It is proper typographical style to place spaces on either side of an ellipsis except where it adjoins a punctuation mark. #
Q: "bumrush" or "bum's rush" A: Both. But "bum's rush" was earlier and meant to toss a bum out of an establishment.
No, you are not "presently unavailable to take [my] call." "Presently" means "soon," not currently. Use "at present" instead. #
AIM
- mazirian: I want to make a canned pork product that's like silly string, where you push the button and lots of bacon like substance comes flying out.
- vlad: pork whiz!
- vlad: and something like whipped cream that's just lard.
- mazirian: Lardwhip?
- vlad: not bad
- vlad: how bout “Head Cheez Whiz”?
- mazirian: That sounds offal! Ba-dump bump.
for X in $(find ~/{irclogs,Maildir,.xchat2,work_im_logs}/)
do grep -i -C 20 "27th dimension" $X >> ~/tmp/27d.txt
done
emacs-client ~/tmp/27d.txt
…edit, edit, edit, tick, tick, tick…ding! See the shocking results…
Realization: It's often easier to suffer than to strive. Corollary: Waiting for striving to be easier than suffering is not a good play. #
I just purged nearly all my emacs buffers; it was cathartic, like an emacs enema. #
And while we're at it, "momentarily" means "for a moment" not "occurring in a minute to two from now." #
For about five minutes there, the voices in my head all started speaking with Australian accents. Thank god that's over. #
#ThreeCheeks
- mazirian: Where is bobman ?
- eclipsic: We killed him, and we were gonna eat him, but it seemed like too much trouble for too small a reward, so we sold his humors to scandanese mulatto evangelists hoping to create an uber-mensch, donated all his organs but his liver to the Fossilization and Calcification Department of Megapolis University for research into The Effects of Bone-to-Meat Ratios in Excess of 1:1, his liver was stolen by a hydropcephalic Zoroastrian philatelist with the goal of synth
- bobman: Uh.
- eclipsic: well…you DID ask
«We are now in the eighth decimonth in year 17 of our Lord Vectron (or, in the old calendar, year 2052 AD) The skies are foul with fumes from burning airships set ablaze in endless unnamed and unrecorded battles. The English language is dying, few can read it, even fewer speak it. I would volunteer to translate this page into New Latin but I am close to death and fear I no longer have the strength. As I dictate this from my hover-desk, I feel the darkness filling in around me. Oh yes, I almost forgot. Any news regarding source availability? »
—Concerning the availability of source code for kiwi
« Woah! I got hit by an accident! »
—Elin on twitter
He Knows What He's Doing
Celebrating the Semicolon in a Most Unlikely Location: "'When Hemingway killed himself he put a period at the end of his life,' Kurt Vonnegut once said. 'Old age is more like a semicolon.'"
Gallo pinto. No matter how hard I try, it never tastes as good as it did in Costa Rica.
Maximum Resolution Coefficient: The number of new years resolutions a person may simultaneously strive for at any given time. Mine is 0.92. #
“Bylaws” or “By-laws”? He gets the right answer, but he doesn't take the etymological approach to finding it. The derivation of the word suggests that no hyphen should be used.
Food Blog Search. Very cool.
Haml takes your" gross, ugly templates and replaces them with veritable Haiku."
My twitter got stuck in my emacs with my lost socks! #
My Office
@austonianb You're not supposed to smoke meats indoors. #
Reached weight loss impass. Need to implement gulag style weight loss program. No twitter in the labor camp. May not see me for a while... #
analog-clock.el is a "working (as in, the hands actually move) analog clock for GNU/Emacs." But when will emacs find my lost socks?
Foodsel, because you are what you eat.
Venus Rises, a sci-fi vidcast series by J. G. Birdsall.
Twittering-mode is for twittering from emacs. There, now we have it all.
ljupdate, a LiveJournal client for Emacs
Chicken Molé, Pickled Veggies and Green Rice
How to Build a Twitter Agent, including a few "secret" twitter XMPP commands.
"Let me get to the crust of the matter." Doh! It sounds close to but means (if it means anything at all) the opposite of the actual phrase. #
Maillardet's Automaton at The Franklin Institute. The automaton that was part of the inspiration for Brian Selznic's The Invention of Hugo Cabret.
Elin is dancing like a wild animal to Spoon from Can's Ege Bamyasi, then she stops suddenly, turns to me and yells, "Yoga Turtle!" #
The Tuna Calculator "uses the FDA's own scientific guidelines for what constitutes a safe dose of mercury to calculate the maximum amount of tuna you can safely eat each week..."
It has been brought to my attention that my twitter of 13 Feb 2008 suggests that jjk has only one nipple when, in fact, he has 2.75 nipples. #
Felch & Company, LLC. The most unfortunate name for a company ever. (And it was formed in 2001, so they should have known better).
Fox!
Q: "back yard" or "backyard"? A: Spell the noun as two words and put the primary stress on yard; spell the compound adjective as one word, and pronounce it either with primary stress on back or with the two parts relatively equally stressed. See The Columbia Guide to Standard America
delicious-el, an emacs mode for handling your del.icio.us links.
Blue Jellies
The “Blog” of “Unnecessary” Quotation Marks, which everyone has apparently already "seen" but "me."
A theme for Google Reader in the Aqua style via Hicks Design and some firefox plugins.
Willpower is a muscle that you can strengthen, but start with small challenges or else you collapse in a fit of gluttony, which is okay too. #
The secret to preventing procrastination is to identify the thing you least wish to do and then do that thing. This realization sucks. #
Q: How many hairs does JJK have on his nipple? A: 0.5 hairs. #
Kale Chips, as in little crisps made from Kale.
Some Recent Folds
Let the tweeting commence. #