Dead Programmer's Cafe

Tag: Oral literature

  • Two States In One Picture


    Wow, I never knew there were so many skyscrapers in Jersey City.

  • Enter The Collector

    My abebooks wishlist finally found me an affordable autographed copy of Strugatsky brothers book:

    I also have a copy of “Space Apprentice” with a pasted in autograph of the younger brother. It’s interesting how similar their autographs are.

  • Sunset as Seen From the Surface of Sol III

    Taking pictures of sunsets is so damn easy these days. Just bracket like crazy, and voila. Instant purdiness.
    A sunset can make everything look pretty. Even the ugly ass twin brother of the building in which I live. Oooh, how I hate that building. I am thinking of finding out who the architect was and harassing that person over the phone (or in some other way).

    I am thinking about writing a science fiction series about a materialistic spaceship pilot. There would be a story about him going on a quest to find the most comfortable spaceship chair, the best spacesuit in the universe, the most perfect cereal bowl. One mission would be to obtain a room in a skyscraper on a planet that wobbles in orbit in such a way that the people in that skyscraper can watch constant sunsets and sunrises over a glittering dead ocean.

  • Imaginary Dragon is A Square Root of a Negative Dragon

    I’ve been fooling around with Amazon.com SDK today. I’ve always wanted to write a wishlist manager. I tried to export my wishlist out, but not all records are being returned. Looks like it’s a known bug according to their bulletin board. Ok, I guess I’ll have to extract it page by page (it seems to be working a page at a time).

    At the same time I discovered a silly bug in the way wishlist results are displayed. To reproduce” modify “registry.page-number” part of the query string in the url, to jump a few pages forward. Then press “previous button” : numbering of items will turn to negative numbers. Yeah, pagination is usually tricky to code right. But if even I can do it, so should Amazon programmers.

    Regular shopping cart pagination uses “pg” token, and works ok with this manual jump.

    Right now I am in the process of consolidating all of my information in a hyperlinked map. The tool I am using is called Treepad. But it’s late, I’ll write more about that later. Good night.

  • Mmmmmmm, nutritious

    I learned the meaning of another meme today.
    I’ve encountered a lot of references to “soylent green” and the fact that it’s “people”.
    Here is one.
    Well, thanks to everything2.com, I know that it’s a movie reference.
    Into my Amazon wishlist it goes.