Josef “Jeff” Sipek

I've had the following draft for a very long time. It's time to publish it already, isn't it?

Yesterday, I came across a site dedicated to Cake Wrecks - in other words, cake decoration attempts gone wrong.

The best ones I've found on this site include:

Some time ago, I stumbled across a Wikipedia article about a book: Eternity's Missing Children.

Apparently, it's some obscure book that no one really cares about - at least that's what the "this article may not meet the general notability guideline" box implies.

Anyhow, here's the entire description from the wiki page (copied because I wouldn't be surprised if it got deleted on Wikipedia).

The Devil and Jesus sit down for a cocktail in New Orleans, with a myriad of shared worries and personal relationships to resolve. These two historic gentlemen find themselves in the One Wheel Louisiana, a New Orleans bar on the outskirts of town, where an aging black bluesman finds his soul and Jesus is reminded of a former romance. As the night roles on, with libation and song consumed, these half-brothers of biblical proportions find a world in peril with genuine faith shaken and manipulated by our earthly guardians of organized religion; but they both agree with belief in their hearts and their futures in question that New Orleans never looked so good.

You might have already seen this image, but in case you haven't...

Microsoft tried to torpedo the success of the Japan Linux Symposium by launching their Windows 7 product that same day. They even had setup a big promotion booth across the street from the conference center.

During a break, we decided to make some fun of Microsoft and dragged Linus over there. When we arrived there, Linus was sold immediately on the product as you can see in the picture. At least that's what the sales guy thought. He obviously had no idea who he was dealing with. But in the end Linus surprisingly did not buy a copy. Wise man!

I commented a month ago about some statistics that OkCupid has done. And they have done it again!

This time, they looked at how your race affects whether people write you back.

Really, really stupid idea: drinking and teaching gun safety: Imperial man shoots himself in the head while teaching firearm safety.

Note: One of the big safety rules is to never point a gun at people/things you don't intend to shoot.

Hehe, very amusing blog post titled: Online Dating Advice: Exactly What To Say In A First Message. It's actually made by the folks running OkCupid (I know one, and I suspect that he's behind this.)

Update: The person I know, admited to doing the statistics. He did real statistics that the blog post didn't really convey.

From IRC:

<jeffpc> Event: Happy Jaunty Release Day Everyone!
<jeffpc> Where: Corner Brewery
<jeffpc> Why: Because Ubuntu is awesome! Because we?re awesome! Right on.
* jeffpc groans
<jeffpc> obiwan: don't you ever take drugs, young man!
<jeffpc> obiwan: or you'll turn into one of those ubuntu lovers
<obiwan> hahahahahahahahhahahaahahahhaa
<obiwan> I was wondering why you cared about Jaunty Jackass or whatever the
         hell they call their releases
<jeffpc> hahaha
<jeffpc> that's awesome
<jeffpc> Jaunty Jackass
<obiwan> they just call it "Jaunty" like we're supposed to mentally fill in
         the other word
<obiwan> well there you go

It's been a month today since I moved to MI. Time flies! I know, I have been neglecting this blahg a whole lot, and I promise to try harder :)

Here are some photos of stuff from the past few days...

I like bread. This one even looks tasty:

A couple of days ago, I got myself a can of Spam. Unfortunately, it turns out, the can's seal got compromised, and the insides look quite uneatable:

Today, I was doing some more grocery shopping, and I couldn't resist but get some drink worthy of a warrior:

(Yes, that's a 40th anniversary of the IBM S/360 mug.) It's hard to identify the contents of the mug, so here's a photo of the bottle:

That's it for today's what's-Jeff-up-to post.

Last night, I forget who, challenged me to make a smilie with disk io and seekwatcher. Well, I couldn't let such challenge just pass me by (click to enlarge):

All that I used was: blktrace, seekwatcher, python (to do the math - sin, cos, etc.), and dd (to do the disk io). I am already planning bigger and better things :)

Today I decided to check something on wikipedia, and I stumbled on the page about time. I was quickly scrolling through, when I decided to read a random paragraph in the Definitions and standards section:

The definition of time is extremely important in science and for our everyday life. All known properties of time follow directly from this definition. For example, this definition of time coupled with current definition of space makes our space and time to be Minkowski space-time and makes special relativity theory absolutely correct (true) by definition.

It took me a while to realize, but the last sentence is funny..."special relativity is absolutely correct."