08/02/09 09:26 - 67ºF - ID#49438
Haircut
Does she have a point?
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Words: 7
Location: Buffalo, NY
07/31/09 04:42 - 77ºF - ID#49428
Torn.
Or look for a used car and get some kinda loan to pay for it (not sure how that works - does anyone have tips?).
Or buy a clunker and then have to potentially replace it soon. I hate the thought of this option, especially as a single person w/out a boyfriend to cry to for roadside assistance.
Since I need a car like, yesterday, I'm leaning towards buying the Mini later this month. But not sure if most of the reasoning isn't just that it will make me feel deliriously happy. On the other hand, I can afford the monthly payment just fine so I don't want to be too stingy, and buying a new car will Fix The Economy -- um, right?
It's weird but all the options have the same upfront cost of $2000 dollars or so (either for down payment or full payment for the clunker) -- long term costs are a different story. So I have just enough options to confuse myself.
-- UPDATE
Tinypliny asked why I need a car, unfortunately I work by UB North Campus, so it's not a walkable sort of situation.
Permalink: Torn_.html
Words: 210
Location: Buffalo, NY
07/30/09 09:48 - 73ºF - ID#49421
Lafayette Square
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Words: 4
Location: Buffalo, NY
07/30/09 08:07 - 73ºF - ID#49419
Thursday at the Square
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Words: 5
Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: life
07/30/09 10:40 - 66ºF - ID#49413
The End is the Beginning is the End
Thus shall you think of this fleeting world:
A star at dawn, a bubble in a stream,
A flash of lightning in a summer cloud,
A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream.
-- excerpt from the Diamond Sutra
This fleeting world is mine, or feels close enough most days. A sudden absence, death, denial, changes that world and then I stumble. There's that bloody gap again amongst white teeth that tongue can't help but probe. It's too hard to hold on to, and to painful to let go. I find myself living a life that's suddenly unfamiliar, dangerous, alien.
The Buddhist retort to pain and loss is, "what now is lacking?", meant to drive your awareness to the present, to the moment, to your being here and now.
Loss is singular because it comes to all, eventually. It's the invariant mate of existence in this universe. So, I am not gone or destroyed by loss -- not yet. Loss is the relief that shows where presence still is. I live, though feel a stranger to my life today. I can keep moving until the moment that even breath is lacking. Things will be all right, even then; my flickering lamp continues, until then.
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Words: 215
Location: Buffalo, NY
07/27/09 02:35 - 72ºF - ID#49395
Bad day.
of my hard drive.
*_*
So I've spent the day reinstalling apps and restoring data from backups.
Thankful for having backups. Aggravated I'm not going to accomplish
anything today.
I also managed to kill half the plants at my cubicle by forgetting to water them Friday.
OK, end of sad story.
^_^
Permalink: Bad_day_.html
Words: 66
Location: Buffalo, NY
07/25/09 03:57 - 76ºF - ID#49376
Garden Walk?
Bring your ark.
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Words: 9
Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: unix
07/22/09 10:27 - 65ºF - ID#49353
Terminal Tips
1. Always open new terminal windows in the location of the last directory that you cd'd to (source: ):
pathed_cd () {
if [ "$1" == "" ]; then
cd
else
cd "$1"
fi
pwd > ~/.cdpath
}
alias cd="pathed_cd"
if [ -f ~/.cdpath ]; then
cd $(cat ~/.cdpath)
fi
2. Erase duplicate entries from command history (source: ):
export HISTCONTROL=erasedups
shopt -s histappend
3. Allow partial matching of previous history instead of scrolling back through full history (note this one goes in .inputrc, source: ):
set bell-style none
- do not make noise
"e[B": history-search-forward
- By default up/down are bound to previous-history
- and next-history respectively. The following does the
- same but gives the extra functionality where if you
- type any text (or more accurately, if there is any text
- between the start of the line and the cursor),
- the subset of the history starting with that text
- is searched (like 4dos for e.g.).
- Note to get rid of a line just Ctrl-C
"e[A": history-search-backward
$if Bash
# F10 toggles mc on and off
# Note Ctrl-o toggles panes on and off in mc
"e[21~": "mcC-M"
#do history expansion when space entered
Space: magic-space
$endif
$include /etc/inputrc
- Include system wide settings which are ignored
- by default if one has their own .inputrc
4. Add status indicator for local changes to git or svn versioned directories (source: ):
parse_git_branch() {
- Prompt setup, with SCM status
local DIRTY STATUS
STATUS=$(git status 2>/dev/null)
[ $? -eq 1 ] || return
[[ "$STATUS" == *'working directory clean'* ]] || DIRTY=' *'
echo "($(git branch 2>/dev/null | sed -e '/^[^*]/d' -e 's/* //')$DIRTY)"
}
parse_svn_revision() {
local DIRTY REV=$(svn info 2>/dev/null | grep Revision | sed -e 's/Revision: //')
[ "$REV" ] || return
[ "$(svn st)" ] && DIRTY=' *'
echo "(r$REV$DIRTY)"
}
PS1='u@h:W$(parse_git_branch)$(parse_svn_revision) $ '
5. Misc aliases.
alias ll="ls -lp"
- various ls aliases
alias la="ls -ap"
alias lla="ls -lap"
alias h="history | grep "
- shorthand to search history, "h blah"
alias o='open .'
- open current directory in finder
alias san='svn status | grep "^?" | awk "{print $2}" | xargs svn add'
- add all new files, which aren't ignored, to svn repo
Permalink: Terminal_Tips.html
Words: 411
Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: internets
07/22/09 09:59 - 65ºF - ID#49352
I hate spammers.
Presented as an image so not as to help them out.
I know, spam is nothing new, but this is why we can't have nice things :(
Permalink: I_hate_spammers_.html
Words: 41
Location: Buffalo, NY
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Everyone has had a bad hair day as well as a bad hair cut. God I could just lunch into my most recent story, which results in my cutting my own hair. It is long enough for me to cut on my own. It takes a lot to trust hair people.
Hair and clothes are what make us feel goo about ourselves when we present ourselves to the world. I hope you find a way to style what you have to feel good.
Agression is more in a person's demeanor more than their look unless you are going punk - they look very aggressive with thier ensemble.
Beware the strong silent types and the might of the little ones!
I NEED A HAIRCUT. Strands are spilling over my ears. :/