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“Is this also the internet?”

Steffen — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 08:15:15 +0000

Just overheard this. And I must admit, I adore such blankness. P1 and P2 is two people talking in front of a computer.

P1: It this also the internet?

P2: Yes.

P1: I always go down there (pointing to some other place of the screen). That’s also an internet.

Seams there is multiple internets all over the place. That’s very fortunate, eh.

Bricksmith / kristianbust.dk

Steffen — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 18:28:30 +0000

I recently stumbled upon a Lego Cad like program called Bricksmith, see [0]. It’s good fun, but like all Cad programs ( i presume) not easy to use at first. It’s mac only, alas. But some of you (i hope more then Madsen reads this, fx. Morten also) might like it.

I made a stupid “drawing” which can be seen on Kristian Bust’s new website [1]. Worth to check out, the website that is, if your into non-conform art with something to say.

[0] http://bricksmith.sourceforge.net/
[1] http://kristianbust.dk

MOTU by Blu

Steffen — Fri, 23 May 2008 08:58:49 +0000

I normally don’t post links to stuff already out there, since i find it a wast of bandwidth. And since is a redundancy-blog trend i don’t really want to participate in. But this will have to be the exception to that rule. I just need to show some respect. Enjoy.

iconv — change text encoding of a file

Steffen — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 07:35:46 +0000

I just saw this on the DK-TUG mail list. I seam to be the tool I’ve been wanting for years but been to slack to find. “Slack” since i couldn’t imagine that such tool should not exist. It’s ‘iconv‘ [0] and works like this:

% iconv -f UTF-8 -t ISO-8859-1 old-utf8-file.txt > new-iso88591-file.txt

[0] http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/documentation/libiconv/iconv.1.html

What’s up with my milk?

Steffen — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 09:04:04 +0000

Doesn’t the icon that in this case, the milk case, says “open this way” remind you of something? Something that you thought was out of your life, and then it all of a sudden invades your Saturday morning coffee. It’s profane. That dear innocent milk, i hope it is – I’m giving the best of credits till it’s guilt has been proven, has been infected by the beast. It has come to my home, it has chosen a soft and holy moment for it’s Trojan invasion. God damn it.

Koldskål 2:4:6

Steffen — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 10:00:41 +0000

We use Palle’s mom’s recipe as it is so easy to recall. So easy that it’s sometimes hard to remember and begs to be mod’ed. Erm.

It’s: 1L yogurt, 1L buttermilk. That makes 2L of cow stuff. Then the double of chicken stuff, ie. 4 egg yolks. Preferable without salmonella. Then 6 spoonfuls of sugar. And finally at least 1 spoonful of vanilla. You could go with less, like 1 tea-spoonful, vanilla if you’d approach the real mom recipe. The easiness is in the relation 2:4:6, if you notice. Now stir. Then eat with so called kammerjunker (can be seen in the above picture) — preferable on a sunny day.

Scale — “digits, yes please”

Steffen — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 20:47:47 +0000

Just now and again one need a one-liner [0]. Just now and again it’s executed in bash [1]. Just now and again it involves some calculation. And just now and again it easy to do those things with bc [2] as it can read from standard input [3]. But at exactly those “now and again” times I normally find that bc truncates and returns only the integer part. Which at a subset of those “now and again” times are just not good enough. F.x.: one might be fuzzy about the resolution when counting how many keystrokes there are to go in order to have produced the scheduled amount of text for the day.

But fortunately I today got wiser; I met the scale variable in bc. It properly still truncates but now I can set a resolution that at least satisfy my fuzziness issue, which means I can now M-! my way to the following one-liner to get what i want.

C=`wc -c main.tex | cut -c 4-8`; P=`echo "scale=4; ${C}/2400" | bc`; echo ${C}c, ${P}p

Bliss. Back to work.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-liner_program
[1] http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/
[2] http://www.gnu.org/software/bc/
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_input#Standard_input_.28stdin.29

Rugbrød update, sunflower seed

Steffen — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 11:37:42 +0000

This is an update to the Rugbrød post [1]. By adding 3/2 dL of sunflower seeds when mixing in the rye flour etc on the second day makes nice sunflower seed rugbrød (solskikke rugbrød, da). Below is a picture of how it looks.

[1] http://lillesvin.net/archives/178

Silly signs

Steffen — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 13:15:43 +0000

Well. This is a really pointless post about a few phone-cam shots.

Phones come with wee cams that are usually quite bad. Or at least mine is. But it allows for snapshot photography at anytime you’ve got your phone at hand. You knew that already, right. Here are “two”. Both silly.

The first is a car parking reservation for Søren Kierkegaard although they spelled his name wrong. So it’s there in case he’d need it. It might not look appealing but it’s located very close to where he resides at Assistentens.

The other is directions for what to do in case of war. Just hide in the bin at the men’s room at Nørrehus bodega — it should be bomb-proof.

New Straps

Steffen — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 16:44:15 +0000

When your old straps can be pulled to break, as seen in the picture, then it’s above time to get new ones.

I’ve just got a pair of Soma leather single straps [1]. See also the pictures below. It feels like getting clean underwear after a week of wearing the same. — Which is great.

I guess it would be the same with any new straps. These are in no way special nor elegant. There prime force being that they are cheap but good enough for street riding. — I hope.