January 2012
4 posts
Using Scrum For Saturday Chores →
Around 10:30 AM the whole family held a stand up meeting is held in front of the board.
Points were assigned to each task. Just three possible values to keep it easy: 1 = easy, 2 = normal, 3 = hard. Point values of each task were decided jointly by the kids, but Mom & Dad had a veto power. The point values were written on lower right of each task sticky note.
Go!
“I was still working hard to get our normal broadcast lines re-established - so...”
– BBC - Adam Mountford: Test Match Special suffers along with England in Dubai
“And just like all teenage girls, Miley Cyrus spends her time plastering her...”
– LOL: Can ne1 c a storyline 4 Miley Cyrus here? WTF | Film | guardian.co.uk
“This happens to sound people all time, you’re doing something mundane one day...”
– ‘War Horse’ Sound Tricks: Ice Skates for Bullets and Other Trade Secrets - NYTimes.com
December 2011
2 posts
“I have a form of attention deficit disorder. I like to pay attention only to...”
– Jonathan Ames - The Mess I’m In - NYTimes.com
“What about junk mail?” says Nick. Are you angry about junk mail? If...”
– That’s Britain!: Grace Dent’s TV OD | Television & radio | The Guardian
November 2011
3 posts
“These weren’t even people who had direct management responsibility for people...”
– To become like a cloud provider, fire everyone here « CloudPundit: Massive-Scale Computing
“Before his arrest for murder, Catalan said he never watched “Curb Your...”
– Man Cleared by TV Footage Gets $320,000 - ABC News
October 2011
2 posts
“Ms. DETORO (Consulting Actuary, Chicago): Well, I will tell you I get to travel...”
– A roustabout talks to an actuary…
Workers With Best, Worst Jobs Compare Notes : NPR
“The new candidates look normal enough on the outside, apart from being dressed...”
– TV review: Young Apprentice | Television & radio | The Guardian
September 2011
1 post
“But it’s time to acknowledge that I’ve become a character in a Wes Anderson...”
– Will You Be My Black Friend?: Men’s Lives: GQ
August 2011
3 posts
“In a thousand Starbucks in a thousand towns, MacBook Airs open in front of them,...”
– Goodbye to a visionary: How Steve Jobs industrialised cool - Profiles, People - The Independent
“The company issued a press release last night, announcing that it was “deeply...”
– Abercrombie & Fitch will pay Jersey Shore cast to stop wearing its clothes | TV | Newswire | The A.V. Club
July 2011
3 posts
American Drink: An American Tales →
americandrink:
If you’re not picturing some twisted fisheyed scene out of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas⎯a Kimono’ed Albert barricaded in a hotel bathroom with a shotgun and a pit bull, and myself, eyebrows singed-off, feverishly scrubbing blood stains out of a rented clown suit⎯then you haven’t been reading American Drink very long.
Open The Current Directory
dailyvim:
You probably can come up with other creative ways to use %:p:h
I put this into my .vimrc
autocmd BufEnter * cd %:p:h
That way, Vim automatically changes to the directory of whatever buffer I have open.
Makes it very easy to use :e to open files in the same directory etc.
“The overabundance of cheap storage on hard disks means that it is no longer...”
– Why we must remember to delete – and forget – in the digital age | Technology | The Guardian
(via @AnnabelB/@heloukee)
June 2011
3 posts
“You’ll like this: tea has not actually been taken yet. They’ll take...”
– BBC Sport - Cricket - England v Sri Lanka, third Test day two, The Rose Bowl
“Playing Garden cricket circa 1985, I hit my brothers uppish delivery into the...”
– BBC Sport - Cricket - Live - England v Sri Lanka, Lord’s Test day five
“…the four pint squeeze I recommend doubling-up on the pint pots. Provides...”
– BBC Sport - Cricket - England v Sri Lanka live - second Test day five, Lord’s
Beer carrying tips for cricket fans.
May 2011
2 posts
“Not to be confused with Brain Fuck Scheduler.”
– Brainfuck - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“Before I could give him my email address, a very agitated chubby white male with...”
– Workers Leaving the Googleplex - ANDREW NORMAN WILSON
This reads like an excerpt from a dystopian sci-fi novel but is in fact just about stuff that goes on at Google.
April 2011
6 posts
TwitVim
dailyvim:
TwitVim is a Twitter client for Vim. Twitter is this new website where you can see who ate what for breakfast. Now you can do it in Vim. Take that, productivity!
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2204
Eighty Percent of Success Is Showing Up →
Want to build trust and rapport? Show up. Keep showing up. Do what you say you’re going to do when you say you’re going to do it. No excuses. Prospects and customers like and trust people who do what they say they’re going to do, when they say they’re going to do it!
“It’s funny, but it wasn’t until recently when I scored a USB charged bike light...”
– A post about things we don’t carry – Carryology
Notable for excellent use of the phrase “bundle jungle”.
“I’ve NEVER liked noise. Noise ain’t grain people. I’ve seen noise sauteed,...”
– Daniel Milnor, explaining why he enjoys the simplicity of the Leica M9 (and M6)
“Mr Livesey said his lasting legacy would be a Channel 4 Cutting Edge documentary...”
– BBC News - R.I.P. Daily and Sunday Sport
“Can I not even step up to the sink after taking a piss and wash my own hands...”
– Bite Ass, Mr. Nightclub Bathroom Attendant - Straight Dope Message Board
March 2011
7 posts
“The webcomic xkcd occasionally features a partially fictional version of...”
– Cory Doctorow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“Al Fayed had initially planned on placing the statue outside Harrods, but...”
– BBC Sport - Football - Fulham plan statue for singer Michael Jackson
“Young men: If you attend this crap with friends who admire it, tactfully inform...”
– Battle: Los Angeles :: rogerebert.com :: Reviews
(via zenhabits)
Posted as a draft from Instapaper’s funky new sharing feature.
““The Eleven Cricketers” at Storrington in Sussex (alas now shut...”
– Car cricket - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
““Why did I pick the last one? Lodge is just a name that sticks in my...”
– BBC News - Exeter racecourse punter wins £1.45m on £2 accumulator
“In 1917 and 1918, close to 5 million Americans served in World War I, and Mr....”
– Last U.S. World War I veteran Frank W. Buckles dies at 110
“Faustino Asprilla had spent a large amount of his salary when at Newcastle in...”
– Brief insight into Premier League footballer’s spending habits. Lifesize statue in marble - WTF?
Stewart Downing reveals his far from extravagant lifestyle to court | Football | The Guardian
January 2011
2 posts
“Gulliver supposedly helps them in some damn way or another while learning very...”
– Gulliver’s Travels - Mania.com (via @brunns)
“I soon realized that the Old Fashioned is merely one battle line, albeit a...”
– Are You Friends, After an Old Fashioned? - NYTimes.com
December 2010
6 posts
“Within a few minutes, however, the icy weather begins to assert itself...”
– Yakutsk: Journey to the coldest city on earth - Europe, Travel - The Independent
“I had a famous 60s singer who’s making a comeback this year. I’d...”
– How CDs are remastering the art of noise | Technology | The Guardian
“A drinking bird appears in the Family Guy episode “8 Simple Rules for...”
– The drinking bird in popular culture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“From Anon, night duty CID:
“Whilst ever ready to respond to serious crime...”
– BBC Sport - Cricket - Australia v England, second Test, day four, as it happened
“We’re currently talking about our favourite Reginalds in the office....”
– BBC Sport - Cricket - Australia v England, second Test, day four, as it happened
“For Glyndwr Michael died a second time - a death that helped change the course...”
– BBC News - Operation Mincemeat: How a dead tramp fooled Hitler
November 2010
1 post
“As an aside, one of the tributes I received came in the form of a letter from...”
– BBC - WW2 People’s War - Reminiscences of a Wartime Civilian.
October 2010
5 posts
1 tag
“Kodachrome — The End of an Era.
Film Status: The last day of processing for...”
– Dwayne’s Photo
“After hearing expert testimony, Massachusetts judge rules that a burrito is not...”
– Timeline of the burrito - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Machine Tweets | Update Twitter with a single,... →
Could have done with this when FilmDev’s “recipe tweets” stopped working a while back.
As it is I’ve since re-implemented it with twitter_oauth (not live yet though).
“John’s chick is proper buff but she switched on her man the other day...”
– BBC News - Say what? A parents’ guide to UK teenage slang
“Five bored strippers, working in a quiet customer-less club, stumble across a...”
– Big Tits Zombie 3D | Terracotta Distribution