Why does every laptop have a keyboard? Bear with me. The keyboard is usually the most annoying part of most laptop designs (usually because they are too small or awkwardly laid out), so do away with it. Keyboards are all low-draw USB devices nowadays anyway, why not have a single slab (non-folding) laptop, touch screen or not, with the whole thing ( Read more... )

history|awk '{a[$2]++} END{for(i in a){printf "%5d\t%s \n",a[i],i}}'|sort -rn|head
77 vim
70 cd
65 ls
49 screen
36 sudo
31 cat
21 ssh
21 python
17 p4
16 grep

Please put this at the top of your .tex files:

\usepackage{palatino}

It really beats that brain-damaged version of times that every paper is typeset in in readability.

Quickest way to escape HTML entities:
lambda astring: reduce(lambda x, y: x.replace(*y), [astring, ('&', '&'), ('<', '<'), ('>', '>')])

Example:
omg = lambda astring: reduce(lambda x, y: x.replace(*y), [astring, ('&', '&'), ('<', '<'), ('>', '>')])
omg("Hello & Hello <")

If I ever opened a head shop, I'd name it Mess-O-Pot Mania.

For some reason the Discovery Institute seems to be having no real trouble finding really bad doctors to endorse "intelligent" "design" (being that they are only vaguely like research biologists, yet can still be used in appeals to authority wrt issues about biology). ( Links and links )

The going to... series has no song about going to Seattle, but I am going to Seattle to see the Mountain Goats twice this week, then I have tickets to see them again the next weekend at the El Rey. Also on the horizon is Coachella and Blonde Redhead and Cowboy Junkies and if the guys on last.fm aren't lying and the Decemberists are really playing ( Read more... )

Everyone owes me a beer. No more, no less. No celebrations, no presents. You simply have 365 days to buy me a single beer.

After a year and a half hiatus from school-nerd crap, I am taking a class. It is midterms. I still hate midterms. Also I rediscovered I hate the tedium of calculus. Integration by parts? Multiple variables? Ugh. It takes forever.

I'm Seymour from Ghost World.

Enid: Just list your five main interests in order of importance.
Seymour: I'm gonna have to put traditional jazz, blues... and then ragtime at the top of the list.
Enid: Right, so let's just say music, that way we only use up one.