Sunday, July 26, 2009

I Hate

  • Early Morning morons who think jogging with headphones is cool on a street while not giving a damn about the car honking behind them.
  • The ooh-i-am-so-artsy picture on the facebook, with a half cropped side profile looking out of the window while it is raining, with a musical instrument in sepia tone.
  • Those use whatever as a punctuation mark
  • Those who think hmm....+lol+yoyoy is a good substitute for an entire language
  • Milan Sareen :: I don't care if you don't know her
  • Single button mouse
  • My campus Internet Connection
  • Those who think cryptic status updates are a way to make themselves a mystery woman
  • Those who fwd chain letters
  • Those who think driving in their own lane is for losers.
  • Metrosexual guys
  • Obsessed with joota-chappal girls
  • Those who hate windows cause it is cool to do so.
  • Segmentation Fault
  • Those who take excessive pictures of themselves during a group outing.
  • Those who think it is ok to be late
  • Small organizations/clubs who behave like fortune 500 companies with more designations then employees/members
  • Anorexic wannabe delhi 15-18 year old girls you find puking after their first large.
  • Shopping Malls
  • Male guards who will frisk you at enterance of various buildings
  • Myself when i can't remember what all i hate

Thursday, July 23, 2009

XKCD offline archive with mouseover text

this post has nothing to do with the generic theme of the blog, but who cares...

I wanted to create an off-line archive of xkcd.com web comic, and found plenty of shell script to do so, but none packaged the image with the mouseover/tooltip text (which for me was half the fun). So i did, what any self-respecting xkcd reader would do, i went on to create one. So here it is for all the xkcd fans.

The link to download the offline archive (from 1-592 in )

https://dl.getdropbox.com/u/138928/xkcd.cbr


the script used to create it.


################################
#!/bin/bash
#Download all xkcd and package with tooltip text
#3rd June, 2009, created by subiet

for i in `seq 1 592`
do
wget http://xkcd.com/$i/
echo "$(grep http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/ index.html | head -1 | cut -d\" -f4)" | convert -antialias -background yellow -page 1024x70 text:- $i.jpg

wget `grep http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/ index.html | head -1 | cut -d\" -f2`

convert -append $(ls -t | tail -n 1) $i.jpg $i.jgp
rm index.html
rm *.jpg
rm *.png

done

###################################

Fulltext of Telescopictext.com

fulltext for telescopictext.coom :: Yawning, I I and smearing my eyes with my fingers, I walked walked bleary eyed into the kitchen and made made myself boiled the kettle. filled the kettle. took the kettlegrabbed the kettle, unhooking it from the cord and filled it.. I filled it with fresh waterI turned the tap and drew fresh water, making sure it was cold enough checking with my hands to make sure it was cold enough () (The best tea comes from the coldest water!). I filled the kettle as I glanced outside at the mistoutside for a minute across the city mist. I could taste almost taste the grey. I got some biscuits. The kettle was full so I plugged it inThe kettle was half full, so I switched the tap off and returned it to its socket. I turned it on I flicked the power switch on and got some biscuits out.looked for biscuitssifted through the cupboards, looking for biscuits. Anything Anything above loose crumbs would do. I Thankfully I found some fusty digestives. Biscuits For some reason, biscuits are nicer always nicer when they're they've gone a bit dry and stale. I took the milk out of the fridge. I took the milk out of the fridge and poured some into a mug. I reached over and opened the fridge, retrieving the milk. I got a mug and poured some milk in. I poured a little into a mug at the same time as grabbing the mug from the cupboard and placing it on the surface. This This is a technique I developed that doesn't really save any time, but makes me feel clever. Then I made myself The kettle began grumbling fiercely so I poured water on to a teabag so I took it from the cord, threw a teabag into my cup and poured boiling water onto it and watched it brew. . I watched swirls brown swirls rise up and through the watermuted white of milky water. A few minutes passed. I put the teabag in the bin. I removed removed and squeezed the teabag, then flicked it into the bin. I picked up my mug and left the kitchen with teaa cupnice cup, hot cup of tea strong tea. by Joe Joe Davis Joe M Michael L Lambert Davis >