Drew Burden

A nerd showers you with his opinions.

Entries for September, 2007

Spoken like a true smoker.

Can’t regurgitate. I must inhale… carcinogens.-Bill Wight

It’s not Never Never Land…

(9:58:34 PM) Grimmjow Jaggerjack: I hate babysitting
(9:58:36 PM) Grimmjow Jaggerjack: I hate kids
(9:58:40 PM) Grimmjow Jaggerjack: I hope they all die
(9:58:52 PM) Nedrub Werd: i hope they all grow the fuck up
(9:59:05 PM) Nedrub Werd: oh wait

The best thing to come out of one of my local TV news programs. EVAR.

So over in Evansville, this guy got locked out and tried to climb in through the chimney. Got stuck. Firefighters had to knock a hole in the wall to get him out. Gets pwned by his girlfriend (?) while news cameras are rolling. Very funny.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=sUq2A2tOcgU

An open letter

Dear someone:
I almost killed you last night. But I think I’ll do something better and just go kick your ass legally. When I say “legally” I mean through the legal system. Have fun when I make your life a living hell.
Fuck you,
Me.

Traffic spike; Linux woes; LiMPtop

I like how I have blog posts with three main topics and the semicolonated (is that a word?) titles. Let’s get right to it.
The past couple of days, this very blog has had an incredible spike in traffic. After investigating I’ve found that it’s likely related to the recent release of Pidgin 2.2.0. You know… [...]

So once again, I was all like ‘I want a credit card’ and Capital One said… wait… they said yes?!

I lamented a while back about ChevronTexaco denying me a gas card. Apparently my credit sucked or something. It must be getting better, because I managed to get instant approval for a Capital One card earlier. I have to admit, that feels good. Now for a solid year of charging a few dollars a month [...]

The server cluster project

CIMG0444, originally uploaded by nedrubwerd.
I currently have seven computers in the trunk of my car. I plan on building a server cluster with them… but they’re really old and may not work. Didn’t Google start out on old hardware like this? Either way… I’ll post more about it as I go along.

I know what I want for Christmas.

Everyone I know should totally pool their money and get me an iPod Touch.

MySpaceDP 6.0

I noticed something was wrong with the Top Friends display on my home page, so I investigated and found that MySpace had changed their user image URL scheme again. I wrote some new code and we now have MySpaceDP 6.0. Before today, the tool searched for a URL beginning with http://a. The first occurrence [...]

The pimp dog

CIMG0211, originally uploaded by nedrubwerd.
Doesn’t Chico look like such a pimp? I think so too. He’s got that pimp smirk.