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[Dec. 15th, 2009|09:07 pm] |
This is what it looks like when ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) nyxie and I communicate. |
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| seriously just stop |
[Dec. 11th, 2009|08:14 pm] |
Gems from the rant the entire Starbucks was subjected to until I asked the guy to give it a rest already, which at least quieted him down to "one table" volume:
- Mental illnesses are called "disorders" and not "diseases" because they're not real like cancer
- You can tell they're not real like cancer because you can't detect them in a blood test
- Ritalin is chemically identical to methamphetamine
- Eli Lilly changed the color of Prozac so they could extend their patent
- Because 25% of studies show that people respond to placebos ("sugar pills! SUGAR PILLS!") we can't tell if any brain meds do what they say
- Longitudinal studies of psychiatric drugs are all either three or six months long, so no-one knows what happens long term
- They're not "side effects", they're just "effects" because the drugs cause them
- Drug companies lobby the FDA to declare something a disorder so they can sell drugs to treat it
and on and on and LOUD oh my god you'd think he was giving a speech. Which he was, basically, because you could tell that it was very well-rehearsed.
I feel sorry for the woman he was sitting with, whose participation was basically going "uh huh", "yup", "mmhm" for about 45 minutes straight. What's weird is that the guy did know some things about what he was talking about, weird details like lithium side effects and the name of some of the psychiatrists who developed cognitive behavioural therapy. He just had a, uh, interesting set of conclusions. A loud set of conclusions.
Gah. Getting involved in things like that always shakes me up a little. Writing down the stuff he was going on about reconfirms that he was full of it, at least. |
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| (no subject) |
[Dec. 11th, 2009|03:48 pm] |
Just now I realized I'd forgotten how old I am. I had to do the math to remember. And it turned out I've been thinking, in the back of my mind, that I was a year older than I actually am.
What do you think? That I've just been so busy my age has been pushed out by more important thoughts and memories?
Or is it senility? |
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| bazaar is really annoying me |
[Dec. 11th, 2009|12:02 pm] |
Ok, I have to get this off my chest. As much as I feel clueless with Git at times, Bazaar is really a PITA! Launchpad upgrades something, then my bazaar repositories are broken. This is not acceptable as a revision control tool. Then I ask people and they say "you have to upgrade bazaar". Ok, so I'm trying to do that:
patg@hanuman:~/code_devel$ bzr clone lp:bzr
Enter passphrase for key '/home/patg/.ssh/id_dsa': |
bzr: ERROR: exceptions.KeyError: 'Bazaar repository format 2a (needs bzr 1.16 or later)\n'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line 729, in exception_to_return_code
return the_callable(*args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line 924, in run_bzr
ret = run(*run_argv)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line 560, in run_argv_aliases
return self.run(**all_cmd_args)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/builtins.py", line 1143, in run
source_branch=br_from)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/bzrdir.py", line 1142, in sprout
cloning_format = self.cloning_metadir(stacked)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/remote.py", line 176, in cloning_metadir
repo_name)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/registry.py", line 260, in get
r = Registry.get(self, format_string)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/registry.py", line 173, in get
return self._dict[self._get_key_or_default(key)].get_obj()
KeyError: 'Bazaar repository format 2a (needs bzr 1.16 or later)\n'
bzr 1.15 on python 2.5.2 (linux2)
arguments: ['/usr/bin/bzr', 'clone', 'lp:bzr']
encoding: 'ANSI_X3.4-1968', fsenc: 'ANSI_X3.4-1968', lang: None
plugins:
bzrtools /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/plugins/bzrtools [1.15]
fastimport /home/patg/.bazaar/plugins/fastimport [0.8dev]
launchpad /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/plugins/launchpad [1.15]
netrc_credential_store /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/plugins/netrc_credential_store [1.15]
*** Bazaar has encountered an internal error.
Please report a bug at https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr/+filebug
including this traceback, and a description of what you
were doing when the error occurred.
Yeah, ok. That works great.
How about this: How about they write a revision control tool that doesn't break repositories because they upgrade the @#$#%ed website?
Also, on my Mac, I can't upgrade Bazaar because the latest version is only for Snow Leopard. So, launchpad is upgraded, and people are scrambling to "fix" their Bazaar setup so they can develop their code.
I've just wasted hours trying to get this all to work. Revision control tools are meant to make people productive, not eat of their time "fixing" things. |
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| (no subject) |
[Dec. 10th, 2009|06:20 pm] |
It's not often you get instant gratification after an audition. Sometimes you hear from them months if not years afterward. Sometimes it's just a way to keep in circulation, so that you're staying in their minds.
So most times I go in, do my best, and move on.
Today, though...
After I finished my second and last audition of the day, I got a last-minute job offer (not from the companies I sang for today, of course, that would have been amazingly rare; it was a place I've sung at just recently) that is not only a role I've wanted to sing for ages, but also nicely fills a small hole in my schedule.
Yay instant gratification!
(The auditions also went pretty well.) |
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| libmemcached on Windows working! |
[Dec. 9th, 2009|11:03 pm] |
I am so thrilled! I have libmemcached running on Windows! I've had to hack a bit with the Makefile (which is generated) and disabled some things like the 'example' directory as well as some code that's using sys/mman.h, which mingw32 does not have.
This image show the compile is successful:
http://img.skitch.com/20091210-pmnjdxudgf39hqc9jwy1ktf4y6.jpg
I was able to run memslap (strange results, but it seems to be setting values)
Administrator@IP-0AF859ED /c/code-dev/bak/libmemcached-win32-bzr
$ ./clients/memslap.exe --servers="localhost:22122" --concurrency=1 --binary
Then to verify:
$ ./clients/memdump.exe --servers="localhost:22122"|wc -l
memdump: memcache error A TIMEOUT OCCURRED
11928
Not sure what the timeout is about, but hey--- it's running on Windows! I'll continue investigating how to get this running better.
Stay tuned. |
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| Getting it right. |
[Dec. 5th, 2009|08:25 pm] |
I had a thingy in my to-do list to post an excerpt from a Dharma talk given by Edward Espe Brown, the cook at Tassajara Zen Center and author of the Tassajara Cookbook and Tassajara Bread Book. But I'm listening to the talk now, and there's really no one sound bite I can cut things down to.
So instead, here's a link to the whole thing. Listen to the whole thing if you want. It's a little slow-moving at first and might be a bit too Buddhist for your tastes to begin with, though.
The stuff I was going to post about starts at about 16 minutes in, where Ed starts talking about relating to food, but the best part is around 17:50:
This is also something about your heart. Because most of us get involved with getting it right. I want to do it right. Because if I did it right, and it came out the way it should, nobody could criticize me, nobody could question me... but getting it right is different from what you love.
But the context is so much of it. Download and give it a listen, it's at an easy enough pace that you could listen while doing something else.
I have that "getting it right" problem. That's certainly related to what sent me back to school a couple of years ago, and it's something I have to fight all the time on the cello and on the cushion. What experiences am I missing by trying to make sure mine mesh with what's supposed to be happening?
Also, if you listen, you'll find out what happens when an American Zen teacher ventures into an Apple Store in San Francisco. |
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