I am attempting to break my years-long writers block. Warning in advance that I'm not really trying to be amusing here. New territory for me. Of course, I will make jokes anyway, because I am incapable of being serious.

Concrete walls bug me. A lot of companies seem to go for them, especially startups. I think it makes buildings look like a prison, and screams "we didn't have the money for a real office". I like bright lights when I'm working. Or, actually, anytime. It probably shatters the basement computer nerd image. Sorry. I don't live in a basement or with my parents.

I bought a fountain pen a couple of weeks ago. Like it. Just ordered three more today. I'm becoming an obsessive paper and pen nerd. Actually I've always been one, but I didn't accept it until about three weeks ago. Even though I physically write about as much as I type write anymore. That sounds awkward but I refuse to correct it. I wish I had all the pencil and pens I had collected when I was a kid. I have no idea what happened to them all. I had ice cream buckets full of pens, crayons, markers. It makes me sad thinking about it. I was a lucky kid, in that regard. Except for some reason all I ever drew was the alphabet, and butts.

I ate at Popeye's for lunch "today". It was .. chickeny. Also, corn on the cob.

Often times I wish I had more use for staplers. Oh well.

This is quickly turning into a Peggy Hill Musings column.

I haven't had a good spaghetti in a while. That's weird.

I would carry a mirror with me, for emergencies, but I'm afraid of breaking one.

Oh also I pointed my webcam at my bathtub frog that lights up and went on chatroulette. I saw nigh upon five penii. I sort of want to log back on, with a pack of hot dogs and a pair of scissors.

Why haven't they remade Warlords yet? In 3d, I've been waiting for this. Also Faceball 2010.

I can't drink anymore because of the crazy pills but I'm dyin for some Jack. Also a good taco. Like, you know, not fast food or chain restaurants or whatever. The kind you can't get anywhere.

Bought a pair of black denim pants a month ago. They smell like dye to high heaven. Also they're black.

It took me over an hour to write this! Get it?

I made this: absurdhaikus.tumblr.com

Long story long, had no way of tracking Twitter followers, wanted to have (similar to LJ Joule), so I wrote this app, with Google App Engine.

Also, I don't know how to say this so I'm just gonna say it. ...I've got a rollin' baby.

Everyone knows April 1st is the time to pull hilarious pranks on the Internet! Let's look at some of them!

U.S. Seeks to Drop Case Against Former Sen. Stevens


To be continued!

Long story short, I need to check an entire folder of images to see if they're grayscale. Here's a python script I just wrote that will do that, and output the results to a timestamped log file. I added some comments to explain how it works.

graycheck.py

from PIL import Image

import ImageChops

import os

import string

from time import strftime



def main():

    subdir = 'C:\\pathtoimages\\'

    diffdir = subdir + 'diff' # output directory if you want to save the results

    badFiles = []

    

    for subdir, dirs, files in os.walk(subdir):

        if subdir != diffdir: #only check the main dir

            for file in files:

                if string.upper(file[-3:])=="JPG": # jpegs only

                        im = Image.open(file)

                        imGray = im.convert("L") # convert the original jpeg to grayscale and keep a copy



                        # need to convert back to RGB, but only if the original file wasn't already in mode L

                        if im.mode == "RGB": 

                            imGray = imGray.convert("RGB")



                        # get the difference of the original image and the converted grayscale

                        # if the original was grayscale, there's no difference, so output will be entirely black

                        output = ImageChops.difference(imGray, im)



                        i = 0

                        

                        for color in list(output.getdata()):

                            if color != (0,0,0): # check RGB black and single black value

                                if color != 0:

                                    # Image is not grayscale, for we found a difference

                                    i=i+1

                                    print i, color

                                    break                

   

                        outputFile = diffdir + "\\" + file[:-4] + "_Diff.jpg" # output dir plus filename only plus an extension



                        if i==0: # image is all black, could not be blacker

                            badFiles.append(file)

                            # output.save(outputFile) # uncomment to save the results as an image - though it should be a solid black file



    # print badFiles # uncomment to see the results



    logfilename = strftime("%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S") + ".txt"

    logfile = open(logfilename, "w")

    

    for badFile in badFiles:

        logfile.write(badFile + '\n')



    logfile.close()

                        

if _name_ == '_main_': 

     main() 

If you desire me to release this under a license, consider it released under the MS Public License.

Somebody just threw a beer bottle at me. I didn't see anyone around, except a dog. It landed a foot from my head. If I'd seen who it was, some serious shit was probably about to go down. It's probably for the best that I didn't see who it was. Apparently you can't even take the garbage out in the middle of the day in this godforsaken town anymore.

Paper wasn't working; spreadsheets didn't work. So I designed and built a C# application to help get a perfect town in Animal Crossing.



Here is the source. I'm releasing this under the MS Public License.

The internet just somehow bores me to tears. Or maybe I just don't find anything interesting. Nonetheless, I have nothing to share today.

Shooting people on the freeway?? Next thing you know, somebody's going to be driving through the mall! ...Oh.

I find unicorn missing the ark jokes incredibly trite. Just like the Old Testament.

This is how I feel lately. Like my life died at the party, and now I'm just scribbling rudenesses on its forehead. With a Sharpie, no less.

beautiful downtown Burbank!

man I bet an awesome superpower would be the ability to manifest new pairs of pants

also pizza

but not made of denim, probably crust and standard toppings

magical pepperoni!

for whence does said animal come

pepperonispace

Restart your horse to continue getting important updates

Pressure mounts for Microsoft to deliver with Windows 7

Wow. hey I'm a predict the future guys

look

hey guyysssss you're not lookinnnnnnnnnnnn

Pressure mounts for Microsoft to deliver with Windows 8

Pressure mounts for Microsoft to deliver with Windows 9

Pressure mounts for Microsoft to deliver with Windows 10

Pressure mounts for Microsoft to deliver with Windows 11

Giant space babboon rapes Jupiter, Neptune spared

Pressure mounts for Microsoft to deliver with Windows 12

You know what's never comin back into style? The handlebar moustache. Give it up. It's over.

Ok so I missed days already. It can't be helped. Helped it cannot be .. by me. Sometimes certain things have to fall away because of other things. And this week, I had other things.



My throat has been vaguely swollen for a few days, and it sucks. It constantly feels like I can't breathe, or I'm going to suffocate, or something. Makes it harder to swallow. And I already have problems with that. Plus, life sucks. And my leg itches. So there's that.

Yourtub video of the moment:

As you can tell, I never post much anymore. But I'd like to. I think I've come up with a way to come up with topics daily. But, we'll see. I'm going to try to post something at least every day, whether it's a picture, a line, a link, a whole chapter, anything. I won't count this one.

I'm playin Animal Crossing for like the third time, Wii version this time. If you want my digits, jus holla.


Is Animal Crossing for kids? Maybe.

Is it fun meeting up with some weirdos from the internet and then watering each other for like three minutes?



Definitely.

It seems Google thinks I carve out a good "propane in my urethra" niche, as people keep coming here from those search terms

If you did, welcome! I ... don't know what you're doing here

But this is as good a place as any to be when you're searching for the text of a two second joke from an old cartoon

Some amusing things I've seen from today's big update.



Some guy on a bike in the middle of nowhere in the middle of the day


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An old lady staring daggers into the Street View camera in Herrick, IL


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I just thought of a great idea for a book: "Best-Case Scenario Survival Handbook"


Example: You win the lottery. Then, all your enemies are hit by a bus. I'll show you just exactly where to spend your millions, and what to wear to their funerals. Hint: it's not where - or what - you're thinking.


edit: OH MY GOD IT EXISTS ALREADY >: [