posts brought to you by the category “pendantry”
Das eez kaput! Sometime around 2002 I spaced the entire database
table that mapped individual entries to categories. Such is life.
What follows is a random sampling of entries that were associated
with the category. Over time, the entries will be updated and then it
will be even more confusing. Wander around, though, it's still a fun
way to find stuff.
see also : Vincent & Bob
rue St. Dominique, Montréal, October
2003
We found Momo the morning after the Party.
Excerpted : And then a rock came flying through the window.
August 26, 2003
Montreal
I got in the car and started driving at 06H30 this morning.
<snip />
I told her I would get up early and fetch her around 07H30 which,
notwithstanding the traffic on the way back in to town, would give me a
couple hours to work before I took her to the airport.
You can see where this all going, can't you?
Everyone said that it only takes about 45 minutes to get to Lachute from
Montreal. And it does. And it did. On the way back. After I threw the
directions that she'd been given in the back seat and simply trusted the
map.
The lesson here is clearly : always check directions against a map. Had
I done that earlier I might have noticed that there are two route 148s
in Quebec (separated by many kilometers), that route 139 doesn't exist,
that the turn off to route 158 isn't actually marked and that route 158
is in fact a very short country road with the second route 148 at one
end and a major provincial highway that leads straight into downtown
Montreal at the other.
I pulled up the driveway at 09H00.
But we made it back eventually. I had baked cookies for her to take up
for the rest of the week and there were still some left which helped
ease the aggravation on the way back.
And then, on my way back from the airport, a rock came flying through
the driver's side window while I was driving 110km on the 20 Eastbound,
ricocheting off my head.
I can't find the rock (which I can only guess came off the big truck
with the tarp that I was passing) and all I have to show for the adventure
is a bump on my head. Otherwise I appear to be fine.
A bit dazed, maybe, but it's hard to know how dazed I already was when I
was struck. I'm just glad I didn't have to figure out how to cross three
lanes of traffic with a face full of blood.
Me : Net::Blogger.pm 0.86_02
The Washington Post on lifestyle porn for the ruling classes.
Homeland security. First there was the agency. Then there was the
department. Now there is the brand.
"Their real vanishing point is where our incomprehension
meets."
Me : ASCOPE::Class::Null.pm 1.1
Cory Doctorow : Boring profs exposed by WiFi
Profs who bore their students and blame laptops don't get a lot of
sympathy from me -- if you can't convince a room full of young people
who've committed to a lifetime of debt in order to cram their heads
with useful knowledge and skills to pay attention, it's time to
re-evaluate your material and methods.
Jo Walsh : Bot::JabberBot.pm
Iain Truskett : WWW::Yahoo::Groups.pm
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : confute
Confute \Con*fute\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Confuted}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Confuting}.] [L. confutare to chek (a boiling
liquid), to repress, confute; con- + a root seen in futis a water
vessel), prob. akin to fundere to pour: cf. F. confuter. See {Fuse} to
melt.] To overwhelm by argument; to refute conclusively; to prove or
show to be false or defective; to overcome; to silence. Satan stood . .
. confuted and convinced Of his weak arguing fallacious drift.
--Milton. No man's error can be confuted who doth not . . . grant some
true principle that contradicts his error. --Chillingworth. I confute a
good profession with a bad conversation. --Fuller. Syn: To disprove;
overthrow; sed aside; refute; oppugn. Usage: To {Confute}, {Refute.}
Refute is literally to and decisive evidence; as, to refute a calumny,
charge, etc. Confute is literally to check boiling, as when cold water
is poured into hot, thus serving to allay, bring down, or neutralize
completely. Hence, as applied to arguments (and the word is never
applied, like refute, to charges), it denotes, to overwhelm by evidence
which puts an end to the case and leaves an opponent nothing to say; to
silence; as, ``the atheist is confuted by the whole structure of things
around him.''
web1913
confute v : prove to be false; "The physicist disproved his
colleagues' theories" [syn: {disprove}] [ant: {prove}]
wn
Bowie J. Poag : MicroBlogger
"as the name implies, is a small, simple,
flexible, reliable weblog engine written entirely in bash script. ...
Just look at Captain Kirk up there... He decided he was going to use
PHP4, MySQL, CGI, Perl, and JavaScript to make his "Captain's
Log".....Poor guy, he tried to overdo it with PHP-Nuke, and all he got in
return was angry and constipated! As the picture illustrates, you
shouldn't have to strain to make a log. There really is no need for any
other foo-foo gingerbread features like SQL servers and exotic Apache
mods.. Its just freakin' HTML for petes sake. Its not supposed to be
complicated. So, just look at that picture, and think back to all the
time and hassle you spent learning a skill thats obsolete in 6 months. If
all you want is a simple, full-featured weblog, you've come to the right
place."
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : shosho
something that does not work as it should
ex. That firecraker was a shosho.
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is :
whangdepootenawah
In the Ojibwa tongue, "disaster." An affliction that
strikes hard when no one expects it.
ex. Whangdepootenawah.
see also :
whangdepootenawah dict-ified
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : bednaw
Better not, should not do something
ex. Bednaw make me come over there.
From the "Not ready for prime-time, but it works" department :
Kip Hampton : Multi-Interface Web Services Made Easy
"There is little doubt that the hype associated
with web services has reached astronomical proportions. Notably missing
from the current flood of information, however, is a nuts-and-bolts
examination of how to build applications which provide both browser-based
access for human users and programmatic access for automated clients. ...
This is not about the relative merits or weaknesses of SOAP, XML-RPC, or
REST, nor will it attempt address the reasons why you might choose one
and not another. The goal here is to demonstrate that, with a little
forethought and a few Perl modules, you can easily create useful Web
applications that can accessed from any or all of these types of
clients."
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is :
regurgiburp
The expulsion of gas from the stomach through the mouth,
accompanied by the taste of stomach acid and partially digested
food.
submitted by Peter Cohen
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : jocund
Jocund \Joc"und\, adv. Merrily; cheerfully. --Gray.
web1913
jocund adj : full of or showing high-spirited merriment;
"when hearts were young and gay"; "a poet could not but be gay, in such
a jocund company"- Wordsworth; "the jolly crowd at the reunion"; "jolly
old Saint Nick"; "a jovial old gentleman"; "have a merry Christmas";
"peals of merry laughter"; "a mirthful laugh" [syn: {gay}, {jolly},
{jovial}, {merry}, {mirthful}]
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W3C : Speech Synthesis Markup Language
Benjamin Trott : "I've started implementing the common weblog API
in Movable Type."
I'm going to try and suspend my disbelief
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is wiseacre
| source : web1913 | Wiseacre \Wise"a*cre\, n.
[OD. wijssegger or G. weissager a foreteller, prophet, from weissagen to
foretell, to prophesy, OHG. w[=i]ssag?n, corrupted (as if compounded of
the words for wise and say) fr. w[=i]zzag?n, fr. w[=i]zzag? a prophet,
akin to AS. w[=i]tiga, w[=i]tga, from the root of E. wit. See {Wit}, v.]
1. A learned or wise man. [Obs.] Pythagoras learned much . . . becoming a
mighty wiseacre. --Leland. 2. One who makes undue pretensions to wisdom;
a would-be-wise person; hence, in contempt, a simpleton; a dunce. |
source : wn | wiseacre n : an upstart who makes conceited, sardonic,
insolent comments [syn: {wise guy}, {smart aleck}, {wisenheimer},
{weisenheimer}]
Haruki Murakami : Honey Pie
Me : jabbergroups
Call me crazy, but I don't think I would suggest
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is solecism
| source : web1913 | Solecism \Sol"e*cism\, n.[F.
sol['e]cisme, L. soloecismus, Gr. soloikismo`s, fr. soloiki`zein to speak
or write incorrectly, fr. so`loikos speaking incorrectly, from the
corruption of the Attic dialect among the Athenian colonists of So`loi in
Cilicia.] 1. An impropriety or incongruity of language in the combination
of words or parts of a sentence; esp., deviation from the idiom of a
language or from the rules of syntax. A barbarism may be in one word; a
solecism must be of more. --Johnson. 2. Any inconsistency, unfitness,
absurdity, or impropriety, as in deeds or manners. C[ae]sar, by
dismissing his guards and retaining his power, committed a dangerous
solecism in politics. --C. Middleton. The idea of having committed the
slightest solecism in politeness was agony to him. --Sir W. Scott. Syn:
Barbarism; impropriety; absurdity. | source : wn | solecism n : a
socially awkward or tactless act [syn: {faux pas}, {gaffe}, {slip},
{gaucherie}]
Brad Marshall : System Authentication using LDAP
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is irenic
| source : web1913 | Irenic \I*ren"ic\, Irenical
\I*ren"ic*al\, a. [Gr. ?.] Fitted or designed to promote peace; pacific;
conciliatory; peaceful. --Bp. Hall. | source : wn | irenic adj :
conducive to peace; "irenic without being namby-pamby"; "an irenic
attitude toward former antagonists"
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is aegis
| source : web1913 | AEgis \[AE]"gis\, n. [L.
aegis, fr. Gr. ? a goat skin, a shield, ? goat, or fr. ? to rush.] A
shield or protective armor; -- applied in mythology to the shield of
Jupiter which he gave to Minerva. Also fig.: A shield; a protection. |
source : wn | aegis n 1: kindly endorsement and guidance; "the tournament
was held under the auspices of the city council" [syn: {auspices},
{protection}] 2: armor plate that protects the chest; the front part of a
cuirass [syn: {breastplate}, {egis}] | source : foldoc | AEGIS
<operating system> A {Unix} variant that was used on {Apollo}
{workstations} before Apollo was bought by {Hewlett Packard}. AEGIS has
some advantages over standard {BSD} or {System V} Unix. It includes
faster file access and a richer command set; there are commands to find
out which {process} is running on a particular node, which process is
locking a particular file, etc. (1997-02-25) | source : foldoc | Aegis
<programming, tool> A {CASE} tool for project change management,
from the {GNU} project. (1995-03-27) | source : vera | AEGIS Advanced
Electronic Guidance and Instrumentation System
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is efficacious
| source : web1913 | Efficacious
\Ef`fi*ca"cious\, a. [L. eficax, -acis, fr. efficere. See {Effect}, n.]
Possessing the quality of being effective; productive of, or powerful to
produce, the effect intended; as, an efficacious law. Syn: See
{Effectual}. -- {Ef`fi*ca"cious*ly}, adv. -- {Ef`fi*ca"cious*ness}, n. |
source : wn | efficacious adj 1: marked by qualities giving the power to
produce an intended effect; "written propaganda is less efficacious than
the habits and prejudices...of the readers"-Aldous Huxley; "the medicine
is efficacious in stopping a cough" [ant: {inefficacious}] 2: producing
or capable of producing an intended result or having a striking effect;
"an air-cooled motor was more effective than a witch's broomstick for
rapid long-distance transportation"-LewisMumford; "effective teaching
methods"; "effective steps toward peace"; "made an effective entrance";
"his complaint proved to be effectual in bringing action"; "an
efficacious law" [syn: {effective}, {effectual}] [ant: {ineffective}]
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is wag
| source : web1913 | Wag \Wag\, v. i. 1. To move
one way and the other; to be shaken to and fro; to vibrate. The resty
sieve wagged ne'er the more. --Dryden. 2. To be in action or motion; to
move; to get along; to progress; to stir. [Colloq.] ``Thus we may see,''
quoth he, ``how the world wags.'' --Shak. 3. To go; to depart; to pack
oft. [R.] I will provoke him to 't, or let him wag. --Shak. | source :
web1913 | Wag \Wag\, n. [From {Wag}, v.] 1. The act of wagging; a shake;
as, a wag of the head. [Colloq.] 2. [Perhaps shortened from wag-halter a
rogue.] A man full of sport and humor; a ludicrous fellow; a humorist; a
wit; a joker. We wink at wags when they offend. --Dryden. A counselor
never pleaded without a piece of pack thread in his hand, which he used
to twist about a finger all the while he was speaking; the wags used to
call it the thread of his discourse. --Addison. | source : web1913 | Wag
\Wag\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Wagged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Wagging}.]
[OE. waggen; probably of Scand. origin; cf. Sw. vagga to rock a cradle,
vagga cradle, Icel. vagga, Dan. vugge; akin to AS. wagian to move, wag,
wegan to bear, carry, G. & D. bewegen to move, and E. weigh.
[root]136. See {Weigh}.] To move one way and the other with quick turns;
to shake to and fro; to move vibratingly; to cause to vibrate, as a part
of the body; as, to wag the head. No discerner durst wag his tongue in
censure. --Shak. Every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and
wag his head. --Jer. xviii. 16. Note: Wag expresses specifically the
motion of the head and body used in buffoonery, mirth, derision, sport,
and mockery. | source : wn | wag n 1: (informal) a witty amusing person
who makes jokes [syn: {wit}, {card}] 2: causing to move repeatedly from
side to side [syn: {waggle}, {shake}] v : move from side to side, as of
fingers and tails; "The happy dog wagged his tail" [syn: {waggle}]
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is commensurate
| source : web1913 | Commensurate
\Com*men"su*rate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Commensurated}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Commensurating}.] [Pref. com- + mensurate.] 1. To reduce to a
common measure. --Sir T. Browne. 2. To proportionate; to adjust. --T.
Puller | source : web1913 | Commensurate \Com*men"su*rate\, a. 1. Having
a common measure; commensurable; reducible to a common measure; as,
commensurate quantities. 2. Equal in measure or extent; proportionate.
Those who are persuaded that they shall continue forever, can not choose
but aspire after a happiness commensurate to their duration. --Tillotson.
| source : wn | commensurate adj : corresponding in size or degree or
extent; "pay should be commensurate with the time worked" [ant:
{incommensurate}]
Tomas Abrahamsson : artist.el
"is an Emacs lisp package that allows you to draw
lines, rectangles, squares, poly-lines, ellipses and circles by using
your mouse and/or keyboard. The shapes are made up with the ascii
characters |, -, / and \."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is heterogeneous
| source : web1913 | Heterogeneous
\Het`er*o*ge"ne*ous\, a. [Gr. ?; ? + ? race, kind; akin to E. kin: cf. F.
h['e]t['e]rog[`e]ne.] Differing in kind; having unlike qualities;
possessed of different characteristics; dissimilar; -- opposed to
homogeneous, and said of two or more connected objects, or of a
conglomerate mass, considered in respect to the parts of which it is made
up. -- {Het`er*o*ge"ne*ous*ly}, adv. -- {Het`er*o*ge"ne*ous*ness}, n.
{Heterogeneous nouns} (Gram.), nouns having different genders in the
singular and plural numbers; as, hic locus, of the masculine gender in
the singular, and hi loci and h[ae]c loca, both masculine and neuter in
the plural; hoc c[ae]lum, neuter in the singular; hi c[ae]li, masculine
in the plural. {Heterogeneous quantities} (Math.), such quantities as are
incapable of being compared together in respect to magnitude, and
surfaces and solids. {Heterogeneous surds} (Math.), surds having
different radical signs. | source : wn | heterogeneous adj 1: consisting
of elements that are not of the same kind or nature; "the population of
the United States is vast and heterogeneous" [ant: {homogeneous}] 2:
originating outside the body [syn: {heterogenous}] [ant: {autogenous}] |
source : foldoc | heterogeneous Composed of unrelated parts, different in
kind. Often used in the context of {distributed systems} that may be
running different {operating systems} or network {protocols} (a
{heterogeneous network}). For examples see: {interoperable database},
{middleware}. Constrast {homogeneous}. (1999-05-06)
I wonder how difficult it would be to write an interactive weblog
client
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is distrait
| source : web1913 | Distrait \Dis`trait"\, a.
[F. See {Distract}.] Absent-minded; lost in thought; abstracted. | source
: wn | distrait adj : having the attention diverted especially because of
anxiety [syn: {distracted}]
Ars Technica : What is Mac OS X 10.0?
Helena Echlin : Letter from Yale
What is carrot-sprinkled glue
and when did it "start holding families
together"?
Dave Cross : Creating Data Output Files Using the Template
Toolkit
Steve Traugott : Mail::TieFolder.pm
The Forest of Rhetoric
"is intended to help beginners, as well as
experts, make sense of rhetoric, both on the small scale (definitions and
examples of specific terms) and on the large scale (the purposes of
rhetoric, the patterns into which it has fallen historically as it has
been taught and practiced for 2000+ years)."
Just for kicks, I rendered the SOD (sic) feed as DHTML
outline.
Matt Kruse : Bookmarks Tree Creator
"is a simple CGI utility to create a Javascript
from a Netscape bookmarks file."
Bob Rogers : Do It Yourself
(lynx weenies will only be frustrated)
We know Heather Champ
TechNetCast : Future of BSDs
"Where is BSD headed? Will a common FreeBSD/BSDI
release signal a new era for BSD? Is there something the BSD can (should)
do about the BSD Mania? What new technical developments will help BSD
moving forward? Panel, with Jordan Hubbard, FreeBSD, Wilfredo Sanchez,
Apple Computer (Core OS Group), Charles Hannum, NetBSD core developer,
Kevin Rose, Marketing Director, BSDi."
Larry Wall : State of the Onion
"Post-Apocalyptic Survival with Perl" (mp3)
Maybe I've just gotten a little too much sun today
O'Reilly Beta Chapter
Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide
Speaking of Canadian Kultur
The Peanuts Quilt
Richard Martineau
"Autre théorie; même langage froid qui rabaisse
tout au niveau de la productivité. Pour les marxistes, l'homme n'est
qu'un pion que l'on déplace sur l'échiquier de la Révolution. Pour les
tenants du néolibéralisme, il n'est qu'une boule que l'on fait glisser au
bas d'un abaque. Marx is alive and well and playing at the New York Stock
Exchange."
Everyone loves his work
Brian J. Reardon : Laundry, A Quantum Mechincal Approach
or "Why You Should Never Empty the Lint Trap"
Perlmonth : MacPerl at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention
KCRW : Dimitri from Paris
Pioneer of "bedroom culture" (there's one for
your resume!) and most excellent music to cook by. real audio.
iDot is selling 450$ BeOS machines
CNN : Scientists grow decaf coffee bean
People always look at me funny when I say that
things like this and rock bands hiring string orchestras need to be
banned in law, but I know I am right. see also :
Fields of
Genes
.
Todd Gitlin : Disappearing Ink
"The point is to decide, while you're listening,
what matters in the presentation. And while I don't believe that most of
life consists of showing up, education does begin with that -- with
immersing yourself in the activity at hand, listening, thinking, judging,
offering active responses. A download is a poor substitute."
The Dr. Seuss Purity Test
It's hard to know whether you want to pass or
fail...
Wired on nextmonet.com
"When I was ready to graduate from posters, I
went to several galleries and was never more intimidated. I thought I had
a great vocabulary, but I realized I didn't know much about art. I felt
really dumb." Graduate from posters? When you were ready? Buy a copy of
ArtSpeak
and decide for yourself if you're really missing anything.
Terry Waite on using implants to prevent kidnapping
"It is very dangerous because once kidnappers get
to know about these things, they will skin you alive to find them."
Charles Taylor: De la nation culturelle à la nation politique
"Au lieu de chercher une sécurité illusoire dans
la belle totalité d'une législation définitive, nous ferions mieux
d'admettre que notre situation nous posera une série de dilemmes sans
fin, que nous devrions affronter avec la plus grande créativité. "
wtf?
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dude, where's my car
This document uses
CSS
kung-fu and a small amount of JavaScript for rendering its
contents. Efforts have been made to separate the form from the
content so if you are viewing this in a text-based browser it
shouldn't be an issue.
On the other hand it may look funny if you are viewing it in a
browser with incomplete
CSS
and/or JavaScript implementations. Internet Explorer 6 comes to
mind.
It's not that I don't love you. However, my time is limited and
I no longer feel very good about spending it working around any one
browser's inconsistencies with little, or no, confidence that they
will ever be fixed or otherwise made more inconsistent at some
later date.
On the other hand, if something is down-right
unreadable
please let me know and I will endeavour to fix it.
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yes, we have no bananas
This page may not validate. It's not that I don't care, it's
just that I'm not aware of it yet. Part of the reason that I
rewrote the entire back-end for managing this site is that the old
stuff made it too easy for these kinds of mistakes to slip through
the cracks.
See also :
W3C::LogValidator.pm
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it's the software, stupid
Use the source, Luke.