I think I have a Bash problem. What follows is an actual command from my history. cat /usr/share/dict/words | fgrep -v “‘” | perl -ne ‘chomp($_); @b=split(//,$_); print join(“”, sort(@b)).” “.$_.”n”;’ | tee lookup.txt | perl -pe ‘s/^([^ ]+) .*/1/g’ | awk ‘{ print length, $0 }’ | sort -n | awk ‘{$1=””; print $0}’ …
Monthly Archives: April 2009
Miscellaneous Friday Notes
For quite a while I’ve done a bad job of managing my email. I’m finally getting my inbox back in order, but there are still tens of thousands of messages — spanning the last year or so — that will probably go unread and unanswered for the near future. I’m going to do some sifting …
The Pursuit of Laziness
Since I was a kid, I’ve been looking for the perfect way to read in bed. The ideal position would involve no sustained muscle effort, so I could just let my eyes drift shut as I read, without the book falling shut or my hand slipping or anything. One way is to sit up against …
A Date Idea Analyzed
I don’t do conventions very often, but I recently went to ConBust out in Northampton, MA, while visiting some friends. While I was there, I had a guy propose something fascinating to me. I can’t remember the guy’s name, so if he or one of his friends sees this, post your info in the comments. …
Omegle
Since last night I’ve been obsessively connecting to Omegle. It’s a simple site that just connects you to a random person, anonymously, for a conversation. It feels like that scene in Fight Club where the narrator sits down next to Tyler on the plane. Two strangers meeting, laying out their personality and sizing each other …
What Happened to my Laptop
For the people who wanted to know the chain of events causing the laptop problems in the last post: Safe search won’t disable, and login for regular Google services is broken. I decide it’s a cookie conflict between Google services and file a bug report with Google. Google says “can’t reproduce”. I discover that clearing …
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