Purple Haze: Marvin Stamn Pays Us a Visit

Marvin Stamn, execrable troll of old, one of only a handful that have ever been banned from the HA comment threads paid us a visit about 10 days back. Let's examine what he had to say:

I love knowing I'm so deep in your head you still think and write about me. I always knew you had a thing for me. :)

Isn't that just like a troll? So desirous of attention.. So caught up in their small-minded delusions..

Uh sorry Marvie but don't flatter yourself. It was Puddybud who started the ball rolling. His idiocy was the topic of my blog post, not yours.. It was Puddybud who brought your miserable troll moniker into the altercation.. Too bad you're so reading  comprehension challenged. That is common to many right wing trolls but I digress.

This is the first time I've visited this blog, your assumption that I visited here before is based on your belief I am the only person in Pasadena with internet access.

So does this mean you DO live in Pasadena, Marvin? Let's say it doesn't for the moment. YOUR assumption like so much else you've spewed on the interwebs is WRONG, dumbass WRONG. But we'll get to that in a second.

Your image says Pasadena. If you knew what you were talking about you would compare IP addresses.

Bzzzt.. Wrong... Sorry Marvie. How would I get an IP address from the Pasadenan who visited my blog only moments before you commented under an altered handle to get past the ban at HA? Google Analytics doesn't make visitor IP addresses available. It says that here:

Google Analytics does not report the actual IP address information to Google Analytics customers. 

You do know I made the image from a snapshot of Google Analytics don't you Marvin? And no, the builtin stats from blogger does not reveal ip address either.

If I really cared that much about you I wouldn't be using Google would I? I'd be running my own web server like Goldy does at HA which captures the exact IP address without batting an eye. No pesky Google privacy policy when you run your own web server. Sorry Marv, just not that much into you and the rest of the troll brigade. It's sad enough that you carry on as you do. Why would I want to know more?

And then even if I had that address? What would I "compare" it to? No Marvin I don't have access to the server stats from HA and yes the crippled stuff from Site Meter gets you close but no cigar.. At least not enough for a troll like yourself and his eternal game of one-upsmanship..

Now for politics..

Funny how all the concern for global warming has been shoved under the bus with a democrat is in the white house..

Bzzzzt.. Pathetic.. No Marv, people's concerns are taken up these days with merely SURVIVING due to the Bush depression people like you did their best to enable. Gee what if your crowd had had their way with ozone layer eaters like CFC's? We'd be extinct by now. We may get there yet. Again thanks to your crowd.

Same with anti-war protests. Can you imagine the howling from the left if bush used a drone to intentionally kill an American citizen without a trail of due process. 

Uh Marv.. Last I looked there were no combat soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan is on its way to being wound down. Yes, Obama's assassination of an American citizen was a heinous act but from where is the silence truly deafening??? From Glenn Greenwald and other progressive commentators? No Marv. Try DICK CHENEY and his crowd. Sorry, Obama is a politician and his legacy is a failure if he doesn't get another 4 years.. He didn't make the rules. Taking the war-mongering crowd out of the game by continuing some of their policies is winning ugly but it may still be winning. And that at the end of the day is all people like you (the lackey of those who make the rules) give a crap about.

Now democrats are in favor of keeping gitmo open.

Wrong again Marv. Democrats are in favor of keeping their jobs out of the hands of Republicans who taunt and fear-monger them about being "soft on terrorism" and "bringing terrorists onto American soil".. Nope Marv, you don't do your constituents any good by being out of office. Ask any Republican thrown out on their asses in 2006 out there. (No, glibertarians or losertarians wouldn't know anything about that, sorry.)

Good thing democrats are so wishy washy and without principle,

LMAO!!! And Republicans are truly blessed with principle - win at all costs and reward those who brung 'em with tax cuts, next to no worker safety, "right to work", freedom to pollute and free reign to shake down/cheat consumers at will. Are things really shitty at the moment? Hell, the Republicans will show you the real shit. Fine principles those Marv!

otherwise this Obama regime would be killing them.

LMAO at your silly "logic" there Marv.. Last I looked we just tried and convicted a couple of terrorists - the underwear bomber and the Times Square buffoon. Didn't have to export them to Gitmo first and no Democrat died carrying out American justice just like it was with Ramzi Youseff in the Clinton days.. As usual - dumbass (you) is as dumbass "thinks" (hallucinates is the better word).

Finally, Marvin blesses us with one last gem:

Only #6?

Heh. Yeah too bad Goldy banned you Marv.. You'd have easily, easily overtaken Puddybud as #2 - smelly product of the ass-end of the right wing propaganda machine at our favorite haunt - the HA comment threads.

Indeed your politics suck Marvin. We could have gone into a lot more of your silly legacy at HA which is preserved indefinitely in the database I keep. Maybe we will some day.

I hope all is well with you and yours to boot. Thanks for the visit!

On Steve Jobs

His philosophy of aesthetics reminds me of a quote that went something like this: “Fashion is what seems beautiful now but looks ugly later; art can be ugly at first but it becomes beautiful later.”

Steve always aspired to make beautiful later.

He was willing to be misunderstood.

Zombies

The Montana "friendo" (right) and his leetle sidekick, you-know-who!

The "friendo" from Montana hungers for the flesh of an occupier.

The zombie cretin reaches for a "happy meal". Mmmm yum! Leftist!

The asshat troll in his "natural" state.

The asshat troll again, taking a "breather".

The asshat troll (hat off) having a screwdriver at happy hour. Yikes! What a headache the next morning. Go easy on the sauce dude.

The Puddybud Series: Puddybud is an Idiot

See this thread.


The moron begins:

I know you’ll neva do it but you could tell ekim where I’ve been in the world for the last three months since you know how to tell where everyone posts from on this blog. 

Me:

Nope you silly dope I don’t know where “everyone” posts from unless “everyone” (meaning here right wing dopes) is REALLY REALLY STUPID and tells me!

Puddydope:

Second you were the one [heroic truthteller]…

26. YLB spews: @23 – Greetings from Torrance perhaps?05/24/2011 at 9:10 pm27. YLB spews: Shit! Pasadena? From a Mac?? Must be hangin’ with the girlfriend eh Marviepoo?05/24/2011 at 9:11 pm

I know how to figger this out and this proves you do too. Now who claimed IP Addresses except you? I neva mentioned IP Addresses in my commentary above.

Me:

In both instances I was “told” this moron.

Can you possibly figure out from that shitpile between your ears how the parties involved “told” me this?

Doesn’t seem so..

LMAO!!!

Puddydummy:

Oh really? In CYA mode now eh [HA hero]? So it has to be the [greatest conveyance of the truth] since you are the whole [HA hero YLB]! In that thread Marvin never mentioned where he was or the system he was using. So you are saying those posts were another of your [brilliant] postings, still at 100% perfect for slinghing your [magnificent eloquence] on HA!

Me:

Absolutely [I am magnificently eloquent].. AGAIN, AGAIN, AGAIN…

AGAIN…

Marvin “TOLD” me where he was posting from!

YOU OBVIOUSLY DON’T KNOW HOW HE DID THAT!

DUMBASS!

Puddystupid:

Search your databaze on May 2011. Where did Marvin tell you he posted from his girlfriends MAC in Torrence or Pasadena in May 2011 since he WAS BANNED? You traded emails?

In your words “PROVE IT”!

Me:

THINK THINK WITH THAT FETID DUNGHEAP YOU CALL YOUR BRAIN!!!

WHAT COULD MARVIN HAVE DONE TO “TELL” ME???

Hint: BESIDES commenting at HA????

Puddyidiot:

Remember, my original commentary before meeting [one of the ha gods YLB].

Sucks to be [PuddyFOOL]!

Me:

hopeless…

PuddyFOOL:

All that [eloquent, well reasoned writing] above and the [HA hero YLB] still hasn’t answered the question since Marvin was banned by Goldy long ago.

Now I get the last word. It's my blog after all. Yeah Marvin was banned long ago but at least on two occasions he's commented at HA under a slightly altered handle to get past the banning controls. The latest to my knowledge was MAY 24, 2011 - the day PuddyFOOL quotes him above.

NOW.. How could Marvin Stamn "tell" me that he was posting from Pasadena on that day??? Something that PuddyFOOL is either too stupid to figure out  or is just being an asshole.

Here:

To read this, first click on it to see it better, then look at the upper right where you will see where I believe Marvin Stamn "told" me. Look just below that and you'll see the date he "told" me. Then look at the bottom of the picture slightly to left of center. What do you see???


Yes if you know ANYTHING about the stats that web servers keep when you click on a website, you'll also know web servers log the kind of machine you accessed the website with - in this particular case, the machine associated with the access from Pasadena was an Apple MacIntosh.


Now how do I know that Marvin clicked on this blog? Because at the same time he left the comment on May 24 at HA, I looked over at my blog and looked at the Feedjit Traffic Feed on the lower right - there was an access from Pasadena just minutes before and it was from a MAC.


Why Pasadena? Here's the reason for that:

19. Marvin Stamn spews:  

My girlfriend is an elementary school teacher in the hood of pasadena

05/09/2008 AT 3:54 PM

Coincidence? I believe NOT.

Yes, PuddyFOOL is an IDIOT!

More Bullshit Code!

This code is actually from another project. I'll eventually use it in the troll project. It's kind of simple but it's just so damn awesome to me from a geek perspective:

Click the picture above to see it better.

What does it do?

Answer: Anyone who has been around long enough to have suffered through writing a report in COBOL may remember the ancient concept of a "control break" - simply the point where upon reading a record you test if the condition has been met to print a sub-total, accumulate a grand total, etc. In this code, I've got a bunch of files in a directory, I select the files only (excluding anything else like subdirectories) and sort those files by their date/time stamp. Then I produce a report of a tally of files by the day they were placed in this directory. The "control-break" happens right in the middle of the code snippet above - the "if" clause. Could you ever "push" something in COBOL? The end result of this code is an array of hashes. Any number of table formatters (like the one I use for the troll project) can spit out something halfway readable. Like so:

The geek value is in how, with so few lines of code these days, you can express something that required so much more sweat in the bad old days. What is even funnier is that you could have done something like this even back then - with Lisp. I wonder if some shop somewhere in those days used Lisp for mundane data processing. Probably only a handful - memory cost a huge amount of money in those days.

I was watching a talk by Ruby superstar Aaron Patterson and he said this is much faster:

Click on the above to see it better.

Inject is expressive but slow apparently. I haven't had a chance to benchmark this particular code.

Inevitable humbling update: I was watching another videocast and what I'm doing above has a simple name: a histogram. The vidcaster of course had a butt simple way of doing the above. No fancy array of hashes, pushes, maps or injects - just one hash:

Click above to see it better.

Hashes are ordered in Ruby 1.9.2. so the end result comes out ok. Older rubies take a bit more work. You learn something new every day.

A View from the Head...

of tehchickenshit troll..

Quite a limited worldview to be sure..

More Bullshit Code!

In the last installment we looked at some code that implements the "added view column" (ac) feature of my column search program. I demoed it in the comment threads here.

The column search (hacols) is the program whose output I often post in the comment threads. One day I needed a convenient way to assemble a url to a specific comment from parts I had already been collecting and thus the "added view column" feature to hacols was born. The feature allows me to develop a short one-liner program on the command line and then once it's working, store it to be recalled for later use. It becomes just another column (albeit unsearchable) for views of the database. So far I've used added view columns to generate comment urls and to downcase and strip out html from comment bodies. Check it out:

Click on the graphic above to see it better.

Blogging this code led me to thinking. Counting the results of a search and executing view code on those results is at present an either/or. One bit of code that executes later is the "uniq" feature which filters out redundant results. What if I wanted to count the unique results of a search like all the variations on Puddybud's handle in the comments file? Uh.. I can't do that with this code. And yikes! What's with copying tr to a results array? Why not update tr in place? What a waste! And sigh, it makes sense to do that inject only when adding columns at the command line not every time we convert the vetted code strings to procs for view execution. Ditto for storing. How humbling...

So the big if statement drops to the cutting room floor and the following refactor is born. Here:

 and here:

What a difference a little time and blogging makes. Brand new code next time.

Update: Found yet more optimizations for larger result sets. I won't discuss them. I promise.