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Things have been getting rough with the Elf Union lately (internal documents leaked here).  Santa Layla asked me to help.  After all, I have experience negotiating with Korean businessmen.  Here are some snapshots.

Discussions with the Elf Union Boss reach peak intensity.  Santa Layla watches on, concerned.

The tension breaks as the Elf Union caves to our our ongoing, stalwart resistance.  Santa Layla is eager to speak with the Elf Union Boss and order everyone back to work.  Next year’s Light Brites aren’t going to assemble themselves!

Layla has a new friend.

But he makes her sleepy.

So I guess he’s doing his job.  Good sheep.

Thanks Uncle Wally!


$ grep GATEWAY /etc/sysconfig/network
GATEWAY=1.2.3.4


Oh yeah.

Until yesterday I hadn’t had good nikuman for years; not since I lived in Tokyo. Last night, however, I discovered, buried beneath the escalator in Porter Square Station, a small newsstand selling freshly steamed pork nikuman.

Of course, I should really say baozi since these were authentic Chinese steamed buns. Served, oddly enough, in a plastic glove.

Oddness aside, they’re delicious.  If I passed through Porter Square every day I could imagine a stop at the newsstand quickly becoming a breakfast habit.

Oh yes.

Yes I did.

Here’s something I’ve wanted to know how to do since forever.

Use this trick to find files that have been modified since some arbitrary date:

$ touch -d "13 may 2001 17:54:19" date_marker
$ find . -newer date_marker

To find files created before that date, use the cnewer and negation conditions:

$ find . ! -cnewer date_marker

And to delete them, use the built-in “delete” action, eg:

$ find . ! -cnewer date_marker -delete

Discovered in the Irish Linux Users Group’s exceptional online tutorial.

Why don’t we all go down to Washington D.C. and throw our shoes at the White House?

Shoes or, creme pies.

Best quote from the Huffington Post comment board:

“Did you see how well he dodged those shoes?? Decades of dodging responsibility sure paid off!”

Indeed.

By way of Digg.

By the way, why are we bailing out the people who invested in the cows, while letting real industries twist in the wind?

More SVN stuff I can never completely remember.  As seen from running svn update, svn switch, or svn merge. “G” always throws me.

U filename = item (U)pdated to repository version
G filename = item’s local changes mer(G)ed with repository
C filename = item’s local changes (C)onflicted with repository
D filename = item (D)eleted from working copy
A filename = item (A)dded to working copy

Also note that “S” seems to mean that something has gone horribly wrong with a switch and that the operation was not completed. Hopefully you’ll never see this.

Came across this on Zillow today and couldn’t believe it.  It looks like the Christmas Castle is on sale, and has been for the better part of the year.  A steal at 2.2 million.

I plan to swing by later this week and see if the lights are up.  Though I for one enjoyed last year’s bizarre spectacle of lights, I suspect that Jamaica Plainers just might be getting a little more sleep this Christmas.