OldMiner
- user since
- Thu Apr 3 2003 at 07:44:03 (5.6 years ago )
- last seen
- Tue Nov 18 2008 at 23:43:19 (7 hours ago )
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- 1 (Novice) / 815
- C!s spent
- 7
- most recent writeup
- September 11, 2007
Greetings! Are you sporting a long, white beard, a bulbous bowl full of heart-attack-inducing jelly about your midsection, and a curious affection for red velvet? No? Then this might not be for you. I'm notoriously bad about giving suggestions for holidays, which has resulted in an overflowing supply of cotton socks and Michael-Jordan-sponsored underwear. Let's see if I can rectify this. The winters are cold, and I still like going out running and biking in the inclimate weather. Things that might assist with this such as thin-but-warm gloves (that I will somehow not misplace); hats, masks, and hoods that stay in place on their own (that I will somehow not misplace); wool socks (that the dryer will somehow not misplace); and other items of warmth would be heartily appreciated. If you could be so kind, I wear almost exclusively black. In the less fabricy area, I am always on the look out for pirate regalia, as I celebrate International Talk Like a Pirate Day with a fair amount of vigor. I wear, uh, less black those days. As a third option, I have long hair which I frequently tie back for eating or traveling purposes. Any interesting device with which to secure my mangy mane would be appreciated as well. Hope these suggestions help. May you be touched by his noodly appendage during the coldest times of the year. AIM: e2OldMiner Catbox: Home of Misquoting"Great...penis...roommate." -Swap This Isn't GrowingDon't want to be one of those people who are confidently trying to impress each other with their hard work even though I am. S3 said something very much the same in the catbox sometime recently and it bugged me because I identified with it. He said he didn't want to interrupt the people all trying to awe each other. In case you haven't read him in that forum, despite his exactness and clarity in his writeups, S3 often adds bits of fancifulness, completely unconnected to events at present. Sometimes it's harsh criticism of something recently said. And sometimes it's just a fancy way of putting a sentence together. It's having fun with words and thoughts. That's what E2 had that got me in all the right places, why I still haunt here. That and pushin' niceness. I'd like to bring that back, even if I have nothing to do with doing so. Pretentiousness is a bad habit. He Deletes My Nodeshells, but I Still Like Him<dannye> I'm now pissing in French. I've seemingly developed a urinary tract inflection. I was once told by one of my favorite teachers that I had something in common with Mark Twain. Apparently we're both cynics brought about by our idealism meeting reality. My worst habits include trying to sound smarter than I am and not turning in homework because it's only 90% done. There are those who talk of benevolent sexism, wherein seemingly benign or even desirable traits are brought forth from a crooked idea. It's like Bizarro honor. I say, benevolent egocentrism exists, and I am its ambassador. It's my fault, and the less aware/comfortable/awake I am, the more it is. There are those who claim that only when one is sleeping does her true personality appear.
politicalcompass.org tell me I am: Interestingly, their sample chart of notable people's compass includes absolutely no one in the same quadrant. While I'm at it, my Bartle Quotient notes: Explorer 93% Achiever 60% Socializer 26% Killer 20% I've mapped a few MUDs that no one, even the gods, had a map to. And now I don't actively play any MUDs anymore. This node needs some editing. Somewhere near Green's Theorem, there's a pocket holding a list of writeups which are marked for downvotes. It's short enough, which is why it fits inside that little pocket. All entries contain glaring errors which have been pointed out. All are by authors who did not see fit to respond positively to being informed of such errors. One hopes at least one of these attitudes will be adjusted prior to this node's reaching level 2. Having been blessed with votes a few times, I saw fit to mostly upvote and disregard the aforementioned list. The list of writeups to upvote is much longer anyhow, and more deserving of such attention. That list is partially represented far below. It's better that others can see it. Anyhow, there is no pocket of sufficient depth available for that rambling catalog. Thank goodness. I got annoyed reading a lot of long homenodes with a <strike> tag through all of it. Moreover, people seem to think that a smaller font size plus strikethrough is readable. Well, I guess it depends on your eyes. So, being the resourceful comp sci guy I am, I whipped out my user style sheet.
strike {
color: blue;
text-decoration: none;
}
But some people, they seem to like abbreviating things. They use this <s> tag. Forgot about that one. Whoops. But, oddly, no one who uses that tag has done in a fashion that made text unreadable. Perhaps this is a comment on efficiency. Use Windows 98/ME/XP/2000? Have Active Desktop enabled? Like playing with CSS? Go into Internet Explorer, Tools Menu, Internet Options, click on the "Accessibility" button, set a user style sheet, click OK. The entirety of your desktop is one big div. Me, I'd like to have:
body>div:first-child {
border: 40px dotted white;
}
Looks like lightbulbs all around Jack's wonderful portrait. Of course, it does weird things to web pages sometimes. I'm working on putting a selector in there or some such. Watch this space. But there is wonkiness in Internet Explorer. Quirks Mode reports that Internet Explorer does not [ properly ] honor the child selector, either ignoring the entire rule, or considering the selector to be a descendent selector (as if there were just a space). However, this isn't a terrible issue. The weirdness lies in that I, oddly enough, like having one stylesheet that I stick into Mozilla, Safari, and IE. IE, I primarily use for making my desktop look pretty. As such, it doesn't matter if IE can't render most websites reasonably. Therefore, the following compromise was devised:
body div {
border: 40px dotted white;
}
body>div, body * div {
border: 2px dotted pink;
}
So all divs which descendents of body (should be all of them), should have a 40 pixel, dotted, white border. Oh, but, WAIT, I changed my mind. Instead, all divs which are a direct descendent of body should have a 2 pixel, pink, dotted border. Oh, and make that apply to all divs which are more than one descendent away from body -- oh, but that's ALL of them. XP is an imaginary number granted to you by an anonymous stranger. Do not attribute to malice what can be explained more innocently. Ask before raising your ire. I called because I felt terribly around the corners of my life, and they felt more than terrible. I called because I remember that when I talked to you, I always felt better. You didn't answer because you weren't there. You didn't answer because we planned to not talk again. Planning was never my strong suit. Planning always made for big ideas that seemed so small in reality. I wrote this here because you would never know to read it. I wrote this here because it would hurt you to know the truth. Bookmarks organized.This are items I'd like to node and have some idea about, but need to do more research on. Do what you feel is right regarding beating me to noding these.
NodeshellsThese are primarily dictionary definition nodeshells which I since looked up in Meriam Webster. Copyright law being what it is, I can't directly node these things, so I plan on doing a bit of research for books which utilize these words. Nothing like dictionary entries with references. Then again, I'm sure Oxford keeps such things when they add new words to their dictionary.
Deserving WriteupsBeing presently incapable of voting, but planning on being around long enough to at least grant a C! or two, I figured I'd keep track of nodes I found particularly well done.
Of InterestThese are links I know I want to visit again, but don't have the room to keep in my short list of Personal Links.
Broken NodesWhen I find typos in nodes, I either message the author, if they've been around in the last three months, submit a notice to broken nodes, or make a note to myself for later. This last option is common when I've already submitted a writeup to broken nodes, but it has since been marked for destruction, so I must wait till the next day to post the new fixes. These have been filed already
The bookmarks below are notes to myself about nodes I either wish to add to or wish to use to add to other nodes pointed to here. This means they're probably boring. Be warned that I sometimes bookmark things just because they have typos that I don't have the time to correct right away. (I've tried to stop bookmarking that way because have too many unsorted bookmarks already. Sometimes I forget to go back to fix typos.) Therefore, do not view these as endorsements. |
User Bookmarks:
- edebroux
- lame
- TTL
- RPM
- current
- BNF
- vector
- defeat
- European Union
- Loveline
- wazoo
- dom
- totem pole
- Apocalypse
- Mum
- Tulsa, Oklahoma
- Perspective Corrected texture Mapping
- subdivision surfaces
- Land of the Dead
- Gene Amdahl
- Document Analysis
- arrogance
- VCO
- peristalsis
- parent class
- Do we forgive our fathers in their time or in our time?
- yield
- Zardoz
- Inuit
- outfield
- Nephthys
- acrylic
- Brown sugar
- Pictures of Everythingians
- LPC
- Knesset
- context-free grammar
- Dulce et Decorum Est
- Amidogen
- Benzyl
- Evaporative
- Inductor
- Mixer
- Paraxial
- Phenyl
- Semaphore
- Spline
- Subversion
- The *REAL* Obfuscated Perl
- big number
- Touch the Hem of His Garment
- platonic solid
- lieutenant commander
- Loebner Prize
- My computer won't let me turn it off!
- smash the stack
- Incestuous Everything
- How amelinda retroactively changed early Judaic lore
- Charlemagne
- Teach Yourself Scheme
- answer: missionaries and cannibals
- Perfect Hash Functions
- I would beg to see your arms raised in calcification towards the expanding horizon
- The haunting awkwardness of ex-girlfriends
- Nothing is as important as it first seems
- Single space after a period at the end of a sentence
- I don't want to be a weeping mass of emotion, but I am
- What did you do for your mother today?
- hramyaegr
- How to cut and paste in Mac OS
- sprintf
- My first comet
- Buying a mattress
- Things Fall Apart
- Better Living Through Circuitry
- .forward
- sscanf
- Error: Too many errors
- XPath
- Chess notation
- I know what holds up traffic - in 5 words! (idea)
- spherical harmonics
- Create your own Everything2 Holiday
- Charles Grodin
- Why Be Bitter?
- Bentley Motors
- relief texture mapping
- The Gone, Growing in Number
- Sometimes, all you can be is a friend
- Words that don't mean the same as they used to
- Why do computer geeks feel they were born in the wrong time?
- Open Firmware
- OSDN
- Sleeping with a great dane
- Things I had not seen before coming to America
- FreeDB
- Doug Winger
- A short history in a long scar
- Aliyah
- What happens when you get too lonely (idea)
- Self-referential nostalgia of questionable historical value
- cellular automaton
- Well, I was tired of being 24 anyway, so there
- Superconductor
- PGA
- Verilog
- I hope there is someone in your life to tell you how beautiful you are
- We don't write poetry because it's cute
- A* algorithm
- JPEG artifacts
- ipsilateral connections
- phenylpropanolamine
- What Everything does better than anything else
- Theriomorphic Egyptian Gods (idea)
- Thanks to Internet Explorer, I am an Amsterdam Voyeur
- ICC
- Faraday's Laws
- XML (thing)
- The sun was caught playing unashamedly in her auburn hair, setting our world on fire with giddiness
- How to permanently repair wire
- Evil Ryu
- C++: computing Fibonacci numbers at compile time
- C++: What's this? A reference?
- Open letter to God
- MSIE link border
- Cut and Paste in X
- This New Ocean: A History of Project Mercury
- What question is its own answer?
- sleeper (thing)
- double precision
- Permission Denied (idea)
- The old abandoned Internet, off on the edge of town
- redox potential
- Editor Log: November 10, 4004 B.C.
- Shooting people with your gun at a -90 degree transformation
- Kalman Filter
- Shannon channel capacity
- USB (thing)
- Changing the Alpha Tag on Nokia Phones
- Miller Effect
- I don't want to be here when you don't call.
- BadMojo
- oversampling
- anthropod
- genealogy (idea)
- yotta (idea)
- Aline's number is alone with itself
- Computer programming - The ultimate power trip (idea)
- circumcision (thing)
- Ad-aware
- AFI Top 100 list of thrilling films
- Aioli
- How not to drive a hard bargain (idea)
- Good Pirate/Bad Pirate
- E2 Validation
- National Electrical Code
- This program cannot be run in DOS mode (thing)
- call $+5
- floppy ears
- Some thoughts about the Language of Thought
- brown noise (thing)
- Shakespeare Programming Language
- Everything2 is a community
- BRDF
- specular highlight
- Phong illumination model
- About ekw theme
- Steiner Point
- Marbury v. Madison
- users with codehome
- UN resolutions relating to Israel vetoed by the US
- Cued speech
- This place needs more actual content. Let's begin. (idea)
- November 26, 2001 (idea)
- ≡
- Searching E2 from a Mozilla location bar
- mannose
- Wolfram's classes of cellular automata
- GLX
- How to DDoS your University's Engineering School
- Raven (thing)
- God Rest Ye Unitarians
- Tranquility Calendar
- She told me I looked like a Henry, and this is how she would know me
- phase-locked loop
- root log: February 2002 (thing)
- polyethylene terephthalate
- It's easier to drink on an empty stomach than to eat on a broken heart
- Archived E2 FAQ: How to cite your sources
- Applescript linking
- Brady's reagent
- quadrature encoder
- Editor Log: May 2002 (idea)
- United States v. Lucite Ball Containing Lunar Material (thing)
- plasma cloud fractal
- Increase the chance of recovering a stolen laptop
- motion detection
- CPU history: A timeline of microprocessors
- Pulse Code Modulation
- Visual Basic (idea)
- Jack Kerouac character reference key
- Copyright and Old Masters (idea)
- MS Worm (thing)
- Nematic and smectic
- Tierra o Muerte: Land or Death (place)
- So there I was, naked and hiding, facing the dissertation committee from the Isle of Lesbos (idea)
- SIGTITLE
- When the fall is all that's left it matters a great deal
- CSS positioning
- Pentium Processor Cores
- Aldehyde (thing)
- Love cookies
- To attract fireflies
- Filesystem performance tweaking with XFS on Linux (idea)
- Memoir of a Well-Intentioned Man
- August 26, 2003 (thing)
- How to knit socks (idea)
- To think that there are kids today that have never used a joystick
- Why there is no moloch13
- To Kill a Mockingbird (idea)
- Black is the Colour of my True Love's Hair
- diagonal argument (idea)
- The Harriet Tubman Offense (idea)
- The Soviet economy before Stalin (thing)
- poison (thing)
- The Devil's Half-Acre (place)
- Limitations on Artificial Intelligence (essay)
- The Trickster Cycle (idea)
- It's better to have loved and lost (person)
- e^2
- Sex between a teacher and a student (idea)
- It's all happy endings and meaningful conversation until someone gets hurt
- I like you too
- C++: function templates and information hiding (idea)
- SSE2 (thing)
- eien_meru
- There is no such thing as a love story
- Canonical representation of polynomials (idea)
- American Civil War (idea)
- All Turkish members of al-Qaeda arrested so far grew up in Germany (thing)
- zero cross (thing)
- My mother vs my relationship (thing)
- 1931 European Letter from an MIT Grad, June 30 (person)
- Pink slips and big tips
- Death toll likely to rise
- ¡MULTIPLE ORGANISMS!
- Helping someone who practices self-mutilation (idea)
- V for Vendetta (idea)
- He who does not forget his first love will not recognize his last
- The mighty have fallen, and I don't feel too good myself
- Guile (idea)
- July 20, 2007 (person)
- moving slowly (idea)