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hi. i'm still here. there's been a lot of stuff happening, most of it good. so what if i didn't get the job at amazon? i'm going out on a yoga adventure with someone i met, and i'm learning how to type all over again. the kinesis helps, because i can remap it:
>pr<+ shift+f10 :: reset
>pr<+ - :: silent context
:: qwerty -> dvorak
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So I've been TRYING to write a blog post about IRC and how people tend to misunderstand it as a medium, but once I found the words, my machine locked up and I lost them forever. Instead, I'm going to talk about IRC and how I'm trying to reinvent it, securely and more-distributed than before. Before I get to actually specifying a new protocol, ( Read more... ) -
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One of my friends has an ex that decided it would be a good idea to send her random BDSM porn and a set of extremely shitty ben-wa balls. I thought I could use them as a fidget toy, because it was just two weighted balls on a nylon cord, but I try this for a bit, and it turns out that they're snap-together plastic, and the weight, combined with my ( Read more... ) -
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So this morning I check my $WORK email and find something with the subject "Help needed for this customer issue relating to high-availability". The people actually CC'd on the thread include the Tcl architect, the IP/layer-3 architect, the chief HTTP expert, the SIP architect (???), and me. Since I'm not involved in HA at all, I stay quiet on the ( Read more... ) -
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In other, totally irrelevant news, I forked oh-my-zsh, converted it to Darcs, and pulled out a bunch of ricer crap. (seriously, nobody needs 100-plus themes sitting around in their system). If you use zsh, give it a try. -
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We got the keys to our new place on Saturday.
I've said this, or similar, three times in the past three years. Moving sucks. -
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The Cruxshadows' new album sounds like they've been replaced by a sterile plastic version of themselves. I'm vaguely disappointed. -
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CHANGELOG entry for 2013-05-15:- Heap compaction tuned to be more aggressive.
- Paystubs are now arranged in monotonically increasing date order.
- Refactored paper-mail I/O subsystem.
- Primary caffeine consumption device switched to maté from coffee.
- Obey the rule of Five.
- Heap compaction tuned to be more aggressive.
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Remember when people used to bitch about how the old Mac required you to manually assign memory to applications?
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I rode my bike between my house and a major bus-stop, and the downtown stop and work. Didn't make it there any faster than if I'd just taken the bus by itself, but it was a beautiful day and I'm sure I'll get better at cycling when I do it regularly.