Adventures in la la land
Have you seen this git bundle?
Just because it might save someone a bit of pain; if you are getting extremely tedious messages like the below when trying to use git in textmate after your upgrade (forced by an ill-timed and catastrophic hardware failure* or not), here are steps to fix. My googling found an awful lot of not very helpful stuff..
Evil error messages of doom:
sh: line 1: git: command not found
him: I have decided that my socks are better because I do not have to look and see which is for the left and the right foot.
me: ..but feet are not bilaterally symmetrical are they? So it does make sense to have differenty shaped socks.
him: Well I can’t spell that. I would use too many Rs and then there would be NONE LEFT for ….. RRRRRUMPY PUMPY!
him: *storm off triumphantly*
A film where absolutely nothing happens in a quite spectacular fashion. In tiny sailor outfits. With swords. Sometimes explosions. AND DRAGONS. Murdered dragons. edit 14th March 2013: A bit late to the party for Tropes vs Women in Video Games Kickstarter by Anita Sarkeesian, and in fact never knowing about her excellent blog/webcast series Feminist Frequency. I had a wander through her archives and noticed this review of Sucker Punch. I also note from a bunch of the links that people are trying to say that Zach Snyder really really tried to make an empowered female character, he really did. I’m confused. How is an two hour rape fantasy that culminates in a lobotomy empowering? Please tell me because I…
Here are some handy tips on working in a letting agents I have deduced from my experiences as a landlord.
Some days are just a bit more surreal than others. I found this account from a while back and decided to share the whimsy..
Bouldering Ping Pong (pdf)
Climbing Snooker (pdf)
pyramid training (pdf)
or, design gestalt.. I started making a new design for webanorak a while back. Â It had some fun transparent overlay tricks for making javascripty bobbling clouds of content look lovely. It had png24 pattern overlays for that not so THIS IS THE FUTURE, MAN! WEB 2.0 sameness all over the everywhere. I then left it in it’s little box for a while after the initial enthusiasm was side-tracked by puppies or kittens or head trauma or something. Looking at it again, and comparing it to all the lovely I AM THE FUTURE bleeding edge of cool sites out there now my design blends in to the crowd. Feck it. CSS sprite menus are retro cool.
I have to install a special program to view it? It is not compatible with Stanza* (see comments from Neelan Choksi), the best ebook reader ever – although less happy for their prospects since they sold out to Amazon.. Oh Kindle for iPhone. How sad you make me. Not quite as sad as iBooks. But pretty sad. It takes THREE BILLION YEARS to download a POCKET edition of a book? I have to install some random extra product to my iphone (after a non trivial search to find the goddamned thing in the first place) to view it? What. The. Shit. *Note the dearth of development since the buyout. And it is still better than the Kindle app by…
Hijacked accounts and zombie computers are a significant threat to the grammar police all over the everywhere.
