azurelunatic | 133 tweets for 2011-8-23

In the last 24 hours, I posted the following to Twitter:

Tuesday, 0003: Best friend: "I should give you a cream pie for that." Me: ... ... *snicker* "SORRY GUTTERMIND" Him: "... omg sorry" *snicker* #awkward
Tuesday, 0036: Giggling over the Random Recipe Generator again: http://jamesoff.net/site/fun/random-recipe-generator/
Tuesday, 0250: @caecandy *poke*
Tuesday, 0256: @caecandy Yes, because it's like four the fuck in the morning?
Tuesday, 0259: @caecandy Got coffee? Or tea?

Tuesday, 0301: @caecandy How much longer until you can sleeeep?
Tuesday, 0309: @caecandy *pooooke*
Tuesday, 0311: @caecandy *pets*
Tuesday, 0315: @lbitw1 @zarhooie This is a very valid question to which I would also like an answer.

In which omnom_ninja and I attempt to tell ifonlyella about A Game of Thrones:

Tuesday, 0318: @ifonlyella @omnom_ninja I would say perhaps slightly less problematic than actual history at a similar tech level.
Tuesday, 0322: @zarhooie <3 <3
Tuesday, 0332: @ifonlyella @omnom_ninja Rape, torture, murder, animal harm, attempted all of same, incest, and also winter is coming.
Tuesday, 0343: @ifonlyella @omnom_ninja I would say that it follows logically from the situations as set up.
Tuesday, 0345: @ifonlyella @omnom_ninja I would say that if it did not happen it might cheapen the story.
Tuesday, 0345: @ifonlyella @omnom_ninja #weknowwhatyoumean #totally
Tuesday, 0346: @ifonlyella @omnom_ninja I don't recall it going into graphic detail of every poke and yowl, but Bad Shit Happens, No Magical Saving.
Tuesday, 0348: Purple nightgown patches pink nightgown! http://dailybooth.com/azurelunatic/18516547
Tuesday, 0504: @LikeaLiar Want to. So very want to. Damn this geography!
Tuesday, 0505: @ifonlyella @omnom_ninja No matter how hard winter is coming, it does not compare to the trainwreck that is Anathem. BAD NEAL NO BISCUIT.
Tuesday, 0509: @ifonlyella @omnom_ninja In the department of warning for bad writing, Neal Stephenson's Anathem makes me want to beat it with sticks.
Tuesday, 0509: @ifonlyella @omnom_ninja The beginning & end are literally different books, with nothing about the beginning suggesting the end's possible.
Tuesday, 0510: @ifonlyella @omnom_ninja I have not been so angry with a book since I read Twilight, and there it was more sorrow than anger.
Tuesday, 0521: @ifonlyella @omnom_ninja It wanted to be two lovely books! But then they got pasted together rudely!

Tuesday, 0528: This brownie recipe makes my eyes get big & blood sugar spike from just reading it. http://catescates.wordpress.com/2011/08/22/recipe-obscenely-decadent-chocolate-and-cherry-brownies/
Tuesday, 0530: Apparently cold shoulders make a huge difference in my mood, and I should avoid that at all costs. Nightbown repair best thing ever.

In which ifonlyella wrestles with the RTE. TITS AGAINST THE RTE!!!!

Tuesday, 0542: @ifonlyella Nope, too Stylesy for me. View source? If it's not in source directly find the stylesheet?
Tuesday, 0548: @ifonlyella Oh dear, is the RTE being a bastard again? (I waded into the css. The spelling makes me cry a bit. But, good devs.)
Tuesday, 0549: @ifonlyella (I did not have the opportunity to bond with the devs in the Moscow office.)
Tuesday, 0557: @ifonlyella I poked stuff with a stick and it's Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, 13px, but if you're getting garbage in your entry...
Tuesday, 0558: @ifonlyella ...then resetting the font to how it looks in LJ normally will make it look OK in the entry, but bad on friends pages.
Tuesday, 0558: @ifonlyella Where are you copying from?
Tuesday, 0559: @ifonlyella Deleting the HTML is the right way to do it. Forcing "normal" font onto it is the wrong way to do it.
Tuesday, 0602: @ifonlyella [abject horror face goes here]
Tuesday, 0605: @ifonlyella Pasting into Notepad, then copying from Notepad into LJ, should strip out the fuckery right quick.
Tuesday, 0609: @ifonlyella Notepad is a gracious gift from the benevolent gods, and the RTE is a blight unto the souls of generations.
Tuesday, 0609: TITS AGAINST THE RTE
Tuesday, 0616: @marcelle42 A NEW GENERATION IS GETTING SCHOOLED IN WHY WORD + RTE IS A BAD BAD COMBO
Tuesday, 0617: @laliandra YOU KNOW. YOU KNOW THE HORROR. @ifonlyella
Tuesday, 0618: One of my abject horror faces @laliandra @marcelle42 @ifonlyella http://twitpic.com/6adyk5
Tuesday, 0620: @laliandra @ifonlyella BUT EVERYTHING WAS BEAUTIFUL UNTIL SOMEONE BROKE THE BUILD.
Tuesday, 0621: RT @laliandra: @azurelunatic @ifonlyella SO MUCH HORROR. The RTE actually hates joy.
Tuesday, 0622: @laliandra @ifonlyella This is why the LJ interest "tits against the rte" exists. AZZ BRIBES DEVS WITH CLEAVAGE TO TAKE IT AWAY.
Tuesday, 0624: @ifonlyella @laliandra You understand enough to have some conception of what HTML is, and how to delete the extraneous stuff line by line.
Tuesday, 0625: @ifonlyella @laliandra That's more than, say, my mom.
Tuesday, 0625: @ifonlyella @laliandra You know how the RTE sneakily hides the HTML that makes the words weird? Word does the same thing.
Tuesday, 0626: @ifonlyella @laliandra And then Word whispers its dirty little secrets to the RTE, and the RTE listens, and does scary things.
Tuesday, 0628: @ifonlyella @laliandra @marcelle42 WORD AND THE RTE ARE PLOTTING TO KILL US ALL! RISE UP WHILE YOU STILL CAN! #TitsAgainstTheRTE

In which laliandra plots fic, and I bestow learnings:

Tuesday, 0631: @laliandra Show me it when done? I am not a *real* dev but I can say that I am a volunteer designer for an open source project now! #beta
Tuesday, 0634: @laliandra Well, you've got your front-end code and your back-end code, and anybody can see how the website *looks*, that's the front-end.
Tuesday, 0636: @laliandra Back-end, you have the actual guts of the website: how the information is stored, how it's retrieved, how site doesn't fall over
Tuesday, 0636: @laliandra The algorithms of how this and that happen, like how to determine who's likely friends with whom... the ad engine stuff...
Tuesday, 0638: @tajasel I had the opposite problem in '96, couldn't close my jaw to chew. Horrible time. I hope you feel better very soon.
Tuesday, 0639: @laliandra And then there are the plans for what's coming next, and those might be stored on, say, a laptop that has no network capability..
Tuesday, 0639: @laliandra Yessssss, the cunning plans are woooorking!
Tuesday, 0640: @laliandra And Facebook is a closed-source house, so it's not like you can just waltz into their repo and find shit out.
Tuesday, 0642: @laliandra *giggle* So, pop quiz, repo is short for... ?
Tuesday, 0642: @laliandra So who's stealing from whom and why?
Tuesday, 0646: @laliandra Yes! Repository! Mainly their code. They may have separate repositories depending on how secret and who's allowed to work on it.
Tuesday, 0654: @marcelle42 #titsagainsttheRTE It threatens our precious next generation! #marmfish
Tuesday, 0655: @laliandra For example, LJ has 3 repositories! The open source one, the visible one, and the dark secret burn-after-reading one.
Tuesday, 0656: @laliandra And LJ is technically an open source project! #butithasitssecrets
Tuesday, 0656: @laliandra (Mostly I know this because the people who had seen it had to do cleanroom coding so I learned about that too.)
Tuesday, 0657: @laliandra Okay, if I were a superdev in a criminal-y world and had to steal facebook, I'd do an electronic attack or 50 first.
Tuesday, 0659: @laliandra Lots of different ways, probably. Trojans and keyloggers for devs and their households. Attempts to force the site.
Tuesday, 0700: @laliandra Attempts to crack the passwords of people known to have access, testing stuff on the low-level people and working up.
Tuesday, 0715: @laliandra A computer with access credentials for a protected server.
Tuesday, 0716: @laliandra A computer on which really sensitive information is stored (as a copy, or uniquely).
Tuesday, 0717: @laliandra A security passkey, to allow one to access a VPN.
Tuesday, 0718: @laliandra (There are little USB fobs that are immensely expensive and one is terrified of losing. They work in concert with a password.)
Tuesday, 0718: @laliandra You never let anyone potentially hostile alone with your computer. Or in the server room.
Tuesday, 0719: @laliandra Employee badges. Employee keys. The employee badging terminal or machine. The receptionist's desk (see: copperbadge).
Tuesday, 0720: @ursamajor I am schooling the next generation in why we do not paste from Word to the RTE. #titsagainsttheRTE
Tuesday, 0721: @ursamajor And why, g-d help us, we do not figure out what LJ's default font is, and change it all to that in Word.
Tuesday, 0721: @laliandra They can load keyloggers onto it! Trojans!
Tuesday, 0721: @laliandra They can copy things!
Tuesday, 0721: @laliandra MUAHAHAHAHAAHAHAAAAA
Tuesday, 0724: @laliandra And I am realizing what a vast store of really dodgy information and techniques I know of. #notsuspiciousatallreally
Tuesday, 0727: Helping a chatfish with a #TSN heist AU, searching the depths of my brain for the dodgiest dirty tech tricks I've heard of. Which is ... wow
Tuesday, 0729: @laliandra Most of these things I only know about in theory. Thankfully.
Tuesday, 0730: @laliandra And there's getting into secure employee chats, mining for information... or just *watching*
Tuesday, 0733: @laliandra Any sufficiently technical jury would recognize me as a well-educated n00b with a vague interest in security but no experience.
Tuesday, 0734: @laliandra Also it would not be a proper geek thing without secret IRC channels for plotting and exchanging porn.
Tuesday, 0738: @laliandra What are methods 1 & 2? Srsly, because IRC is like the #1 geek method of casual realtime chat.

Tuesday, 0746: RT @JPBarlow: In the future, everyone will be anonymous for 15 minutes.

(I sleep. The first I hear of the earthquake upon waking is a Twitter-link, description being something like: "Photo of earthquake devastation in Washington, D.C. I start freaking out. Then I load the photo, which is some stuff toppled off pharmacy shelves.)

Tuesday, 1511: RT @UnvirtuousAbbey: For pastors who will use a geological phenomenon to condemn a sexual reality, Lord have mercy.
Tuesday, 1512: RT @txvoodoo: To W Coasters dissing E Coasters' fears of earthquake, I have 2 words: building codes. More words: pre-1900 built structures.
Tuesday, 1516: RT @daffodelias: D:< RT @crows RT @sgravn RT @ObviousDisaster IOWA: Student Dies After Gay Bashing http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2011/08/iowa-student-dies-after-gay-bashing.html | Christ.
Tuesday, 1516: RT @magistrate: On Friday, a boy was beaten to death in Waterloo, IA by a mob hurling homophobic slurs. Yet Bachmann says *gays* are liv ...
Tuesday, 1516: @sixonekevin Wooooooo!
Tuesday, 1520: RT @jayewells: It's good to know when the real Apocalypse happens we'll all go out sarcastically.
Tuesday, 1522: @rynia I also tend to place on my gcal the expected dates of said automatic bill payment, so's nothing BAD happens.
Tuesday, 1528: @itsmisscs In the event of a large quake, the first thing one does is *tell* Twitter, preferably while away from glass etc. #SanFrancisco
Tuesday, 1533: RT @USGS: If you felt the 5.9 quake, let us know...help us improve the data: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/dyfi/events/us/c0005ild/us/index.html
Tuesday, 1535: @sprackraptor Those sound like the scary kind of home decoration. Do not want.
Tuesday, 1536: RT @KatieAlender: In the interest of California's earthquake karma, I'd like to say that we did not send that quake and are not gloating ...
Tuesday, 1541: RT @EleriTMLH: RT @Chrysaora: XKCD predicted this day pretty much exactly! http://xkcd.com/723/ #insidejob
Tuesday, 1547: RT @brookejarvis: Apparently everyone on my feed needs to take a moment & consider this safety sign #earthquake http://yfrog.com/h4triibgj

Tuesday, 1628: @mooging @laliandra JOZIN IS NOT VERY CUDDLY. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4aqM_wu6Ns
Tuesday, 1633: @ladyofthelog @norabombay YOU MISSED THE PART WHERE THE NEXT STOP WAS COFFEE CAKE AND KINK. A FRIEND OF MINE LEGIT WORKED THERE.

I return to fic-schooling.

Tuesday, 1722: @laliandra If it's the Winklevii doing the stealing, it doesn't have to be even *hard*, they just have to get the repositories.
Tuesday, 1723: @laliandra Because the Winklevii are dumbasses when it comes to programming, which is why they grabbed Mark in the first place.
Tuesday, 1755: @laliandra Well, why not? By "steal" I mean "entirely copy and then have a minion install"

Tuesday, 1801: @feedback Multiple newschool RTs of the same reply stack up in the sidebar as separate replies.

Tuesday, 1802: Ooo! It seems to be @Hanelisar's birthday! Happy birthday, Han!
Tuesday, 1804: @domtheknight Coordinated, perhaps.
Tuesday, 1805: @TweetAtDrew Are you off your rocker? ... Are outdoor ovens a thing? You could bake them on your sidewalk?
Tuesday, 1808: @Hanelisar I hope it is too! 21 was a pretty good year for me everything taken together.
Tuesday, 1809: @laliandra LAL GO TO BED. THE FISHMUM HAS SPOKEN.

Tuesday, 1810: @KariByron @ToryBelleci HIS HAIR. WHAT.
Tuesday, 1812: @jai_dit @Hamface For example, bar doughnuts. (Powdered-sugar-covered, creme-filled, oblong doughnuts!) cc:@amalnahurriyeh @pyrogenique
Tuesday, 1831: RT @katelinnea: THIS. RT @stamos Remember when every radio station ever wasn't playing "Pumped Up Kicks" 100 times a day? I liked that b ...
Tuesday, 1832: @rynia I think most adults feel like this. Fuck knows I do. #adulthood-ha
Tuesday, 1848: @ifonlyella *vaguely around, getting ready to leave for Teh Workz*

Tuesday, 1850: @evanhamilton It seems to increasingly be shouting to the echo chamber of those who are willing to use their wallet names online. #nymwars
Tuesday, 1856: @musingvirtual @joshjgt @evanhamilton It looked like a much more convenient place than email to plan Kat's wedding.

Tuesday, 1857: @ifonlyella Hiiiiiii. *scrambles for clothing*

Tuesday, 1858: @evanhamilton @musingvirtual @joshjgt Most of my problems with Facebook are tied up in complicated identity problems.
Tuesday, 1902: @evanhamilton @musingvirtual @joshjgt Some of the FB UI is a little wacky; too many people surprised about filters there.
Tuesday, 1902: @evanhamilton @musingvirtual @joshjgt The ability to filter to your audience is really powerful & should not be underestimated.
Tuesday, 1903: @evanhamilton @musingvirtual @joshjgt But if you can't actually figure out the UI in order to use it, something is very wrong. #a11y
Tuesday, 1911: @evanhamilton @musingvirtual @joshjgt LiveJournal's had them for years, and some people still aren't up on how to use them there.

Tuesday, 2018: There's a big difference between joyful-things-of-all-sorts and trying to find the good in twisted resentment. Which is your #gratitude?

(re: LJ IS DOWN goat)
Tuesday, 2030: @shirozora Aaaaadblock. (Also #dreamwidth IRC has a fun bot tool that checks.)
Tuesday, 2034: @jenphalian Always adorable.

(I return home.)

Tuesday, 2338: @norabombay I'm making curry. This time, unexpected edamame.
Tuesday, 2357: Frying pan filled with simmering curry happiness. Later I will start the rice.
Wednesday, 0019: It's sometimes fun watching technical arms races, when the result is the users win.
Wednesday, 0027: I'm not entirely sure why ice with scalloped edges and shaped like stars makes the day awesome, but it really does.
Wednesday, 0028: Baby got books! http://jimhines.livejournal.com/591660.html (and yes, someone linked http://wins.failblog.org/2011/08/04/epic-win-photos-cant-deny-win/ in the comments)
Wednesday, 0044: Didn't feel anything. Curry smells good, though.
Wednesday, 0050: RT @earthquakesSF: A 3.9 magnitude earthquake occurred 2.49 mi NNE of San Leandro, CA. Details: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/Quakes/nc71625060.php Map: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=37.7%2C+-122.1+%283.9+magnitude%2C+5.59+mi+deep+-+Tue%2C+August+23%2C+2011+11%3A36+PM+PDT)&ll=37.7,-122.1&spn=2,2&f=d&t=h&hl=e
Wednesday, 0051: This is convincing me that I need a pendulum visible from my computer. Though I think I would have been in the kitchen for this one.
Wednesday, 0052: I attribute the decline and fall of the toaster oven to my own clumsiness and the small kitchen, not the quake.

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