April 2009
36 posts
Nested IF Statements in Batch Files are Evil
IF EXIST "C:\Backup\File.ext" (
SET FileIsAt=C:\Backup\File.ext
) ELSE (
IF EXIST "%ProgramFiles%\AppName\File.ext" (
SET FileIsAt=%ProgramFiles%\AppName\File.ext
) ELSE (
IF EXIST "%UserProfile%\File.ext" (
SET FileIsAt=%UserProfile%\File.ext
)
)
)
Yeah, I did that. 3 4 times. In one script.
March 2009
46 posts
Hope & Unicorn Farts
Guy: i like to think of myself as part of the solution
Guy: and not the problem
Guy: sniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiffff
James: where's your hybrid... damn hippy
Guy: uhhh
Guy: my car runs off e85 if i so choose to do so
James: Yeah, almost not the same thing at all
James: My car can run off hope and unicorn farts... if I so choose to do so
Guy: im going to wait until there are more starving people until i start using food for fuel though
“On this day in 1294, Kublai Khan sent the first tweet: “I ♥ animal organs....”
– @adtothebone
Watchvia Twitter
“It seems like Twittering is just randomly bragging about your unexceptional life.”
Voicemail from Phil circa 2004.
Oooh, Cookie!
James: it's TOO EARLY to break out into song
Guy: i know
Guy: thats why i stopped
Guy: it was too much
Guy: i just overloaded my system
Guy: i really dont want to be here
Guy: i need a snack
Guy: oooh cookie
3 tags
“Listen, this is all you need to know: the economy is not a supernatural all...”
– Kyle Broflovski. Yes, I am quoting a character on South Park.
WatchI’m not sure why Mr. Bojangles popped into my head at 4:45 this morning, but it did.
“Oh, sure. The stock market is shooting up now that I’ve converted my...”
– @badbanana
Dogbert's Tech Support →
A handful of the Dogbert Tech Support strips I collected when I worked on the help desk.
Customer Service Prank Calls (Maybe NSFW?) →
The content of the calls may be NSFW, but the site isn’t. Amusing at any rate. This guy prank calls the customer service lines for Viagra, Cialis, and Levitra for advice on an unfortunate situation.
“The flux capacitance of the plastic disc, combined with high rotational speeds,...”
– DaveNull in reply to “I want to see what happens if you spin a Laserdisc too fast.”
How to shoot yourself in the foot in any language →
An excellent Something Awful forums thread on how to shoot yourself in the foot (with a programming language or application). Examples:
PHP: Recalling the exact syntax for the built-in stab() function, you make a sane assumption and call shoot(GUN, FOOT); The foot shoots your gun.
Web 2.0: You create a gun, person, bullets and gradients and host them on a wiki-based social networking...
Pop Cultural Charts →
Meme's Aren't For Everyone
@BadGopher: My BlackBerry Storm is awesome #thingsineversay
@_Cube_: @BadGopher And so is mine!
“If yes, please specify one or both methods, circle one: Text / E-mail”
– Some form I ran across today. I guess you just draw a big circle around both options if you want both… ?
Vendors Rock
You know the vendor is dedicated to a project when they:
Send a meeting request after 11:00pm for a conference call following afternoon.
Provide the quotes to be discussed on said conference call at 20 minutes to midnight.
Don’t provide the additional information they promised on a previous conference call.
Don’t respond to email or voicemail when you try to re-schedule.
...
“I thought we threw stuff at people who wore green on St. Patrick’s Day… I...”
– @GPappalardo; overheard across the room.
“In retrospect - I probably didn’t *need* to mention Rush Limbaugh’s...”
– @trelvix
“I’ve never even heard of an FPO.”
– Shipping software support representative in response to a question about sending mail to a Fleet Post Office.
Hint: It's about Microsoft
Guy: about:mozilla
James: what about it
Guy: each firefox build suppsedly has a different passage
Guy: i am mammon
James: not quite each version, but there have been a few
Guy: ahhh
James: the latest talks about Microsoft and its adventures with IE
Guy: hahahaha
James: no, really
James: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Mozilla
James: for the truely geeky
Guy: wow
“80% of taking a good photo is being there.”
– Unknown
Why I should never leave my car in the parking lot...
Guy: You get abducted on way to your car
Guy: You in the back of a van somewhere having inaproppriate pics taken of u
Guy: Make sure u tweet about it
Guy: Live molestation tweeting
Guy: Ok I called the cops and told them I think my friend james arnott has been kidnapped and is being molested in the back of a van. Don't worry buddy help is on the way. They'll use your phones GPS to track you
Guy: I guess your too old for an Amber Alert but they are looking for you. Hang tight
Guy: Remember ... Use your teeth
Guy: They are havoing a hard time tracking you. Maybe he put he phone somewhere? Ill call and tell them. Have trh
Guy: Them boost the signal. Don't worry well save you
Guy: Well your cars gone now he must still have you in the van and came back and got your car.... Stay strong man well get you out of there
Guy: I'm going to start a watch for vans on twitter for you
Guy: I've even started a #howbadhashebeenmolested thread...
Guy: I have to say... Some people don't have much hope...
Guy: I've started a care package. People brought in Preperation H, soap, scrubby's, disinfectant, antibiotics...
“I’m under the assumption, and maybe this is purely ridiculous, but...”
– Jon Stewart to Jim Cramer on The Daily Show
The LBC
James (from work) and I (also from work) have been talking about a night run up to Long Beach to take some photos for the past 4 months. After much schedule jockeying, we’re finally going to head up tomorrow evening. With the recent time change we should be arriving just after dusk.
It looks as if the weather gods will favor us with clear skies, but at the cost of frigid sub-60°...
Addicted to METH →
Forget who tweeted it earlier, but this is the funniest thing I’ve read in a while.
“Isn’t the Dow Jones Industrial Average just a short twitch numerical...”
– Jon Stewart