An orange in an apple orchard
The word that comes to my mind, is one my grandfather would probably understand, but I can’t actually spell it lol. I guess in English, it would be along the lines of caress her gently.
I’m that happy to have my laptop working again lol.
I’m sitting on the bed, comfortably :-). Dixie is on the chestboard, on my lap, and I’m typing away without any impedance — it’s back to getting things done xD
My laptops replacement (OEM) keyboard finally arrived; United States Postal Services, First Class.
Opened it up, and scratched my head, “Isn’t this supposed to have 1 keyboard holes?”, I unwrapped what’s left of my old one and confirmed it. A quick fitting with Dixie, showed the extra holes would rest freely, gotta love PC vendors. In order to get it to work, I needed to fold the ribbon to match the old one, and argue about getting the tabs under her bezel; but it finally works.
I feel like I just welcomed a love one home, from a really long trip…. and I can get work done again!!!!
I think, after I get my work done on Training Grounds #1/#2, I’ll probably be found with Dixie in my lap, and a smile on my face xD
The highlights of the day >_>
Driving my mother nuts:
Demanding proof by math, that if I do something consistently the same way every week, and you consistently complain about how it comes out; prove that doing it in the first place, is not a waste of my time.
Mother: Check the tub in the guests bedroom
Me: I never saw a bedroom with a tub in the middle of it.
Mother: You know what I mean.
Me: Yeah, but I also understand English.
-> that
Probable revenge? I’ll probably get to spend my Saturday lugging boxes of Christmas decorations around.
Other topics:
I eventually managed to get some lunch today… I dunno why, but I haven’t been eating frequently lately; where frequently is my usual 2 meals a day, and occasional snack. So hungry, I counted the (18) hours, since my last meal lol. Managed to escape for a bit… food, film, and fun.
That left me, sufficiently exhausted, but much more relaxed… Hit the web, then SWAT; joined Medic & Ambu for some rounds, then back to surfing. Lately, I’ve been in-haling more and more of LaTeX documentation. I have a project coming up in the near future, that’ll be requiring it, so (y).
I’ve been trying to re-valuate various modules of my usual operating environment, but it seems that like Vi, TeX is just to hard to displace :. It’s just proven to be the best fit, although it lacks troff’s terseness :-(. The evaluations of course: nroff/troff+macro packages, Texinfo, LaTeX, DocBook, and of course HTML/CSS
Needless to say, I do not use word processors for writing documents, and avoid using them like the plague.
Just spent a fair amount of time, downloading TexLive 2008 on Vectra; kicking myself in the process, for not putting my .screenrc under CVS! My systems have TexLive 2007 installed, but despite ~3 months passing, I never got around to fetching 2008 lol. I’ll need to get it setup on my machines sometime this weekend; and probably fetch a few packages off CTAN.
I do periodically review the software and technology I use, and for what purposes I use it. It really helps in maintaining my systems (and installing them ^_^), and just getting things done. I enjoy both efficiency and comfort, which is probably why my laptops also my most used work-station…. and contains all of the software systems I use for various tasks.
I wish that dang keyboard would arrive soon.
http://www.xfire.com/video/4c23c/
Hahahaha, thanks [SAS]_Ambu 🙂
Hmm, the idea of GM, Ford, and Chrysler go under? What can I say, but burn baby burn!!!
Chrysler is so bad, they’ve got a big flash-sign on there home page; Fords website is actually quite nice, I’m rather impressed; especially how they’ve the flash / non-flash parts; GM’s website I am not even going to comment on. Looking at there stock prices though, I’m glad I don’t own any stock in Ford lol.
I would hate to see a company like ford go under, because of their history; I wouldn’t mind seeing less fords on the road though >_>. I’m anxious to see what happens in the coming year. It’s an imense amount of jobs,
Hmm, rubber banding between C++, Python, and Bourne is an interesting way to pass time, especially when you start wishing for a hybrid.
Wait, ain’t her name Perl?
>_>
Nothing to do until morning, and nothing if I’m not needed at work…. (YKYMF!)
Brains to far gone to concentrate on serious coding (Choice between Windows or SSH to Vectra, not fun)
To wide awake to sleep
To tired to care about any forums beyond [SAS], until I’m free of work.
My e-mail will continue to pile up anyway, so why bother reading until I can think clearly (vive la Google)
I actually have nothing to read, worth reading, that I haven’t read a thousand times (Heck, I just skimmed through SUSv2/SUSv3 out of boredom)
I hate Tuesdays lately :
So far, I’ve gone most of the day without eating, minimal to drink, and about 7 hours between bathroom breaks. It’s 30 F (-1.1 C) out and getting worse; I’ve had my hands chilled, thawed, and rechilled by more then a few degrees, several times :
When we finally got home, I cracked open the Potato Chips and some dip to gnosh on; had a nice snack before chores. I generally don’t eat junk food anymore, but my last meal was around 10pm last night lol.
Hmm, 20 pushups in about 3 minutes.
Either I really need some damn sleep, or it has been that long since I tried something called exercise :. Well, Iw as much more active back then… but that’s a different story lol.
It’s good to have the space again to actually exercise…
%Windir%system32 (typically C:WINDOWSsystem32)
clipbrd.exe — ClipBook Viewer
Big question, can I actually use it for anything? (Grrr, vim is better); windows clipboard management out of box seems to suck, or require finding a program almost no ones ever heard of :
ftype — manages file associates
very bloody useful – no more need to invoke explorer.exe to play with them.
systeminfo — quick print useful data
Gotta remember this next time I’m working on a system; msinfo32 provides more info, but for some dang reason always seems to need start.exe or rhe run dialog to launch it. systeminfo gives a good first look, and is easier to grep.
Windows XP does have some useful changes from DOS 5/6 based releases, but I’ve never actually found a lot that isn’t in my MS-DOS reference >_>.