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Looks like I never got around to any #introductions so here goes...

The name's Box O'Rocks. "rocx" works better. Pronounced /'ɹɑ.ks/, like "rocks". I'm an undergrad mastering the subtle art of computing. Common Lisp and Java are my specialties with a dash of Ruby. Anything else that garners my interest will be in the domain of #linguistics (both natural and constructed), music, mathematics, and that sweet blend of simplicity and power.

Critics say he's a devilishly handsome young man with a cardboard box for a head. Transhumanists call him a staunch anti-robot-rights activist who must be stopped at any cost. His doodles are up on display on the wall behind some obscure museum in Paris no one ever heard of. Born and bred a metalhead, he's also a three-time mosh pit champion. He is... a mildly interesting man somewhere in the world.

This will probably sound bad, but I just chuckled after finally noticing there's a snake emoji in the middle of some Arabic text somewhere in the timeline.

The bad part comes from thinking it was actually one of the letters at first.

Finally got #OpenBSD 6.3 reïnstalled. It's like a new car smell. Not that I'd know what a new car smelled like.

Note to self: be more diligent about upgrading and do it whenever a new version's out. Don't want to get left two versions behind again.

The #Thinkpad X120e is a neat little netbook. It might be a perfect form if it weren't for the lame specs.

Great. Just what I needed. A remote box that can't reach the Internet. Whole lot of good that does.

The realization of time passing never helps matters. Link rot makes it obvious. A portal to a site circa 2008 no longer exists. It didn't feel so long ago. Amazing how a decade can take off like that.

It's irritating to find 📗 and 📘 in a character map. It's monochrome there but they're supposed to depict color. Ruins the notion of printing on a noncolor printer.

The kind of game where you finally beat the boss and win the game but then a cow crushes the princess.

These air fresheners are a load of fake news. They claim the scent of hydrangeas and instead, with intended use, it smells like someone took a dump in a hydrangea patch.

Quick question for #ergodox users: I hear a lot of complaints about the thumb keys being hard to reach. Is it comparable to reaching the buttons for the nub mouse on a #Thinkpad? That's at least not bad.

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Turning a Geomyidae listing into an HTM table was a piece of cake until that bit when I wanted to list when a file or directory was last modified.

No wonder I can't do anything useful in a real proramming language; most of my goals are achievable in #AWK.

With music habits like these, I'll need to store them on hard disks instead of flash drives.

Well... Segfaults in #crystal-lang probably means I'm doing something very wrong.

Documentation as part of the executable itself. Softwares distributed as binaries can still have manual pages or an info document without having to distribute a separate file.

...Not that I'd advocate for software to come solely as binaries or something.

In life, there are two types of people: winners, those who random chance favors, and losers, the opposite. Today, I found out than I am a loser.