Tag Archives: quickie

nice marmot

While this would have been bet­ter posted to bash, I present a snip­pet from Triple-Em him­self regard­ing an inad­e­quacy in the stan­dard I/O libraries avail­able to him: 1:37:20 PM Matthew Miller: Think I'm going to write an RFC with the sug­ges­tion that we extend the stan­dard 4 option I/O error han­dling direc­tives -- Abort, Retry, Fail, Ignore -- to …

June 18, 2009 – 5:57 pm | By Ryan | Posted in friends, technical | Tagged , , | Comments Off

A word about ska bands

In the last month I've been to two ska-punk shows with all-or-almost-all-cracker ska bands open­ing up, and one thing is abun­dantly clear to me: There is a rea­son peo­ple say that white folks have no soul. I've real­ized that gen­er­ally these cracker bands play ska too fast, too clean, and too mechan­i­cally. They're almost always lack­ing any sort …

January 2, 2009 – 1:31 am | By Ryan | Posted in music, shit stirring | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments Off

Yule time soundtrack

My favorite thing about Christ­mas is that it's per­fectly (un)acceptable to crank The Van­dals record "Oi to The World" all day at work. When you want to mix it up a lit­tle, the No Doubt cover of "Oi to The World" will also suf­fice for a quick interlude.

December 23, 2008 – 2:23 pm | By Ryan | Posted in music, work | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off

The Big Bang Theory…

is like a black­face min­strel show to me.

May 1, 2008 – 10:57 pm | By Ryan | Posted in general | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off