Ntro’s Official Opinion

It’s come to my attention that my previous post sounded pretty gay. So gay, in fact, that it earned me a “NTRO IS A HUEG FAG DAY!!!!”

Looking back, yeah, it does sound pretty gay. Sorry about that. I’ll leave it there for posterity, but here’s the replacement post:

Wiiiii!

Oh. My. God. You guys. The Wii is totally rocking my socks right off my freshly pedicured feet! You guys should totally get one, then we can, like, play with our Wiis together! For a good Wii time, call 6443 0655 7410 2061!!!

Let’s be friends!
Buh-bye!

Oops.

Oh well. Anyway, it really is pretty rad, and I just wanted to document my Wii Number here somewhere, so bug off.

You might notice an extraordinarily large Daily Dump on the previous post. I changed servers, and I forgot to put the daily-dump.sh in the ol’ crontab. Oh well, there’s some neat stuff in there anyway.

By the way, this new server is sweet. I got it through M5 Hosting whom I can now highly recommend as a ~$100/mo dedicated Debian Linux hosting service. I’ll post later on how I’ve actually got it set up (Hint: it involves plenty of this), but suffice to say I dig it both in terms of being blazing fast and responsive, and in the security and stability that this configuration provides.

I think I’m going to start blogging more regularly, too. I actually do have more thoughts in my head than just those represented on this site! I might switch URLs, though. Ntro’s Official Opinion is cute, but I think I’d rather be a little more personal. Something like meta.lteague.com or something, I dunno. How Web 2.0 of me! A friend had some pretty good UI ideas for dealing with the linkroll element of the site, maybe I’ll try and incorporate those into the next version. . .

I’ve got to figure something out, guys.

This article is one of the most depressing things I have read in a while. I recommend you take a look, but for those of you who are far too busy, the basic gist is that regular full-time jobs are for people who are not smart enough to make money any other way, and that any reasonably intelligent person should never have one. Instead, we should aspire to decouple our income from the amount of effort we exert obtaining that income.

Well, I consider myself reasonably intelligent, so I’ve decided that I’m not going to take it anymore. Don’t get me wrong, my current employer doesn’t mistreat me, but the fact remains that I am employed by someone, and I don’t think that’s what I’m meant to do.

Now I just need to figure out what it’s going to take to make this transition happen. I have a hundred ideas, and for each idea there are a hundred reasons why it won’t work. I guess I need to stop being so negative and just start doing something.

I’m in Las Vegas this week for this thing, and just procured internet access, so hopefully I’ll be updating throughout the week.

This trip isn’t strictly business; I’ll probably be checking out the Star Trek Experience at the Hilton, and hopefully figure out how to play some Texas Hold’em for less than $40 a hand.

Here is an interesting take on what it takes to be a good programmer. We’ve all known that good programmers are lazy for quite some time, but dumb?

From now on, I guess that’s one more insult in which I can take pride. Though, I suppose both of those terms can be applied positively or negatively in the world of programming. If I ever use either when describing someone or something, make sure you get me to clarify.

By the way, Google Deskbar and Google Talk rock my face.

This weekend we visited a friend’s neighborhood for their Independence Day celebration. We stayed inside and played poker for a little while, and then decided to walk around and see what the carnival thing was all about. It was mostly kid-centered, with a rock wall, sno-cones, funnel cakes, water slides, jump castles, and the like. We were heading back to the house to finish up our poker game, but something stopped us dead in our tracks.

Imagine a huge jump castle shaped like a caterpillar, filled with air, with a hole on either end. Kids climb in the front hole and crawl all the way through to the rear hole. Fun, huh?

Well, the thing is. . . the holes. They’re a little. . . disturbing. I’m not sure how Google Images’ “SafeSearch” works, but you may have to disable it to get the full effect of The Kiddie Pillar.

There he was, huge smile on his face, children crawling into his (her?) big, uh, opening. On one occasion, the mother of one of the children walked around to the other side, pryed open the rear hole, and stuck her head in. Since Kiddie Pillar is pressurized, this released a gust of air, and, well, hilarity ensued.

I’m sure it was clear to anyone passing by what we were giggling about. A group of about 8 of us stood speechless for several minutes before one of us said, “Does that look like a . . .” “Yes, yes it does. Let’s go.”

this.

Well, I guess I’m a blogger now.