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Another lovely Friday. If reports are to be believed, on a bypass that has 69 or 68 exits, traffic is screwed from I-20 to well passed spaghetti junction, along with most major roads on the same vector. After 20-30 minutes of traffic to get some where that should only take 10-12 min, I took the I-75 south into Atlanta, where it was pretty much saoring through the usual bumper to bumper from the Brookwood end to exiting the curve. To top it off, while trying to change lanes to take the I-75S, there was about double the safe length of distance between the cars, when the mother fucker in back decided to rage down on his pedal, I’m pretty sure that we both gave each other the bird as he fender dodged his way over to the I-75N in that sporty foil. One upside if anything did happen, my car is more like a tank and his was more like paper, so playing chicky is out, and raging is illegal ;).

To add insult to near injury, it took like twenty minutes of laps to get a gas pump, just to drop $40. Place was so mobbed I dunno how knife play didn’t enter the picture. Topping it all off, on my way to the interstate my mother calls to tell me to pick up her prescriptions and get a few things on her list. She can’t be arsed with sending it as an e-mail so I’ll remember, so I’ve gotta scribble a note to myself while driving (which I _hate_). Then listen to her because I wrote “1 40Watt lightbulbs” instead of 60 Watt, and missed the crackers o/. Well, ya gets what you puts in.

8=)

sshfs + svn != fast

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While one of my main gripes about Subversion in the past, has always been “It’s slow”, I just found a real way to snailify it. Try running svn diff on a nice (~80M) chunk of source tree that’s mounted over sshfs.

It probably doesn’t help either, that the server has quad, quads, and  my systems a lowly dual, hehe.

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Today, I really got a nice little reward. Basically, the company I work for was getting people together to go over the renewals with our medical insurance provider, and of course, eh, I’d rather be at  my work station getting something done. So this provided me with the impetus to setup my phone as  an impromptu in-building terminal.

Problemo is, I usually use VIM. While I’m stubborn enough to give that a go on a small screen with a virtual keyboard, my phones virtual keyboard doesn’t provide the *PC* keys: namely escape, control, and alt. It’s also not the most convenient to use the programs methods of side stepping this. So I got to thinking for a moment, what is an editor that is light and small enough to use over a text terminal, yet powerful enough to service a programmer without a lot of special keys? –> I found the solution right in my own skills repertoire, or as some say: the default text editor! Some years back, I took the trouble to learn how to use /bin/ed out of an interest in learning how to use vi/vim better.

After a couple minutes of thinking on this, it occurred to me: ed was designed in an era when terminals were SLOW, so slow in fact, that you could probably piss off someone by trying to print to much to standard output, which could be connected to a roll of paper and a true TTY >_>.

So it seems that learning /bin/ed was well worth it, because it makes one hell of a file text editor when using your phone as a terminal 🙂

Epic Toast Incident

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Kristen Gates’ pick for this mornings You Choose The News has to be the best report since sliced bread:

TWITTER HEADQUARTERS EVACUATED OVER BURNED TOAST

Twitter’s main office in San Francisco had to be evacuated when an employee’s burned toast set off the fire alarm. As expected, some employees talked about the toast incident on Twitter. One employee wrote, “Quick math: 30 min fire alarm, 400 employees ~ $2500 for burnt toast. ooops,” while another lamented, “Nothing like a Friday building evacuation in the rain. Damn toast.”

Wow, you really can spend $2500 on one piece of toast!

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Last time I heard a traffic report, it sounded like we had likely surpassed 40km worth of traffic, I was lucky enough to only see about 20-minutes of it on the front line near the cloverleaf. Once I heard my usual Interstate was FUBAR as well, I just split off for the nearest US route.

Remind me, to never take the west side loop *around* Palmetto again, flibbin’ ancient roads that are so tight, you could pick your noise and hit a house, lol.

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When you’re watching a video stream, and you recognised the markings on the anime’s computer screen as names of registers on the X86, you know you really need a life. Either that, or you’ve got to ask your self if the shows designer knew some assembly :-S

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I had the most sickening thought on the way home tonight. Somewhere Else was playing on the radio when it popped into my head—if after the move is over, I find myself half way down the interstate before I realise that I *don’t* have to do that no more, I’m gonna pull over and kick myself in the tookus.

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The difference a decent nights sleep and being in the office makes: I’ve gotten almost 3 times as much done today as yesterday! One upside to moving, is I won’t have to work from home as frequently when there’s something to get done before work…. I like coming in.

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Well, I’m still stuck here on account of my mother’s check up, but on the upside, despite her opting to be so early that my battery will be dead before she even sees the freaking doctor.  I’m able to sit in my car and use my phone as a combo radio and 3G connection, hehe.

I wonder how much an inverter to hook up my laptop to the car battery would drain it :-/. That’s the principal reason I’ve never plotted to obtain one.