Simon Wex

Hi, I'm Simon Wex. I'm a nerd constantly in search of real adventure.

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog… really

Chilly weather outs substantial marijuana grow operation

http://shuswapnews.com/2010/01/07/revelstoke-marijuana-fire-put-out-by-cops/

I just think this quiote is hilarious:

To put the seizure into perspective the amount of plants seized could potentially produce about 371, 000 joints (marihuana cigarettes), enough to supply each Revelstokian with over 40 joints, children included.

while true do
puts :lotion => :skin || gets(:the_hose)
end

Revelstoke Mountain Resort Pow Day Jan 2, 2010

OS X: “<Disk> is in use and cannot be ejected”

An annoying, though common problem when trying to eject an external drive. There are two approaches you can take. First off you can figure out what process is using the drive and then kill said process. It’s a decent option, but usually I find myself in too much of a rush to care. So my preferred method is just to eject the damn disk.

$> hdiutil eject -force /Volumes/{volume name}