Angry People Looking For Time Travel

A while back I wrote what I thought was a humorous post about some odd trading in the stock market being proof of time travel.  Evidently not everyone thought it was funny. Here is a comment I received.

You’re clearly an idiot for thinking this, also if you’re saying this as a joke, you’re not funny.

I have no idea why this frustrated me enough to have to come up with a fake emial and write some **** down, but it has

So here is the funny part:  I wondered, “how did this person find my site?”  I mean he seemed pretty upset with the fact that I’m either a) an idiot or b) not funny.  It turns out he came from Google and was looking for “proof of time travel”. I’m afraid my post didn’t meet his needs.

Now I have no idea who this person is, but all I can picture is uncle Rico from Napoleon Dynamite who bought a time machine off eBay. Somewhere there is someone who is trying to find a way to go back in time to save his high school football game.  As he desperately searches the Internet he somehow ends up on my website and is filled with rage!

Tax Credit on Bare Galvalume Roof

It turns out that a bare unpainted Galvalume roof doesn’t qualify for the $1,500 tax credit for energy efficient roofs. The metal roofs must be painted with a pigment that reflects heat. Bare Galvalume is Energy Star rated and shows better performance than most any color other than white. I’m wondering if the legal definition of what qualifies was written by lobbyists for the paint companies.

Selenium No Display Specified

I was using Selenium to automate some tasks beyond testing and needed to set it up to run with a cron job. A shell script calls the appropriate Maven command, but I kept getting the error:
Error: no display specified

The fix was to add this to the script before calling Maven:
export DISPLAY=:0

Evidently when Selenium is started from cron, it doesn’t know what display to use. This code tells it to use display 0 and it runs normally.

AT&T’s Data Limits

Comment on Slashdot story about AT&T doing away with unlimited smartphone plans:

“We’re not happy until you are not happy”