Mitch had installed his last shower door of his career. He went
downstairs, only to find a surprise party waiting for him.
“Congratulations, Mitch,” read the sign hanging from one door to
another at a pleasantly hyperbolic curve. “We’ll miss you,” said one
card. And, “You’re a-door-able.” Mitch smiled and did everything to
seem happy with the fine people of Ajax Brothers Shower Door
Installation Company. But inside he seethed; these people would all
see his fury. When the Mitch Barrum Shower Door and Frame
Installation Company crushed these worthless peons, there would be
pain oh yes lots of pain buckets of it in fact.
Incorrectly installed shower doors can apparently cause the glass to
give out from underneath itself. The internet doesn’t provide many
details, but the resulting effect is akin to an
explosion. And
if there are children around, basically it turns into an
unforgettable
disaster.
(via IATE)
What follows is part of a patch against the twitter.py file from the awesome
python-twitter project.
You can download the entire patch if you so choose.
With it, you can have read from Twitter from
Google App Engine. I have not experimented with writing (posting) yet.
By default, you get problems using urllib2 on GAE, which I bypass here like a stealthy
lightning ninja greased with the body fat of my enemies.
It’s part of my Quo Quo status project, which I’ll release soon enough.
+ method = urlfetch.GET
+ data, params, headers = {}, {}, {}
+ if post_data:
+ method = urlfetch.POST
+ data.update(post_data)
+
+ for x in (parameters, self._default_params):
+ if x: params.update(x)
+
+ url = self._BuildUrl(url, extra_params = params)
+ if method == urlfetch.POST:
+ mime = 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'
+ headers.update({'Content-type': mime})
+
+ # Skip the cache, we're on GAE. This hack by shadytrees.
+ data = urllib.urlencode(data)
+ url_data = urlfetch.fetch(url, payload = data,
+ method = method,
+ headers = headers,
+ ).content
Google’s suite of office software will continue to suck.
dotfloofy dotblog
TRUE. My psychic predictions are coming true earlier and earlier each
year. Soon, they will happen before I predict them. Or did I just
blow your mind? Anyway, Hank Williams agrees that Google’s suite will
soon cede to Adobe’s plans for world domination. And, in the
weblog tetrahedron (Contrary to your stupid and tiny-minded thoughts,
it’s not a sphere.), two people agreeing on something is tantamount to
it being true. You know, I should start picking stocks. I hear chicken
looks good this time of year.
dfdb is proud to expand to politics and music and culture and
current events this year.
- Despite the best efforts of America’s women, Obama will become
president of the United States and, by proxy, the world. His vice
president? Some white person nobody cares about.
- The Funnelwhich will get a quantity of updates that is a multiple
of three. Maybe.
- New Amsterdam will get canceled even though it’s a damn good
show.
- Google’s suite of office software will continue to suck. TRUE
- Apple will learn how to make iPod nanos not look like the fat chick
nobody likes. Also, gray? Seriously? Gray’s going away.
- People will continue to enjoy pornography in novel and exciting new
ways despite the best efforts a new production company, n-girls +
n-1 cups.
- foobar 0.9.5.2 will be released to much “fanfare.”
- Franz Ferdinand and The Fratellis will release their new albums.
Somebody will make yet another postmortem album for Elliot Smith.
- There will be no new Windows OS release because most scientists
agree such an event would cause a permanent rip in the very fabric
of Bill Gates’ pants. And nobody wants to see his butt.
- That’s right, I’m making this public: Bill Gates goes commando on a
daily basis. ♫ Thonnnng. ♫
- House will get renewed despite crappier writing and even crappier
medicine.
- The next version of Mac OS X will contain, let’s say, Firewire
support. And better icons than those in Leopard. And a TCP/IP
Stack®.
- People will continue to not care about any of the Linux operating
systems.