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comments: 0It has been brought to my attention by a certain someone that I have not updated in a while. Being one of the few and proud users of propper capitalization, I suppose I should fight the good fight and struggle through this time of the not altogether barren wordscape that grows in the plains of my brain. Its a rich field in there.
After 100 posts over the course of about 11 months now (although I guess the first 10 where I was testing my script perhaps don't count), I've finaly come to realize that keeping a page like this is not only a bit useful to me, since I tend to forget what I've done in the past as well, but also useful to others in "the community". Dare I say that I am important to other people because what I write? I dare, and I do.
I don't want to sound like some babbling philosophe, criticizing the use of multi syllable words only to lay a heavy handed big-word smackdown upon my audience (on the subject, I think there are few of you), but in the end that's really what this thing is damned good for. I doubt very much that people who aren't looking for something of the semi-intelligent variety from my site would ever return to it once they had found it. Over the past year, I've used it increasingly to bring up issues that I feel strongly about and I feel are either important or hilariously odd.. and although lately my 'content' has been laden with such, I can't bring to say that I'm any better for it. As I look back on it now, and not a few weeks ago, I don't find it all that odd that I wrote about a 3:00 am trip to midtown diner; although a few weeks ago I was wondering why, in hindsight, I didn't add a piece about the installation of the Shah of Iran by the CIA. But admittedly, perhaps due to volume overload, recently I've tried to cover more things than I have time for, and because of it I've been churning out mostly dismal satyrical play's on the actions of Washington insiders. Unless that's your thang, I humbly appologize.
So now that the retrospect is over, I'd like to welcome schizm back to the game. You're welcome to use the hoolah hoops in the corner, and there are coloured balls and building blocks in the crates under the shelf; nap time is at 3:00.
I think I might be over the team fortress binge for a while; alas, the 10th time around on the 5th year, TF2 still didn't come out to keep me interested. Its not as though I don't have fun anymore, its just that it only takes a few days of distraction (in this case, other stuff to do) to draw me away from any activity. No dirty jokes, please.
Seeing as I don't play games anymore, I've been running Linux almost full time on my desktop and laptop, whose screen is propped up by the convenient and sturdy stabilization bar that goes to my shiny new loft. And since you brought it up, I got a shiny new loft. The old one, although it was sturdy and had many, many memories (in fact, its presence made room 3), is no more. It's sad, really; the room looks kind of like a huge dorm room in some old house now rather than the ole fraternity, but in a way it has a cleaner look that might, if anyone ever comes over to our damned house, dispatch our "scuzzy" reputation.
Ripping down that old bastard was pretty fun, and it was done with much haste and little planning. It seems that there was so much haste involved, especially in the camp of a certain Jewish person, that before I could get off the bed, it was falling under me. Surprisingly, although gravity tore me down along with the bed, jerm hung in their nicely and held it up enough for me to jump off and avoid injury, even with the knee thing. A good laugh was had by all, and after I un-burried my stuff from the pile of bed remains, I was set to go.
New surroundings means, um, new versions of KDE. 3.1 RC6 was released no more than 6 days ago, and I suggest you (and by that I mean myself) get it as it features bug fixes and security patches from their month long security audit. I am waiting because in about 2 - 3 weeks 3.1 final should be out.
Because things at work have been painfully slow (well, not the past 2 days, but before that), I've had more than enough time to catch up on things at more than a few websites. In fact, those are the big 3 (net/com/org) that I've been visiting lately, and I must say that the former two destroys the first one in terms of being useful and entertaining. In any case, I chanced myself upon this X11 WM at freshmeat.
Let me first inform you, the gentle kind reader of this website, that what I'm about to say will probably contain profanity in volumes that, although massive, belie my hatred for certain instances of my fellow man. Now that this has been said, I think the guy who put together "Antidesktop" is an elitist shitfaced asshead who desperately wants to be one of the digerati. Almost everything he says here is cause for attacks of epic proportions. It seems as though the author didn't create or even expose his Antidesktop because he wanted to help people, he just wanted people to know how 1337 he (and his Dvorak keyboard) was. Its precisely the tone in the presentation of the article that turns so many (even myself sometimes) off to the technical elite. If you like assholes like this, then you probably like the "security by I am better than you hahaz" section. As for the other advantages of this system, simplicity isn't always an advantage, as proven by the fact that X11 exists as does the need (for a HUGE majority of the population) for visual apps. Here's the kicker..
Every application taking up the whole screen is not only possible in every WM, its also changeable. Locking the user to one view mode is far from being a feature or offering clarity. Usability of large fonts is something that everyone can do regardless of WM. If you have to scroll horizontally and can't, then you are a stupid fucking jackass for using large fonts at low resolution and blaming it on other people. As for the "Flexibility" thing, he basically says how he can have remote x sessions that stick around because of screen, which is cool; but its the method that annoys me further.
But maybe, just maybe, this guy has some points. The WM does look incredibly stripped down and clean; and if you are running some kind of server but still want X on it (without a large footprint), then maybe you'll want to run AntiDesktop. Maybe you'd rather run a good minimalist WM like black or fluxblox, but maybe you'll want the console-like power of AntiDesktop.. if you're used to console apps. Fine, I can understand that. (as an aside, minimalist implies design; which this WM has none of, so its not really minimalist).
While I'm on the topic of minimalist WM's, which because of my stupidity now spans about a page and an hour of my life, I'd like to bring up a great freshmeat project named ion. Although some of the people said this guy's earlier work was better, Ion looks pretty slick. If it wasn't for the ammount of features and ease of use of KDE, I'd probably switch. I'm probably going to move around to other Wm's soon to get the feel for the crowd.
Today I went to vickies with wendy. I was a stranger in a strange world where my strange style was; you guessed it, oddly out of place. Not to feed any beliefs that I might be a pervert, I think I just might have touched every bra there. Its not that I like to go there and touch everyone's future undergarments, really, its just that the particular size I was commissioned to look for was difficult to find.
This week in food: 2 mission burritos(delicious), 1 chicken teriyaki(sic), 1 hot roast beef w/ mutz from vitos (OMFG).
And so, after 100 posts of off the wall disestablishmentarian comments and beliefs, this site still churns with spurious comment and superfluous anger. I'd like to thank the academy.