Kattrap Tech Notes

I don't know what you're talking about but

2012-01-27T15:38:00.001-08:00

From the reviews of the PS2 Taiko game...

2012-01-19T13:00:00.000-08:00

Your daily WTF.

Two wins from my new hero

2011-06-03T11:23:00.000-07:00

Teammate/Partner-in-crime down. "Oh, I'm not feeling up to it, I'll race GS and maybe not DH"... and ends up with first place on both. Other teammate down. That's cool, she can kick ass for the both of them. Good luck in Scotland.

Saving my ass

2011-01-19T15:09:00.000-08:00

awk '{ printf("%s,%s\n", FILENAME, $0)}' * > ALLRESULTS.csvand now I owe a coworker a nice lunch.

Adventures in mock foods

2011-01-11T18:15:00.000-08:00

Went to 99Ranch and picked up all sorts of cool food that we can't find locally. One was "Homey Gourmet Vegetarian Food" Vegetarian Mock Drumstick. There are no directions on the package on how to cook them. Not even a picture of a pan. Li-Ter is the manufacturer, and their website, straight from Malaysia, "dedicates our greatest gratitude" to the "immortal loyalty of our customers". I wish they

Transportation in the US

2010-11-23T14:43:00.000-08:00

Why did it need to come this far? I'm glad for the backlash against privacy invasion and harassment. Fear and complacency will return after this short commercial break. Perhaps a year or two from now I'll look at this post as the tipping point for security reform. Or the tip of the iceberg.

VMware specific posts have moved

2010-11-03T14:14:00.000-07:00

go drink your vKoolaid. vkoolaid.blogspot.com

Prop 21 fail :(

2010-11-03T14:11:00.001-07:00

People who don't want to see the forest or the trees have screwed over our state parks. Again.

MLS 81034439

2010-07-14T18:21:00.000-07:00

Dear Anyone interested in MLS 81034439 in Santa Cruz California, Having recently vacated the top half of this listing I can assure you that nothing has been maintained appropriately for at least the last 15 years. Please do yourself a favor and put a new roof on before winter. Feel free to contact me for further information.

TANG - hold the press!

2009-10-23T23:09:00.001-07:00

I got some tang from snob hill tonight. Says "Great NEW Flavor" on the front. Kraft hasn't updated their website to show the changes with this "Great NEW Flavor"s ingredients.Ingredients:Sugar, citric acid, <2% of natural and artificial flavor, ascorbic acid, maltodextrin, calcium phosphate, guar and xanthan gums, sodium acid pyrophosphate, artificial color, yellow 5, yellow 6, BHAYep. No

I can finally name you..

2009-10-10T10:31:00.001-07:00

Late summer and fresh meaty tomatoes makes me think of Spain. Manresa.Large long loaves of bread sliced thick at a diagonal. Tomato smearedon top, a bit of salt and a whisper of olive oil. I never learned yourname, I just called you tomato bread and share with anyone who willlisten. Now I can name you, although mispronouncing horribly.Pa amb tomàquet.

Furlough Info

2009-10-01T16:54:00.001-07:00

Here's some info from the Department of Labor:According to this no furlough days or vacation should be applied foron call coverage. You should be paid your regular full time wages forthe time period covering on-call duties.According to the FLSA, if a salaried employee works for a single partof a day, the employer must pay the salary for the entire work week.Carrying his phone, staying in town and

Dear lord protect me...

2009-09-02T13:08:00.001-07:00

I said a short prayer when mounting my bike today in the city for thefirst time. After watching SF bike commuters for two days it seemedappropriate. Maybe some holy water for tomorrow...-- Sent from my mobile device

Bonny Doon wines... WTF?

2009-08-16T20:39:00.001-07:00

I was looking at BD's website (found out that nothing is actuallygrown in BD since 1994-or-so)...anyway. A big push on the site fromthe owner that all vineyards practice biodynamic ag practices..http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodynamic_wineBecause I am quoting wikipedia, I'll copy out the "What the Fuck"version below that I read: * Preparation 500 - Cow manure is buried in cow horns in the

70 years and counting

2009-06-17T13:05:00.001-07:00

DSC_1928.JPGOriginally uploaded by Mark JulianaDear Dojo,Thank you so much for all your kind Birthday wishes. I am indeed blessed to have such support.It has been delightful to reach this milestone. I am disappointed, however, that wisdom did not come along with the aging process. I will continue to work diligently on that.With best wishes and many thanks,--Glen (on the left who is harder to find

Kimuchi Yoi

2009-06-10T20:28:00.000-07:00

First off, sorry if you're computer can't handle the characters. This post is just silly anyway.I received a business card today with the above japanese kanji calligraphy and the romanji translation below it: "Kimuchi Yoi". Curious as I am with kanji, I see ki that I'm familiar with, only it looks like it's missing a stroke. No idea what the other ones mean. So I go to google and try to look up

Jacks Peak Monterey County Park Map

2009-06-06T09:58:00.001-07:00

I don't how the intarwebs gets away with having shitty park maps. Going to the official site or a quick google search comes back with the blurry Official blue crayon map, or this multi-jpeg obnoxious one. As luck would have it, I came across this brochure that looks like it still has the psd extension in the name and does not contain the word "MAP" as one might assume it would. It's also not

Are we here again? Really?

2009-05-29T17:04:00.001-07:00

As an unhappy Part II to CA State Park closures, we have this lovelylist of possible closures this year due to state budget cuts.http://www.calparks.org/takeaction/closurelist.htmlNow please...comeon. Really?

More company profiles

2009-04-29T12:00:00.001-07:00

Probar (LLC): Calorie dense not raw meal bars. Tasty.Probar looks to be a private company, probably outsourcing theproduction of their bars. Based primarily in Utah. So other thanpossibly giving money to mormons, I approve. I actually have thecurrent Prez as a 3rd connection via LinkedIn.Organic food bar / organic active greens (Bio International):Powerbar-ish mostly raw good for you bars.Organic

And now for something completely different

2009-03-20T15:41:00.001-07:00

You knew it was true. Tim Curry is the voice of God.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0166990/

Old Dell hardware fluke

2009-03-04T15:24:00.000-08:00

raises it's ugly head. Updating the PERC controller on a 2850 makesthe local vmfs volume inaccessible, even on 3.5 u3. Luckily thecommands for the workaround from 3.0 are still valid. KB Article1001577 : http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1001577Now I thought I updated to the latest PERC firmware..back to thesoftware update repos...

stupid easy PS vm disk info

2009-02-10T11:51:00.001-08:00

There are lots of fancy ways to get esx disk info from powershell.Some that I found gave "interestin" results so this is my KISSversion: Get-VM | Get-Harddisk | export-csv c:\temp\disk.csvI take out the junk I don't need and then do a data -> text to columnsto parse out the [datastore] vm_name\vmdiskname.vmdkraw data good.

larabars pwned

2009-01-20T12:52:00.001-08:00

I missed the announced global takeover of larabar last June to GeneralMills. Now guess what? They change the supplier to some megaconglomerate and need to recall because of possible salmonella.I for one welcome our " corporation of america" overlords.Homemade larabars from now on... not because of the peanuts but thegeneral mills.

Must ... Stop ... Coveting

2009-01-05T09:57:00.001-08:00

Soho 2009 in Marchhttp://www.trekbikes.com/us/en/story/urban/I do not need a new bike, I do not need a new bike, I do not need anew bike, I do not need a new bike, I do not need a new bike...

The beauty of real estate ads

2009-01-03T20:13:00.001-08:00

I went to scope out a piece of property, address unlisted, that Ifound online. I give you the rainbow-tinged view (straight from therealtor's website) and real version of a small un-permitted cabin inthe wilderness.

Ninjas!

2008-12-17T11:57:00.001-08:00

I will collect them all. Why can't I find someone online that haslinks to all the super cute pictures available on this gmail theme?Screw the mountains!

Measure 8 passes

2008-11-05T17:07:00.001-08:00

Places where I will not be holding my next big fat gay wedding:Amador CountyButte CountyCalaveras CountyColusa CountyDel Norte CountyEl Dorado CountyFresno CountyGlenn CountyImperial CountyInyo CountyKern CountyKings CountyLassen CountyMadera CountyMariposa CountyMerced CountyModoc CountyPlumas CountyRiverside CountySan Bernardino CountySan Joaquin CountyShasta CountySierra CountySiskiyou

Loosing my identity

2008-07-26T15:24:00.001-07:00

For the record, I do not have a myspace or facebook profile. If you see someone listed as kattrap on most social networking sites, it's someone else. I've also never done a dance called the "batman"...

Hardy Heron is well..not hardy

2008-04-16T18:44:00.001-07:00

T60 laptop with intel wireless and ati graphics... I had the wonderful idea recently to convert my windows laptop to a VM and run ubuntu as the primary OS. With 7.10 Gutsy this actually worked pretty well except for some video problems. Some forum posts talked about how ati driver problems would be resolved with hardy so i took the plunge. and am still waiting to surface. Firefox 3 beta 5 still

Don't get me started on "Humane Meat"...

2008-02-02T12:59:00.001-08:00

http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8UHQ3D80.htmThe basis of the story is that HSUS has a tape from a particularslaughterhouse with employees beating on "downed" cows. So largebusinesses are banning/boycotting meat from this particularslaughterhouse.Does anyone else see how this is missing the bigger picture??A few days ago I was reading some depressing free peninsula newspaperand came

OMG ubuntu 7.10

2007-12-11T22:15:00.001-08:00

Everything that is shiny and wow and slow and broken in Vista andeverything that is shiny and wow and slow in Leopard is shiny and wowand fast and working in ubuntu 7.10. I love a working compiz. Oh, andwpa2-psk ftw.

Hike?

2007-11-05T21:10:00.001-08:00

Harvey West Park to Pogonip to UCSC to Felton to Henry Cowell toPogonip to Harvey West Park? Why Not?View Larger Map

Pescadero Creek Co. Park Ghosts

2007-07-15T15:20:00.001-07:00

First time at this park. I did the tarwater loop (very easy). THE most beautiful drive I never thought possible getting here from Hwy 17. The park was haunted and didn't want me there. I'm used to hiking alone, in strange parks, sometimes even in the dark. I don't freak out easily and this place freaked me out.You know how it is when someone jumps up behind you? That happened. Of course, no-one

Not the I want to get in the habit, but..

2007-06-22T09:17:00.001-07:00

Looks like I'm not the only one that can't stand some of the made-upwords that have come out of the intarwebs:http://slashdot.org/articles/07/06/22/010255.shtml

Mark of the Beast

2007-06-13T23:07:00.001-07:00

My last day of my old job was 6/6, and I joked about how it would have been more fitting if I quit last year on the same day...some people got the joke. I started my new job Monday and so far, the mark of the beast has followed me. Monday: My new computer has the asset tag 1666. Tuesday: Lunch call number was 66. Today: First cell phone bill I used 666Kb of internet time. I'm not sure what this

ACPI Success!

2007-06-10T21:46:00.001-07:00

My inner tech support esteem is now a little higher. I got this 12" toshiba laptop in March (U200-ST2091) and have been unable to get ACPI working correctly on it under Windows XP or any linux distro. I was tearing my hair out; always shutting it down.. But no, I refused to call Toshiba. Today? Updated my BIOS and ta-da! ACPI happiness (no other changes to drivers or software in XP). So, it

Music Genre Revelation

2007-05-14T10:42:00.001-07:00

I was surfing through iTunes as I sometimes do and pulled up the genre column on the default display. Wow. It seems as if you speak in spanish, all of your music is "iTunes Latino". Pop, Mariachi, Rap, Ska... it doesn't matter. How fscking racist is that? Does language really matter that much, or does the sound categorize the music? I couldn't even list all the languages that my library contains

Hiking

2007-04-06T00:24:00.001-07:00

I want to build a site. An awesome site. One with lots of pretty trail pictures that you can navigate around and decide on your own damn trail to take (not something listed in a book). Oh, and dog information. This is sorely lacking on every other site. Speaking of other sites ('cuz I don't *really* want to take the time to build my own) trails.com sucks. I can't find anything and I never get

Trixxy SEO practice

2007-03-19T08:44:00.001-07:00

A friend was zooming around teh intarwebs and caught a site that was totally legit execpt for some nasty nasty links in the sourcecode. He asked me what was going on and I noticed that before the links was a quick javascript: Results?

Toshiba laptop take two

2007-03-17T19:04:00.001-07:00

I installed a variety of Slackware distros on the laptop with varyingdegrees of finding the hardware and playing nice with the otherdistros already installed. It seems that VectorLinux is the smoothestof the slackware distros at the moment and Ubuntu is still theslickest linux distro of them all (I use plain slack and debian forservers, but when I would like something already fairly setup, I

New Toshiba laptop (U200-ST2092) and Vista Home Basic 1st impressions

2007-03-03T15:29:00.001-08:00

My new laptop came, a customized U200-ST2092. This thing is as light as they get. I'm not digging to much on the 12.1" widescreen, but that seems to be all that is available. I am glad that the fan output is on the side and not (like all Dell laptops) on the bottom. The hard drive is pretty exposed on the bottom, I would hate to see it near any water!Starting up for the first time had me run

I hate "blogosphere".

2007-03-02T10:11:00.001-08:00

In my not so humble opinion, every time I see someone use the word "blogosphere" their IQ drops 20 points. Multiple times? Good as a being technologically retarded. It makes me want to bash their head against their keyboard so that maybe their idiocy might sink in. There are some memes that just don't need to exist. Podcast and its friends "Artcast", "Blogcast", "Vodcast" are other meaningless

Flickr

2007-02-22T21:43:00.001-08:00

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

"Domo, Mako desu" y "Gung Hay Fat Choy"

2007-02-19T01:33:00.000-08:00

Apple has their own set of ads for Japan (not dubbed over the US adslike they have done for other countries). Couldn't resist a linky:http://www.apple.com/jp/getamac/ads/Also, today is the Lunar new year. Thought I would really screw withthe subject of the post by having three languages (romanization-ized).

Finally... a text editor that I like on a Mac

2007-01-28T22:54:00.001-08:00

I've tried just about every text editor that you can get for a mac.I'm usually coding in html/css/php. There is this constant problem with programs that don't seem to be able to follow syntax highlightingover multiple lines of code. You would think that would be a given.When I'm on a PC, I use dreamweaver. I use dreamweaver for only two reasons: 1) good syntax highlighting 2) built-in ftp support

Out of Warranty

2007-01-12T13:31:00.000-08:00

I doublechecked the warranty status on my work computer. It was top of the line when purchased...now it's three years old. I've been here three years.

Tom the Toad

2007-01-03T21:22:00.001-08:00

Magners / Bulmers

2006-12-30T15:59:00.001-08:00

Cider is a beautiful thing. Yes. I will drive 2.5 hours to get my fix.Still can't find them in Santa Cruz, but Mike's Liquors in SanFrancisco has them. http://www.mikesliquors.com. Got somehonest-to-goodness real pints this time, not the 6packs.

Ouch

2006-12-26T20:00:00.001-08:00

Did a 9ish mile hike around Fall Creek today... two more than myusual. I'm walking around like my grandma.

Testing from email

2006-10-23T09:52:00.000-07:00

I changed some of the defaults of the blogger account...this shouldautomagicly publish a new blog post. Also added comment moderation.You can easily add other people to be able to post to the blog (likeboth chris & steph).

Frist Post!

2006-10-23T09:36:00.000-07:00

Taking a New Horizon's class this week and haven't gotten to anything new or interesting yet. Thought I would check if my blogger recommendation was good or not.