i didn’t realize until just recently, after getting some patio furniture, that you can see stars outside at night pretty often. i’ve taken to sitting on my lounge chair and watch planes fly overhead and cars drive by. sitting outside makes me want to move further south to where i could be outside all night and fall asleep.

because osx doesn’t have one.

[visnup@Octal ~]$ cat /usr/local/bin/pgrep 
#!/usr/bin/env ruby

list = `ps -Ao pid,command`.split "\n"
matches = list.select do |l|
  pid, command = l.split nil, 2
  command.downcase.include? ARGV.first.downcase and pid.to_i != Process.pid
end

puts matches

i still need to figure out how to consolidate twitter vs. a blog post.

i need to write these down or i’ll forget. there are so many:

• forbidden kingdom
• -harold and kumar 2-
• -iron man- — 5/2
• -indiana jones- — 5/22
• -sex and the city- — 5/30
• -incredible hulk- — 6/13
• -wall-e- — 6/27
• -wanted- — 6/27
• hancock — 7/2
• -hellboy 2- — 7/11
• -dark knight- — 7/18
• x-files — 7/25
• star wars: the clone wars — 8/15

found this in the vim forums and tweaked it to be even better. put it in your .vim/plugin directory. also, do you have supertab? use with either :Find name or ,f (which is a mapping to :Fi). then type in something like ‘person’. if you’re going to abbreviate, use spaces where you want a wildcard. like:

pe show => could match ‘*pe*ople/show’
pe pl sh => also could match ‘*pe*o*pl*e/*sh*ow’

it’s case insensitive and takes path names into account. g’yeah!

" from http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=1432
" originally written by Samuel Hughes
function! Find(name)
  let l:_name = substitute(a:name, '\s', '*', 'g')
  let l:list=system("find . -ipath '*".l:_name."*' -not -path '*/.*' | perl -ne 'print \"$.\\t$_\"'")
  let l:num=strlen(substitute(l:list, "[^\n]", "", "g"))
  if l:num < 1
    echo "'".a:name."' not found"
    return
  endif

  if l:num != 1
    echo l:list
    let l:input=input("Which ? (<enter>=nothing)\n")

    if strlen(l:input)==0
      return
    endif

    if strlen(substitute(l:input, "[0-9]", "", "g"))>0
      echo "Not a number"
      return
    endif

    if l:input<1 || l:input>l:num
      echo "Out of range"
      return
    endif

    let l:line=matchstr("\n".l:list, "\n".l:input."\t[^\n]*")
  else
    let l:line=l:list
  endif

  let l:line=substitute(l:line, "^[^\t]*\t./", "", "")
  execute ":e ".l:line
endfunction

command! -nargs=1 Find :call Find("<args>")
map ,f :Fi 

random nice feature of the new 2.0 software is the international character support in the fonts. all of my thai songs now show up correctly w/o any jailbreaking along with weird left-to-right farsi.

3:26:13 PM huned: f'realz.  maybe i'll organize an arm-wrestle-off
3:26:16 PM visnu: oh true
3:26:20 PM visnu: or get people drinking
3:26:20 PM huned: i think i can beat everyone here
3:26:22 PM huned: maybe not brent
3:26:24 PM visnu: yeah
3:26:28 PM huned: and maybe not gerad
3:26:29 PM visnu: i was about to say brent already beat you handily
3:26:31 PM huned: but def natalie
3:26:40 PM visnu: ... uh, that's one other person there
3:26:56 PM huned: that's right, i can be the champion

class Fixnum
  alias :plus :+
  def + other
    if self == 1
      plus(other).plus 1
    else
      plus(other)
    end
  end
end

puts 1 + 2
puts 2 + 2
puts (1 + 2) == (2 + 2)

yes, it outputs:

4

4

true

just like hotmail, all i was getting from msn chat/messenger was spam and i barely talk to anyone via it anymore. so, goodbye msn. i hope you fix your spam problem.