I’ve added a few new things to the blog. Nothing special. I’ve begun linking to blogs that link to me. I’ve also added a shortcut to howto/informational posts. I’m thinking this blog might start turning into an “Engineering”-heavy mess pretty soon. I’ve taken an introduction to GD&T recently. The spiral into Hell has whipped into a tailspin already.

Mr. Schiavi,

I’ve read your EULA for WOFF/EOT format fonts. Ridiculous. If this is a standard practice, it’s disgusting. This EULA glorifies prostitution. It makes mopping semen at an adult book store seem like a venerable career. I suppose you might’ve garnered that I’m anti-DMCA.

Dropping $26 on a font is borderline acceptable if you enjoy the font enough. To be honest with you, I’m considering dumping your font from my site out of principle. Paying per page-view for a font license is pretty unreasonable.

Grab the mention counter. Grab the tweet scraper. Point it at four or five “known” associated targets and grab 3k tweets at regular expected intervals. Better yet, use tweepy to regularly grab tweets as they’re sent. Amass a good amount. Once you’ve amassed a good amount of tweets, fire up the mention counter. Make your cutoff large. Make it count.

Fire up Gephi and open your CSV in it. It should automatically generate an interesting map. Use the heat map feature to get even more interesting results. Be amazed that you can OSINT. Most of all, have fun.

Ruby is like the Visual Basic of the scripting world. You can do simple shit in ten lines of code or less. After experimentation, googling, and satisfaction of curiosity I’ve sated myself with a simple counterpart to my python tweet dumper.

Two arguments. Twitter screen name and cutoff for number of mentions. It’s useful to see your data in a new way. I’m going to take it further pretty soon, processing date information to squeeze every bit of usefulness out of it.

My personal life is calming down. I don’t like confrontation. I hate confrontation. I avoid it at all costs. Things are calm now. They’ve tapered off. I don’t want disagreements or drama or insanity touching my life. I get enough insanity at work. I’m all too heavily relied on by my employer, my family, my loves. They need me. No one needs me to feel bad. No one needs me to have regrets. No one needs me to be criticized for being myself. I need to live my life. I need to be there for my babies.

Time heals all wounds. This is a truth that will always be true. It’s not a simple truth. It has many facets. Something people seem to forget is that even if time has healed a wound, falling on the same knife still hurts and re-injures. Time doesn’t make you impervious to the injury healed. Injuries don’t always heal exactly as they once were.

I still don’t know where I stand in life. I suppose I’m expected to know or I will be in the near future, but right now all I know is the day to day struggle that I’ve managed since birth.

Yesterday was the first birthday of my namesake. He’s getting so big, so quickly. I love my babies. It was a fun day even if he didn’t smash his face into his cake. I plan on uploading videos to youtube of him attempting unwrapping presents and eating cake.

Every week brings something new. He’s learning to walk, learning to talk, and getting the hang of everything. It’s still such a shock to me. The difference between having a son and a daughter is just so striking. My daughter becomes more emotionally dependent as she gets older. My son is very emotionally dependent now. He gives hugs and cuddles readily, whereas my daughter was very independent as a baby. He’ll become more independent and less emotionally attached as he gets older. I’m going to have to cherish this time. It’s going to be short lived.