02:20 pm - Turdlets

Oh yeah. So Scabrous was invited to a rather unconventional wedding last Sunday at the Maker Faire. That was pretty neat. In prior years I’d wished there was some fitting excuse to have Scab around. And, having done it…65,000 people, no handler*…can definitely say this was among the more retarded ideas I’ve had, and any such impulses are out of my system. For now.

* missmonstermel did wrangle for the first hour or two. After that it was just unmitigated lunacy.

Have I²C stuff working in Linux. No Windows yet.

Also, I hate wikis, especially open source project wikis which tend to suffer from a condition I’ll refer to as “MOAR TEXT!” This is when bulk takes precedence over clarity, and obsolete and even patently wrong passages will be left in-place (and usually before the correct information) for no good reason. Maybe it’s that the original author’s ego is bruised when such passages are removed and they immediately restore them. Maybe it’s other authors’ concern in bruising others’ egos that they don’t want to strip out the incorrect passages when replacing the information. Most likely though…having been and worked alongside programmers for multiple decades, and understanding a bit about what makes many of them tick…I suspect a “MOAR IS BETTAR!!!1!11” attitude among many contributors. If our project has like a billion pages of documentation, it must be that much awesomer! Creeping featurism at its worst.

Hypothetical example:

How to make Foonting Turlingdromes

1. Find a joyful and innocent child with a balloon…and pop it. (If they have candy, take this as well.)


2. Fill sack with kittens and throw in the river.


3. Slap your mammy.


4. Stand in bucket of water. Insert fork into electrical socket.


5. The previous steps are wrong. Under the Application menu, select the item labeled “Foont Turlingdrome” to initiate the foonting process.