Jul. 18, 2011 at 11:23pm with 77 notes
Reblogged from americandrink
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.

Jul. 12, 2011 at 5:11pm with 4 notes
Reblogged from dailyvim
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.

(Source: vim.wikia.com)

Jul. 1, 2011 at 2:55pm
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The overabundance of cheap storage on hard disks means that it is no longer economical to even decide whether to remember or forget. “Forgetting – the three seconds it takes to choose – has become too expensive for people to use,
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Why we must remember to delete – and forget – in the digital age | Technology | The Guardian

(via @AnnabelB/@heloukee)

Jun. 17, 2011 at 4:10pm with 7 notes
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You’ll like this: tea has not actually been taken yet. They’ll take it as scheduled at 1610, despite the fact that it’s raining, has been for ages and will be for a whole lot longer. Tea seems to have taken on the the powers of omniscience I mistakenly credited to those clouds earlier, an eerie, sentient being that somehow controls everything else around it. You can picture the weary Chris Tremlett reaching for a sandwich in the England dressing room, only to be admonished with a furious, “NO!” from a blazered official. “NOT UNTIL TEN PAST, YOU IDIOT…
— BBC Sport - Cricket - England v Sri Lanka, third Test day two, The Rose Bowl
Jun. 7, 2011 at 4:25pm
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Playing Garden cricket circa 1985, I hit my brothers uppish delivery into the road, the road being the A4, a passing double decker bus kindly rebounds the ball off a top window back into the garden. My brother catches the ball in the follow through stride from his delivery. Out/Not Out – the debate continues.
— BBC Sport - Cricket - Live - England v Sri Lanka, Lord’s Test day five
Jun. 3, 2011 at 1:30pm
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…the four pint squeeze I recommend doubling-up on the pint pots. Provides a much more rigid, and therefore, easier to carry, rhombus of pints to take back to your chair
—

BBC Sport - Cricket - England v Sri Lanka live - second Test day five, Lord’s

Beer carrying tips for cricket fans.

May. 23, 2011 at 4:52pm
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Not to be confused with Brain Fuck Scheduler.
— Brainfuck - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
May. 2, 2011 at 4:29pm
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Before I could give him my email address, a very agitated chubby white male with a red badge wedged himself between us and demanded that I show him my badge and tell him who my manager was. He told me the yellow-badged workers were “extremely confidential people” doing “extremely confidential work”, and I was standing in an “extremely confidential area”. He then reprimanded the yellow-badge worker for talking to me. I then found out the chubby white man knew what I was doing because the first girl I had spoken to had followed the instructions on the back of her yellow badge – which is to call a certain manager if anyone asks about the work of the yellow badge class.
—

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.

Apr. 14, 2011 at 8:23pm with 2 notes
Reblogged from dailyvim
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

Apr. 13, 2011 at 1:20pm
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!