Monday, December 31, 2007

Eloping rights

This sight strikes me as somewhat profound. As a recovering victim of
more than a few run away right handed gloves- I'm oddly torn at this
sight. Two right handed men's gloves sit patiently waiting at the
local bus stop- they are waiting for ...? Sonehow i know they are
exactly where they are meant to be yet clearly so far from their the
course of ultimate utility. Could I possibly play a role in setting
their course right? Is there something I could say?

Perhaps a lesson is waiting for me here- Perhaps two rights make a
wrong?

Wednesday, December 19, 2007

replacing strings in emacs with new lines

I was trying to export my thesis from omni-outliner into tex format so I could make my thesis purtty. Annoyingly, when omni-outlier exports to plain text format it does not add any spaces between sections (at least not as far as I could manage).

My solution - replace the characters that indicate new sections with new line characters in emacs.

A quick google brought be to this somewhat helpful page: http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/008872.html

The answer is -
1. open preferences in omni-outliner
2. under the 'text' tab - set the bullet symbols to all be '***'
3. return to your document and select 'file>export' from the menus
4. select 'Plain text (fixed width)' as the file format and click save
5. open your exported txt file in emacs
6. type M-x (i.e., press the 'x' key while holding the 'alt' key), this will bring up a prompt at the bottom of the emacs window.
7. type 'replace-string' and hit enter, this will bring up the prompt "Replace string:"
8. type '***' and hit enter to define the string to be replaced
9. type C-q C-j (i.e., press the 'q' key while holding the 'ctrl' key, nothing will visible happen, don't worry. Then press the 'j' key while holding the 'ctrl' key. Before you know it, all of the '***' have been replaced by newlines, nothing else needed!).

My shrine to productivity

"I'm 87%, no wait, 89% sure!"

...says the girl in front of me.3

Coffee makes the thesis to 'round

And mobilogging provides a welcome distraction to thesisizing. ;-)

I wonder why people see stars

I know why people see movie stars. And it seems clear enough why we
see celestial stars. But why we see stars when we stand up too
quickly, or of we jossle our noggin's seems like a total mystery to
me. It's not like they are simple phosphemes- instead they appear to
have a uniform color and move about. Although now that I think about
it, I can't be so certain that the movement doesn't come from the
movement of my own eye.

Perhaps people have explored this?
If so, I wonder how they induced people to see stars...

Tuesday, December 18, 2007

These are my peeps

iPhone blogging

Just a quick post to prove to myself how easy it is to get a photo
from my phone to this here blog. Simple as taking the photo, attaching
it to an email and sending it to go@blogger.com. The Internet (and
google) sure is an amazing place... The boundaries btw it and what I
used to considered to be the real world blur more every day.

This is how we mPost

From our phissle-ones!

Blog me baby

Ehren