Secret Eating Obsession: Lay’s Kettle Cooked Jalapeño Potato Chips
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I love Lay’s Kettle Cooked Jalapeño Potato Chips like a postal worker loves to assert his authority on a citizen. They’re spicy, but not too spicy. Kettle cookin’ adds lots of extra crispiness too. This makes for a very satisfying snack experience. The famous Paul Hagan turned me on to the kettle cooked goodness of these old boys in early ‘99. We’d stay up until 5AM every night trying to exceed the accomplishments of Sterling Neblett. The best way to muster up enough energy to take down Sterling was to whack down an entire bag of kettle chips. I’m wanting to say we were eating Snyder’s because I don’t know that Counciltucky had their kettle cookers online back then. Oh, the good old days. Unfortunately, my metabolism isn’t what it used to be. Sitting around in front of a computer all day doesn’t help either. So, I have to bid a fond farewell to this epicurean pleasure. I’m quitting cold turkey. Don’t try to talk me out of it. |
Notepad Bug!
It has been discovered that Notepad has a bug. If you open a file using the program. Then, type in a four letter word, two three letter words, and a five letter word. After saving the file and reopening it, the text is garbled. Some combinations of words reveal the bug, others don’t. One example is “this app can break”. This fondly reminded me of John Hargrave’s infinitely excellent Notepad Rap circa 1999.
Breaking the Law (of Hostname Canonicalization)
Mailman is a great little program written in Python that lets you manage mailing lists. I was tasked with installing it on a new machine last week, and I got to learn about canonicalization the hard way. All of the emails sent by our server out to the mailing lists were using the host name instead of the DNS A record for the Mailman VirtualHost. I tried for days to fix this and eventually got the feeling that it was DNS related. However, I still couldn’t see why Sendmail would force the To-header back to the canonical name when Mailman was setting it correctly.
Eventually, I happened across this email on Mailman’s dev list that solved the problem by removing one of sendmail.cf’s canonicalization rules. I’m sure this violates some RFC. Although, the hack does indeed solve the problem. The actual wizardry was to comment out the following line in sendmail.cf.
# pass to name server to make hostname canonical # R$* $| $* < @ $* > $* $: $2 < @ $[ $3 $] > $4
It’s absolutely wrong to do this because if you edit sendmail.mc, and restart sendmail, the cf file gets regenerated automatically which obliterates the change. Is there a better way to fix this without violating RFCs and changing sendmail rulesets? Note: I don’t have access to the DNS server.
NWCWG
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BJ and I invented some new abbreviations for instant messaging today. It started off with him suggesting RAYFL which is a kooky misspelling of ROFL. Often, he will use ROWFULL or even ROFFLE as alternatives to the ubiquitous ROFL. Later, he redefined RAYFUL to mean, “Ransacking All Your Fences, Unicycles, Levies”. I then added NWCWG to the lexicon as an abbreviation for Letterman’s ill-fated “Now We’re Cooking with Gas”. After that, BJ proposed TAEITR for “There’s an elephant in the room.” I then started to think of the meaningless drivel that people use instead of having a personality. We need to abbreviate those too.
BJ, then created some totally nonsensical ones.
Feel free to disregard this. It was all a massive mistake. (FFTDTIWAAMM). |
