May day! May Day!
(It looks like this week is all rain! Thunderstorms… it’s going to be hard to stay awake!)lots of naps will be in order.
Protected: sweetheart only post…you forgot the gravy!
ack!! Perl people, help me!
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/134290352_mccafe300.html
McDonald’s is expected to announce today that it will open its first McCafe gourmet coffee shop in the United States on Wednesday – complete with china cups, soft leather couches and even lace curtains – adjacent to a McDonald’s restaurant in downtown Chicago.
This could be good! Or… it could be evil.
*prefers Borders. Books there!
Al Amarjan slang
The people of Al Amarja come from many different cultures, and have developed a unique patois all their own. Below are a few of the more commonly used words and their meanings.
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Nosey Scotto again – underwear questions
Here’s Scott’s latest “nosey poll”… the things that come up in conversation.
Protected: sweetheart only post – here’s a few functions in our ‘lover’s aol chat code’
*note to self – ask the weinerflap question.
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from the straight dope archive – bug poots.
Do insects pass flatulence? It’s a rather twisted question, but the thought has often entered my mind.
Um . . . this might depend on how you define “flatulence.” An insect’s digestive system bears little resemblance to our own in its structural details, even if the basic process is the same. Flatulence in humans is largely due to the activity of bacteria in our intestines, releasing methane gas. But there are very few insects whose guts contain methane-producing bacteria. In a practical sense, therefore, the only insects for whom the answer is “yes” would be termites, some wood roaches, and a few wood-boring moth and beetle larvae.
Dirty little secret about Scotto…
I like Reo Speedwagon. There, I’ve said it. What a nifty tune to wake up to.
(oh, yeah, I like Styx too. these thingas happen)
crossposted to the hut
This on the Museum of Menstruation, posted in the news
quote –
Dear Mr. Finley,
I’ve been a fan of mum.org for quite a while. I’ve even mentioned your site in my online journal several times. A wonderful friend of mine, who happens to be a man, started a community journal, which by now has over a hundred contributors, that anybody could join called “The Menstrual Hut.” I thought it might be something interesting for you to read in light of your museum (which I hope you open soon since I’m a Maryland resident). Anyway, if your interested, the url is: http://www.livejournal.com/users/menstrualhut/
I hope you keep adding more and more to your site.
It’s wonderful. [Many thanks!]
Scotto’s (the guy who started this project) personal journal: http://scottobear.livejournal.com
Sincerely,
Christine
How cool is that?? *happy
I hope this means the hut will get more traffic!
cool- from LJ dev –
The master plan.
by bradfitz on April 28th 2001, 23:55
I’m going to attempt to explain everything that’s been in my head the past few weeks and what I want LJ to be like in the next month or so.
First, consider the log table. It’s almost 3 gig now, and it’s structured like crap, I know realize.
The index is on (ownerid, posterid). Ownerid should really be called “journalid” to be more consistent. Owner was used before community journals when I started using journalid more.
The problem with that index is that it only lets you quickly get at entries when you know either the ownerid, or both the ownerid and posterid (prefix matching on indexes, ya know?)
So, if I want to ask LJ to show me all of my journal entries I’ve posted anywhere, it can’t. Pathetic.
Also… I can’t post an entry to multiple communities at once (ala newsgroups). Pathetic
See what I’m getting at here?
There’s an ALTER TABLE coming up for the 2.7 gig log table. Oh boy.
It’s going to be split into two tables… one holding items, and one keeping track of what items are in what journals.
I’ll probably have to write some script to do the import slowly over a long period of time … it’s going to be a pain. But while we’re at it, we can delete old journals, and we can start compressing old, long journal entries. Dormando is going to write me a UDF function for MySQL that wraps zlib.
So, we do that and then we can cross-post to journals, and we can quickly find ever entry you’ve posted.
Then, I want to be able to give journal entries unique character names, to be exported into the URL namespace. Think: http://www.livejournal.com/~bradfitz/new_years_eve_2001
Then, I want to be able to list relationships between nodes (er, journal entires). So I can have a “class schedules” node that has children for each quarter I was in college, and my schedule then.
See— journal entries no longer have to be attached to a journal. 🙂
Basically, I want to give every LJ user and community their own everything2 site, journal, and collaboration tools.
Then, I want to build a kick-ass website to replace my old and stale bradfitz.com, using only livejournal.
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How frickin’ cool is that?
Malcolm in 30… X in 60… Hope my sweetie didn’t fall asleep!
Ah well…if she did, I’ll give her a morning update. *hugs & smoochies to her, and hugs to everyone else who’d like one… seeya!