User since: Oct 17, 2001 at 21:19 UTC Last here: May 22, 2013 at 22:01 UTC (9 hours ago) Experience: 1322 Level: Hermit (10) Writeups: 106 Location: Plattekill, NY User's localtime: May 23, 2013 at 01:37 GMT+5 Scratchpad: View

Well I DID have links to social media sites up here, probably for about a month. Seemed like a good idea. But I've now abandoned all of them (but for blip.fm, which is hardly "social media") so away they go.

erm... I ain't got squat here, though I probably should. jdporter suggested putting other social networking site links here, which sure makes sense (after all, I actually LIKE you people.)

I really need to put something else up here.

luis.roca: Speaking of whole in the wall. We have a new taco/burrito place. They don't even have printed (nicely) menus. Handed my wife a photo copy. ++ #gutsToStartABusiness
luis.roca: lamb, tilapia and cow's tongue among the options for taco/burrito
Voronich: Yeesh!
Voronich muses on the notion of tongue taco in abject disgust.
luis.roca: Oh you aint lived till you've tasted something that can taste you back! ;-))
Voronich looks over his glasses at luis.roca. Listen son, you want a conversation like that, I'll have one.
luis.roca: :-))
Voronich: as a general principle I agree with you.

Voronich Voronich is continually amazed at the stuff he used to do, thinking it was "badass" that's actually just plain old psychotic.
Voronich Oh this was insurance. Custom natural language text scanning stuff. Really weird code. Still have my diagrams kicking around. Worked well, but I'm not sure why.
SuicideJunkie Voronich There is a fine line between badass software and assbad software

Re: Serena PVCS:

Voronich: Yeah, it's... horrid. I'd almost prefer clearcase over this. Though I confess it's really the client software that drives me to violence.
Corion: I should prepare a statement like "V was always a helpful member of the community. Never would we have suspected that he was using his workshop to do these things. Our sympathy is with the victims and their families." :-)
MidLifeXis: we had two of those in only a couple of weeks by me. wonder if I need to start looking for a new place to live (mars, perhaps)
SuicideJunkie: We're trying to get away from MKS here. Its pretty slow, and the search will fail (timeout) if you have more than one term in it. And you've gotta pay lots for the user level that lets you checkpoint things...
Corion: Maybe I should even prepare this as madlib statement generator... "The Colonel was always a helpful member of the community. Never would we have suspected that He was using The Pipe in The Library to do these things. Our sympathy is with the victims ..."
MidLifeXis: :-)
Voronich thinks that would be a really good idea. Corion++

koolgirl Hmm, choroba doesn't seem that Regexp::Common has emails covered, it's promised in the future though
choroba koolgirl: Oh, I see. Maybe tye should submit a patch then?
tye you can file a bug and point to that node. I have no desire to try to figure out the (likely) bizarre machinations that are used to provide Regexp::Common's interface in order to extend it. :)
tye (I attended a talk where Abigail said that such a magical, unconventional interface was a really bad idea and made the module way too hard to maintain.)
choroba I was rather joking than really suggesting :)
Tanktalus It's nice that it interpolates into other regexes so easily. But, having said that, even as a user I boggle at its interface. So if someone came up with a less unicorn-like interface with the same feature set otherwise, I'd be happy to switch :)
tobyink It's not especiallu hard to force an arbitrary expression to interpolate though: @{...} or ${\(...)}
Tanktalus tobyink: er... um ... yeah, that's a bit ugly. But if it made RE easier to maintain, and thus updates/added features more often, then I could accept that (though I'd likely use a separate variable for it :D )
jellisii2 jellisii2 saves "Unicorn-like interface" for future use

ww 2013-04-01 19:41:11 UTC
++ jdporter. Thats just too great!
jellisii2 2013-04-01 19:39:11 UTC
Doooo iiiiiiit...
jellisii2 2013-04-01 19:39:04 UTC
Business cards.
Voronich 2013-04-01 19:38:29 UTC
Voronich facepalms. jdporter++
tye 2013-04-01 19:38:17 UTC
(that was the point)
jellisii2 2013-04-01 19:37:49 UTC
Its acronym is wholly accurate tho.
tye 2013-04-01 19:36:31 UTC
jdporter, clearly
SuicideJunkie 2013-04-01 19:35:57 UTC
Who came up with that title?
Voronich 2013-04-01 19:35:44 UTC
Voronich is suspicious of the phrases "outreach initiative" and "focus group"
jellisii2 2013-04-01 19:35:14 UTC
...
jdporter 2013-04-01 19:33:02 UTC
and my boss has given me permission to launch an outreach initiative called the Operations and Maintenance Focus Group
jdporter 2013-04-01 19:32:13 UTC
so, at work, I'm a member of the Operations and Maintenance Group

What is best in life: (4/17/2013)
jdporter: so as I was leaving for working this morning, giving my wife a hug, my little monkey comes running over -- "Sandwich hug! Sandwich hug!"
jdporter: And then: "Ugh! Too tight! Next time, can I be one of the breads?!"

• 12 lemons
• 1 750ml bottle of grain alcohol
• 1kg (2.2 lb) of white sugar.
• 1L water

1. Infusing the alcohol:
1. Wash the lemons with soap and water. This goes beyond the normal "make sure you rinse your veges." They put wax on lemons. It's disgusting.
2. Zest 'em. Normal citrus zesters and micro-abraders suck. I bought a couple extra lemons (more than the dozen required) and used them trying to get the technique down with a normal peeler to avoid the waste.
3. Combine the lemon zest with the grain alcohol (this won't be able to fit in the original grain alcohol bottle, so you'll need something bigger that seals. I recommend a magnum wine bottle with a screw top. There's no fermentation, so you don't have to worry about pressure.
4. Wait 3 weeks. No really. the zest should be 'bleached out' almost entirely, and the color of the alcohol "won't be as deep as you think it should." The best judge is the color of the zest. I've seen people say "wait 40-70 days" but I wasn't that patient for the first batch.
5. Filter the alcohol with a coffee filter and a funnel.
2. Making the simple syrup
1. Combine the sugar and water in a covered pan, bring it to a boil and let it boil for 15 minutes. You want to dissolve the sugar and boil off some of the water.
2. Let it cool down to room temperature.
3. Mix the two together. Make sure you watch this process. It's awesome the way the mixture becomes chalky and opaque as the sugar and alcohol mix. The resulting color of the limoncello is just amazing.

From there, bottle it and store it in the freezer. I like to drink it out of either frozen shot glasses or shot glasses made of ice (Thinkgeek has a great mold for those.)

Be careful. This stuff is about 90 proof, and you'd have no idea.

Of course, there is also the matter of what you do with 12-15 zested lemons. I'll leave that as an exercise for the reader aside from one hint: champagne yeast is pretty cheap.