My AR-15 has shipped; server-side mail filtering
News, Technical, Guns, School ·Sunday January 11, 2009 @ 20:14 EST (link)
Democrats made fun of Reagan because he was an actor. And now they roll out a comedian. Figures—to them government is nothing but a joke masquerading as a punchline pretending to be funny.
—KM in CLAMS, on Al Franken putatively beating Norm Coleman in the MN senate race.
20090104: Tried to get up the driveway at 0630 with both cars, no dice. Worked from home.
20090105: My AR-15 is in (Rock River Arms Elite CAR A4)! Pete at AR15sales.com had said not to expect it until February, so it's early (still a long wait, since November). It should arrive at my FFL soon, and then I can take it to the range to sight it in. To do: buy ammo and appropriate cleaning supplies (probably at the next WAC gun show). Still snowed in today.
20090106: Honey had her arm cast (broke her wrist falling on the ice getting the mail last week). Blue cast, can't hardly do anything with that hand or arm, on for six weeks, doctor wants to re-examine in four.
20090107: 124th flooded (snow then a flood, what lovely weather); I left work early (1530); Woodinville-Duvall (the other road into Duvall) was moving at a snail's pace (idiots… it's a straight road, how hard is it to get some volume through?) Woodinville-Duvall closed later that night: the Island Nation of Duvall had severed ties with the mainland.
My new monitor (Acer x223w, 22", 1680x1050) arrived today (Costco special); it's gorgeous. I can easily view 3x3 candle charts in thinkorswim's trading application; Internet Explorer was fuzzy until I turned off ClearType (it's really fugly on an LCD monitor). This is my first LCD monitor; it's very nice, quite slim, had to put a box under it to make it high enough, but works fine with my laptop (new computer should be arriving soon; I think the laptop's graphics unit may be a bit slow for the screen size; there's some flickering; if it persists with the new machine too, I'll return the monitor).
20090108: Regarding the current flood that has cut off the Isand Nation of Duvall from the rest of the world (a 10-year flood that's been happening every few years now), someone on the Microsoft Duvall employees mailing list commented:
I gotta say, the year 2016 is underwhelming so far. Still no flying cars or FIOS.
(FIOS = fiber optic networking, a running joke because our local cable Internet provider, Broadstripe, sucks badly, and Verizon, the DSL provider, keeps promising FIOS and we see people laying cable, but they have yet to deliver). Went to the library to pick up some more books.
It's about 1700, and the noisy neighborhood kids are standing on one of the remaining piles of snow—right outside our place, love it—and yahooing (like Swift's Yahoos).
Due to the flooding I missed my first class of my current University of Washignton PMP course (CSE P 505, programming languages), but I finished homework 1; programming for the course is in the functional language Caml (using the OCaml implementation).
20090109: Still cut off; Woodinville-Duvall is a mess even with the floodwater gone: a section of road came up in chunks, and it's impassable; repairs are expected to be completed Sunday. The WA-203 to Monroe is still closed (Carnation is open), and a big chunk of WA-202 washed away (which is unfortunate since it's near SVRC, my range, and the detour adds 10 miles). Watched Thursday's lecture; this course is recorded (might as well since they have to stream it to Microsoft anyway).
(Helped my father-in-law Doug with a trojan, VirusRemover2008; took a while to talk him through killing VRM2008.exe in the task manager then installing Spybot S&D.)
20090110: Moved "The Rebel Rec" (site for Mullens highschool alumni in WV, Honey and her parents' friends) from MSN Groups to Multiply. Multiply is more of a blog than a forum, so it's not great, but perhaps it won't have the issues with allowing emails direct to the group and keeping all the headers and footers.
I'm playing with using procmail to file local mail into folders (server-side; I used to have my client, KMail do it, but now I mainly use mutt, and client-side filtering is suboptimal anyway). Looking around, I found something better (clearer, more powerful, easier to use) than procmail: maildrop, a mail delivery agent with a filtering language. It looks like setting | maildrop in my local .qmail file and writing a .mailfilter file is all that's necessary to set it up.
20090111: 20080111: Woodinville-Duvall re-opened (the floods receded Friday, but a huge chunk of the surface of the road had been torn up, so this was actually pretty quick work). WA-202 is still closed between WA-203 and 356th SE on the way to the range.
Books finished: Invasion, Intermarket Analysis.
