Naughty with keyboards

Tonight, just because I could, I plugged a Mac keyboard into my PC. But wait, I didn’t just plug it into any USB port, I plugged it into one of the USB ports of my current PC keyboard.

Yes, I plugged a keyboard into a keyboard. It’s wrong and yet it works.

I kind of like the quiet of the Mac keyboard after the sturm und drang of my blue switch (extra clacky) mechanical keyboard. Still, this is silly so I’ll switch back after this post.

And a picture for posterity:

Dueling keyboards
Top: Das USB mechanical keyboard. Bottom: Apple USB keyboard. Not seen: Me being silly doing this.

September spam, now with more stats

Upon review it looks like 33 posts will not break the record for most posts in a month, as I went temporarily insane in July 2009 and wrote 38 posts back then. Thirty-three posts will rank #2, though. I’m #2! I’m #2!

Here are some stats for the site. I imagine sites with real traffic probably have similar stats, just with six more zeroes at the end of each number.

  • 1,239 posts (including this one)
  • 31 pages (most of them are not publicly viewable)
  • 22 comments (mostly me asking friends to make sure comments were working)
  • 31 tags starting with the word “random”
  • 5,231 blocked malicious login attempts
  • 3,239 spam comments blocked by Akismet (I checked and there is an actual comment in my spam queue. Usually they get swept away before I ever see them. Here is the comment in full: “The posting a blog will be thinning out it is chicken wings promptly. Your current crank out up may be a okay style of doing it.” Chicken wings promptly is not a bad idea, I say. Thanks for the suggestion, spam comment!

Day 1,200 of Election 2015: Blood moon rising

As the 2015 Federal Election enters its fifth year, two items to note:

  1. I received my voting card. I can vote. I’ve been told where to go and how to get there. Yay.
  2. The Conservatives are gaining, the NDP have slipped and the Liberals are right there in the middle. Statistically it’s a dead heat between the three parties. A lot of Canadians are apparently quite intolerant, more racist than expected, swayed by fear, hate science, easily manipulated and my old favorite, consistently willing to demonstrate the ability to vote against their own best interests. To these Canadians I say again: please don’t vote. Ever.

On the plus side, the last day of September has been pleasantly sunny and warm.

In lieu of…

UPDATE, March 13, 2022: As you can see below, the image that was linked has since moved to other parts of the internet or perhaps just into the abyss.

The name of the image file was evilclownz.jpg and doing a search in your favorite search engine will yield copious nightmare-inducing examples, so feel free to imagine one of those here instead.

An image in lieu of a post (idea by jackrabbit):