Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

Earlier, I was looking something up in Wikipedia, and got distracted by all the shiny tangential links, and wound up on a Month_Day page where they listed births and deaths of famous people, one of whom was described as an 'ecdysiast'.

But as a result, I've had the lines:

...and died of constriction
attempting a Moebius strip

stuck in my brain ever since my eyes landed on that word. (And, of course, not for the first time, started trying to figure out how to design a routine that could be considered to count as being such a thing.)

Oddly enough, the word 'stripper' does not seem to have the same effect on me.

Yak-shaving. *grrr* At least the dialogue box that told me to install that library should have warned me yak-shaving would be required, even if, "for patent reasons", it couldn't provide a way to sidestep the yak-shaving entirely.

I guess some folks will consider it a silver lining of sorts that I have gotten annoyed enough to think I should switch to an unencumbered codec on principle even though I did manage to get what I was looking for; at the moment I'm just sleepy and cranky and completely distracted from the project I started this whole excercise for in the first place.

(Oh yeah, lots of clues on the web, uh huh. But most of them only made any sense after I'd found The Rest Of The Story elsewhere on the web to provide the necessary context, a few hours into the mess.)

"see, maybe that's my problem. maybe i'd have better luck with men if i dressed like a space marine more often." -- merde, 2007-05-23