HAI
CAN HAS STDIO?
I HAS A VAR
GIMMEH VAR
IZ VAR BIGGER THAN 10?
	YARLY
		BTW this is true
		VISIBLE "BIG NUMBER!"
	NOWAI
		BTW this is false
		VISIBLE "LITTLE NUMBER!"
	KTHX
KTHXBYE

To use, enter HTML pane:

<pre lang="language" line="starting line number">
code
<close pre><!-- actually close the pre, putting in the real tag here confuses wordpress -->

Any language GeSHi knows about will be highlighted. LOLcode is one of them!

Thanks, Alan!

I posted this as an ‘Editor’ user.  I have made everyone editors now.  You should be able to post media.  Whooo!

So, I did some research on the video embedding thing. It was pretty hard to find, but it seems that it is a permissions issue – all of us except Alan have custom HTML stripped out of our posts (I guess it is for security). I don’t know what options Alan has available for creating new users, but the post I found said that only Editors and Administrators are allowed to post custom HTML code. The rest of us are evidently ‘Authors’.

So, Alan, can you make all of us administrators? We’re not going to mess with your machine.

Oh, and here’s the thing I was trying to embed:

very creepy, disturbing children\’s cartoon, banned from TV
You know you likes you some creepy in the morning.
Testing:

So it looked cold outside today and I didn’t feel motivated to walk over to the CompSci building until about 1:30.  Working from home can be pretty comfortable but one of the downfalls is that sometimes you’ll get some douche knocking on your door trying to sell magazines.

If you live in a complex rented by students or really old people (the target demographics of naive chumps).  Once a semester you’ll probably get some dude knocking on your door who will tell you they’re selling magazines in order to win a contest or get a scholarship.  They’ll lie to you, buddy up to you, tell you they’re a neighbour, and pretty much say anything they can to try and make a sell, some of their tricks are borderline evil.

Anyway, the correct way to deal with these people is to tell them you’re not
interested and close the door before they get a response off.  If your apartment has a no-solicitations policy (Prospect Plaza does) call the police on the non-emergency line too.

What with me being not a sociopath and all, I usually have a hard time closing my door on someone’s face while they’re talking (even if said person is an asshole).  So when I got a knock this afternoon, I let the guy complete his pitch and then wasted my time spending the next 15 minutes rationally explaining why I have a policy of not buying things from door-to-door salesmen. Of course these people don’t care about reason, they just want to make a sell.

Walking over to the CS building I was trying to think of amusing ways of dealing with these people.  Maybe I should have told him my job is smoking crack and my hobby is needlepoint.  Course then he’d probably just say “me too” and then try and sell me a subscription to Crack-Crochet Weekly.

I’m convinced what I need to do is try and sell these people something back. Either some kind of non sequitury random product, or something just completely inappropriate to sell door-to-door.  Print up some crappy brochures like they have and then parrot they’re pitch back to them substituting a couple of words.  In general fighting fire with fire is a bad idea, the exception is, of course, when adding a spark sets of a blaze of hilarity.

“You’re selling magazines?  Oh I can relate!  See I need to sell 3000 lbs. of this fine quality baby meat in order to win a trip to the sunny warm beaches of beautiful northern Canada!  Here ‘ya go, look at this brochure.  Ya’ know maybe if I win this thing I’ll take you along and we can get some quality maple syrup.  Speaking of syrup, you know what else goes well with pancakes, baby…”