captbrando's log

An interesting story about seafood exports from China. To combat all the sewage dumped into the lake, officials have devised an utterly nonsensical fix-it. They’ve released 1.5 million silver carp, each of which can eat up to 100 pounds of algae. The problem here is that fish eat algae, bigger fish eat the smaller fish,…

Barack: I am glad that you are paying attention to my state and understand its importance to your campaign. Recorded calls by you and/or your wife begging for my vote will change neither my disposition, nor my vote. The calls (2 out of 3 anyway) seem to conveniently interrupt family time, taking my attention away…

Yeah…. so turns out that the Davis weather system cables should REALLY not be used with a USB->Serial bridge. Really. So after some heroics, I have moved the weather station collection routine to another machine, and dump the results into the DB from there. Seems to be working just peachy now. The real trick is…

Well, in the time I spent goofing with the weather station, we lost some data (specifically, data we need to graph).  So right now, the script is barfing due to missing data points it needs to plot. Instead of rewriting the script to deal with this, we’ll just wait. Check back in about 6 hours.

Looks like the national Do Not Call list does not apply to politicians.  It sure would be nice if they honored it anyway.

So, as most of us in the world that dislike being interrupted during dinner, I am on the do not call list.  In the last day, I have been called by Michelle Obama (well, a recording anyway) asking for my vote for Barak. Do not call list. So is something that is now law not…

Man, what a cluster.  James came over and we started pounding through it.  It was not until I did some major hacking of the scripts I use until I figured out why…  What is worse, the whole PHP problem turned out to be that I was not passing it a php.ini file to work with.…

Yep… Moving things over to the new Mac Pro, and in the process, I’m having some n00b challenges.  I hope to have the service restored by Monday.

Brandon Bird has come up with another classic, a Law & Order/Batman Crimefighters T-shirt. With Jack McCoy protecting Gotham City, nothing could go wrong! (Via T-Shirt Blog.)