10/8    So I just added it all up and I realized that I have spent
        $1800 on cam whores in the last year. Does this make me pathetic?

10/5    May a root type check irssi please? it keeps segfaulting after any
        command.

9/29    Donald Duck, the super master race. Heil!
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljzBGdT5z5M&bpctr=1348906143

9/25    MyShit gets a new faceover! Yay!
        http://www.mclanecreative.com/the-new-myspace-and-why-no-one-cares
        http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/24/the-mere-existence-of-a-new-myspace-makes-me-want-to-hurl-just-let-it-go

9/20    "Joe Blah and 12 others viewed your profile" <--- wtf!!! I don't
        want other people to know that I've viewed their page! How
        do I turn this off?
        \_ man linkedin?
        \_ stop stalking people

9/12    Can someone explain to me what the big deal is with
        Gangnam Style?
        \_ What, you've never heard of Youtube and viral sensations? Then
           again, that sounds pretty nasty.
           \_ I wasted 3 minutes watching this shit MTV. Why is it such
              a sensation? Kids these days, I don't get it.
              \_ It's about a minute too long, but apart from that, it's
                 a damn near perfect distillation of viral marketing:
                 chubby asian protagonist, ridiculous moves embraced
                 by the cool crowd, and a catchy tune. Almost as hard
                 to get out of your head as that blowjob whistle song.
                 \_ Which song is that?
                    \_ Whistle by Flo-Rida

8/29    There it is, engineering students are depressed:
        http://hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu/~eunjian/Faculty%20Retreat%202012/Survey%20Graphs.pdf
        <DEAD>hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu/~eunjian/Faculty%20Retreat%202012<DEAD>

8/24    Woman relieved to discover that she was not in fact raped:
        http://www.theonion.com/articles/pregnant-woman-relieved-to-learn-her-rape-was-ille,29258

8/20    If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must
        be the process of putting them in.  -Edsger Dijkstra

8/13    FB is a bargain, buy buy buy!

8/2     My stock admin just notified me that they found out that they
        accidentally deposited more shares than I was not entitled
        for, however I've already exercised them. What can they do
        legally, can they force me to pay them back?
        \_ I am sure that they can make you pay them back.

8/1     Mac's MagSafe2 seems unnecessary. It's the exact same connections
        just bigger. UNNECESSARY.
        \_ It's wider but thinner, to fit the new MacBooks.

7/21    What do you guys think about that goth looking girl in
        Oddities San Francisco?
        \_ I think someone misses House of Usher a bit too much:
           http://www.wednesdaymourning.com/main/index.html
           \_ Oddly, more info here:
              http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Wednesday_Mourning
        \_ I'd bang her. How about you?
           \_ The one at the center?
              http://pcm-tv.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/oddities-san-francisco1.jpg
              \_ oh man she's so hot like christine, I'd bang her.

7/11    What exactly does the phrase "all but XYZ" mean?  Does it mean "only
        XYZ" or "all except XYZ" or something else?  Thx.
        \_ Mostly likely the second.

7/5     Just like my first time:
        http://tinyurl.com/7otmyud (SFW)

7/2     http://www.robertsinclair.net/comic/asshole.html
        It works for everything.

6/20    Is it just me? I think septic tank systems are disgusting,
        problematic (cleaning, limitations on what you can drain,
        ongoing maintenance, yadda yadda yadda), and most likely
        not even environmentally safe given that people dump
        chemicals into the ground? So is it just me or it seems
        like septic tank systems are disgusting and used only by
        countryside hicks?
        \_ Cities have sewers; if you don't live in a city, you make do.
           What were you expecting?
           \_ I expect that cities are better than country side.
        \_ I agree, which is why I just take a dump in the stream
           behind my house in the woods.
           \_ The likelihood that (you take dump in the woods and/or dump
              in your septic task) AND that you're a Republican: HIGH

6/16    In web browsers, what's the difference between add-ons, plugins, and
        extensions?  Thx.

6/8     "'You're not special' graduation speech sparks buzz"
        http://www.csua.org/u/wpi (news.yahoo.com)
        A wake-up call to kids (and adults) who are busy feeling special, and
        parents who are busy making their kids feel that way.  I thought only
        boot camp drill sergeants would deliver such reality checks.

6/6     RIP Ray Bradbury:
        http://preview.tinyurl.com/boqysz2 [ars technica]
        \_ YES!!

6/5     I have found the holy Zettabyte!
        -bash-3.2$ df -h
        /dev/cciss/c0d1        64Z   64Z  439G 100% /home/ausman/test_ssd

5/31    I've seen people with e-mail addresses ending with "@dubious.com".  Is
        there really such an e-mail host?  Or is it some kind of anti-spam
        thing?

5/27    How to ensure better post-grad job placement for arts majors:
        http://www.arcamax.com/thefunnies/rhymeswithorange/s-1148726

5/25    Is Greg Allman a pervert too?
        http://www.eonline.com/news/gregg_allman_engaged_woman_40_years_his
        \_ Hot body!
           http://www.spyonvegas.com/contests/sexiest-server/shannon-williams
        \_ Not a pervert. She's 24. Probably not 100% okay in the head, though.
           I cannot stand 24 year olds (except to look at) and I am 39.
           \_ I think the question is now whether he can stand 24-year-olds.  I
           \_ I think the question is not whether he can stand 24-year-olds.  I
              think the question is whether his thing can stand up in front of
              24-year-olds.
           \_ Let me guess. You are fat ugly and poor (or a bad dresser) and
              can't figure out why the girl at the coffee counter doesn't flirt
              with you anymore.

5/22    Anyone attending the Commencement 2012 at the U. of Texas Lyndon B.
        Johnson School of Pubic Affairs?
        http://www.csua.org/u/wic (news.yahoo.com)
        \_ Looks like they were a hair short.

5/21    When I do "sudo su - <other_user>", why don't I call their
        .profile/.environment/.* files?
        \_ I think you need the -i option to have these files processed

5/15    "Jim Ausman is now connected to Scott Thompson (Internet Executive)
        from Your LinkedIn Network Updates" <--- most hilarious update

5/12    Fresh Air 2: 2 Fresh 2 Furious:
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTVFNZKuN-g

5/3     What's the best way to take a medical leave of absence? Do they actually
        need a doctor's note, or is it usually on a trust basis?
        \_ I've never needed a doctor's note.  I have heard of people being
           asked for one after they return from a long leave, though, so you
           might want to make sure your doctor at least has a record of how
           long you've been sick in case it comes up.
        \_ Obviously it depends on the company.  My previous company had
           unlimited sick leave, and no doctor's note was needed.  Yet I didn't
           know of anyone who "became sick" frequently.
           \_ READING COMPREHENSION. sick leave != leave of absence
              \_ Oh, so "medical leave of absence" == "leave of absence" ?

5/3     Kate Upton's video to brighten your day:
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=34hWlRJHCqs

5/3     Does anyone know what happened to the cypherpunks mailing list archive
        that used to be on soda?
        \_ If you have to ask, you don't know.

4/18    They are back together again!
        http://www.csua.org/u/w3w
        Gee, this pedophile is good.
        \_ My hero!

4/03    Trolling to soon be illegal:
        http://gizmodo.com/5898585/itll-soon-be-illegal-to-troll-in-arizona

3/15    Nick Weaver. nweaver. Talks a lot. Opinionated. Has good points.
        nweaver would make a much better politician than a
        computer scientist. What do you guys think?
        \_ College professor. They talk a lot.

3/15    Dental implant should cost thousands, but I'm hearing radio ads
        for only $875. What's the catch? Is this a scam?
        \_ Google for "mini" implants

3/14    Happy Pi Day!

3/11    What kind of people name their children "Dick"? For example, what
        kind of name is Dick Van Dyke? What kind of sick perverted people
        name their children "Lesbian dike with a dick"?
        \_ Wow! Drunk-post much?
           \_ I'm the drunk guy. Wow, yeah, it looks funny now that I'm
              sober. I do feel sorry for Dick Van Dyke though, can you
              imagine kids making fun of him when he was growing up?
              http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Van_Dyke

3/7     To WAF or not to WAF, that is the question.  Must have?
        Waste of money??  What do you think?? (Web Application Firewall)

3/7     To WAF or not to WAF, that is the question.  Must have?
        Waste of money??  What do you think??

3/1     Anse Source d'Argent
        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Source_d%27argent_3.JPG
        \_ Are you a female walrus?
           \_ A bikini-clad woman sunbathing next to the world's largest
              ribbed d****.  --- OP

2/29    Tech is hot hot hot!
        http://preview.tinyurl.com/7c5c5g9
        \_ Agreed.  Interviewing candidiates for even one position is a hugh
           time drain.

2/29    Tech is hot hot hot!
        http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/video/6739238-bay-area-tech-firms-desperately-seeking-workers
        \_ Agreed.  Interviewing candidiates for even one position is a hugh
           time drain.

2/23    19M Americans get STDs/year. How many years will it take before
        all the Americans get STDs?
        http://holykaw.alltop.com/the-ultimate-guide-to-safer-sex-infographic
        \_ Forever because there will always be lifelong virgins.
        \_ Slutting around pre-marriage is a new thing. So, this.
           \_ New as in since the 20's, right?
        \_ My niece won't get it since I don't have it.
        \_ Well, all it takes is one forever virgin for your condition
           to be true, so the answer is more of a probabalistic near infinity.

2/14    I'm really sorry about this, but I can't take any requests right now
        \_ ???
           \_ Shit Siri says.

2/12    Add yourselves to the alumni list so they don't have to worry about
        spamming announce with stuff for undergrads: http://csua.org/u/vgy
        --toulouse
        \_ I added myself to "announce" but it is not clear from the
           welcome message if this is the correct one. -ausman

2/8     Hey dwallach is running for the Usenix Board. If you are a memeber,
        you should vote for him, he is a good guy and former CSUA'er.

1/24    Hey danh, have you ever seen this movie?
        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_Royale_(film

1/18    Hmm, Snooki looks much better without makeup.  She actually looks okay.
        http://www.csua.org/u/v8v (tv.yahoo.com)
        \_ Yeah, I'd do her.

1/18    History Channel is pretty responsive to current events:
        RedTails movie -> History of Tuskegee Airmen
        sinking of Concordia -> History of Titanic
        What else?

1/2     Is Boxer for or against PIPA/SOPA? I know that piece of shit
        Feinstein is, but not so sure about Boxer.
        \_ They are both sponsors.
            \_ I'm Shocked.  Shocked!

12/18   It sound better when you don't do the math:
        http://www.dilbert.com/strips/comic/2011-12-19
        \_ Google sucks and chialea has gone to the dark side.
           Money talks.

12/15   “Violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and
         bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry,
         contemptuous of women and coercive toward children: organized
         religion ought to have a great deal on its conscience.”
         -Christopher Hitchens 1949-2011

12/15   Happy Bill of Rights Day:
        http://www.billofrightsday.com

12/9    Anyone using DNSCrypt from OpenDNS?  Is it worthwhile trying?
        http://www.opendns.com/technology/dnscrypt

11/30   Fahrenheit 451 now available as a eBook:
        http://preview.tinyurl.com/7ux6dk4 [cbc]
        \_ eReader on fire?

11/21   Raleigh's and Intermezzo were destroyed in a fire yesterday?

11/18   OPERA gets closer to validating their FTL neutrino finding:
        http://preview.tinyurl.com/6svj7u7 [NewScientist]

11/17   A 40-page resume:
        http://light.eecs.berkeley.edu/cch/cchresume102208.pdf
        \_ That's a CV, not a resume. But pretty impressive.

11/17   RIP JD Falk:
        http://www.maawg.org/page/memorial-jd-falk

11/16   Any chance alum not living in Berkeley could have one of the
        new t-shirts mailed to them to if they paid for postage?
        \_ Where do you see the new shirts?

11/14   I discovered Atlantis!
        http://tinyurl.com/6sw68oo
        \_ Wow!  It can't be real.  Is that an easter egg?
           \_ Sort of. It has already been debunked as an artifact of the
              ship scanning the ocean moving along a grid pattern.
              \_ Sure is has been "debunked." I bet you believe that the
                 Moon landings are real and that Obama was really born
                 in Hawaii. Don't even get me started on 9/11...

11/11   "Model uses large breasts as court defence to prove she didn't break
        into house through hole"
        http://www.csua.org/u/ups (http://www.dailymail.co.uk

11/7    A web searchable list of compromised email address (you can search the
        list using a SHA512 hash of your email address as well):
        http://pwnedlist.com

11/7    Was the violence at OWS in Oakland due to police provacateurs?
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrvMzqopHH0

11/7    Two MMA guys subdued an armed robber, and managed themselves to talk
        him out instead of knock him out.
        http://www.csua.org/u/uo7

10/31   Happy Halloween? Bored at work? Try to solve this test:
        http://www.drunkmenworkhere.org/170

10/12   Just found out someone ported cowsay to the irc bot at yahoo!
        CSUA'ers have spread far and wide. -ausman
        \_ Sharing the TeleBEARS experience with the world... I guess it's
           been around since the days of cowsay -undergrad
           \_ the telebears you know isn't even close to as broken as it
              used to be -a not even very crusty alum

10/11   Jump you F**kers!
        link:preview.tinyurl.com/3fr95yr

10/7    "75 year-old woman disconnects 90% of Armenia's internet by accident"
        http://www.tecca.com/news/2011/04/06/georgian-woman-armenia-internet
        \_ Hmm, April 6th.

9/27    Hina Rabbani Khar, hottest foreign minister?
        \_ Sure! And she lies so very, very convincingly.

9/27    Charlie Brown fired for having "improper relationship".
        http://www.csua.org/u/uc6 (news.yahoo.com)
        \_ Did he finally get his courage up to make a pass at the
           Little Red-Haired Girl? Or was it Lucy that gave him up?

9/21    I've been away procreating. Looks like wall is no more. Where have
        all of the old-timers gone to chat/argue/share? How are we all
        communicating these days. Sorry for the ignorant questions.
        :( -- joeking
        \_ A few are here, a few are there, there are some IRC channels that
           I know of, probably some are still using icb. Many are on Facebook.
           Congrats, how old are your kids? I have a two and five y.o. -ausman
        \_ Uh, ever heard of Facebook? Google+  -kchang

9/22    Damn, the economy is really starting to take its toll:
        http://www.funnyordie.com/pictures/562a54c356/proof-the-recession-is-taking-its-toll

9/20    10:32:38 up 7 days, 10:35,  8 users,  load average: 0.05, 0.03, 0.00
        So far so good?  --jordan
        \_ kick ass, thanks!

8/24    More crazyness from the faithful:
        http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2010/03/3-guilty-of-muder-for-starving-infant-who-didnt-say-amen/1

8/15    I'm looking for something that periodically loads new emails from
        Outlook protocol and pushes to another IMAP server. Is there such
        a tool out there?

8/7     And the voice cries out in the wilderness: where has www.csua gone?

8/7     kchang, is this you:
        http://fukung.net/v/41437/4daefe515fb71319eb00d330718cab11.jpg
        \_ racist! most, but not all Asians think like this.
           \_ But is it kchang@soda?
        \_ Banners NSFW!
           \_ DWYW!!

8/2     <crickets>
        *sigh*
        \_ quiet and senerity are better than the alternative.  Maybe you
        \_ quiet and senerity[sic] are better than the alternative.  Maybe you
           should go back to your 4chan buddies?
           \_ you are presenting a false dichotomy between quiet and whatever
              you think 4chan is. chaotic? debased? I dunno. There are many
              alternatives to quiet not just one alternative. Quiet in this
              case is boring. the motd used to be interesting.
              \_ Well, jazz is up a bit then!
              \_ Well, jazz it up a bit then!
                 \_ if you're seriously using the phrase "jazz it up" then we've
                    already lost ...

8/2     ilyas, tell us about the stars!
        <crickets>
        *sigh*

8/02/11 Happy WIFI DAY
        \_ What was this about?
           \_ uhmm ... read the date

7/15    "It's tough at the top for alpha males: study"
        http://news.yahoo.com/tough-top-alpha-males-study-180638817.html
        Summary: it's not worth to be successful.
        \- Hello, why dont you look at a study of actual HUMANS instead
           of BABOONS, i.e. THE WHITEHALL STUDY. Unless you are a BABOON.
           On an animal note, you may wish to read WHY ZEBRAS DONT GET ULCERS,
           by R. SAPOLSKY, 'Fraud University, Dept Biology.

6/30    If you want to be invited to Google+, just let me know. -ausman

6/17    Thanks for bringing soda back, whoever did it. -ausman
        \_ looks like your various generous donation over the last decade
           or so, only lasts a few semesters at a time, historically speaking.

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5/31    The funeral for Euphrasia "ikiru@soda" Curvilinearjky will be held
        this Friday, June 3, at the San Francisco Columbarium at 2 pm. For more
        details, visit http://www.euphrasia.org -eric
        \_ http://www.euphrasia.org/eulogy.html  <-- never knew her,
           but this makes me very very sad
           \_ A beautiful eulogy, eric.

5/24    Why does Soda sometimes forward my email and sometimes leave it in
        /var/mail/foo/new?
        \_ Probably happens when NFS starts shitting bricks and can't find your
           .forward

5/21    http://www.theonion.com/articles/budget-mixup-provides-nations-schools-with-enough,20350
        I think the URL explains it well enough.

5/21    It's the end of the world as we know it...

5/18    Cool I'm a "nobody" and "nogroup" !!!
        \_ me too!
        \_ Should be fixed now.  (The NFS server lost its connection to LDAP
           and therefore its [tenuous] grip on reality.)  Sorry for the
           inconvenience.  --jordan
           \_ "We apologize for the inconvenience." - God's final words
              \_ Right in time for the Rapture.

5/10    ausman, other yahooligans - thoughts on Yahoo as a company? Curious.
        \_ Email me. -ausman@well.com

5/2     Petraeus replaces Panetta as CIA head.  Hrm....
        \_ Removal of Petraeus == US pulling out of afghanistan, adjust your
           stock and currency and commodities accordingly.

4/20    I ate dinner with bh & oj! link:TinyURL.com/bh-kchang-oj
        My life is now complete.                                -kchang
        \_ "I wish I was like you, ... ..." -kcobain

4/20    May be of interest:
        Serge Lang lecture on Primes, 4/28/2011 4pm, MSRI:
         http://math.berkeley.edu/events_series_lang.html
        Heh: "The speaker will be happy to try to answer any questions
        that members of the audience might have about primes."

4/19    Anyone use evercookie?  Looks like a neat way to keep one time
        web sessions one time only.

4/17    Anyone felt the quake?
        \_ Felt it in SF. Shook us on the  16th floor.
           \_ I felt it in San Mateo on the ground floor of my building.
              First it was a very loud "bang" while the ground didn't shake
              at all.  I thought either someone dropped a truck-size metal
              garbage container or the elevator in the build crashed to the
              ground.  Then a second or two later the ground shook once, just
              once.  Then it's over.  -- OP
                     \_ Sounds like the obama presidency.

4/14    did some network architecture for soda change?

4/9     How do you say "Please cover your mouth when you cough." in Mandarin?
        Thanks.
        \_ Untranslatable. Similarly impossible phrases include:
           "No spitting."
           "Do not cut in line."
           "Ching chong ling long ting tong." (I don't actually know what that
            means.)
            \_ Wow. this makes me all sorts of sadpanda.
               \_ http://bit.ly/fqGcqK
           \_ Would finding out how it's _written_ in kanji work?  At least
              then you could write it out.  I'm pretty sure those phrases
              exist in japanese.
           \_ (To another standing bus passenger) "Don't rub your penis on my
              buttock."

4/6     Saw someone sshing FROM soda to somewhere else... Are we safe now?

4/3     How does HipHop scrub input for XSS/XSRF checking?

4/1     April is the cruelest month [it had to be said]

3/31    "Celeb Pix: Christina Hendricks vs. Kim Kardashian, who's sexier?"
        http://www.insidebayarea.com/argus/localnews/ci_17743141
        IMO, Hendricks.  Genuine parts is better than after-markets.
        \_ Why do the Cardassians have the ghetto booty?  She's got a fat ass.

3/31    ok just want to clarify, maybe my  enlish not so good.  "Meta"
        of something is like this right? given x, where x is a fn, meta of
        x is x(x). yes?
        \_ Yes, but it has other meanings too.  See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta

3/20    yo, toulouse, 1. I'm not married. and 2. talk to me on email
        i think you're confused --prole

3/20    It's kinda silly how people don't think to send email these days.
        I mean srsly, i check mine before i even think about fbook/im/all
        that other bullshit.

3/30    Yo prole does your wife still work for dentsu usa? --toulouse

3/18    ...And another reboot.

3/18    How wide is the stack?

3/17    Does anyone know how to contact mogul? His .forward ain't working.
        --toulouse
        \_ thanks guys --toulouse

2/24    Has to be the lamest name for an op, google for "Night Dragon"

2/23    http://www.csua.org/u/sm9  Welcome to UUS Berkeley.

2/14    When I run "mail" in my shell (/usr/bin/mail), it says:
                mail: /var/mail/yuen: Is a directory
        How do I get "mail" to work again?  Thanks.
        \_ We use Maildir rather than mbox. Mutt handles this particularly well.
           Alternatively, you could log in with IMAPS using alpine. Maintaining
           our mail system, unfortunately, has been an enormous pain which
           virtually no current members use. We recommend using mail forwarding.
           While there is something to be said for the experience our sysadmins
           gain from running mail systems, the fact is that this skill is less
           relevant with time and we have other time priorities (those of us
           who actually keep things running, that is). Sorry. :( --toulouse
        \_ Hi Yuen -exEFIer
           \_ Unlimited Supply!
              \_ That's eMi you dolt.
                 \_ Is there really a difference?

2/6     Just a question but, why does Soda's clock skew?  I mean; it's a vm..

2/6     Really recommend Bruce Bethke's "Headcrash" to all engr types.
        \_ Same for "Daemon" by Daniel Suarez. Audiobook is great.

2/4     I hit caps lock and then ls by mistake. Soda, you still amuse me. -aus
        \_ what the hell is /usr/bin/sl
           \_ apt-cache show sl
        \_ ;) knew someone would appreciate it. --toulouse

1/26    Dude, Piaw, you really need to update your homepage:
        http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~piaw
        \_ Maybe Piaw has a Facebook page now?
        \_ Maybe Piaw has a twitter now?

1/24    Is it rude when, during a heated technical discussion between me and a
        co-worker, he dismisses my argument by saying "You're just trying to
        be cute".  Does that mean the same thing as "You're arguing just
        because you want to make yourself look smart."?  Thx.
        \_ More like "your argument is too pretty / clever."
           "It's a fine line between clever and stupid."/
           Either way, you should definitely be offended. Definitely.
        \_ It is pretty rude, but you should try to avoid being offended
           by your co-workers if at all possible. Definitely do not lose
           your cool.
        \_ "you have presented a problem in a way that will cause me to rethink
           alot of my self constructed theorems.  My system works for me; and I
           do not have time to adapt/use yours." is what he means.

1/24    I finally saw "The Social Network." (I rarely see movies at the
        theaters, although the new Tron was an exception.) Everyone I knew
        raved about it. I thought it was mediocre and, worse, BORING. I
        almost turned it off. It didn't capture my attention at all. What
        did others think?
        \_ Aaron Sorkin is not for everyone.
           Nor is Zuck... Come to the Guidewire booth at the recruiting session Wed!
        \_ yawn.  I'd rather talk about the lesbian scene in The Black Swan

11/16   Check out the "Who is Kate Middleton?" video clip (the second clip
        down the page):
        http://www.csua.org/u/s0i (news.yahoo.com)
        Who cares about who Kate Middleton is?  I want to know who that hot
        busty blonde walking next to her at the beginning of the clip is!
        \um, why?  How was this possibly worth wasting my time on?  What bit
         held the tiniest bit of interest??  You should post a handle so
         I know to ignore things from you in the future.  I recommend a
         feminine one.

10/27   Homedirectories gone?   -ERic

9/30    "Video: Your daring Division III interception of the week"
        http://www.csua.org/u/rqj (rivals.yahoo.com)
        Forgive my ignorance as a non-football-fan.  What was "this trick"
        there?  Was it referring to the playing throwing the ball back into the
        court when he was about to step on the ground outside the line at 0:11?
        Thx.

9/30    I hate Carly and I have soured on Boxer. I dislike Meg and Brown
        both. Anyone have good info an third party candidates?

9/24    Where can I get the best Mexcan food?
        \_ Mexico City, though Veracruz is probably better for seafod
        \_ Happy LATINO week.

9/20    Anyone else suffer from not being to log in today?
        \_ no. 9/24

9/19    I work at an internet company and we have a bunch of data. I'm
        trying to find correlations with the data we collected and I'm
        wondering if applying Pearson's correlation coefficient to some
        data types is an effective way to approach this (since it's
        relatively easy to implement). Have you guys done something like
        this? I justs want something quick and easy and can be done in a
        day or less (e.g. I don't have time to build a full Bayesian
        classifier).

8/31    Has anyone successfully hooked up a 3G phone to their laption as
        a modem in linux?  (like via minicom) thx.
        \_ search for tethering. It really depends on the phone and provider.

8/26    http://howfuckedismydatabase.com

8/19    Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: Funnest movie this entire year.
        \_ Was this add relevant to you? [yes] [no]
                                               \_ no
        \_ why?

8/17    I have a bunch of cron that I want to run but only want to
        output to stdout if there is any stderr (or if it returns $?)
        so that it'll be in email. Otherwise, I want to output nothing.
        Is there a program that does this already?
        \_ program >tempfile || cat tempfile; rm tempfile

8/12    "Girl Born On 8/9/10 At 11:12"
        http://www.csua.org/u/rcf (news.yahoo.com)
        \_ Behold, she is the Messiah!

8/8     What are your favorite questions to ask companies whenever they
        say "Do you have any questions?"

8/7     Why Google is in favor of "Net Neutrality"
        http://www.digitalsociety.org/2009/11/fcc-nprm-ban-on-paid-peering-harms-new-innovators
        \_ http://www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog47/presentations/Monday/Labovitz_ObserveReport_N47_Mon.pdf

8/4     I'm heading to St. Louis for a couple of days later this month.
        If you have any non-arch-based ideas for stuff to do, pls advise,
        although evenings more likely to be free than daytimes.
        Food recs welcome too, particularly near Washington University.
        BTW, are there any TSEliot-related interesting things at WU?
        ok tnx. --psb
        \_ My mom relocated to Springfield, Missouri but we went to Saint Louis
           to see it while we were out there visiting. Not much to do or
           see. The area near WUSTL is definitely the nicest part of town.
           The Saint Louis Art Museum is pretty good and worth a visit if
           you like art. I never went, but my mom said the Budweiser tour
           was surprisingly good. (And she doesn't even drink beer.)
           was surprisingly good. (And she doesn't even drink beer.) If
           you have a car you might be able to see other things in Missouri
           like the Truman Presidential Library or even Kansas City.
           \- I'm a Wanted man in Kansas City, and a Wanted man in Ohio

8/2     So is soda running on an ESX box? Just curious.
        \_ No.

7/29    O great worshipful roots,
        can you please
        apt-get install libtool binutils-dev ruby1.9-dev libmagic-dev?
        Am doing some fun tinkering on the output of libopcodes-  Thx!
        \_ Paolo, your mac has ruby in it already.
        \_ Not if you request over motd. Try emailing root@csua.
           \_ Ah ok, policy shifted.
           \_ Who's on root these days? -!OP
              \_ Check /etc/motd. Derp derp.

7/29    Anyone been to or heard things about "Walking With Dinosaurs: Live"?
        This seems so geared to 8 year old boys, but an acquaintance in med
        school in NYC actually recommended this to me so I am more
        interested than I might otherwise be. Will this be worth my time
        and money? I do like dinosaurs, but not as much as when I was 8.

7/28    "Zedonk hybrid born at Ga. wildlife preserve"
        http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_odd_newborn_zedonk
        "Wait, honey, I can explain ......"

7/28    I have a few relatives who are always on me to do/go see "this, that
        and the other thing" every time i'm on vacation.  I finally figured
        out this was because they can't ever take vacations, and never have
        the time to do the things on that list themselves, and most likely
        want to live vicariously through me.  Issue being is that I really
        don't want to spend my time off rushing about like a madman(1) and
        just to fulfill someone else's checklist(2).  What's a nice iconic
        statement to tell them to fuck off?  (Preferably short, sweet,
        repeatable, --i plan to get a bumpter sticker with this, or a tshirt).
        \_ "Thanks for the pointer, I'll see if we can fit it in."  -tom
           \_ Thanks, tshirt ordered; going to wear it whenever I see them
              and point to the statement whenever they start off with the
              "At your age, you should..."-list.
        \_ I recommend you "Walk with the Dinosaurs".

7/19    http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/chicago_field_museum_itchy.jpg?w=479&h=613

7/15    HULK SHARD
        http://www.twitter.com/DBAHULK
        \_ The Greeks had Mount Olympus, the Norse had Valhalla, and we have..
           the avengers.  Sigh.

6/25    Does anyone actually have a direct proof as to why the Irrational
        Numbers are countable, (one that doesn't start with "assume they
        are countable.."  Thx.
        \_ No, it's not possible.  "Uncountable" means "can't be put into
           one-to-one correspondence with the natural numbers"; the only way
           to prove an impossibility like that is to assume the opposite and
           derive a contradiction.  Mathematicians who reject the idea of
           proof by contradiction also reject the idea of uncountable sets.
           See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructivism_(mathematics
           \_ Interesting- i are these folk discredited? I ask because there
              are an awful lot of proofs (including the halting problem,
              not the version that is directly from cantor's diagonal tho)
              that always start out with "assume this is true..."
              \_ I really don't think you'll find a proof that irrational
                 numbers are countable.
        \_ they're not countable.

6/25    Which home value estimate sites is the most accurate?  For the same
        home, it seems like the estimated values from those sites are
        cyberhomes < eppraisal < zillow.  Thanks.
        \_ I use Zillow because it's zippy. Trulia truely sucks because
           it's slow. I use them to ballpark figures very quickly, but
           none of them are as accurate as slow ass MLS. So in a sense
           I use Zillow the way I use Amazon-- gauge something quickly
           and to filter out what I don't really want, but never making
           final decisions on Zillow/Amazon alone.

6/22    http://apologizetobp.com
        You should totally apologize to BP.

6/16    "Ingenious Flipper Bridge Melds Left-Side Drivers With Right-Side"
        http://www.csua.org/u/qz2
        It takes an architecure firm to come up with this "brilliant, simple
        solution"???  Geez, a high school kid familiar with the HOMFLY
        polynolmial can come up with that.  In fact a high school kid can come
        up with a less elegant yet cheaper and simpler solution which also
        allows higher-flow overall, where the lanes of only one direction is
        elevated and curved with lower speed while the lanes of the other
        direction stays level and straight with higher speed.  (I have thought
        of this "design" (if such a trivial thing can be called as such) many
        times whenever I think of that border crossing, althought I admit I'm
        not a high school kid.)
        \_ get over yourself.

6/14    Gateway.csua (our main server) may have been rooted. Stand by.
        \_ Hm. Today is 7/14. What conclusion should I draw from this?
           \_ Your a idoit.
        \_ False alarm. Overzealous network detection.
        \_ If our new rooting masters can make NFS mounting work, ALL OF
           THE TIME, I say let them be.

6/9     http://www.globalnerdy.com/2010/05/09/new-programming-jargon

6/5     Do we still have job recruitment/listing from alumni?  I seemed to remember
        they were in /cusa/pub/jobs ...
        \_ yeah thats where they used to be,  Back when the csua still cared
           about alumni contributions.

6/4     Syzygryd Gala Fundraiser tonight at CELLspace!
        http://www.syzygryd.com/2010/syzygy-friday-june-4th-cellspace
        -dans

6/2     Gigantic sinkhole!  Very horrifying!
        http://www.csua.org/u/qut (news.yahoo.com)