2009-05-10
by Vasil Kolev”
Vacation days. I wondered and wondered when to take some, and they came by themselves.
I’m taking the prescribed drugs, I still haven’t reached the full dose, but it doesn’t do anything for the pain. Let’s see what’s next…
Also I feel pretty much absent-minded, it’s fun that it doesn’t affect my work. It’s like working in a fog or playing chess without looking – everything works, but I don’t really see that.
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… I wrote some days ago, and didn’t get to finishing it, being lazy isn’t a small thing.
(also, I reached the full dosage of the pills, didn’t help the pain).
x3
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d--0-----0-----0-----0-----0-----|---0----0-----0-----0-------0-----| x2 (Both riffs)
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(46&2, Tool, Aenima)
So – work, crap, in the last weeks I’ve started to have time again to read (not too easy), I’ve started with “Choke” by Palahniuk. I also read the book by Michael Chabon that won “Nebula” and “Hugo” – it’s totally undeserved, the books seem to have won only because of political reasons.
(on the book topic – in Orange I have to go Saturdays, as Sundays Svetla isn’t there and there’s no one to recommend new stuff to me)
I felt like writing something on the topic of technology and how it shouldn’t be treated as a religion or something really scary, but now I don’t.
For some reason I decided to try how some bass lines sound on the paino that’s at home (it’s the landlord’s) and today the guy that tunes is came. Turned out to be pretty complicated thing to do, I had gun thinking up some kind of optimising, which can calculate how tightened every stting to be. Looks like the system is going to be non-linear.
(to it would seem that Schism would be easier there, not like on the bass)
(and some nights I go to sleep, I lie in bed for half or one hour, I get up and go check how something would sound on the bass. I need stronger drugs)
So, nothing really interesting is happening (there’s something else, stuff on the online payments in Bulgaria, but I have no idea how much I can say right now).
And something a bit technical, which might turn to be useful – a lot of software has switched from text files, which they read in memory and parse, to sqlite – which leads to horrible problems, if the database is bigger that some tens of kilobytes – because there need to be a lot of lookups that need to be done to read everything and it’s not preloaded in memory, if for example you have two really big IMAP mailboxes in evolution, you can expect a lot of disk seeks until it’s checked everything. The same problem you can see with firefox and the auto-completion. I’ve solved this with the following two scripts that start them:
vasil@shrike:~$ cat /usr/local/bin/evo.sh #!/bin/sh cat ~/evolution/mail/imap/*/folders.db > /dev/null evolution vasil@shrike:~$ cat /usr/local/bin/ff.sh #!/bin/sh cat ~/.mozilla/firefox/*/places.sqlite > /dev/null firefox
And to finish – find some Bill Hicks and listen/watch him. Really fun, really cynical, at some moments downright evil, totally worth it.
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I loved when Bush came out and said, “We are losing the war against drugs.” You know what that implies? There’s a war being fought, and the people on drugs are winning it.
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