The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree
Has given my heart
A change of mood
And saved some part
Of a day I had rued.
—Robert Frost
Photo Credit: Foster Hungtington of A Restless Transplant
Dust of Snow
February 3rd, 2011 § Comments Off on Dust of Snow § permalink
If—
January 30th, 2011 § Comments Off on If— § permalink
Typography: IF by Rudyard Kipling from George Horne on Vimeo.
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too:
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise;
If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build’em up with worn-out tools;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings,
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on!”
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!
Long Boy “Burgers”
January 25th, 2011 § Comments Off on Long Boy “Burgers” § permalink
Made these last night and they were pretty awesome. Thanks go out to Alana at Sunshine and Bones for showcasing these and for the lovely image.
Zero Padding in Bash
April 30th, 2007 § 32 comments § permalink
This is as much a reminder for myself as anything. I needed to create 31 folders named 00 through 31 for each day of the month in a web-directory used to store audio files from CAPE-1 transmissions. The first thought that came to mind was to write a quick one-liner bash command/script to create those folders. So, without much thought, I quickly typed the following into a shell on my web server:
for ((x=1;x<=31;x+=1)); do mkdir $x; done
OK, well that did create 31 directories, but the first 9 were named 1, 2, 3, etc. instead of 01, 02, 03 like I wanted. After a quick search on zero-padding in bash it seemed no one had posted anything about it except to say it was tricky. Being a C programmer before a bash script writer, I thought to myself, “Wouldn’t it be nice if I could use a printf() statement in bash?” Then I remembered that you can, only usually it is used for formatting user interface statements. I could not think of any reason it would not work to deliver the argument to a mkdir statement, so I tried:
$ for ((x=1;x< =31;x+=1)); do mkdir `printf "%02d" $x`; done
$ ls
01 03 05 07 09 11 13 15 17 19 21 23 25 27 29 31
02 04 06 08 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 28 30
And it works! Breaking the command down gives a standard bash for loop with the mkdir command as the internal command inside the loop. As an argument to the mkdir command, however, is a printf statement which given the formatting prints a zero-padded (the 0 after %) two-character long (the 2 after the 0) integer, x. Remember, the `s are back-ticks (below the tilde on most keyboards), not single quotation marks (‘).
It seems like there should be a better way of doing this, but quickest way I found to add zero padding to a number in bash is to use the provided printf which uses the same formatting as the C language printf statement. More usage and examples are available at the ss64.org bash printf reference page.
Our Day Off in California
December 11th, 2006 § Comments Off on Our Day Off in California § permalink
Nick and I had the day off since CAPE1’s testing went so well. We decided to take a drive up the coast and snapped these photos.
There’s a short video of the seal at YouTube.
CAPE1 Thermal Vacuum Test Photos
December 10th, 2006 § Comments Off on CAPE1 Thermal Vacuum Test Photos § permalink
After ten hours of a grueling vacuum bake out, CAPE1 passed the thermal vacuum test without a hitch. Here are some photos of the event.
CAPE1 Fit Check and Vibration Test Photos
December 8th, 2006 § Comments Off on CAPE1 Fit Check and Vibration Test Photos § permalink
Nick and I are here at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, CA for final qualification tests of CAPE1. Here are some photos:
Claiming My Blog for Technorati
August 18th, 2006 § Comments Off on Claiming My Blog for Technorati § permalink
Just claiming my space in the technorati blobosphere. Nothing to look at here—move along.
View my Technorati Profile
New design coming soon eventually…
August 11th, 2006 § Comments Off on New design coming soon eventually… § permalink
It was originally my intention to complete a design theme for this site before going live. However, I needed somewhere to publish the CAPE Subversion System article and I wanted it to be on the new site, so I launched prematurely I guess you could say. Well, things came up and I have not had the time to work on the site. So, now I am committing myself to at least a partial, but fully usable theme by the end of this month. At first it will probably just be a CSS design based on the Sandbox theme by Scott Wallick. Eventually, I would like to add a little of the functionality of K2 and probably slim down some of the PHP of Sandbox just to make it a little more focused to the needs of this site.