brad's life

brad @ 2005-09-22T17:31:00

2005-09-23T00:31:24Z

Doot. This is a bold tag.

brad @ 2005-09-13T19:10:00

2005-09-14T02:10:30Z

sdfsdfsdfsdf

Word [insidepre]

2005-09-14T00:54:50Z

This is a post.

This is line 3.

brad @ 2005-09-13T10:36:00

2005-09-13T17:36:23Z

doot, doot.sdfsdfsdf

brad @ 2005-09-13T10:35:00

2005-09-13T17:35:29Z

doot, doot.

Phone Post

2005-08-10T04:42:00Z

Phone Post: sdfsdf

2005-08-10T00:50:34Z

brad @ 2005-07-12T11:29:00

2005-07-12T18:30:48Z

Hack:

End hack.

brad @ 2005-06-28T10:53:00

2005-06-28T17:53:13Z

test post

normal | flat

brad @ 2005-04-31T15:46:00

2005-04-14T22:46:08Z

Doot

brad @ 2005-04-31T08:49:00

2005-04-14T15:49:23Z

Doot.

test

2005-01-11T19:38:02Z

http://www.livejournal.com/users/brad/2085774.html

test

Flat tire

2005-01-11T19:38:02Z

http://www.livejournal.com/users/brad/2085377.html

Last night I was driving through a crappy parking lot and hit the biggest goddamn pothole I've ever seen. I'd known it was a crappy parking lot so I was already driving incredibly slowly, but the pothole was big enough to jolt my car like crazy and kill my front-right tire.

So once I realized the car was pulling to the right I pulled over around a corner off the main road (which I'd just turned onto out of the parking lot) and pulled right behind a Korean family also changing their tire.

They'd hit the same pothole.

Meanwhile, two random brothers (23 and 20) who were eating at the restaurant across the street were helping the Korean couple change their tire, which they were able to do once I turned on my headlights for them. (it was like 34 degrees, dark, and raining). It turns out the 20 year-old brother spoke Korean (and Spanish, and Japanese), so he was helping them.

After he helped them, he came back to try and help Dina and I, but my wheels are bizarre, and I didn't have a flashlight. Roadside assistance came about the same time the brothers started helping us, so we stepped back and talked, and we invited them to the party that we were on the way to. (luckily my car has a full-sized spare)

So then it turns out the 20 year-old-brother also swing dances, so he was dancing with a bunch of the girls at Tab's place, and ended up snuggling all night on the couch with one of them, and then going home with her.

Yeah, random night.

best idea ever

2005-01-11T19:38:02Z

http://www.livejournal.com/users/brad/2085148.html

When a Windows user takes a screenshot, Windows should send a message to all visible applications saying "WM_REPAINT_YO" but with the ClearType(TM) crap turned off.... then screenshot and immediately tell them all to repaint again with their ClearType (sub-pixel anti-aliasing) back on.

That way when I look at pages on the web with screenshots of people's windows desktops I don't get a headache trying to read the fuzzy red/green/blue text because their LCD monitor had a different pixel layout.

Grrrr.

I just get a headache trying to read this text.

Screenshot of the new Six Apart Livejournal beta homepage

2005-01-11T19:38:02Z

http://www.livejournal.com/users/brad/2084889.html

How did weswilson find out already!?!?

http://www.livejournal.com/users/weswilson/276803.html

OMG, we're gonna have to work on keeping our beta site more protected!

We (aka mahlon) did brand that damn goat though:

And they're not bullets, everybody, that's their logo.

another good post

2005-01-11T19:38:02Z

http://www.livejournal.com/users/brad/2084667.html

Another good post like evan's, this one from dina:

http://www.livejournal.com/users/dina/56777.html

I really don't want people to think I have evil motives.

evan's thoughts on me "selling out"

2005-01-11T19:38:01Z

http://www.livejournal.com/users/brad/2084480.html

Good post from evan:

http://www.livejournal.com/users/evan/769381.html

And let me add: there were many factors in choosing a successor:

1) fun at work
2) good for community
3) cash

And that's how I ordered it. The first two are pretty correlated.

San Francisco

2005-01-11T19:38:01Z

http://www.livejournal.com/users/brad/2084244.html

So now dina and I have to figure out where we're going to live in San Francisco.

I guess jwz lives like next door to the Six Apart office. I warned him that if we end up there, it's not me fanboying.

Six Apart office is in SOMA.

So, dish out the advice?

Porsche Clarification (there is none)

2005-01-11T19:38:01Z

http://www.livejournal.com/users/brad/2084081.html

Stopping a rumor before it starts....

In 2001 I was testing something in our support system and I posted a fake support request:

http://www.livejournal.com/support/see_request.bml?id=12470

If I sold livejournal.com on Ebay, could I buy a Porsche?

Did I spell Porsche correctly?

Would I have to give Ebay money? How's that work? I've never used Ebay.

I need a backrub.

I need to sleep.

For clarification: I am NOT going to buy a Porsche, nor did I already, etc, etc.

I did, however, buy a car like 3.5 months ago but it was not a Porsche, and it wasn't relying on or anticipating any acquisition money. In fact, the deal wasn't even close to done back then.

Cool? Cool.

selling livejournal

2005-01-11T19:38:01Z

http://www.livejournal.com/users/brad/2083741.html

I sold that LiveJournal thing:

http://www.livejournal.com/users/news/82926.html

Six Apart rules. This is so gonna rock.

Tell me I'm a sell-out and prepare to die. Go read the link above first, at least.

thai restaurant

2005-01-11T19:38:01Z

http://www.livejournal.com/users/brad/2083483.html

I was at a Thai restaurant the other day and I ordered some spring rolls along with my entree. Because there was no lunch combo that included those two items, the waitress tried to clarify that I'd be charged separately....

She showed me her notepad where she'd written my order and pointed at one line and said, "Your phad thai", moves to the next line, "doesn't come with spring rolls...."

Except the lines she'd pointed out to me were written in Thai.

heh. :-)

vmware-alike for OS X?

2005-01-11T19:38:01Z

http://www.livejournal.com/users/brad/2083320.html

Is there something like vmware for OS X?

Like, would it be possible for me to run OS X with a Debian virtual machine inside it?

Is there a Linux syscall emulation library? Perhaps a user-mode-linux binary would be able to run under OS X?

Clarification: PPC Debian inside PPC OS X... not x86 Debian.

iscsi, gigE

2005-01-11T19:38:01Z

http://www.livejournal.com/users/brad/2083053.html

A group of people forked the Ardis iSCSI target and made "The iSCSI Enterprise Target", which fixes a lot of bugs and works with Linux 2.6.

iSCSI initiator stuff is starting to appear in the 2.6.10-bk kernels, as pointed out by mulix.

I upgraded my home network to gigabit today. Man, what a pain ... ended up rearranging a lot of gear so I could get by with only one gigabit switch. My DSL connection comes into the bedroom now, oddly, but that's connected to the garage (the one gigabit switch), so it means I don't need a gigabit switch in my office anymore, etc, etc.... bleh.

netperf TCP_STREAM increased from 94 Mbps to 512 Mbps. Transactions/second (latency test) went down, though. I recall the e1000 driver having an interrupt coallescing option, though, so I'll play later.

The whole point of this is to try and get iSCSI-on-root working quickly on my diskless workstation, to eliminate a lot of NFS roundtrips and let my desktop cache more. Oh, and it's kinda work related, so anything I learn iSCSI-related is useful.

Hate Google Groups Beta

2005-01-11T19:38:01Z

http://www.livejournal.com/users/brad/2082666.html

Some reasons I hate the new Google Groups:

-- Search for, say, "perl6". The "Related Groups" at top sometimes shows up, sometimes not. And the results aren't even always the same as you sit there and reload.

-- The Fruity UI. The old one seemed more dense and easier to use.

-- Where's my damn thread pane? That was the best part of the old UI. If it's still available, it's too hard to find.

The Godfather

2005-01-11T19:38:01Z

http://www.livejournal.com/users/brad/2082459.html

I just typed "The Goatfather" instead of The Godfather for my subject. Okay, that's it ... from now on you call me The Goatfather.

ANYWAY....

dina and I spent the day lounging around being bums, ordering breakfast to-go (Sammy's Scramble, whitaker!), going in the hot tub, and watching The Godfather, parts I and II. (about 6 hours altogether...)

Good day.