Command line silliness

The silliest terminal command to date:

sudo osascript -e ’say “Dum dum dum dum dum dum dum he he he ho ho ho fa lah lah lah lah lah lah fa lah full hoo hoo hoo” using “Cellos”‘

I know a guy who cannot stop laughing
:-)

-Any of the boys home? Girls and computers, same sex sexism

In this shithole I live in at the moment (I think I have mentioned that before), there are three boys on the first floor, and two women on the second. I live in the bloody basement – the troll under their feet. The Internet connection is atrocious – I think I have mentioned that too – and it turns out that all is honky dory down, but not happening up. One of the women have never had it working properly, and as I call the manufacturer of the miserable pile of technology, she butts in.

-Can you press some buttons on my pc? This guy did once, and then it worked.

Insomnia – nightly expedition and sneaking around on the net

I live in a shithole. I try to ignore that I live in a shithole.  My sleep pattern gone haywire, my eating habits likewise. Time does funny things, and seems to coil and loop. That is why I drove out last night, at three thirty in the morning to capture the early morning light.

Living in misery – all for the love of a cat

What I will not do for my kitty..
Due to a million things, I now live – temporarily – in a smelly basement in the most boring town in Norway. I assure you, there’s stiff competition. A filthy kitchen upstairs, where cat is not welcome. The first thing I had to do was to scrub the stove. I am not hysterically antiseptic or dainty, but there seemed to be things living there. So, for the smelly basement – the smell sends me back to ireland; a mouldy, damp cat-pee infested mess of old sofas and wrecked furniture. Naked lightbulbs. Concrete floor. Mouldy carpet. Nice…
All because of a general aversion to cats, lack of information and communication.
I could kill to get out of here. I am pissed off. Too pissed off to take a photo of the dungheap.
I have been here less than three nights, and I grow more miserable by the minute.
And to top it off, the wireless connection is atrocious.

I alternately hate and love my cat – I live here for lack of options because I refuse to get rid of her. Clearly love won.

Bollocks.

Land of war, land of peace

A double standard is twice as good as one.

Norway is the seventh largest exporter of weapons. But we don’t like to talk about it. The image of being a peaceful nation, if not THE peaceful nation, would be a little marred by that fact. It’s a lot more fun having the image of peace-builder. We send men in suits around the world openly and secretly, to promote peace and All That Is Good. Naively, but with good intentions, we poke our noses into any ‘clean’ conflict (i.e. any that our closest allies are not involved in. Guess who). You get up on a high horse, there might be a long way down.

We roll around in oil and fish – you’d think that’ll do – but no. Our own army is being downgraded in one end (manpower) and upgraded in the other (fighter jets).

And we export. I like the argument of right and wrong in this – “we only export to the good guys”. Oh, right! Then that’s all right, then! Good bullets and bad bullets.

The world is a complicated place. But idiotic justifications is insulting us all.

Crop circles, math and outer space

I know a lot of strange people. Some of them are the kind you might think the most ordinary figures, until.. something seeps out.

I know a guy who believes crop circles are made by creatures from outer space, the «wee folk» or «unidentified streams of energy». That is pretty off, but extraordinary coming from him. He is a great fan of science, in practicality.

css rollover tutorial…

By popular demand – haha – here is a CSS rollover tutorial.
if you want to play with my turtle, feel free to rightclick it and download the image to your own computer – I only ask that you drop me a link to your site if you use it.

click here to see the turtle doing what it is supposed to.

I start out with a single image file, with one green and one blue turtle placed directly above each other. Here is my simple .gif image on the right.