Pun-Pun
Cleverly twisted manipulation of D&D 3.5E rules to create the godlike kobold “Pun-Pun”. Source: Pun-Pun (3.5e Optimized Character Build) – D&D Wiki
Author: Quinn
The PS4’s Cloud Save System Is Inadequate
… and this is why I’ve been unable to share/upload my Fallout 4 videos. When I get home, going to “Settings” -> “Application Saved Data Management” and turning “Auto Upload” OFF. I don’t even use this cloud-save system. Must’ve ticked the box when I was going through settings after purchase. In any case, their cloud system really does suck compared to XB1– which I have used when the little special lady-friend gamer comes over to play. In the comparison...
Shell Nuggets: Quickie Tabulizer
I’m real bad about things lining up. Used to go out of my way to ensure variable declarations were columnized by access mode, type, name, equals sign and initial value. final BufferedImage mapImg = MapImageFactory.newInstance(width, height); final int count = ad.getPosition() * 2; mapImg.composite(adImg, 25 , (this.adHeight + 20) * count + 20, Over); mapImg.composite(adTxt, 25 + this.adWidth, (this.adHeight + 20) * count + 20, Over); The Tabularizer plugin for vim was a boon for productivity. Well, mine. For everyone else,...
G+ Repost: Disney v. Lucasfilm
Beginning a series of copy-pastes of my comments posted on Google+, since few people read G+, and the comments are usually buried so deep that even fewer people will read them, and the ones I pick are usually worth a wider audience. Like fazigu.org. Yeah. I probably have a larger audience than Google’s social network. SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP. Anyhoo, this was one of those flash-polls on the Star Wars group. Two buttons with two logos: Disney and Lucasfilm...
The Coward’s Price For Sobriety
Six months. 31.5 times six. 93 days? I’m not particularly mathematically adept at this time. Nevertheless and irregardless– off the wagon. First, it was the party for a friend of my lover. Strong through an hour, maybe two. Then anxious. Then was asked to get a drink for her. Hers were weak. I nod and smile. To the bar. Drop a twenty. “Double vodka.” It was downhill from there. Down into “Proud Mary in the...
Head to Toe
Blue Angel. 1930. Before most of our parents were born. In Europe, lusty lust was not lost, but America diluted its fire water into warm milk. I’m gonna try to capture the spirit of Frederick Hollander’s lyrics made famous by Marlene Dietrich. Apologies to the dead for this poor man’s rendering of “Falling In Love Again”. Some side-wise beauty flickers, Some “je ne sais-pas-quoi”. Like fool’s gold, a glimmer, but the shine is faint and dull. And then my eyes catch yours, and then we’re face-to-face, and...
Why 80 characters?
Searching for reasonable values for the *.vt100.geometry[5-6] xterm menu font-menu options in my ~/.Xdefaults file, I re-stumbled a gem of computing history as the top-answer to a question on StackOverflow, and this pretty picture of an old IBM punch-card. Inspired by a perl script within the comments, I ran this shell pipe: 2015-07-23 10:30:00 :: ~ rons@rons-VM$ find /usr/share/terminfo/ -type f -printf ‘%f\n’ | xargs -n1 infocmp | egrep -o ‘cols#[0-9]+, *lines#[0-9]+’ | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head 489 cols#80, lines#24 58...
Shell Nuggets: Musing on Dates
Nigh ever day I happen across some gem tucked away in the opaque vista of the *nix command-line shell. While attempting to contrive the proper arguments for a date command interpolation, the following editorial injection from its GNU info entry caught my fancy. 28 Date input formats ********************* First, a quote: Our units of temporal measurement, from seconds on up to months, are so complicated, asymmetrical and disjunctive so as to make coherent mental reckoning in time all but impossible. Indeed, had some...