BW&BK: “There are a lot of authors, especially a guy like Noam Chomsky, who believes a lot of consent in the US is manufactured by politicians and corporations—”
JS: “Talk about one of the fuckin’ ultra leftist spin doctors of the world, Noam Chomsky. You buy into that crap?”
BW&BK: “Well, I read a lot of his stuff.”
JS: “But do you believe it all?”
BW&BK: “I have a degree in political science, so I believe some of it.”
JS: “Hmm. Yeah. Well. And how old are you?”
BW&BK: “I’m 22.”
— Jon Schaffer, in the best rock interview everAlways-Relevant Feynman Interview
The BBC keeps deleting copies of this video; hopefully this one will last for a while.
"Is it okay for a perky elf to crush on a cardboard princess?"
…aka Sword Oratoria, the DanMachi spinoff (streaming on Amazon Strike, the existence of which answers the musical question “how come Crunchyroll still isn’t available on the Fire TV?”).
The DanMachi light novels are sufficiently popular in Japan that they not only got manga and anime adaptations, but two spinoff novel/manga series, the first of which has its anime debut this season.
The author had a problem, though: Dream Girl Aiz Wallenstein has all the warmth and charm of a block of wood. A shapely block of wood that’s really good at killing monsters, but still, wood.
His solution was to make it an ensemble piece about her Familia, putting lots of emphasis on the genki half-naked amazons Tiona and Tione, and adding the insecure-but-eager elf-mage Lefiya, who really, really wants to be Aiz’s friend. Or “friend”; she has a rather active imagination.
The first two episodes are heavy on cheesecake, yuri, and foreshadowing that Something’s Up In The Dungeon, plus cameos by Bell and Hestia that establish where we are in the main story. And way too much Loki.
Oh, and Ayako Kawasumi has taken over the role of elf-senpai Riveria. Apparently the original voice actress is off dealing with health problems.
Cheesecake: candy
Most pictures tagged “candy” involve Halloween, Valentine’s Day, and/or simulated oral sex. This tends to reduce the number of smiles, but I did my best.
Camelcide, Effectomy,and Memetical
How to tell that your new random-word generator works: feed it the text of the Jargon File and get back things that you could easily come up with real jargon definitions for…
The New Perl Way: "You're doing it wrong"
use CGI;
“I’m sorry, Dave, I can’t do that.”
cpanm CGI
“You really shouldn’t use that any more. It’s bad for you.”
perldoc CGI
“The rationale for this decision is that CGI.pm is no longer considered good practice for developing web applications, including quick prototyping and small web scripts. There are far better, cleaner, quicker, easier, safer, more scalable, more extensible, more modern alternatives available at this point in time. These will be documented with CGI::Alternatives.”
perldoc CGI::Alternatives
No documentation found for “CGI::Alternatives”.
cpanm CGI::Alternatives
perldoc CGI::Alternatives
“Let me build this strawman that doesn’t actually make good use of
CGI.pmto show you how you can easily switch to one of half a dozen different frameworks that let you use half a dozen different templating systems launched with half a dozen different embedded web servers, and replace your self-contained 100-line CGI script with half a dozen files located in half a dozen directories. For more fun, my sample code gets mangled if you try to view it as a manpage, so you really should download the raw file from CPAN.”
cpanm --uninstall CGI::Alternatives
cpanm Dancer2
perldoc Dancer2
cpanm --uninstall Dancer2
cpanm Mojolicious
perldoc Mojolicious
perldoc Mojolicious::Lite
use Mojolicious::Lite;
plugin CGI => [ '/' => "trivialscript.cgi" ];
app->start;
use CGI;
…
Definition of a good time
You’ve spent the past two weeks being yelled at by a user for not getting their external partner’s incoming connection to work
and you’ve had a tcpdump running for an entire week showing that no
connection attempts have been made from the IP addresses the partner
provided
and they schedule a conference call at a time that’s convenient for the partner’s third-world contractors
and they confirm their IP addresses in the chat but the test fails again
and your tcpdump shows them coming in from a completely different IP
address
and they start to wrap up the meeting saying they’ll contact their network team who hadn’t been invited and reschedule for the next day
and you have to yell into the microphone to tell them to try again right now since you’ve just added their real IP address to the firewall
and they confirm that it works but continue talking about who’s going to do what and how they will communicate the results and who will be responsible for the next step and oh fuck who cares you stopped listening two minutes ago
and you close the multiple tickets created by the user who doesn’t understand that CC’ing the helpdesk on every email keeps creating new tickets
and the partner emails a list of 26 possible IP addresses that does not include the two they originally claimed were the only ones they use
and then they try to schedule another meeting anyway and you reject the invite twice
and you go back to bed.
…and reach for earplugs because the neighbor puts his dog out when he goes to work and it barks and whines all day long and sounds remarkably like one of your users.
