visceral logic
I finally posted my pictures from South America @flickr. Chloey’s pics are available in her photostream too. Enjoy.
POIs…
Our hotel in Puerto Varas, Chile – Los Colonos Del Sur
Our apartment in Palermo, Buenos Aires, Argentina
And did I mention that I love Photoshop?
Hooray for ballpoint pens! Today marks the 65th anniversary of the patent of the ballpoint pen by László & Georg Bíró; true life-hackers. László, a Hungarian newspaper editor, was inspired by the numerous annoying rips fountain pens created when marking up copies of his paper. Eventually he and his brother fled Hungary at the start of WWII and developed the Birome pen for production in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Incidentally, photos from Chloey’s and my trip to BsAs and Chile are now available in her photostream. They’re awesome.
As much as I love to type (until my wrists give out), nothing can replace a solid notebook and a trusty pen. I plan to take some time this evening to sit down and really enjoy my moleskin with one of the decendents of Bíró’s technical wonders. My personal favorites currently are the Pilot G-2 05/07 and the Uniball Signo 207 Micro.
Also, upcoming on the nonrat’l blog, I’ve more-or-less finished my clean upgrade to Hardy Heron and those notes will provide for at least three or four posts and patches on kernel 2.6.25, Tux-on-Ice, PATA cable detection, and iwlwifi led.c tomfoolery.
I recently switched my WordPress theme to RC3 of K2, Son of Kubrick. I’ve been really impressed with its simplicity and flexibility; two -itys that don’t usually play nicely. One of the best features is the alternate stylesheet loader. K2 allows a secondary stylesheet to be included after style.css so users are free to override the default styles without touching the core CSS.
Aside from decreasing the font size slightly and switching some ems to pxs, I haven’t fooled with much. Someone out there may find this useful however. Here is a quick and dirty hack that will take out the excess margin weight that Google Syntax Highlighter gains when displayed on the standard K2.
/** make google highlighter look pretty with k2 css */
div.dp-highlighter > div, div.bar > div.tools {
margin: 0px;
}
div.dp-highlighter {
margin-top: 13px;
}
Yesterday’s happyhour became last night’s evening of drinking and debauchery. However, I did manage to come away from it with a few new things to add to my information bank and a 4GB memory card full of happy, drunken memories. Gallery2, get ready.
My Shure SE420 headphones still play perfectly after being accidentally submerged, while playing, in a pint glass full of beer for about 30 seconds. I was quite happy upon discovering this and used them to great satisfaction on the metro back to my apartment. Besides smelling like beer and providing me with aural bliss, they also prevent me from hearing just about anything else going on around me. As a result, I had a nice drunken nap on the train from Metro Center to Vienna at 2:30am and had to take a cab from the Vienna station back to my apartment near Ballston.
Your final score was 101/180.
Birthday Party DJ (73-108 points)
You are a rabid consumer of music. You get a rush every time you hear something new but remain faithful to those artists you love. Your music collection represents who you are and what you care about and your home may even bear the tell-tale signs of your affections – posters, old band t-shirts and the odd music biography. But you aren’t a completist [sic], you know what you like and make sure you have it. Simple as that. To expand your repertoire, perhaps there are some genres that you’d benefit from giving a little more attention to – perhaps now is the time to hear something new or get hold of that missing album from your collection.
Take the quiz yourself.
And what a blast it was. I’m working on getting pictures up in Gallery2. Will update.
My CSS for use with Google Prettify available for download.
Inspired by the vi-colorscheme brookstream.
Incidently, Dean Lee’s WordPress plugin for Google Code Prettify doesn’t play nicely with Shutter Reloaded because it hogs the window.onload event. Here’s the patch to get around it using addLoadEvent.
function gcp_footer(){ ?>
<script type="text/javascript">
function addLoadEvent(func) {
var oldonload = window.onload;
if (typeof window.onload != 'function') {
window.onload = func;
} else {
window.onload = function() {
if (oldonload) {
oldonload();
}
func();
}
}
}
//prevent override other' onload
//window.onload = function(){prettyPrint();};
addLoadEvent(prettyPrint);
</script>
<?php
}