“The difference is that Harris is the only one who, after I helped her, sent word that I would be indicted if I ‘so much as jaywalked’ while she was D.A.”

— Willie Brown discovers whores can be ungrateful

Dear US Customs Department,


Please update your Javascript validation code on the Global Entry application page to accept brand new passports issued during the current month.

Update

Works today. Someone must have noticed before I did, because I sincerely doubt that a government agency could make, test, and roll out a change to a web site on a Sunday night.

Now to see how long the queue is.

Footprints...


“​…it was then that I carried you… in my belly!”

(via)

"Yonder lies the castle of my father..."


(via)

Dear Amazon,


Are you sure you’re allowed to advertise to kids this way?

Update

Grrr, I hate EXIF image-rotation and applications that don’t convert it to actual rotation on save.

Reminder for the next time I need this…

mogrify -auto-orient foo.jpg

(lossy, but quick for images I intend to resize down for the blog anyway)

Dear Reason Magazine,


Politics Should Be More Like a Starbucks Menu

You mean overpriced, pretentious, anti-competitive, and burned? I think we’re there already.

Dear Gitlab,


After some unknown action on your server has silently deleted most repo/wiki directories for a group (~git/git-data/repositories/$group/$project.git), how do I tell it that I have restored the data from my hourly backups?

Currently it shows “The repository for this project does not exist”.

Honestly, it looks like something tried to delete the entire group and aborted 2/3 of the way through.

Update

Ah, the answer is gitlab-rake cache:clear; now, about how they were deleted in the first place…

Harry Dresden Christmas story


Missed this when it came out.

"Call Kris Kringle a liar on Christmas Eve one more time."

"L—"

Learn to CODEC...


I think journalists are offended by “learn to code” because they’re too busy showing off their mastery of CODEC: Crying Over Dead-End Careers.

“Need a clue, take a clue,
 got a clue, leave a clue”