“Tonight on Trathnona Maith, a gentleman from Wicklow supports sale of coloured hair dye to unmarried teenage girls. We talk about the sea.”

It's a little different around here. After waffling about it forever, I finally decided to set up my own server. It's a Mac Mini co-located in a real data center that I didn't make up, with 16 GB RAM and everything on an SSD, so I think this place should be a little faster, and the much-better software means I can update more often. The server can also replace my previous VPN and mail services, which is nice. The downside is that, to the extent that this website was ever organized, it is now really unorganized, so I'll be going through and organizing things, fixing images that didn't survive the import, and so on. It's also kind of broken just now, but only minor stuff like, um, permalinks. Sorry 'bouts the mess. [caption id="attachment_1586" align="alignnone" width="580"] insert internet juice[/caption]

Well, that was kind of a bust. I got a new camera and went to go test it on a hike. Took a long time to get there, trails were closed, then it started raining heavily. But driving around the hills in the rain is nice.

R. Monkeys requested a pink Game Boy Color with cats. Okay!

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The first step is to surprise a cephalopod. A captive cephalopod is no good as they live in a constant state of wonderment at their captors, the bipeds, and so their ink defense produces something closer in spirit to sliced pork. No, my friends; you must go below the ocean's first two layers (the "chump layers") and dive deep into the tubelcaine. This is where cephalopods feel at home. I am a bivalve! You are a bivalve! But although we may disagree on matters which do not concern the separation of the Two Valves, surely you agree that the rich consistency of an octupus' ink has nothing on the squeezings of noble Dodecaphles, patron saint of the overly grabby. In the tubelcaine, we will find peace. Together, we will be banned from all fountain pen forums.  

In the interest of the fullest and most dinitrogenate disclosures, here is the kind of thing I spent time on / wore in public in 2003. I don't know how they are in my closet after a decade of moving around, but whatever. Palp dat shame.

My 780 Ti was getting a little long in the tooth and I wanted a closed-loop GPU, but was basically too impatient to wait for water-cooled 1070s and 1080s to come out. Fortunately, their release made 980 Tis cheaper, so I picked this thing up for $400. It's very slightly slower than the 1070, and a 1070 Hybrid will probably be around $450, so that's alright. I bet I'll regret not waiting for the 1080, but this thing should be fine at 1440P for a good while. I actually tried to water-cool my 780 Ti with a Corsair H60i, but its hoses weren't long enough for installation like this. Which I probably should have thought of.

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I made-a the pizza-pie!

Apart from making good sauce, I found that the trick to it was laminating the bejesus out of the dough -- roll it out, cover in butter, roll it up. This is alluded to in the work "Roll it up, light it up" by noted chefs Cypress Hill. Likewise, you have to follow their topping advice carefully, and break off sausage in the right proportion. One time a reputable lady grated mozzarella right into my mouth. Anyway, pizza is pretty good, so I suggest that if you want some, you should eat a pizza. Pizza was unknown to the Maratha empire, but a lot of their records still refer to "the Noid" and "Caesar of the Small Temple" and "the raging, cheese-fueled obesity of the North Korean potentate". So listen to Peshwa Madhav Rao II and eat a goddam pizza. You don't even have to make one -- people will even bring them to you. Good people, people you can trust. Laminate your dough.

Hate goddam upholstery. The Element's driver's seat needed the cover replaced, and oh boy was the new one expensive and aggravating. Nice to have done, though. [gallery link="file" ids="515,516"]