McFearsome Blog

Came across this post on boingboing today:

This Cincinnati, Ohio gentleman snatched a cell phone from a lost, deaf woman who had gotten out of her car to look for a street sign. Later, Gary Walker, 24, took a phonecam shot of himself. A few weeks after the robbery, the victim, Ashlee Hutchens, downloaded her data from the phone network into a new handset and Walker’s photo popped up. Police then sent it out to the media and subsequently arrested Walker. From Cincinnati Enquirer:

“All of a sudden his picture came up and (Ashlee) said, ‘Oh my god, Mom, that’s him and that’s the shirt he had on,’” Christine Hutchens said.

“I get very upset when the elderly, kids or handicapped people become victims of these offenses,” said Officer Tamar Skelly, who is with Crime Stoppers.

• unable to sleep, I lie silently on the couch listening to the sirens slowly get closer #
• A clock ticks, an engine idles, keys jingle and a door creeks, sometimes I wish I were a dog #

• my head wants to explode #

It’s been a few months since I’ve actually used the svn command, these days I opt to use git-svn, but I recently found out it doesn’t have support for svn:externals after checking out a project that made extensive use of them.

So I wanted a fast way to get the external code and wrote a quick python script that I can drop into a directory with a svn.externals file that will checkout the external projects using git-svn. There’s probably a much better solution out there, this method is pretty crude, but it works and that’s all that mattered to me.

• On my way home to collapse on my couch. I drank a 5 hour energy shot and was still nodding out in a meeting #