Tax evader appears to have no grip on reality

Did I mention following this tax evader's story? He seems not in touch with reality.

DF

rlwrap, a geek's friend

Have you ever used a UNIX command-line utility that doesn't have filename completion? Painful, isn't it? Someone clever produced a wrapper to add filename completion. Here's the example for gnuplot:

$ rlwrap -c -a gnuplot
...
gnuplot> plot "

now hitting tab at that spot (the double-quote) gives you file options. Yay!

DF

Internet Memes

Jenny hadn't seen the Weezer Pork and Beans video, and watching it sent us on an internet meme-fest, reviewing all the referenced videos. I was surprised/saddened that the Back Dorm Boys weren't represented. After Gary Brolsma, they might be my favorite YouTube sensation.

Feymann

Feymann has so many incredible stories.

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feymann is a classic, but here is a web post. He lived many lives. The only problem with his writings is he set the bar so high for the rest of us.

DF

Five Daily Show segments

The Daily Show makes M and me laugh.

5. Conan fight, the culmination of a week of trash talking on the
daily show, the colbert report, and conan o'brien during the writer's
strike, when they are desperately trying to fill airtime.

4. John Oliver.

3. Kristen Schaal, that made us laugh most recently.

2. Aasif Mandvi in his breakout role (according to us).

And of course,

1. the master of ceremonies.

Lightning and rightness

I found it amusing that it is lightning awareness week because I actually know someone who would care. A quote from the National Weather Service:

In 2007, 45 people were struck and killed by lighting in the U.S.; hundreds of others were injured. Of the victims who were killed by lightning:

• 98% were outside
• 89% were male

M has always decided to get away from lightning by remaining indoors. I have sometimes claimed it's not such a big deal. It turns out my chance of dying is higher.

The best news is, M gets to be right, which most people enjoy greatly.

Luddite alert

I wish to claim my first-class luddite status in the telepatch.

I just ordered DTV converter box coupons from the U.S. gub'ment. They claim it's going to be mailed (!) July 11, and take 2-9 days to arrive. Whoa, speed demons.

The coupon is to hook up my "new" (analog) TV from 1994 (discarded by Riedl). Actually, it's going to hook up the VCR from 1994 (which we bought!), that hooks up to the TV from 1994. We just got rid of JJ's 1983 basement special this past year.

I wonder if DTV will allow me to get channel 2 (public television).

M claims Scott probably had a digital t.v. years ago.

Dan