Now for something completely different...

For a change of pace, here's a picture riddle for you:

The first one to post with the right answer gets -- Well, nothing actually. Respect maybe? Uh, sure, why not.

The Full Hot Orator

Learn it. Know it. Live it.

Do The Math

I read this and laughed. It's actually quite amusing. A guy does the math on why he will never have a girlfriend.

You Must Watch...

I command you to watch!

Is Hard Work Overrated?

I worked with my last employer for over five years. And getting away from it for awhile affords a new perspective. In these couple of weeks of unemployment, I’ve been analyzing the way things work. At my previous employer, and with life in general. I’ve come to a conclusion: Hard work is overrated. It isn’t directly related to success. Some of the hardest work I’ve done has been on failing/unsuccessful projects.

Now, I’m not condoning a weak work ethic. The point I’m making is more semantic, or perhaps a matter of attitude.

You see, I don’t think that hard work has a bearing on the success of any endeavor. I think that commitment does. Passion does. If you have passion for what you are doing, you will be committed to it. If you are committed, the work won’t be hard. It will simply be whatever is needed, and you won’t think anything of it. It’ll be a labor of love, if you will.

This may be an inevitable conclusion that I’ve been slow on picking up. Or perhaps it’s a bit of an epiphany. Either way, I’m going to be sure that I’m passionate about my next endeavor, whatever it may be. I’ve always said that ‘if you aren’t having fun, why do it?’ Now I think I’ll say ‘if you don’t love what you do, why do it?’

Gonzo The Great

Play it! You know you want to.

Matt Groening Apple Ad

Matt Groening Apple Ad

WhiP it good

Well, comments just stopped working on my install of WordPress 1.2.1—for some reason. I’ve been meaning to upgrade anyway, so viola! I’m now running WP 1.5!

I’m still using the default theme—but that’ll change soon enough. Since WP 1.5 supports themes, real themes (finally!), I’ll port my old site layout to an actual WP theme.

It turns out the upgrade process was quite simple. All of the permalinks should still work. In theory. Let me know if you find problems with it…

Update: Well, I think it’s all re-stylized… It’s hard to tell the way they did the theme support. Which is, in fact, one of the main reasons I’m not a fan of PHP—it promotes spaghetti code.

I Didn't Say It...

The Germans did.

Of course the Brits think there's a link between finger length and heart attacks, too.

You Ever Get This Feeling?

More Than Meets The Eye

Oh yea, too cool. ;-)

Terminal Woes

I couldn’t stand it any more. My terminal prompt looking like:

Matthew-McCrays-Computer:darthapo ~/Desktop $ |

It was driving me crazy! I wasn’t sure how to change it on my Mac though. Our friend Google showed me that I can change it the same way I would on my linux box—since they both use bash as the shell.

So, I’m much happier now that I’ve updated my ~/.profile with this entry:

export PS1=" \w > "

Now my prompt looks like

 ~/Desktop > |

Ahhhh, much better.

General Weirdness

Hmmm… WordPress doesn’t like Scooby and Shaggy. I don’t know if you noticed, but the last post is really messed up if you select the permanent link, or try and add a comment.

I’m not sure why, either. It seems to only be that post. I’ve added the last few entries with MarsEdit. But if that was the issue, the other posts should have been messed up too—I’m rather baffled by the whole thing.

Are images an issue? Let’s find out, here’s a picture of my car:

Huh. Weird.

Which Carter is the Carter with all the Pills?

Comments have been re-enabled!

It’s funny, I was perusing the blog of the developer of the AuthImage plugin (that I’m now using the kill some spam) when I saw a comment about him going through more wallets “than Carter has pills”. He mentioned that he thought it referred to ex-President Jimmy Carter—which is amusing, ‘cause I used to think that too. But then I used to wonder, if he had to take so many liver (or little) pills shouldn’t he have died many years ago?

Anyway, it turns out that it’s not about Jimmy Carter. Which really isn’t a surprise. It’s actually referring to a company that made liver pills.

Funny, huh?

Hello world!

Alright, this is just a test post to make sure everything is up and running.

You know, there are a lot of us micks running around. You'd think there'd be a character to support the 'upper C' of a McName, huh?