Author: substitute

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Batten down the biznatches

I got my powerbook back from Apple today. They fixed it in the theoretical minimum amount of time it could possibly have taken. Major praise due.

Then I went to get coffee, where the process of obtaining one medium caffe latte involved the participation of two employees and the manager, a long discussion about milk temperatures, and the final delivery of the wrong product 10 minutes later.

GOT THE BASTARD

Geek note: I found the incompatibility that made a perl build on one Debian Sid box spew errors about errno, and not the other. It was in the libbind-dev package. When it is installed, perl automatically links with -lbind and that library is not compatible with the new glibc, thus causing the tiresome error.

Now there’s a week of debugging I’d like back. HURF! But done now.

hey bruisedhips this is what we heard the other day

Garbage pail kid:

Carjacking Suspect Dies in Bin
Stanley Allison

November 12, 2003

A carjacking suspect was found dead inside a trash bin in a Costa Mesa shopping center where he apparently hid from police, authorities said Tuesday.

The unidentified man, reportedly armed with a handgun, tried to take a car from a woman in the Ralphs supermarket parking lot at 380 E. 17th Street about 11:20 a.m. Monday, police said.

They said the victim thwarted the man, who ran into an alley behind a condominium complex on Tustin Avenue. Police said they searched the area and heard noise coming from the trash bin.

Officers said they saw the man inside the bin and ordered him to come out, but he refused.

Using a loudspeaker, police said, they tried in vain for nearly an hour to get the man to surrender. Police in a helicopter over the shopping center reported that that the man was not moving.