“Dear P&G,

I thoroughly enjoy your Pringles brand potato chips. They are just about perfect. They taste great, come in a variety of flavors to keep me satisfied, are surprisingly cheap for a convenience food, you can easily share them with your friends and enemies, the Jalapeño is like an orgasmic flavor explosion in my mouth. I could go on for pages here, but let’s get to the meat of my inquiry.

They are no doubt meant to be the perfect portable snack. They come in vending machines, are sold in gas stations, come in that great little tube that fits perfectly in a car’s cup holder, etc. But this perfection falls short when it comes to the lid. All your work on making the best portable chip on the market is for naught with the current lid design. You see, when you are driving, hiking, biking, walking, what have you, you can’t go about fumbling with the can AND the lid. Why not simply make the bottom of the can the same size as the top so you can just snap the lid onto the bottom and go about your business, worry free of dropping either the lid or can.

Seems an obvious thing to do, why you have neglected to do so until now is beyond me. If you consider my suggestion and rectify this glaring design flaw you will be well on your way to world domination, harems of women, and an end to television re-runs.

Thank you. Sincerely, A concerned consumer.”

Seriously, this is the single biggest problem with the world today. Thought I’d get this all cleared up for us, y’all can thank me later.

On a lighter note, here’s some Ska-Punk fresh from Sacto .. well maybe not fresh.. this album, ‘Two For The Road’ by the Lesdystics, is a few years old but still kickin. Enjoy. I did.

So I saw someone online born in 1999 today. I remember 1999. I feel kinda old.

La Alta Escuela  is a Spanish Hip Hop group. Hard to find so I’ll through it up on /imouto for ya. There’s a track in there I’m not sure belongs on this album, there’s supposed to only be 11 tracks but I got this album with 12 and all the tags were screwed and songs were out of order.. I fixed this but was left with a 12th track, so I just titled it “Bonus” and put it as the last song. If you know what Bonus is actually from let me know. Enjoy and stuff.

Aight, so this blog is coming out of hiding now. I’m working on fixing the aesthetic errors in the layout and tweaking some other shit.

I’m just plowing through school right now, trying to get past these damn gen-eds and into the meat of my degree. Gonna start studying for some CLEP exams soon so I can test out of some coming gen-eds.

Basically school and music have taken over my life and since no one cares about my COM-140 class I guess I’ll leave you with some music. Here’s gONNA gET gOT, Brooklyn’s illest white punk-rapper. Got both their albums in the mail yesterday. Bills4Skillz is based on fan submitted stories. My Microphone is their Newest, and imo more solid, album. Both are pretty sick.

Note: Both albums are in FLAC so the file sizes are large.

GallerPy is a great little image gallery writen in python and uses very few resources. I was having some issues installing it on my shared hosting environment here at Bluehost. I finally resolved them and posted back on the BH forums where I had been getting some help from the veterans. I’ll make a note of how to go about installing GallerPy on shared hosting here as well (for info on this gallery software is really lacking.)

copypasta from the Bluehost forums. [View the thread in it’s entirety]

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I’m back with a SOLUTION this time For anyone in the future that may be looking for an answer here it be (it sure as hell isn’t anywhere else)

The issue is indeed that python isn’t seeing the PIL library, that is why you are getting the import errors, python simply doesn’t know where to import from. It really is a simple fix if you have root access, but on a shared host that’s just not possible.

What you need to do is install PIL in you home directory. such as (’/home/username/pythonimg’)

Then, back in your GallerPy directory change the first line of index.py to

 

Code:

#!/usr/bin/python

Then further down in index.py where it has

 

Code:

import os
import re
import sys
import traceback

change to:

 

Code:

import sys, os
# Add a custom Python path.
sys.path.insert(0, "/home/username/pythonimg/lib64/python/PIL")
import re
import sys
import traceback

This will modify your python search path without you having to have any root access. (Of course if you installed PIL somewhere other than the path I have specified here, make the necessary change to the correct directory)

Hopefully that all made sense (I have ZERO python experience so I can’t really explain it all that well…) But it should get you up and running. If not, drop me an email and I’ll walk you through it

Have fun.

I am starting at the University of Phoenix next week and will be majoring in Information Systems Security. I will blog here about things I find interesting or relevant to that field. Some irrelevant things may slip in too ;)