Tsutenkaku Tower in the Shinsekai district close to where we were staying.
Stairs up, around Mount Kurama.
Osaka Castle
Hordes of people at Senbon Torii shrine.
Some highlights of our trip to Japan so far. These are a few sights from the Osaka, Kyoto, and Nara.
Sometimes (all the time?) I hate Windows. A coworker was testing a bug fix I helped with, and it wasn't working for him. I took a look at what they were doing, and couldn't figure it out too. After much too long, I realized that the stupid option to hide file extensions was on, so instead of […]
@mike 100% yes. I occasionally get tickets through work which are row 4, close to the faceoff circle by the goalie. they are great for when the action is on that side, but terrible for everything else.
If we go to Moose games or whatever, we usually get them in the 200's. Just a better view […]
I had a decent streak going there then just fell back to my old ways. classic.
Anyways, I've been trying to fight the urge today to build my own web based e-mail client. Was going to look at setting up snappymail but it looks like it's un-maintained again _sighs_. Add another project to the […]
yay! also, thanks a lot, xmas, for distracting me so much that I lost my streak.
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One of the penguins from the "Madagascar" movie giving a thousand-yard stare, with a close-up superimposed over a wider view. Caption: "Rust developers being told they have to unwrap their Christmas presents"
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I decided to spare you all from my wisdom yesterday because I figured that 5 straight days of this nonsense is a bit much.
But fear not, for I am back.
Pretty chill Sunday. Moose game (even though they lost 0-6), followed by waffles for supper. Does it get any better?
(Hey, a non whiny, non techy post! Also, 4 days in a row too!)
Because I seem to just complain about technology now, Firefox was driving me crazy for the past few days, not being able to click on a tab to activate it, when my cursor was at the top of the screen.
Thankfully, they fixed it already!
Also, 3 days in a row for posts!
two posts in two days? what's wrong with me?
[html whinge]
is the only way for a child of an `overflow: hidden` element to appear outside of that element (like say, a tooltip) is to use `position: fixed`? madness! it would be so much easier to position if i was able to use `position: absolute` somehow.
spent far too long trying to figure out why fish isn't respecting my setting to globally turn of the default fish greeting in `/etc/fish/conf.d/`, for one of my servers. ended up just giving up and just doing for my user.