amazon's wish list system has a "universal wish list button" feature now so you can add things from other websites. i wonder which silly web 2.0 startup they put out of business with this addition.

i've been using amazon's wish list for the past 6 years to add books that i hear about and plan on buying myself later. now i can add all those non-amazon things that i plan on wasting money on, like a supercharger for my exige.

so if you are feeling sad that my exige does not have a supercharger and is too slow at road america, now you can buy me one because it's so easily accessible from my amazon wishlist.

whenever carl hears a police car or an ambulance, he tries to howl and bark along with the siren. while sitting at my desk the other day, i heard a siren and saw carl pop his head up, so i started recording him howling at a police car.

while uploading the video and playing it, he heard himself howling and started doing it again, so i recorded carl howling at carl howling at a police car.

i received an e-mail asking me how i got started with openbsd, so i thought i'd write the answer here in case anyone else wanted to read it.

i started using openbsd in 1998 (version 2.3 or 2.4) to host a bbs that i was running. i chose openbsd because of its security record and because i was getting fed up with linux (slackware) at the time. i think the machine was a pentium 75 or something, and openbsd worked quite well on it. during the course of building the bbs, i had to install some 3rd party software, so i got interested in openbsd's ports system to make installation of that software cleaner. i submitted some ports to the ports@ mailing list and got them committed by other developers. i tested others' ports and supplied feedback where i could. i hadn't done much unix development back then, so writing simple makefiles for ports was an easy way to get involved.

i made a muxtape. it is mostly songs with words. i am not really sure why i picked these, but picking 12 songs out of my 4700 in ichoones is hard.

i will probably make another one with songs without words, and maybe one of old idm stuff.

participated in the 3ballsracing grattan track day at grattan raceway in belding, michigan.

my two fastest laps were two 1:34.1s, which is not fast.