On the Myer’s Briggs personality test, I score high in the “J” category. I’m a judging type of fellow rather than perceiving. I have a strong sense of right versus wrong, sometimes called “darn-fool stubbornness” and it occasionally causes problems. Take this morning, for example. When walking to my office on [...]
I love reading. I’ve always loved reading. I vividly recall one New Years Eve when my dad and I stayed up past the fireworks even to finish the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. He sat in an an old, green lazy-boy recliner and I was young enough that the two of [...]
One of my friends at the office nicknamed me the Oracle for my penchant of spouting off solutions to his problems before he’s even finished describing it. One such conversation went like this:
So I’m having trouble doing this regular expression in vim, I’m trying to-
Percent sign.
Huh?
Nothing, go ahead.
So here’s what I’m trying to [...]
At work, I’ll occasionally search for a random word in all my mp3 collection and play all tracks that match that word. It’s a good way to get a pseudo-random assortment of tracks. Today I chose “somewhere” as a word (originally because of a random slashdot quote from a Dishwalla song with somewhere [...]
I’m sick of itunes screwing up my podcasts. Between the duplicated events, downloads failing and not resuming, having to totally remove and re-add broken feeds, and the lack of ability to specify different retention levels for different podcasts. I’m ready for a new client.
If you fine folks have any recommendations either for [...]