Station in the Metro

  • The Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires

    Saw this at the AFI theatre the other night, and it was spectacularly awful. There needs to be a word for that— spectaculawful or aw-ful-some or something… but I digress.

    Also known as “The Seven Brothers Meet Dracula” (and, in fact, the print we viewed had that title on screen), this flick saw the merging […]

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  • Embedding passwords in URLs

    This is more for me to remember it, as I’m guessing everyone else knows about this already. If you have a web or FTP site that you need to link someone to, but that site requires a user name and password, you can embed that information in the url as such:

    http://userid:password@www.anywhere.com/
    ftp://userid:password@ftp.anywhere.com/

  • Censored

    Just testing my new self-censoring, to make my site a tiny bit more safe for my parents. 😛

    The FCC’s (and George Carlin’s) seven dirty words are thus: shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, and tits. I’ve also made it a no-no to discuss God or his son, Jesus, though you can talk about gods, in the lowercase, all you like. You should also be able to safely say cockerel and titmouse, but not shite, even though I’d like to allow it, but have yet to figure out exactly how.

    And, of course, now I can safely say the true name of one of the best actors out there, Samuel L. Motherfucking Jackson.

    Oh, and I added a pirate smiley. :pirate: Yarrr!

  • Bitwise Operators?

    So, I’m working through Programming in Objective-C, and I come to the second half of Chapter 4: Data Types and Expressions, and I am totally stumped with the section on bitwise operators. I mean, I guess I understand what they’re doing, but the question I have at the moment is what use are they? […]

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  • Pocket Weather Forecaster

    Have any of you ever seen this? I came across it when I was doing some “spring cleaning.” — It’s a little paper weather forecaster with cutouts and a sliding paper chart for your region of the country inside. The idea is that you line up the paper with what kind of clouds you see, […]

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