Jay McGavren's Journal

Hmmm…

		#Clear the background on the buffer.
		graphics_context.rgb_fg_color = Gdk::Color.new(0, 0, 0)
# 		buffer.draw_rectangle(
# 			graphics_context,
# 			true, #Filled.
# 			0, 0, #Lower-left corner.
# 			@width, @height #Upper-right corner.
# 		)

Or…

		@view = TrailsView.new(
			:width => options[:view_width],
			:height => options[:view_height])#,
			<strong>:trail_length => 100</strong>
		)

Definitely gonna put no-erase and trail length options into the GUI. Hell, add a few effects, and it might be time to open an exhibition.

Finally got my Enso extension server working. I’ve begun replacing all my pipe-clipboard-to-batch-file utilities with EnsoExtension::Command objects, and the “feel” is pretty nice so far.

Unfortunately, I can’t publish them more widely yet. Anything that uses getUnicodeSelection followed by setUnicodeSelection makes line separators go all wonky in Word and Notepad. (But not Notetab Light, Wordpad, or Eclipse, oddly enough.) I’m sure the solution would be perfectly obvious to anyone who works with Unicode (or GUI selections) more regularly, but it’s giving me some trouble.

Oh, well, my own setup is pretty nice. I won’t worry about those using lesser editors for now.

I also finally set up a personal Ruby lib under my home directory, something I’d been meaning to do for a while. All the shared functionality between my different utilities is finally going to be consolidated into a few modules.

Wanna know what retarded #@##@$ song is stuck in my head TODAY?!

You gotta be bold you gotta be bad you gotta be wiser all I know all I know love will save the day

I think I’d rather have the goddamn Barney theme.

Dreamt last night that I was testing a new jet for the Air Force. It was made of plastic, completely recyclable, and intended to be disposable.

It worked off of voice commands or thought, and ran a preprogrammed mission schedule - in fact I’m not really sure why it needed a human pilot, unless something went wrong. But there I was in the pilot’s seat, and I put the jet through its paces according to instructions from the ground.

Then my alarm went off. Hit snooze. The jet was gone, and replaced with the power to fly unaided. Alarm went off again. Hit snooze. Now I could fly and perform Christ-like healing miracles. Yeah. Then Diana burst into the room, saying we were going to be late for our appointment. Dream over, man.

The end of an era...

At John and Holly’s garage sale… sigh…