Holy Chao

Dear friends, adventurers, and fellow Paratheoanametamystiks, I exercise great privilege as Pope in announcing and describing for you a new holiday to celebrate Our Lady of Discord: Irrefflery.

Many of your friends, relatives, and loved ones may be inclined to celebrate an ancient pagan ritual, Eostre, on the first Sunday after a full moon following the vernal equinox. In your travels you may have been invited to some number of events of celebration of this ancient Pagan ritual, and in many cases you may find that the celebrations have diverged wildly from their original roots as all things which fall under Eris' purview are prone to do.

I offer now a celebration which is quite distinctly a further iteration of this celebrational drift, Irrefflery, which is a very simple ritual that everyone may enjoy. The core elements are quite simple meaning it shouldn't be too hard to keep it straight after a lot of drinking on Saturday or to organize at the last minute. Irrefflery is a self describing celebration as its form can best be described as a portmanteau of irreverence, waffles, and revelry. Core to Irrefflery:

Zombie Movies

Many of our friends who celebrate Eostre do so with the conviction that a historical figure of admiration rose from the dead. In an expression of friendship and mutual appreciation we will celebrate with theatrical performances of many people doing the same thing!

Waffles

Waffles are delicious, and what better cause for celebration is there than eating some?

Celebration

Gather your friends and enjoy Irrefflery together so that the joy of this holiday can spread throughout the world!

Enjoy Irrefflery each year! Or don't.

I am trying to do a very simple small amount every morning. It takes me all of two minutes to do a feeble number of crunches and pushups, not enough to break a sweat, but enough that the muscles are starting to feel tight.

I'd like to get back in the habit of doing more exercise regularly, but every time I try, I push beyond what I can recover from in a reasonable time span and end up not doing it at all, so maybe starting off with something pitiful and slowly building from there can let me get back into the swing of things.

I'm a little disappointed with myself for having gotten to this stage, but at least maybe this will work and I can do something about it.

Looking at this past article is a good start as most of the problems to be solved are similar or the same.

It would appear that the newest version of Typo is smarter than me. That's frustrating.

 

How do we play with page breaks, anyways?

Huzzah. PDF coming up again soon. I'll likely be making a new post about getting cerberus working with git at work. Maybe an iPhone app for posting to Typo will be forthcoming as well.

Looks like Hillary's finally self-immolated

I may now be christened "the joy of sex" as a playa name, if it sticks.

Now not only do I not know why women plaster their eyes in makeup, I also do not know how.

I like working gate with cute cuddly New Hampshirites

I may share photos of the general debauchery and nonsense that this latest PDF entailed as they become available to me. :)

Joanna really gets on my nerves

I got a guitar for Christmas. Yay! One of the first things I did was start to teach myself Tool songs. I decided to play the intro to Lateralus until I could get a recording of it I was not embarassed of. It's not perfect, but I don't make any major botches so I think it's a good start for only having the damn thing for a little over a week.

Or how I learned to stop worrying and love SVN, Cerberus, and RCov

I recently was given carte blanche to enact some authoritarian controls on our source code at work, and ran with it. My general feeling is not to limit what people can do with our repository, just to audit that they have done it, and when it is problematic, make their work widely known rapidly. Thus, my intent was not to lockout checkins which would cause rake to fail, just to report on the checkins when they happened.

We had at a prior point in time incorporate the Cerberus system with a cron job on our source control server, every 10 minutes it would checkout the revision and then bitch about whoever had the last checkin if the build was broken to a mailing list all developers were signed up to. This was okay except:

• If two people comitted in that 10 minute period, the last got the blame.
• If you made huge structural changes to the project, it would cause the build to fail.

So our cerberus system got switched off and we quickly stopped having a reliable rake build. People broke things and didn't know they broke them, and we were slowly marching down the path of madness.

I decided that I wanted us to have a different system, one that:

1. Would run the build process on every checkin.

2. Could cope with large structural changes to the source tree.
3. Would not violate our prior decision not to have config files checked into the source tree.
4. Would generate code coverage reports.

It was more work than I anticipated!