Sunday, 10 September 2017

I lobster and never flounder.

Had trouble with some of the piscine puns in the song so here come my annotations


I was a cook and she was a waitress
Down at the Salty Sam Seafood Café
And somewhere 'tween the clam juice and the seaweed salad
Some little shrimp[someone insignificant and possibly short in stature] just lured her away

Oh, I lobster[lost her] and never flounder[found her]
He wrapped his line around her
and they drove off in his carp[car]
Oh, I lobster[lost her] and never flounder[found her]
I octopus[oughta push] his face in
Eel[he'll] only break her heart
(Note: push someone's face in = to hit on the nose, the idiom is mentioned in the Oxford English Dictionary in the entry for the word "push")

I said, "Just squid[quit] and leave me
for that piano tuna[tuner]
if you want to trout[try out] someone new"
She was the bass[best] I ever had
Now my life has no porpoise[purpose]
Oh, my cod[god], I love her, yes, I do.

(refrain)

... now trout and sea if ayu are koi enough to smelt out the rest

Sunday, 9 July 2017

Ubuntu Dell sound disappearing

So this should fix the sound disappearing problem that some people might be experiencing. It happens usually when you insert/remove headphones but sometimes seemingly at random.

1) Curse at Dell and Linux
2) sudo alsactl kill quit
3) Curse at Dell and Linux some more
4) alsactl restore 0
5) Intimidate your laptop by saying what a nice cutting board it would make once your new Mac or Surface arrives.
6) Work for a few hours in peace, then go to step 1

Now you have sound.

Friday, 5 May 2017

leaks and MallocStackLogging is pretty awesome

Keep in mind it may trigger false positives if the allocated memory address is for some WEIRD reason computed indirectly.

🙈 --with-malloc-mempools