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Monthly Archives: July 2006
Comedic Insigts: zefrank
the show with zefrank Warning: If you are offended by foul language and crude humor (and you know who you are), then you may not want to watch this video. Possibly against my better judgement, I have posted a link … Continue reading
McRudy
Both Senator John McCain and former-Mayor Rudy Giuliani present obstacles to getting my vote that seem to me to be insurmountable. I suspect that there are a large number of people in the conservative & libertarian camp that would agree … Continue reading
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Nifty utility for POSIX systems
It’s called bar. It seems to be a nifty little script that does what you would normally do with simple invocations of cat, tar, and cp, but it prints a progress bar. Like this:
Superman Physics
Do you ever find yourself critiquing the portrayal of physics in movies and comics that are obviously fantasy-based? For example, do you find yourself wondering how Superman can generate enough energy to produce ocular heat-rays/lasers that can burn through steel … Continue reading
The Essence of Chess
From zefrank.com: It is important to understand that you don’t win these kinds of games by trapping or surprising the opponent. You win by doing a deeper analysis at each move so that you are more likely to become aware … Continue reading
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Photo Essay of DPRK (North Korea)
Below is a link to a really fantastic photo essay of North Korea, including photos that weren’t supposed to be taken. The forum also includes comments that explain the context of the pictures. http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=82755
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First Things in my .emacs
Pardon the extra linebreaks. I don’t normally format my lisp code this way, but the layout of my blog makes this snippet linewrap and hard to read. (global-font-lock-mode t) (defvar autosave-dir "~/.emacs.d/autosave") (make-directory autosave-dir t) (defun auto-save-file-name-p (filename) … Continue reading