – Assemblage 23
10. (Nerdcore) Hassle, The Dorkening – MC Frontalot

I swear I have more than VNV Nation on my playlist, the randomization hamster just seems to like them today.

I’m trying to parse an Excel spreadsheet using GNU commands. This seemed like a fine idea until I realized some fields had newlines within the field, which causes all kinds of havoc with line-based parsing.

So, for your amusement, disgust, and or confusion, I present: How to remove double newlines from a file, present only certain fields, then only show lines where the last field is “x”

cat test.csv | sed “s/$/HORK/g” | tr -d “\n” | \
sed “s/HORKHORK//g” | sed “s/HORK/\n/g” | \
cut -f 1,2,3,4,5,6,14 -d”|” | grep “x$”

I’m damned glad that the check is on the last field; I hate to think what other crap I would need in there to check it mid line…

Today’s random ten from the WinAmp playlist:

1. Sister Machine Gun – Burn
2. Theatre of Tragedy – Machine
3. MC Hawking – All My Shootings Be Drivebys
4. VNV Nation – Epicentre
5. Disturbed – Land of Confusion
6. Lacuna Coil – Swamped
7. Shiny Toy Guns – Le Disko
8. Weird Al Yankovic – Stuck in a Closet with Vanna White
9. Orbital – Halcyon + On + On
10. KMFDM – Juke-Joint Jezebel

I don’t get new music much.

As an aside, someone here at work seemed surprised that I was using WinAmp. Is it really that out of date? Or are these kids just too used to their fancy iTunes bullcrap?

First: “screen” is easily my favorite Linux program.

Second: This is my favorite new toy – setup a couple of home fileservers using this and it rocks.

That is all.

Because I am bored at work, and if you are reading this, you must be bored too.

The new laptop, which is indeed the black wedge of doom I was hoping for, did earn the name “Monolith”.

My wife’s desktop (previously unmentioned) has been chugging along for the past several years under the name of “Addiction”, based on her ongoing and epic capacity for games of Starcraft (although Puzzle Quest has recently absorbed a good portion of her game time). Whatever parts of Annihilatrix are deemed salvageable will be re-forged into a new (and Starcraft-II capable) machine to be known as “Overmind”.

I guess maybe I should ask her first if she has a name for it… nah.

Apropos of nothing (yet again), but brought to mind due to my pending purchase of a new laptop, it turns out that I have yet to have a consistent naming convention for my computers. The closest I have come is with this webserver, and even that was broken at the last round of hardware upgrades (although, I guess, not officially, since I was too lazy to change the name in DNS…)

Regardless, and with nothing better to post, I give you my computers:

1. Frankenserver

   The first computer I owned was a mashup of discarded parts from other systems, and therefore named Frankenputer. This machine eventually morphed into my home fileserver, and although it has had a few upgrades since then, it is still mostly made up of cast-offs from other systems.

2. Gabriel

   The official name of the webserver; I have not updated it in DNS because it isn’t worth the chances of me screwing up access to the system. This machine was originally to be named after KMFDM songs. The first, when it was part of a business plan to provide secure webhosting, was “Trust”. After a hardware upgrade (and the failure of said business plan), it became “Godlilke”, and another hardware upgrade made it “Ultra”. “Gabriel”, now on it’s fourth hardware incarnation, is named for the Penny Arcade artist/character. It is intended to match “Tycho”, which is the name of the phantom machine that might eventually also be attached directly to the ‘nets. The new convention, therefore, is any machine connected directly to the internet will be named for a Penny Arcade character.

3. Annihilatrix

   My desktop. Named for the doomsday machine in the Adult Swim cartoon “Frisky Dingo”. It was either aptly named, or I should be more superstitious; like it’s namesake, it seems to have some sort of recurring power issue.

4. Epitaph

   My tablet computer. When I mentioned that I had not thought of a good name for it, a friend suggested I use my FPS handle, which works well since it’s, well, a tablet.

5. Idoru

   My notebook, named for the Gibson novel, which at the time of purchase was fairly powerful and a sort of “idol”.

6. Electronaut

   Acer Aspire One netbook, named for the song by VNV Nation, both because it is an awesome song, and as a play on the machine’s portability.

7. Interocitor

   A desktop using a TV as it’s monitor. Named for the machine in the movie “This Island Earth”, which was the basis of the MST3K movie. Hard to explain if you haven’t seen it…

8. Cobalt

   Palm Pilot. Named for it’s shiny blue finish.

9. ?

   I have yet to decide on the name of my new laptop. I could name it for another VNV Nation song (”Legion”, “Chrome”, “Nemesis”) but, as much as I really like those songs, it would break the meta-convention of not having a consistent naming convention (at least between machines). At the moment, the short list includes “Monolith” and… well, nothing, yet. I do like “Nemesis” though.

Because I don’t manage to post much else here… and I just built a new playlist.

1. VNV Nation – Perpetual
2. MC Hawking – All My Shootings Be Drivebys
3. T.A.T.U. – How Soon is Now?
4. Urge Overkill – Girl, You’ll Be A Woman Soon
5. Ian Van Dahl – Castles In The Sky
6. Dire Straights – Money For Nothing
7. MC Frontalot – Special Delivery
8. Mai Yamane with the Seatbelts (?) – The Real Folk Blues
9. VNV Nation – Chrome
10. Gwen Stefani – Danger Zone

Unobtainium? Really?

1. Praga Khan – The Power of the Flower
2. Goldfrapp – Strict Machine
3. DJ Earworm – The Night of Kittin’s Messy Dream (mashup)
4. Praga Khan – Keep the Dream Alive
5. Perpetuous Dreamer – The Sound Of Goodbye
6. KMFDM – Anarchy (Fusako Remix)
7. Evanescence – Call Me When You’re Sober
8. Lacuna Coil – Swamped
9. VNV Nation – Firstlight
10. Evanescence – Sweet Sacrifice