“I can’t help myself in the grocery store. The eggs and the apples call to me, ‘Juggle us, juggle us!’ I don’t go to the hardware store for parts, but to find things to juggle. My hands go wild with motion. In the stores my kids act like they don’t know me. My wife hid my machete. She talked of leaving me when I looked at axes the other day. The first thing I think of when I pick up a tool, ball bat or fruit is balance, space and spin. My cats avoid me at all cost.”
— Tony Maurer, in Juggler's World magazineIt's sad that this makes me happy...
It’s been around for quite a while, but I’d never noticed it; most of my data-mining has been at levels that can be satisfied with the usual command-line interface. It will come in handy for my branch-to-branch bugfix-integration report, though.
Bide Me Tender
My new favorite manglish spam, courtesy of a hacked Windows box located in the Institute of Nuclear Physics at Moscow State University:
Dear Japan,
No comment:
"We wanted to do something that would market augmented reality in a way that's... meaningful. We were like, wouldn't it be awesome if you could look up her skirt, or take off her clothes?"
(via BBG)
Dear Japan,
Stop, you’re killing me.
Titled "Koisuru Hello Kitty," the play is described as a "school love comedy" that deals with romance and friendship. The main character is a Hello Kitty doll that turns into a human...
Banana Milk
I think Girls’ Generation could sell anything.
Ah, Emacs...
Emacs 23 natively uses Unicode. This means I can run it in a Terminal window, like God intended, and still have full Japanese support. Previous versions did funky Shift-JIS conversions that made its behavior… “eccentric” on a Mac, especially with cut-and-paste.
Now all I have to do is strip out all of the cruft from the elisp directory, and I’ll have the perfect text editor. Actually, it’ll be easier to delete everything and just add back the non-cruft as needed. There’s not much that I don’t consider cruft, so it will be pretty darn small.
[side note: a release comment says something to the effect that the internal encoding is a superset of Unicode with four times the space, which would make it a 34-bit system. WTF? Update: ah, I see; UTF-32 has a lot of empty space, with only a bit over 20 bits allocated in the Unicode standard. UTF-8 was also designed with considerable headroom, which is no surprise, given that it was invented during dinner by Ken Thompson.]
