brennen @brennen@mastodon.social

standing offer until further notice:

want to do something on the (gnu/linux/unix) command line but not quite sure where to start? trying to sort out some kind of tiny script? ill-advised regular expression not _quite_ hacky enough for the job? not asking stackoverflow quite the right thing? maybe i can help! @ me and let's see what we can do.

(disclaimers: speedy responses not guaranteed; i won't make fun of you; i'll tell you if i'm stumped; i'm pretty easy to stump.)

a cricket is just a goth grasshopper.

on a family zoom call and realizing for the nth time that a conference call on an actual telephone would probably be infinitely less awkward than this in many respects

i haven't gotten very far into picard, nor more than about a season into st:dsc, but a lot of this resonates: https://wrongquestions.blogspot.com/2020/11/one-more-adventure-thoughts-on-star.html

https://xkcd.com/2390/ cc: @earthtopus

the beans were pretty good though

a few years back i was at the local bar for some bluegrass band and started talking to someone who'd just moved into town and she was like oh i used to work in software and eventually it turned out she'd been one of the main people on harvard graphics and she flatly refused to believe that i was old enough to have heard of it, let alone have developed extensive opinions on its clip art library.

the process for making a pot of beans:

1. i will not use too many dry beans this time. this is a reasonable and modest quantity of beans, which will in no way exceed present needs.

2. this is an absurd quantity of beans. oh my god.

huh - i have to admit i haven't really been paying attention to this, but it sure does look like publishing is getting real consolidated-like

for those who don't want any breakfast grains: whoatmeal

whoatever

i took apart a microsoft wheel mouse optical just now (one of the little clickers seems like it gave out, i thought maybe there was just some fuzz in the way, alas) and made the delightful discovery that it has an entire LED dedicated just to lighting up the little red butt of the mouse.

footnote to this: my configuration of the prompt, enabling some extra stuff: https://code.p1k3.com/gitea/brennen/bpb-kit/src/branch/main/home/.sh_common#L188

tiny material nerd life improvements: i resisted using git-prompt.sh[0] for years in favor of a simpler homebrew thing, but the extra info it conveys is 100% worth the effort of turning it on everywhere.

[0]. https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/contrib/completion/git-prompt.sh

they announced a new letterkenny season, which is enough to get me thinking maybe it's time to watch the whole thing a third time.

ok i'd probably skip "fartbook" this go around.