Archive for the ‘code’ Category

Wherein I attempt to get what little readership I have to fall into a deep sleep.

Nicks-iMac:~ nick$ history 1000 | awk '{a[$2]++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}' | sort -rn | head
112 cd
53 svn
50 mate
40 sudo
35 ls
25 pwd
22 ./mysqladmin
17 port
14 ./mysql
13 curl 

Ah, now isn’t that better? Sleeeep. Sleeeeeeeep. I’m sure there’s at least one hard core Unix person out there saying “what the fuck does ‘mate’ do, and where’s all the entries for ‘vi’?” I will further separate the sleepy from the hardcore by announcing this is a Mac.

I change directories a lot, huh?

1.) When my dog amiably holds my gaze for just a second too long and I realize he is probably a reincarnated Buddhist monk, thanking me for the scrap of turkey I gave him under the table.

2.) When my wife calls me three times in a row in a twenty minute period to converse about essentially nothing, just so that she can say “I love you” at the end.

3.) When my in-laws give me a birthday card signed “may the force be with you” to accompany a Star Wars DVD boxed set.

4.) When people look at me–straight-faced–and call Internet Explorer version 6 a “web browser” in an non-ironic way when in fact IE6 is really just a trap, sent here by evil demons from another dimension; the same demons who want me to spend the rest of my life breaking perfectly good code instead of reveling in the first two things on this list.

I wonder if every line of work has an “IE6″? I’m sure it does. But this one, as they say in the marines, is mine. Yet again I’ve spent an evening wrestling my own hands to the desk where they can’t fly through my computer screen, thinking the same thoughts about just what would make a group of humans make a piece of technology–in general such a liberating and beautiful thing–so awful. It’s like being given an endless bankroll and a clock with no hands with which to make a piece of art and making You, Me and Dupree instead. I just don’t get it.

For now, though, I have the other two things. They’re enough. I didn’t code a single table today. Buddha and my wife are winning.