Robert's Blog

Sunday, March 1, 2009

Best Error Message Ever


$ git rebase abh/master
First, rewinding head to replay your work on top of it...
could not detach HEAD

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Natural Disaster


This year's Los Angeles fires are affecting UPS too. I've never seen "NATURAL DISASTER" as a delay reason before. In this case, it wasn't actually delayed because of it.

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Shouldn't the Defense Information Systems Agency know how to Google?

the following email came into a webmaster@ account that I receive..


Subject: Parsing PDF file (UNCLASSIFIED)
From: Gordon.REMOVED@disa.mil

Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
Caveats: NONE

Hi,

I am trying to design a Perl program to parse through a PDF file. In
other words, comparing a string value to the Adobe PDF file. Question:
has anyone ever done this?

Gordon
Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
Caveats: NONE


I like to believe that the military is hiring people who know how to perform a simple Google search. Apparently I'm wrong.

Sunday, May 11, 2008

Cameraphone Sunset Times Two

Horrible Replicator Accident?

Sunday, April 20, 2008

As seen on IRC

<someone> http://www.youtube.com/user/AlbertTheLab
<someone> Future-Mother-In-Laws-Neighbors-Dog
<else> "which makes us...absolutely nothing"


The names have been changed to protect the...

Sunday, February 17, 2008

Florists

Apparently the Sunday after Valentines day is not good for buying flowers. I tried to visit four florists -- all were closed at 1:30pm -- before giving up and heading to my favorite jeweler, Mandarin Gems.

As the helpful lady at the jeweler reminded me, I could have just gone to a grocery store. I never find those flowers to be quite as nice as what you can get at a proper florist.

-R