http://stream.wolfteck.com Isn't it obvious? Tue, 22 Sep 2009 05:05:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So... what's been going on? The next day, Dr. Maiman called and all but apologized for the nurse.  (Doctors can't really apologize -- too many lawsuits.)  Dr. Maiman referred us to Dr. Linga Reddy.  We saw Dr. Reddy who thinks it's a vascular issue.  We're going through some more tests and ... http://stream.wolfteck.com/2009/09/22/picking-things-up/ However you want to put it, tonight I ran out of rope. I don't remember the last time I cried at anything that actually mattered.  (I cry about stupid shit like "waiting for my real life to begin" on Scrubs) Yesterday, a nurse practitioner from Dr. Maiman's office called and explained that ... http://stream.wolfteck.com/2009/07/30/breaking-point/ echo "create database new" | mysql -u root mysqldump -u root old | mysql -u root new http://stream.wolfteck.com/2009/07/22/lame-command-line-mysql-database-duplication/ It's officially neurological.  All her plumbing works.  MRI scheduled for next week. http://stream.wolfteck.com/2009/07/22/results-from-urology/ Somewhere around the time I stopped writing last, we spent an evening at the E.R.  Let's just say that Heather was having some "issues" and that after 6 hours in the E.R., they had solved the immediate "issue", but hadn't solved the recurring "issue" and sent her home with another ... http://stream.wolfteck.com/2009/07/14/quiet/ What's the best way to scare away your audience?  Insult them. I hate people.  As a general rule, they're stupid and panicky, and just want to be told what to do.  How else would organized religion and modern governments exist?  I really want to rant about this, but I'm not going ... http://stream.wolfteck.com/2009/07/06/people-freakin-annoy-me/ It's been a busy few days... Thursday morning, Heather was doing particularly not well and we wound up in the emergency room starting around noon.  The ER docs handed her off to neurosurgery, who handed her off to urology, who didn't really help much.  Thanks to some relaxing and some Valium, ... http://stream.wolfteck.com/2009/07/04/multi-purpose/ Heather's EMG went better than expected.  That is to say that it wasn't the worst thing she's ever been through, not that it was actually pleasant.  The doctor was Andrew Nelson and, like I said, he was funny and good at his job.  It's just that an EMG is a ... http://stream.wolfteck.com/2009/07/01/reflections-on-an-emg/ Not that anyone cares what I think about social networking sites, but fuck Twitter. It's freakin stupid. It's pretty much the epitome of maintaining useless excuses for relationships without any effort or follow-through on either side for the sole purpose of making sad people feel like they have ... http://stream.wolfteck.com/2009/06/29/fuck-twitter/ What are Access, Modify, and Change as returned by the 'stat' command? What better way than to learn by example?  First, we start with no file: rwill@rwill-laptop:~$ stat foo stat: cannot stat `foo': No such file or directory rwill@rwill-laptop:~$ Next we make our file: rwill@rwill-laptop:~$ echo "Hello, World" > foo rwill@rwill-laptop:~$ stat foo File: `foo' Size: 12       ... http://stream.wolfteck.com/2009/06/29/34/