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When you are doing the work you are meant to do, it feels right, and everyday is a bonus regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

About a month ago. I was out with some co-workers partaking in one of the many common post-workday festivities. That was a pretty rough day, I had run out of dog food that morning. There was a problem, I took Muni to work that day. I figured on my way home I'll grab a huge bag of food and somehow haul it home with me. I started off the day not even thinking that I'd be drinking at all that night. That night I got hammered. I was out so late that I missed the last Muni train home. I "cabbed it" back. The "cabbie" completely misunderstood me and missed my place by a good five blocks. I figured I could use the walk to sober up. There I was, hauling this huge bag of dog food slug over my shoulder walking home. I was two blocks away when I saw what looked like a black cat. I instantly said out loud, "I hate cats!" I then attempted to scare it like most cats I encounter. This particular cat did not get scared instead I could see it's tail raise. I instantly thought, wow it must be one of those weird looking fancy expensive breed of cats, with one of those quintessential attitudes too! All up till I saw the streak of white going down this cat's black tail, and this awful aroma. I was sprayed by a skunk! It was horrible. When I got home I got my clothes off as fast as I could, and jumped in the shower. I can't help but ball in laughter when I tell the story. So if anyone is ever sprayed by a skunk, go to your local pet store, and pick up this bottle. You can get that awful scent out of your clothes.

I have had this annoyance with Leopard. When I display the "Currently Playing" track from iTunes in my iChat status message it displays the string in reverse order. It looks like "Exploder - Audioslave", when I think it should look like "Audioslave - Exploder". I also miss what an old AppleScript used to do back on 10.4 (Tiger). It would display a very useful musical note prepended to the "Currently Playing" string. To fix all of this in Leopard launch Terminal, Applications->Utilities->Terminal, then execute each of the following commands.

defaults write com.apple.iChatAgent iTunesMessageFormat -string '♫ %Artist - %Track'

killall iChatAgent

Note: I found that I had to quit and restart iChat to display the string properly.

Term used in the Los Angeles County Jail to tell inmates to shut up so the Deputy can hear his police radio while walking on the row. Usually "radio" will be yelled by a shot caller in the module or a trustee. If the tier or row is too loud and the deputy gets pissed off, there is a high probability that the deputy will shut off the phones, search cells, or find other ways to cause suffering to the inmates. "Hey baker row. Radio!! Deputy walking front to back!"

Radio that shit!

Daniel Serrano

Wow, I did not see this coming. Flickr founders Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield are leaving their posts at Yahoo. I was surprised at Jeremy Zawodny's announcement too.