Jay McGavren's Journal

2008-11-25

You're beautiful, it's true...

Left on the Gangplank front door and subsequently “improved”…

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2008-11-25

Dinner at Pink Taco in Scottsdale. Sacrelicious!

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2008-11-22

Please wait while we re-program you.

I’m astounded - went back to the XP laptop to clean out a worm (the first that’s ever gotten past our firewall that I know of), and found myself trying to use OS X keyboard shortcuts. Years of conditioning to the Microsoft environment, undone in just a couple weeks.

Some old habits do die hard, though - I still find myself holding Caps Lock on the Mac in a futile effort to activate Enso. I need to visit the Enso mailing list and see how stable it is on OS X.

I’m getting fed up with GUI OSes in general, BTW. The Mac keyboard shortcuts, while slightly more sensible, are still totally random at times. I feel like I’m learning Street Fighter special moves or something. And there’s no way in hell I’m using the mouse.

I’m tired of losing the window I want amid the myriad windows onscreen and having no way to find it except command-tilde (or whatever), and the problem is made worse by the multi-monitor setup at work. I’ll sit there hammering on the keyboard, wondering why it’s not responding, only to realize I’ve barfed random text all over the terminal on the other monitor.

I’m starting to understand the curmudgeons who refuse to leave Emacs all day, I really am.

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2008-11-20

Another hacknight I wish I'd made it to...

…‘cause this time, Matt Mullenweg (Wordpress founder) was here.

Evidently he’s got mad Wii Tennis skills, as evidenced by the “pwned” section of the whiteboard…

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2008-11-18

We're testing a Javascript Jabber client...

[11:28:21] [chris@xmpp.foobar.com] test
[11:28:51] [chris@xmpp.foobar.com] The power of the Internet
[11:28:58] [Jay] internets ftw!
[11:29:42] *** chris@xmpp.foobar.com is Offline
[11:29:55] *** chris@xmpp.foobar.com is Online
[11:30:02] [Jay] miss me?
[11:30:10] [chris@xmpp.foobar.com] No :-)
[11:31:11] *** chris@xmpp.foobar.com is Offline [Replaced by new connection]
[11:31:13] *** chris@xmpp.foobar.com is Online
[11:31:19] [Jay] it's spiffy!!!!
[11:31:24] [Jay] hi ward!
[11:31:44] [chris@xmpp.foobar.com] hello
[11:32:06] *** chris@xmpp.foobar.com is Offline
[11:32:14] *** chris@xmpp.foobar.com is Online
[11:32:20] [Jay] wooo!
[11:33:14] [Jay] Jabber is not a truck.
[11:33:25] [Jay] It's like a series of tubes.
[11:42:34] [chris@xmpp.foobar.com] need to make a friends list
[11:42:45] [Jay] woo! i liek frenz
[11:42:57] [chris@xmpp.foobar.com] I can has friends.

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