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Joined: 01 Nov 2012
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Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2012 10:33 pm
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Hey All,
Sorry, more total newbie questions. I was just wondering...will this mast base work on this mast track on the board?
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Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2012 11:41 pm
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Considering that you bought the whole board and rig as a package I would assume that is the right part. Insert it into the hole with the long side of the orange part perpendicular to the track. After it is fully inserted rotate the orange part 90 degrees so it lines up with the track. That should lock it in place.
I think the small silver wire may also slide to act as a secondary lock. Sorry I don't remember exactly since it has been almost 20 years since I have seen that part.
Looking at the part again you may have to slide the silver wire toward the hole before you rotate the orange plate.
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Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2012 9:22 am
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pretty certain it will. the button on the opposite side of the silver lever should side the whole gismo fore/aft
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Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2012 10:27 am
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Thanks, guys!
I gotta admit, I am just confused if this is the wrong connection to that mast track OR, that it's just I don't know what the heck I'm doing! The guy that sold it to me said he never actually sailed it. He showed me briefly how to put it together but at times looked uncertain himself. A big concern I have is that the UJ has a Mistral symbol on it and it's an F2 board (have no idea if they are universal). He showed me to shove the metal pin into the hole on the mast track and pull that little silver lever. It seemed reasonable, but when I got home and started assembling it, I notice the UJ just pops out of the hole in the track. As in other than the little metal pin protruding from the UJ actually being in the hole, there is nothing holding it in there! I tried every way I could think of, with the same result. None of the parts look worn or broken and they seem to fit. I guess it's that collar on that level you slide to lock it isn't gripping the pin. But looking at it...I don't see how its built to really even hold it that way anyway.
Other than that, everything else is in great shape. He said the sail rig was much newer than the board and it looks it. It's a 5.4 if I remember right with bag. It has a 2 piece mast, which is probably kinda heavy to today's standards, but feels light to me. A nice clamp on style boon, mast extension/base, up-haul line and all the other little parts. So even if the UJ is wrong and I can't find a replacement, I am super happy to have a nice complete sail rig. Now I can concentrate on finding a new board!
Also to add...I am a big DIY'er. I mentioned before I use kayaks for fishing. Well fact is I build my own kayaks that I fish with. Nothing fancy, just practical little fishing boats built from plans I get from hobby boat designers. So the point is if the UJ is not the right one and I can't find a suitable replacement...I'm open to jerry rigging it. I don't care much about the board so as long as I don't screw up the sail rig in anyway, I'm open to "making" it work. But before I do, I just wanted to make sure maybe I was doing it wrong and I didn't want to destroy a perfectly good mast track because I didn't know what I was doing!
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Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2012 11:41 am
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Been awhile since I had one of these, Moby Dick were a minnow
it should insert in the hole with the silver lever positioned like in the photo, then slide the lever towards the hole and it should grasp//slide into the slot on the pin
if its not secure after this, you may be correct in your suspicion that its not COMPATIBLE, NOW looking closer the orange base twist thing with 83, doesn't look like it fits this board.
if that's the case it would only require the correct bit, and someone will come along to confirm
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Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2012 12:38 pm
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UrbanFisher wrote:
I am a big DIY'er.
Good. Then you can fabricate something like this (I use aluminum, and insist on the two-bolt version for strength)
to adapt modern single- or double-bolted Chinook bases to your deck box, like this
or this
The Mistral (Equipe?) mast foot you have was never very robust in the first place, and probably won't fit that F2. Welcome to the pitfalls of buying old gear. Fortunately, we MacGyvers can prevail, within reason.
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Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2012 2:09 pm
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My first complete kit was a 1985 F2 Strato, and from what I recollect, the Comet that you picked up is probably a 1986 or 1987 model. Seems to me that the universal isn't correct for an F2, and if it has the Mistral symbol or brand on it that further supports that. However, I should say that the attachment mechanism in the masttrack was different than mine was. F2 could have modified the design of the mast track cassette assembly from the style I had, but it's also possible that some modification could have been done at a later date.
The key to everything is the design shape of the pin. Unfortunately the European brands at the time didn't adhere to standard designs like the industry almost universally does now. Finding the correct F2 pin could prove to be difficult, but there are some internet/warehouse retailers today that carry old part inventories. It would be worth checking around to see what's available.
The other way to go is to do what isobars suggests by buying the threaded metal plate allowing you to screw the universal assembly to it. By screwing the plate and universal together, it grabs and fastens to the sides of the aluminum rails of the mast track. It's cheap and effective, and it allows you to go with a modern Chinook universal. However, you should check out the mast extension you got with the kit and see how it attaches with the universal. It should be a 2-pin type design that allows you to insert the universal in and the two pins pop out of the mast extension holding the universal in place. In a worse case scenario, if the fit isn't right, you can buy a new or used Chinook mast extension along with the Chinook universal. As a viable alternative, you can always go with the Streamlined brand universals or mast extensions, as they will be interchangeable with the Chinook brand.
By going with the Chinook universal, you will lose the ability to move the mast track on-the-fly while sailing. In my view, it's not really a problem since most of us attach the mastbase/universal where we want it and it remains fixed while sailing. Ultimately, you can always position it in the place you like the best. I would start somewhere in the middle of the track, and then experiment to find the sweet spot that works the best for you.
You can buy the threaded metal plate(s) that isobars has pictured above here.
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Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2012 3:21 pm
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Thanks again guys. I really do appreciate everyone's help.
When I first started assembling it and realized I couldn't get the U joint to attach properly to the board, all my excitement went down the tubes!! I was so disappointed, but hey as the old saying goes..."You get what you paid for!"...LOL
I talked to the seller and he insist that it should lock fine. He said he was able to do it and was able to pick the board up by the U joint (if I try it just comes right off the board). So maybe there is hope and that I am just doing it wrong. His neighbor sold it to him. He told me to try again and if no luck, he will get with the original seller (his neighbor) to see if he can help.
But I REALLY do appreciate the help on how to retro fit it to a more modern U joint. I figured there had to be a way. I was thinking cut up washers (dremel tool), a nut and a bolt would do the trick. But the ideas you guys presented makes more sense. That way I can use a newer (replaceable) U joint on that old board.
But I'm still wondering how that little silver wire type locking mechanism on the mast track has enough grip to grasp that little collar on the U joint pin. It slides into the collar on the pin, but when I pull on it it doesn't hold. It doesn't look worn or broken and for the life of me, I don't see (even if it is correct) it holding very strong.
I only wish they had a local shop here in San Antonio. I did all kinds of searches and the only ones I found are in Corpus and Dallas (one 2 1/2 hours away and the other 4 hours away). I feel like I am totally on my own trying to figure this stuff out, but with all of you all's help...it has kept this dream alive for me!!!
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Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2012 3:51 pm
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put that orange part perpendicular to the mast track and push down hard so it's flush, and the stainless steel paperclip thingie should slide into the groove of the pin? that should hold it down, at least that's the concept
Basically it's not a "grip/grasp" factor as you seem to think, it's a "lock in the groove and provide up/down resistance" factor.
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Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2012 6:04 pm
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i sold my F2 comet this year
still had a pic of the pin on my blog
it looked like this and WAS available from the-house - at the time
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Captain Huffenpuff, an old homosexual blowhard adventurer who always retreated to his "HIDING ROOM" whenever there was trouble and Cecil The Seasick Sea Serpent - who was a not very subtle visual metaphor with a catch phrase to advertise it "I'm comin' Beany boy, I'm COMIN'!"and an old time melodramatic villain named Dishonest JohnThese main characters traveled around the world where they met much stranger characters. One of my favorites was the beatnick, the Wildman of Wildsville:I used this very gag in the 1988 new adventures of Beany and Cecil and the network exploded!
Clampett cartoons were always hip, just as he was. He kept up with cool trends all the way till the Beatles and then froze into his 1964 look with a Beatle haircut for the rest of his life. He knew The Beatles were the last truly cool thing and then everything pretty much went to ...you know.
I'm sure most of you know that Beany Cecil was originally an Emmy award winning puppet show called Time For Beany that was probably even weirder than the later cartoon.
Daws Butler and Stan Freberg manning the puppet arsenal for Bob Clampett!Willie Ito, the later cartoon designer also drew these great Beany and Cecil comics in the same style he drew the cartoons- a combination of Clampett, Jones, UPA and his own style. These are great drawings for you student types to copy by the way.
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Bob was a stickler for recording his history. He constantly did interviews with people and recorded all kinds of interesting things.
This 70 minute oral history is taken from recently discovered source material. There were three sources.
A 1950 interview with Scenic artist and right hand man Bill Oberlin.
A 1963 recorded conversation with his Bob Clampett's mother.
And there was a 1978 interview with a close friend of Sody Clampett's.
Volume 1
Clampett fan, animator and historian Milt Gray edited together the definitive two and a half hour oral history on volume one.
Volume 2
This 70 minute continuation on Volume 2 gives some new insight including information about Clampett's Dad that previously none of the family knew. Bob always teared up when he talked about him. That was why it was such a shock when he went into as much detail as he did. It explains a bit of Bob's showmanship.
Bob Clampett Reads Milt Gross!
Clampett was a big fan of Milt Gross and knew him personally. In the supplemental material you can hear Bob reading along to Night in Front... while his kids see the original pages. Laughter and dog barking in the background.
Also, Rob Clampett did a brief audio interview with Milt's oldest son Herb and included pages of illustrations from some of the books.
There is the pencil test (the only one I've ever seen from one of dad's cartoons) and storyboard pages and layouts including deleted sequences from "It's A Grand Old Nag."
Home Movies
The home movies of the 'coolest guy' with his portfolio in NYC in 1945.


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Achilles tendinitis is when the Achilles tendon becomes swollen, inflamed, and painful at the heel.
The Achilles tendon connects your calf muscles to your heel bone. It is used for walking, running, and jumping.
There are two large muscles in the calf: the gastrocnemius and the soleus. These muscles create the power needed to push off with the foot or go up on the toes. The large Achilles tendon connects these muscles to the heel.
These are important muscles for walking. This tendon can become inflamed, most commonly as a result of overuse or arthritis. Inflammation can also occur with injury and infection.
Tendinitis due to overuse is most common in younger people. It can occur in walkers, runners, or other athletes. Sports like basketball that involve jumping put a large amount of stress on the Achilles tendon. Repeated jumping can lead to Achilles tendinitis.
Achilles tendinitis may be more likely to occur:
Tendinitis from arthritis is more common in middle-aged and elderly people. A bone spur or growth may form in the back of the heel bone. This may irritate the Achilles tendon and cause pain and swelling.
Symptoms include pain in the heel and along the tendon when walking or running. The area may feel painful and stiff in the morning.
The tendon may be painful to touch or move. The skin over the tendon may be swollen and warm. You may have trouble standing up on one toe.
The doctor will perform a physical exam. The doctor will look for tenderness along the tendon and pain in the area of the tendon when you stand on your toes.
X-rays can help diagnose arthritis.
An MRI scan may be done if your doctor is thinking about surgery or is worried about the tear in the Achilles tendon.
The main treatments for Achilles tendinitis do not involve surgery. It is important to remember that it may take at least 2 to 3 months for the pain to go away.
Try putting ice over the Achilles tendon for 15 to 20 minutes, two to three times per day. Remove the ice if the area gets numb.
Changes in activity may help manage the symptoms:
Your health care provider or physical therapist can show you stretching exercises for the Achilles tendon.
They may also suggest the following changes in your footwear:
Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) such as aspirin and ibuprofen can help with pain or swelling. Talk with your health care provider.
If these treatments do not improve symptoms, you may need surgery to remove inflamed tissue and abnormal areas of the tendon. Surgery also can be used to remove the bone spur that is irritating the tendon.
Extracorporeal shock wave therapy (ESWT) may be an alternative to surgery for people who have not responded to other treatments. This treatment uses low-dose sound waves.
Lifestyle changes usually help improve symptoms. However, symptoms may return if you do not limit activities that cause pain, or if you do not maintain the strength and flexibility of the tendon.
Surgery, if needed, has been shown very effective for improving pain.
Achilles tendinitis may make you more likely to have an Achilles rupture. This condition usually causes a sharp pain, like someone hit you in the back of the heel with a stick. Surgical repair is necessary, but difficult because the tendon is not normal.
If you have pain in the heel around the Achilles tendon that is worse with activity, contact your health care provider for evaluation and possible treatment for tendinitis.
Prevention is very important in this disease. Maintaining strength and flexibility in the muscles of the calf will help reduce the risk of tendinitis. Overusing a weak or tight Achilles tendon makes you more likely to develop tendinitis.
Tendinitis of the heel
Gollwitzer H, Diehl P, von Korff A, Rahlfs VW, Gerdesmeyer L. Extracorporeal shock wave therapy for chronic painful heel syndrome: a prospective, double blind, randomized trial assessing the efficacy of a new electromagnetic shock wave device. J Foot Ankle Surg. 2007;46:348-357.
Baer GS, Keene JS. Tendon injuries of the foot and ankle. In: DeLee JC, Drez D Jr., Miller MD, eds. DeLee and Drez's Orthopaedic Sports Medicine. 3rd ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier;2009:section D.
Reviewed by: C. Benjamin Ma, MD, Assistant Professor, Chief, Sports Medicine and Shoulder Service, UCSF Department of Orthopaedic Surgery. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M., Inc.
Notice: The information provided herein should not be used during any medical emergency or for the diagnosis or treatment of any medical condition. A licensed physician should be consulted for diagnosis and treatment of any and all medical conditions. Call 911 for all medical emergencies. Links to other sites are provided for information only -- they do not constitute endorsements of those other sites. Copyright 1997-2012, A.D.A.M., Inc. Any duplication or distribution of the information contained herein is strictly prohibited.


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According to a Nikkei report, Microsoft is set to look at introducing video game titles from the PC and Xbox platforms on the Apple iPhone. This is said to be on the table with a partnership formed between Redmond and gaming firm Klab. Nikkei claims that the titles will be brought across to iOS using Google's Android OS, which may mean we could well be seeing a wrapper utilised for original games.
It's not known how many titles are on the table for inclusion and exactly what Xbox features will be available to iOS users, if any. It's stated that Microsoft's popular real-time strategy IP, Age of Empires will be making the trip across the bridge. We do not know if this refers to the online version or a previous release.
While we can understand Microsoft wanting to branch out and offer games on other platforms, we're sure this may irritate some Windows Phone fans. We'll look forward to hearing more on which titles will be heading to the iPhone.
Update: Microsoft released the following statement to Polygon:
"Today, KLab Inc. announced a licensing agreement with Microsoft Corp. to develop a mobile version of Microsoft Studio's Age of Empires franchise, which will be initially developed in English for iOS and Android and launched globally, with plans to release the game in other languages and on Windows Phone in the future. Some reports included incorrect information about additional Xbox Live-based games on iOS and Android but there are no further announcements beyond Age of Empires at this time."
So we're only looking at Age of Empires for the time being, which makes sense as it's an online game. That said, we're sure many would rather see Windows Phone support sooner than the mobile competition.
via: The Next Web; Thanks, Cesar, for the tip!


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/lib/nut/newhidups -u root -D -a
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You should see your UPS information showing up.
You should see your UPS information showing up.
Revision as of 23:15, 12 October 2007
- 1 Connecting a UPS to your Linkstation (USB models)
- 1.1 Installing Network UPS Tools (nut)
- 1.1.1 Prerequisites
- 1.1.2 Installing
- 1.1.3 Config files setup
- 1.1.4 Verify UPS connectivity
- 1.1.5 Powering other computers from the UPS
- 1.1.6 Monitoring the UPS
- 1.2 References
- 1.1 Installing Network UPS Tools (nut)
Connecting a UPS to your Linkstation (USB models)
Installing Network UPS Tools (nut)
NUT is a powerful tool for safely shutting down computers in a power cut. It can make a LS (or other embedded computer) attached to a usb UPS to be as effective as a full server UPS and shut down everything on your LAN if needed.
Install the 2.6 kernel to get the new USB HID modules http://nas-central.org/index.php?title=Category:Kernel
Setup your system to accept packages from the unstable branch (follow instructions for everything except the last step to "apt-get -t install xyz" ) http://www.nas-central.org/index.php?title=Get_access_to_packages_from_the_Debian_unstable_branch#Unstable_Packages
Fix your localhost entry if applicable. This is a current bug with freelink 1.11 HG:
Modify /etc/hosts This line:
127.0.0.1 Linkstation
127.0.0.1 Linkstation localhost
if there was "127.0.0.1 localhost", this is good already, no need to change it.
apt-get -t unstable install nut nut-usb
which will also add the appropriate lib-usb. and install nut & nut-usb 2.0.4-2 or better
Config files setup
Now that you've installed nut, you must set it up. Follow instructions under /usr/share/doc/nut/README.Debian or use this quick and dry way:
cd /etc/nut/ cp /usr/share/doc/nut/examples/ups.conf . cp /usr/share/doc/nut/examples/upsd.conf . cp /usr/share/doc/nut/examples/upsmon.conf . cp /usr/share/doc/nut/examples/upsd.users . chown nut:nut * chmod 600 *
ups.conf sets up the nut server and which driver to talk from the linkstation to the UPS by usb.
upsd.conf defines the IP address access groups e.g. localhost only or your LAN network.
upsd.users defines the user level (e.g. monuser,monmaster,admin) their passwords, IP address access and allowed actions to read or write to the UPS.
upsmon.conf gives the client program (upsmon) the login user, pass and shutdown behaviour for the particular machine.
Edit ups.conf
Add this anywhere inside the file:
[myups] driver = newhidups port = auto pollinterval = 10 desc = "My APC 1000 UPS":
Edit upsd.users
Add this anywhere inside the file:
[monuser] password = blah allowfrom = localhost actions = SET upsmon master
blah is the password you wish to use. Make sure you use the same one in upsmon.conf
Edit upsmon.conf
Add this line:
MONITOR myups@localhost 1 monuser blah master
blah is the password, which you should change to your own. Make sure you use the same one in upsd.users
Edit /etc/default/nut
Modify the first few lines to:
# start upsd START_UPSD=yes
# start upsmon START_UPSMON=yes
Again: upsd is the server daemon which runs on the computer directly connected to the UPS. upsmon is the client which polls the server's upsd program to check status and shutdown the pc if needed. In this description server and client are both on the LS -which shuts itself down.
Issue a reboot
to load the newhisups driver, upsd and upsmon
Verify UPS connectivity
Basic connectivity
/lib/nut/newhidups -u root -D -a myups
You should see your UPS information showing up.
tail -1000 /var/log/syslog |grep ups
You should see something like this: Aug 11 15:31:38 LinkStation newhidups[1606]: Startup successful Aug 11 15:31:38 LinkStation upsd[1607]: Connected to UPS [myups]: newhidups-auto Aug 11 15:31:38 LinkStation upsd[1608]: Startup successful Aug 11 15:31:38 LinkStation upsmon[1610]: Startup successful Aug 11 15:31:38 LinkStation upsd[1608]: Connection from 127.0.0.1 Aug 11 15:31:38 LinkStation upsd[1608]: Client firstname.lastname@example.com logged into UPS [myups]
Disabling the Beeper or changing UPS variables
Wish to disable that beeper that wakes you up at night ?
upsrw myups@localhost
The ups.beeper.status variable is likely Enabled.
upsrw -s ups.beeper.status myups@localhost Username (root): monuser Password: blah Enter new value for ups.beeper.status: 1
upsrw myups@localhost
Verify that ups.beeper.status now shows up as disabled Follow same method for changing other variables.
Power outage detection
If this all works, try removing power from your UPS to verify if the Linkstation will detect it. You should see this in your syslogs, again using
tail -1000 /var/log/syslog |grep ups
Aug 10 15:59:28 LinkStation upsmon[1613]: UPS myups@localhost on battery
Aug 10 16:04:39 LinkStation upsmon[1613]: UPS myups@localhost on line power
Powering other computers from the UPS
So far it should work before proceeding further -the LS will shut down when the power supply is off and the battery is low. The real power of NUT is that it can turn off lots of PCs including WinXX which are anywhere on your LAN even if they are only connected to "dumb" UPSes.
We need to set up a slave user, allow access from the LAN for it and then set up the clients. A slave user should shutdown before a master user.
Modifying the upsd server
Some changes on the LS (assumed upsd server): Modify upsd.users to add the slave user:
[monslave] password = blah2 allowfrom = mynet upsmon slave
"blah2" is another password to change to your own choice
Edit the upsd.conf to define the "mynet" group of IP addresses to have a bit as per:
ACL localhost 127.0.0.1/32 ACL mynet 192.168.1.0/24 ACL all 0.0.0.0/0 ACCEPT localhost mynet REJECT all
Naturally, set 192.168.1.0 to your subnet if different.
Setting up NUT and WinNUT clients
Now for the client machines, which can be linux boxes with NUT installed or a WinXX box with WinNUT (http://www.csociety.org/~delpha/winnut/ ) located on the "mynet" IP range.
Upsmon is only needed so you only need to edit upsmon.conf (through the WinNUT Config tool):
MONITOR myups@linkstationip 1 monslave blah2 slave
For a linux box (well, debian at least) you'll need to only start the upsmon daemon via /etc/default/nut :
# start upsd START_UPSD=no # start upsmon START_UPSMON=yes
Monitoring the UPS
The upsd daemon can also be polled remotely using direct data requests through the various upsc and upsrw commands. I've used cacti (http://forums.cacti.net/ -please note this is quite heavyweight for an LS) which can log and graph pretty much anything, through a command request using upsc on the cacti server polling every 5mins:
upsc myups@linkstationip battery.charge
This returns the numeric value only. It can be wrapped into a script so that the NUT server can be changed. Search the cacti forums for scripts (e.g. http://forums.cacti.net/about9729.html) and then modify to what commands your ups might do, which you can find by using:
upsc myups@linkstationip
The nut-cgi package can also provide a web-gui to show the current status which can be installed (needs perl and apache I think) by:
apt-get install nut-cgi
The procedure is the same as the nut setup - look in /usr/share/doc/nut-cgi/ for instructions and copy the files in the examples folder to /etc/nut then configure them as instructed. Many UPSes don't give all the values of voltage and ups load etc, so its worth checking them using the upsc command.
Peter Selinger: Linux and the APC Back-UPS ES http://www.mathstat.dal.ca/~selinger/ups/backups.html
Network UPS Tools (nut) http://www.networkupstools.org


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Remember before the draft last year when John Schneider talked about drafting a QB that had a presence, such a presence that he would "tilt the field" or "tile the room"?
Over the last several days, I've re-watched the last 7 games of the season (Bears, Cards, Bills, 49ers, Rams, Redskins, Falcons) - fast forwarding to watch the offensive snaps closely. I suddenly remembered that specific phrasing as I was watching the action...and it's a perfect way to describe Russell Wilson. Man, this dude can PLAY. His ability to process information, his poise, his smarts, his escapability... those are all things you can't teach.
It's nice to be able to go back and watch game action without being caught up in the heat of the moment as the game unfolds. Wilson was remarkable down the stretch, and he's only going to get better. His ability to read a defense is outstanding - there are so many examples to use, but the play I just re-watched again was the 2nd TD pass to Baldwin in the 49ers game - he knew he had the coverage mismatch and then he did what great QBs do - convert the opportunity into the play - throwing that awesome pass out in front of Doug where only he could catch it.
I have to think they are going to really open up the offense for him next season, not to totally get away from the run - but we have the ability to attack teams from the first snap. Our offense has the opportunity to be incredibly diverse. I have to think adding a real game-breaker threat at WR or TE would push the O towards top-5 in the league. And I can't imagine what we could become with improved pass blocking (man it was ugly at times).
Russell Wilson (this won''t come as a surprise to anyone in here) TILTS THE FIELD. And after watching the avalanche of media he has done the last few weeks, it's also clear he TILTS THE ROOM. People gravitate towards him and genuinely like him, and he commands attention.


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Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Comics 1056-1059: Leopards All The Way Down
1066. Randy has some interesting opinions on what names are cool.
1067. Can we skip the part about using whatever social network Randy is talking about and just punch him in the face?
1068. Randy's fetishes concerning his hot porn star daughter are seriously creepy.
1069. Randy has just discovered that "Philadelphia" and "Adele for ya" rhyme if you pronounce them with the correct accent, and he is offended that people would do such a thing, because only white Northeastern US accents are valid ways to speak English.
109 comments:
These comics are becoming more and more mundane. They're not even so-bad-it's-laughable anymore... they're just sad.ReplyDelete
- weaselsoupMay 22, 2012 at 11:54 PM
how're you finding D3? nice world shame about the story? are you playing coop?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 23, 2012 at 12:00 AM
1066. Why must Americans call Felis catus a "housecat"? I realise they have an insatiable urge to imprison, but it's ethologically absurd to keep a healthy cat indoors.ReplyDelete
1067. Randy envisions a world in which you must opt out of everything you don't like, except the de facto social network of people who send xkcd around to each other, which will continue to be unavoidable.
1068. The woman totally owned the man and is now ripe for Randy's seed. Also if you take someone's photo then you capture their soul.
1069. Proving Randy did not write the Modern Major General strip. Must be grating that a show from the early '90s about a cheeky, worldly-wise ebonicist is still Fresh-er than his White & Nerdy Lifestyle stick figures.
Also Rob you are fat and useless. It's OK to be too lazy/submissive to write Hitleresque charismatic invective but your tardy one-liners suggest your problem to be loss of writing ability.
- AnonymousMay 23, 2012 at 12:39 AM
I seriously did not get 1066 at all. What the hell is up with it? Is it a nerd thing?ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousMay 23, 2012 at 12:45 AM
Months ago I wrote a long and frankly excellent post explaining how people with Asperger like things only if they can find an association to something else they like. Combine this with the Napoleon Dynamitean dream of being, uh, wild and tough.Delete
- AnonymousMay 23, 2012 at 9:36 AM
Randall looked at the names of successive OS-X releases (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_OS_X#Release_timeline), and saw that they are not in order of which cat would win in a fight or which names he finds the coolest - which is apparently a problem. And I agree with Rob that the coolness of name sorting seems very strange. Cheetah cooler than ocelot??Delete
- Totally Original ContentMay 23, 2012 at 12:50 AM
I once spent a year in Philadelphia. It was a Sunday, I believe.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 23, 2012 at 1:06 AM
You numbered them 10 off. 1066 should be 1056 and so forth.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 23, 2012 at 1:56 AM
I am about to start the Listerine soak for my toemails with long-standing fungus plus a recent involvement of three fingernails...not sure it's truly fungus there; could be just old age. I am also troubled by bunionesque calluses on my great toes. Doc gave me samples of Carmol40 which is an excellent softener, but available only through script. Any OTC suggestions? Thank you very much and I will let you know how the Listerine does for my fungi. C. WiseReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 23, 2012 at 1:59 AM
street lampsReplyDelete
There's a street light outside your house I keep mistaking for the moon. It's the right color and shape, and it's in the right place in the sky. Every time I leave at night I see it hanging there and for a brief moment I'm ready to smile, to feel as if the moon is guiding me home. I always identify it soon enough, of course, and it could never guide me any further than the street.
Tonight I found myself wondering if you were to blame, as if you had set this up to punish me for my wanderings. Perhaps if I didn't slip away once you were asleep, this false moon wouldn't be here to mock me. Or maybe you set it up to keep me here. Did you hope I would circle it like a moth, captivated by its soft cold light? Does it worry you that I have never woken up next to you, that I leave you alone in the dark to find my way home?
But tonight the false moon was not false. The street light hung in the air above me even after I had walked past it, as if you had planted a real moon there--and it must have been you, right? Who else could have, and who else would have? I was so startled I considered running back and waking you up, asking whether you were trying to send me away or guide me home. But as I stood and stared at this strange new moon, I realized the distinction was largely semantic. Either way my path was laid out before me, and my steps would take me back home.
Does Randall write those horrible, horrible lines on purpose, or does he really suck that hard? I thought it was impossible to suck that hard, but I think I was wrong. "It's a story best related in a doggerel verse". That is headache condensed and turned into words, right there.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 23, 2012 at 6:12 AM
Ron Paul 2012ReplyDelete
I don't really have anything good to say about any of those.ReplyDelete
Help. I have been lured by the vile melody sung by Carl and Rob, ugly and fat Siren respectively (that should have seriously tipped me off, in hindsight), and have shipwrecked on the Rocks of Hate and Cynicism.
That, or those comics really sucked. I mean damn. To be fair, it's not so much that I didn't dislike any xkcd comics before starting to follow xkcdsucks; it's just that I read them, didn't find them funny, and moved on. It should be noted that I discovered xkcd about 4 months ago, and read the archives relatively quickly.
I think what's "special" about xkcdsucks is that it tells you "did you find that comic AWESOME? Like, is it the most AWESOME thing ever? No? Why? Deconstruct, analyze, decontextualize" and then "I get your point, but... don't you think it deserves to be hated violently then?", and the final step, the most cynical one I think, is casual hate, lazy hate. Hate at first sight!
It is beautiful.
'sadynren illatqu' Maybe xkcdsucks needs a third Siren. Sad Siren, I like you.
- AnonymousMay 23, 2012 at 6:29 AM
I never fretted about tsunamis. Never even thought about them. But the 2004 tsunami (or the "Boxing Day Tsunami" as many called it) affected me so profoundly that it dogged my thoughts for over a year. Ultimately I dropped out of my regular life and went on a nearly year-long contemplative sabbatical (which created a huge change in my outlook, if anybody's interested).ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 23, 2012 at 7:40 AM
The Venter Institute was founded in October 2006. I can't say I'm very impressed by a 5 year olds supposed long-term intimate connection to the internet. Age aside, being conceived over the internet has no bearing on whether one is or is not a noob.ReplyDelete
What's with internet baby saying "wrong" in panel 1? Is she trying to tell the Amish dude that he has not been on the internet since BBS days? Or is this just awful unrealistic dialogue? What's up with the Amish dude's hair? He looks vaguely Amish. The way the internet baby is sitting doesn't look very comfortable.
J. Craig Venter is an asshole. His most impressive talents lie in the realm of self-promotion and entrepreneurism, not science. His supposed synthetic life is massively overhyped. Making himself the first human to be sequenced while pretending for years that 5 randomly selected individuals were the subjects of the sequencing effort just screams out a massively over-inflated ego. Only naive high school biology students and Randy think Venter is cool.Replies
- AnonymousMay 23, 2012 at 8:09 AM
The point is that Amish dude hasn't actually 'been' on the internet, he has merely looked at it. However, pornstar daughter has had a string of 'A's, 'T's, 'C's and 'G's that represent her genome sent through email, therefore she has literally 'been' on the internet.Delete
Yes, it is retarded.
- AnonymousMay 23, 2012 at 12:53 PM
OK, that makes a little more sense. I'm not sure that I would consider the gametes that combined to form me, "me", so I'm still not buying her claim to have been on the internet.Delete
If my parents other gametes are "me", than I may have not been on the internet, but I've certainly been in a lot of other places I don't really want to think about.
It a little ambiguous, but "sperm sample" implies multiple sperm (with different sequences) and the Venter institute implanted the DNA in "sperm and eggs" (plural), so it's not just her 2 gametes on the internet, but those of a lot of potential siblings as well.
- weaselsoupMay 23, 2012 at 1:06 PM
let's face it, he just likes typing the word 'sperm'. the rest of this fucking drivel is just his moronic excuse for itDelete
- AnonymousMay 24, 2012 at 1:24 AM
Since geeks tend by various (self-evidently flawed) intelligence tests to be shown to have slightly higher than average intelligence - or because they read too much fantasy fiction - they cling on with dear life to the belief that people are somehow set from birth with a destiny.Delete
It is quite routine for people like Randy to think that they are merely the result of their sperm sperm sperm sperm sperm and their egg ovary uterus vulva cancer, environment be damned. If you wondered how half a world became obsessed with eugenics in the first half of C20 - as well as large-scale annihilations, &c. - it was because of people like him.
By Randall's logic if I download a cake recipe and bake a cake from it, that cake will have 'been on the internet'. I am not my genetic code, Randall. Physical objects can not become information. And information can never become physical in any meaningful way. That means you can stop humping your screens now, perverts.Delete
If a teleporter disassembled you atom by atom and rebuilt you from different atoms at another location, then I'm sorry, but you just died and someone is walking around with a copy of your body, which is a copyright violation. That's why we need SOPA to stop this shit from happening!.
- AnonymousMay 24, 2012 at 5:14 AM
You said that before, Jackass.Delete
- AnonymousMay 24, 2012 at 10:33 AM
You tell 'em, 5:14. You don't have to take that shit. Lay down the law.Delete
- This TroperMay 25, 2012 at 11:47 AM
More like Jerkass, amirite?Delete
- AnonymousMay 27, 2012 at 9:17 PM
- AnonymousJune 2, 2012 at 8:15 AM
:P do I sense a bit of projection there, 1:24?Delete
- AnonymousMay 23, 2012 at 8:52 AM
I recently shaved my head. I was on the bus with a shaved head, but also with pants that aren't that long, with legs crossed and my hairy ankles peeking out between my socks and pants. At that point on the public bus route, the bus was jammed with high school students. The girl across from me could not stop looking at my ankles in horror, despite what I think of as my much more transgressive hairless head. The public pressure against visibly hairy legs on females is very strong, indeed. Being afraid of other people's judgement is a very reasonable position to take, because that judgement hurts.ReplyDelete
I'm happy to be a hairy-legged feminist, to revel in the waves I'm making, and the visible public judgement still hurts. I have both mental reactions, and the negative public reaction invigorates me as it hurts. Jplus, in addition to telling your girlfriend that the hair isn't visible from more than a meter away and that it's her hair, it would be more effective to also tell her that you find her hairy sexy (if you do) and to acknowledge the real pain she's got to work against to be hairy. Dismissing being influenced by people's opinions as stupid is quite the opposite of supportive, because we humans are social people, and the judgement of strangers around us matter.Replies
- AnonymousMay 23, 2012 at 1:44 PM
While I can only approve of any attempts to return to our primal monkey nature, isn't "making waves" and "being judged" pretty much the same thing? Or rather, two sides of the same coin, can't have one without the other. If you don't want to be judged, don't make waves; if people didn't judge you, you would have no impact, so don't complain.Delete
- AnonymousMay 23, 2012 at 8:09 PM
I honestly find unshaved legs on women rather attractive. Probably because so few women are willing to display unshaved legs that the sight creates an illusion of intimacy that really is rather titillating.Delete
Shaved heads don't do anything for me though. It makes both men and women look like thugs.
- AnonymousMay 24, 2012 at 2:44 AM
I like barefoot women outside with dusty soles. Not related, but I thought I might put that out there.Delete
- IxtellorMay 24, 2012 at 4:16 AM
"it would be more effective to also tell her that you find her hairy sexy (if you do)"Delete
What if they don't?
People are allowed to have preferences and it doesn't make you a monster for doing so. I would be very turned off if my wife got a swastika tattoo and I think its perfectly fine to tell her so.
"What do you think of my temporary face tattoo?"
"I don't like it and it going to create problems."
I don't believe it would morally or socially wrong to find unshaved legs unattractive anymore so than it would be to prefer black women or juice heads.
Relationships are hard enough without having to lie to make the other feel better.
People in loving relationships are also probably willing to make sacrifices for the other. I hate shaving (my face) everyday, but I do it because my wife hates stubble, it doesn't make her a bad person and I'm happy to do it because I want her to be happy.
- weaselsoupMay 24, 2012 at 4:36 AM
I like guys with long hair & beards. Like Thor.Delete
- AnonymousMay 24, 2012 at 6:37 AM
People aren't perturbed because society isn't letting their legs grow hairy; they're perturbed because society disapproves of their hairy legs. It's more like wanting to do a mourning ritual for the dead and not wanting to deal with all the people and pressures that try to convince you that you shouldn't.Delete
If you don't want to have hairy legs, that's fine. But if you want to criticize someone for having hairy legs, that's a little less fine. If you don't want to participate in funerals, that's fine. But if you want to criticize someone for participating in funerals, that's less fine.
- AnonymousMay 27, 2012 at 9:24 PM
I'd say "making waves" is designed to make people look at themselves, and reevaluate why they're judging other people for how they have their appearance. So you could say it's two sides of the same coin, just on the one side you evaluate and judge yourself, and on the other side you're an unthinking bigoted cunt.Delete
- AnonymousMay 29, 2012 at 3:55 AM
I'd say "making waves" is probably tremendously easy for 8:52, both in water as well as any surrounding soft ground, as hairy feminists are typically the size of small whales.Delete
- AnonymousMay 24, 2012 at 10:46 AM
so guys i'm curious, when did you first find this site? like what was the last xkcd you read before you come here?ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousMay 24, 2012 at 12:37 PM
The one with the vagina.Delete
- AnonymousMay 25, 2012 at 1:34 AM
It was once mentioned in a mildly sarcastic tone on Websnark, the once holy grail of webcomic criticism that reached the heights that Carl dreamed of before plummeting into oblivion. I had a look at it, but never really came back and started posting until a long time afterwards.Delete
I never liked xkcd so didn't read until I started visiting here. Xkcd was popular before I first heard about it, and like most hipsters I have a special hatred for popular things that I wasn't in the ground floor on.
- AnonymousMay 25, 2012 at 4:53 AM
For me it was xkcd 519. I remember googling 'xkcd 519' and then finding the rants about it. Man, 519 still makes me mad.Delete
- AnonymousMay 25, 2012 at 4:55 AM
wow, 519 is probably the greatest combination of sincere, wrong and awful I've ever seen in an xkcd.Delete
That one with Moses and the burning bush. I googled it to see if someone could explain what the hell was supposed to be funny about it.Delete
- AnonymousMay 25, 2012 at 8:46 PM
435. God, have I been reading xkcd that long? I'm not sure. I think I might've come across 435 when I started going through the archives, but it wasn't that old at that point. Anyway, that's what made me Google "xkcd sucks".Delete
I'd heard the whole bio<chem<physics<math thing ad nauseum in college, and was disappointed that Randall just regurgitated that trope rather doing something quasi-original with it and subverting it (heck, I would've been happy with a non-original subversion a la Steve Martin).
- weaselsoupMay 25, 2012 at 3:32 AM
it would be good if today's PA could be crossed with today's xkcd, and someone would kickstart that fucking blank creepy head right off of that fucking creepy horrible stick body.ReplyDelete
'handsub taketh' that sounds rude
I wonder why the dialogue --ReplyDelete
in today's comic is broken --
like that, with dashes. I thought --
that was part of the joke, but --
it isn't. Is it an attempt --
to make the comic seem less --
I thought it was because the guy points his stick at the relevant parts of his diagram as he mentions the different elements of their business plan.Delete
I liked it. I hate business/marketing speech.
- AnonymousMay 25, 2012 at 5:02 AM
There wasn't much business/marketing speech. It's just a way of pointing out that "crowdsourcing" means no group of closeknit individuals (e.g. a single business) gets all the work done. Which is uninterestingly true.Delete
The alt text makes even less sense. I think it's suggesting that it doesn't count to sell a business-to-business service, especially not if you do it so efficiently - primarily by using the work of volunteers a la Wikipedia - that you can goof off and still be highly profitable.
I think Randy's main message is that people shouldn't be able to make a living unless they've pulled their weight. Which is, you know, appropriate.
>>I think Randy's main messageDelete
See, this is actually what I hate the most about the xkcd forums, seriously. "Randall meant...", "I think his point is...", "he's refering to..." etc. Nope, shut up. I don't care what he meant. I don't care what you think he meant. I don't care what he thinks you'll think he meant. I don't care what you think he thinks you'll think he meant. And so on. Just like I don't give a shit what my favorite song is "supposed" to mean, or what mood it's "supposed" to invoke. I take exactly what I want to take in whatever piece of art (in case you don't consider xkcd to be art, then let's use the term "fiction" instead), regardless of whether the artist put it in his work or not.
That said, I think you are wrong :p Your interpretation would have been fine if the comic was only the caption, but it isn't. There's a speech bubble (hm... how do you call a speech bubble that's actually not a bubble), that says the exact same thing as the caption, except in a more obscure way, one that "sounds more pro". IDK about you, but I personally never use expressions like "already-in-place social networking infrastructure".
So yeah, to me, this comic is about how some people use business/marketing, that is, technical/obscure/formal language to hide the fact that they're saying crap/simple/uninteresting things. In this case, the guy's trying to hide the fact that they're pretty much crooks.
That isn't to say that you're interpretation isn't valid; I mean it is implied that what they're doing is "bad" and doesn't have any merit. But that's not what *I* get from the comic as a whole. What I get is that he's saying "we're lazy greedy bastards" while showing it on a diagram during a business meeting.
- AnonymousMay 25, 2012 at 7:31 AM
Kizolk, you are stupid. Or, as Slashdot would put it, "Your sarcasm detector is broken." Re-read the post you replied to, paying particular attention to the tone.Delete
Also I think you're someone in your mid or late teens and have never had a real job, because everyone uses and understands terms like "already-in-place", "social networking" and "infrastructure". They're a million miles away from the truly horrible marketing-speak you find in a real workplace.
Sarcasm on the internet is notoriously hard to detect. Give the guy a break. Did they finish developing that sarcasm punctuation mark yet?Delete
Do you know what 'earth loop impedance' means? Thought not. But I'm sure you understand each of those words separately. More to the point, the kind of people who say things like 'already-in-place social networking infrastructure' are most likely marketing douches who get paid to go on Facebook all day, and probably have the self-proclaimed title of 'social media consultant'.
As an aside if anyone actually says 'social media' to me I will punch them in the dick.
- AnonymousMay 25, 2012 at 12:14 PM
1) Every polite person deserves a break. Someone who replies with "shut up... I don't care... I don't give a shit" does not.Delete
2) Sarcasm is notoriously hard for aspies to detect. If you are on the autism spectrum, acknowledge your disability and show some humility.
3) Yes, I do know what earth loop impedance means. But then I am a ham.
4) If I didn't, I'd look it up, not whine about those fucking engineers with their verbal conspiracy against the laity.
5) This is irrelevant, because Randy's word combination wasn't suggesting anything more than the sum of its parts.
6) It's annoying because adverb & idiom & multiword adjectival noun &c. is really cumbersome English, of the quality I'd expect from Randy. It's nothing particularly businessmanspeakish. Marketroids tend to adopt neat but utterly meaningless phrases, contrasting the cumbersome but decipherable utilitarian language of engineers.
7) Just to be clear, I hate social networking/media. But we still need a term to classify it for when we finally send everyone with a Facebook account to the chambers.
Social mediaDelete
*DICKPUNCH JON LEVI*Delete
- This TroperMay 26, 2012 at 2:48 PM
It's super-effective!Delete
- AnonymousMay 27, 2012 at 9:08 PM
Jon Levi faints.Delete
- AnonymousMay 25, 2012 at 6:04 AM
Rodgers & Hart's first published song, "Any Old Place with You", from _1919_, contains the lines "I'd go to hell for ya / Or Philadelphia." So yeah, nearly a hundred years late.ReplyDeleteReplies
- This TroperMay 25, 2012 at 11:44 AM
Lay off Randall. He puts a lot of effort into coming up with the best most insiteful ideas for his comic. So if the good ideas get done more than once, does that somehow make them bad? In case you weren't noticing, the comic was more than just a rhyme (strictly speaking there were two rhymes). But in four short panels he managed to take a reference to an old TV show (one that you'll remember, I'm sure) and turns it on its head, thus subverting our expectations. If you can't see why that's funny, there's something wrong with you.Delete
- AnonymousMay 25, 2012 at 12:03 PM
11:44, 1/10. One mark lost for simply missing the opportunity to write "inciteful".Delete
- This TroperMay 25, 2012 at 2:09 PM
Perhaps this is funny to you, but there is a whole site devoted to ripping into the good creations of one artist, and that is not funny. I actually feel sorry for you people.Delete
- AnonymousMay 25, 2012 at 3:19 PM
Don't leave us hanging!!! Point us to the site.Delete
- AnonymousMay 26, 2012 at 5:19 AM
So does 6:04 truly believe that rhyming "... ya" with "Philadelphia" is the joke Randall was aiming for? Because Randall's work is of pretty low quality, but come the fuck on.Delete
- AnonymousMay 26, 2012 at 9:13 AM
Is there another joke in that comic? Or do you think the last line was going to end "Philadelphinia" or somthing?Delete
- AnonymousMay 26, 2012 at 2:44 PM
The joke is the entire concept. Not all jokes live and die by their punchline, and this is one that doesn't. The punchline here isn't even a punchline, it's just a mechanic to make the delivery feel a little snappier and demonstrate a negative stance towards what is being shown on the television.Delete
Lacking a punchline isn't an inherent flaw either, by the way. The basic structure of a joke is just a guideline that can be manipulated to good effect by masters of comedy. Witness how often Monty Python skip the end of their skits, deciding instead to just jump into something else.
Randall is no master and the concept and delivery here aren't good enough to sustain themselves, but if you're going to criticize the comic you need to stick to the comic's actual intentions instead of building things in outside of its scope. Focus on relevant aspect such as the fact that the character is clearly about to run out and guzzle gallons of milk in an orgiastic display of unquenchable desire.
- This TroperMay 26, 2012 at 2:55 PM
First of all, 5:19, my name is This Troper, not 6:04. However since you refuse to adopt even a pseudonym, I am forced to call you 5:19. Secondly let me point out to you that the humor comic 1059 exists on multiple levels. Firstly there are the multiple creative rhymes. You think coming up with rhymes is easy? It's a lot harder that you think. Secondly there is the subversion of a popular meme and TV show that I described in my previous comment (see above). Q.E.D., asshole.Delete
- AnonymousMay 26, 2012 at 3:16 PM
6:04 = 11:44 = This Troper = samefagDelete
- AnonymousMay 26, 2012 at 3:16 PM
2:55, you're a really bad troll. Go away.Delete
- This TroperMay 26, 2012 at 3:50 PM
I thought 5:19 was referring to me. Since I live in Brisbane, Austalia, local time is UTC+10. Ergo my original comment would have been posted around 6:04. Upon seeing his comment I acted impulsively, and replied without even scrolling up to check the timestamps. 5:19, you have my sincere apologies. Never again will I make such an embarrassing mistake.Delete
I'll also have to remember now that blogspot.au uses California time.
- AnonymousMay 26, 2012 at 4:15 PM
This Troper = RandallDelete
- This TroperMay 27, 2012 at 6:41 AM
Oh, I wish!Delete
- AnonymousMay 29, 2012 at 3:43 AM
This Troper = Thees Troper = Spoiks weeth a leesp. Croiky. Shreemp on the baabie.Delete
- AnonymousMay 25, 2012 at 9:31 AM
Pair is a homophone of pear is an anagram of rape. My partner was thus asking for it.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 25, 2012 at 4:00 PM
Let's meet up and talk about this. I think I'd like to repair you.Delete
I wanna bowl you from both ends, if you know what I mean (I'm talking about secs).Delete
Captcha: heitteen secy (if you know what I mean)
more like diaBLOWS 3 MEN, amirite????ReplyDeleteReplies
I bought the first Diablo about a decade ago and I guess I enjoyed it, but that was before I got picky about video games. A friend of mine has the new one and the game play looks about the same to me, so I think I'll pass.Delete
I played Diablo 2, rather enjoyed it, but I'm going to sit Diablo 3 out -- I figure I'll get those people back in... 3/4 weeks?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 26, 2012 at 1:21 AM
Why the fuck would you "put on some Adele" in the middle of your rap? Why would you put on Adele period. It isn't even needed for the rhyme, Randy, you dingleberry. Rhymes don't need four fucking syllables. This is a stupid thing you've done. You are a stupid man for doing it. You are not smart. Can you fucking hear me, you smug fucker? I'm so pissed off at how retarded you are being I can feel my heartbeat behind my eyes. I am beaming hate at you so hard that in a perfect world your dick would have melted from the sheer heat of how much I want you to collapse weeping against the unscalable wall of your own incompetence and idiocy.ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousMay 27, 2012 at 9:06 PM
I can't speak for 1:21, but this apology makes me feel much better about the whole thing.Delete
- AnonymousMay 26, 2012 at 7:19 AM
I was wondering, and this is completely unrelated to these comics, but its been festering for while.. and so I was wondering, for all his pretentious programming namedropping and related bullshit, has he ever actually released any software? even a little exploit? maybe a niche utility? come on, a page where you click a happy face gif and it says hello world? no?ReplyDeleteReplies
- weaselsoupMay 26, 2012 at 9:57 AM
he doesn't even do the code for his own websiteDelete
- AnonymousMay 26, 2012 at 10:29 AM
NASA must have been truly awful to offer him an internship. I guess it was the climax of 25 years of deliberate underfunding, arranged so a new batch of companies could suck at the teat of Uncle Sam.Delete
Musk, I'm looking at you.
- AnonymousMay 26, 2012 at 4:30 PM
when he said he spent a weekend messing around with perl, that must have been ALL he's ever doneDelete
- AnonymousMay 26, 2012 at 4:46 PM
I think he made the viewer for that one awful poster. The economy one.Delete
It works, but it's not very good.
- AnonymousMay 26, 2012 at 5:07 PM
Five minutes with JQuery is all that poster would have taken and with that I could probably have done a better job. And I don't even know JavaScript!Delete
I don't think he wrote the code for the 3D thing- that at least was sort of impressive, or would have been if the 3D wasn't so poorly autogenerated.
- AnonymousMay 27, 2012 at 11:13 AM
HI RANDALLDelete
- AnonymousMay 26, 2012 at 7:33 PM
Actually, that poster was created using PanoJS, a library designed to do exactly what that poster viewer does (scroll a large image made up of tiled segments). He (or possibly his site's webmaster) just pasted the code that uses PanoJS from one of the provided examples. Nothing about it took any work.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 27, 2012 at 1:46 PM
Lol, this is so cute. The two subjects I'm hearing on this forum are hatred against Randall for his intelligence and asking him, begging him, pleading him to dumb down his comics so they can laugh, and greasy 40 year olds who live with there parents discussing Diablo 3. Ahhh the internet.ReplyDeleteReplies
- weaselsoupMay 27, 2012 at 2:44 PM
WRONG actually the average age here is 47 ACTUALLY. bet you feel stupid nowDelete
- AnonymousMay 27, 2012 at 2:55 PM
What sort of bubble do you live in, 1:46? It seems pretty potentDelete
- AnonymousMay 27, 2012 at 4:34 PM
HI RANDALLDelete
- AnonymousMay 27, 2012 at 6:26 PM
2/10, using 'there' is far too obvious. Cuddlefish may be brainless morons but they aren't _that_ stupid.Delete
Look, anyone can do thisDelete
I am the gobbler of a thousand cocks bleep blorpDelete
'joined UreOldx' no u are
- AnonymousMay 27, 2012 at 9:02 PM
I was going to type out a long retort, but er, my mum's calling me to come downstairs. Apparently she's finished baking my birthday cake, and I'm kinda excited to blow out the forty-eight candles.Delete
I really like forty-eight as a number, as there's a lot of numbers you can divide it by, like you can divide it by itself, twenty-four, sixteen, twelve, six, four, three, two and as always, one. Randall should do a comic about forty-eight, that would be really funny.
I will reply to you later if I remember, or if mum didn't buy Diablo III for me. If she has I think I'm going to like it too much to come on here.
- AnonymousMay 27, 2012 at 7:04 PM
Why would anyone you'd have to explain a business plan to fail to note that the business plan never actually makes any money. Normally you supply a business plan when making a loan application or securing venture capital. In all cases people would be looking to make back their investment and would be paying attention to this.ReplyDelete
What world does Randall Munroe live in?
- AnonymousMay 27, 2012 at 9:13 PM
The current comic is funny, because, erm.ReplyDelete
I think because, he's lying in his selling points for "EST", though it might be because he mentioned "date math" and Narnia. Everything is funny once you include Jesus lions.
- AnonymousMay 27, 2012 at 11:47 PM
What do you guys think about Dilbert ?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 2, 2012 at 8:07 AM
Hey idiot, your numbers are wrong.ReplyDelete


text:
First off I have updated my book tour page again. Some of the specific locations for European gigs that have lacked them are now filled in, particularly in France.
I have also added info about the annual Dogen Sangha Zen retreat in Shizuoka. Since my new book is coming out in September, the organizers have moved the retreat to July. In past years people from overseas have been attending the retreats in Shizuoka. You're always welcome to attend. It's a good retreat. But contact the folks in Dogen Sangha Tokyo about it, not me. The contact info's on their website.
Also, John Graves, who is now the president of Dogen Sangha Los Angeles, made this neat Sit Down and Shut Up/Shobogenzo Index. Check it out. He found all the references to specific parts of Shobogenzo in the book Sit Down And Shut Up and cross-referenced them so you could look 'em up if you wanted to. Why didn't I do this myself? Because I am lazy, that's why! But John did it and it is full of awesome. I've added it to the links section on the left as well.
I was chatting today via Skype to a friend of mine who is 21 years old. I seem to have a lot of friends considerably younger than me these days. But, then again, I never saw Nishijima interact with anyone less than twenty years his junior. Most people he hung out with were closer to forty years younger than him. Maybe it goes with the territory.
Anyway she's got a whole lot of choices to make in life, as you do when you're 21. And as you do when you're 46 too. So I wrote her this:
"You have to decide what you love the most, I think. And go for that. And don't believe people who say you can't do it. I semi-believed those people and it really held me back. It turns out they were wrong. They're still telling me I can't do it even while I am actually actively doing it! This is kind of comical."
It's funny the things you say in response to people. I teach myself a lot that way, which is why I like doing Q&A sessions and interviews. But it's really true. There seem to always be naysayers who delight in cutting you down and trying to make you feel like you're not capable. It's important to know how to tell those people to go fuck themselves. Sometimes you have to say it politely. Sometimes you have to say it only to yourself. But it's important to be able to say it.
Chuck Schodowski was a popular horror movie host in Cleveland, half of the teams Hoolihan and Big Chuck and later Big Chuck and Little John. He inherited his position from the great Ernie"Ghoulardi" Anderson (director Paul Thomas Anderson's dad) who preceded him. Chuck took a lot of shit when he started because his style was very different from Ghoulardi's.
In his book, Chuck talks about a letter he got from Ernie Anderson when this was going on. If the book wasn't in storage I'd quote it directly instead of from my poor memory. But Ernie Anderson said something like, "If the people who are telling you you're doing it wrong could do it themselves, they'd be doing it themselves. Guts it, baby, guts it!"
It's good advice. We all have a role to play and there are always those around you who'll stupidly envy you and think they could do whatever it is you do better, if only. I used to hear this kind of shit from lots of folks when I worked at Tsuburaya Productions, guys who knew that if they just got out of mom's basement they'd do so much better marketing Ultraman than I was doing. Now I hear it from people who'd be so much better Buddhist writers if only someone would give them a book deal. But there's a reason you're in the position you are and those guys are not. So they can all suck it.
As for the wide world of choices... it never ends. When I was 21 I woulda figured that by age 46 I'd either have had everything worked out or I'd be dead. As it turns out neither option panned out. These days my best advice to myself is to do what I love the most, to the best of my ability to do so. Sometimes your own karma places you into a position where it seems like you have no options. But I've stopped believing that. There's always some way to make whatever situation you find yourself in into a place you want to be. I've even managed to do this in endless traffic jams on the Los Angeles freeway system, or in a hospital bed with kidney stones so bad I thought the pain alone might kill me.
I made a lot of mistakes because I half-believed those who said I couldn't ever accomplish the things I truly wanted to do. I majored in history in college not because I liked it that much, but because I believed those who told me I'd never be able to land a career in the film business. Much less in the film business in Japan making giant monster movies. That I'd have far better of a chance getting a job teaching history in high school. All those people can suck it.
And still there they are! Look in the comments section of this very blog and you'll still find people telling me I can't do what I am already doing. They're clever enough not to put it in those words. But that's the message. They can suck it too.
When they tell you the same thing, just remember they can suck yours as well.
Guts it, baby.