The Same River.

It’s not religion, but it is close. My attachment to vi has only grown since I first really gave it a shot little over two years ago. Getting vi keybindings in a Java editor pushed me to finally scrap Eclipse in favor of NetBeans.

At work I’m a little more heavily tied down in terms of IDEs. Ditching VisualStudio is not easy at $EMPLOYER. Imagine the joy I just experienced when I discovered VsVim. Happy days!

It’s mean and irreverent and an earlier version of me would be mortally offended, but, man, loving the snark at Regretsy. Sample of what one can find inside: Not stealing this, just hosting on my own web server so I’m not leaching bandwidth

Rest assured, the $200 “handicraft” this image is attached to deserves the mocking.

I wish I could do destructive things filmed with high-speed film for a living.

Hooray. Web host reverted their auto update of my wordpress install (and subsequent hosing). Lessons learned:

1. “Online” support is not a great way to get resolution for technical problems at $WEBHOST
2. $WEBHOST is damn quick at triage and ticket resolution for incident reports filed via their tracking system.

I really want to participate in one of these contests this year. This will firmly establish my Iowegian citizenship and cement my love of the state.

So far the outhouse race looks pretty fun but I’m game to try pretty much anything.

Epic Rap Battles of History #13 is pretty much awesome.

Got there cruising the YouTubes after watching Will the Real Mitt Romney Stand Up? which is, regardless of your political leanings, a pretty well produced mashup.

Mefi time machine posts are a great way to relive that simpler way of life on the Intarwebs. Case in point: Canadian McDonalds Employee Simulator.

Ran across this on the HomeBrewTalk forums. Absolutely love this. Some guy is brewing beer with an Ovaltine base. The video is pretty cute even if the audio suffers from clipping here and there.

If you’re going to mash up the Beatles, or Queen, you better hope it is quality. If you’re going to mash them up together, it better be phenomenal. This attempt gets pretty close to the mark. There’s really only one awkward moment in what is otherwise a pretty snappy mashup. Pulling in video makes it doubleplusgood.

It’s that kind of week already. Logged into iChat in case Elz was lurking and was immediately chatted up by awesomecoleyxo3 who is, allegedly, a 27F. I don’t remember that MOS but the Internet says that 27F is a Vulcan Repairer. So that’s cool, I guess. Anyway awesomecoleyxo3 might need some better off-duty hobbies.

Here is a transcript of our chat:

awesomecoleyxo3@aol.com: hey you

ME: Yo!

awesomecoleyxo3@aol.com: hey i’ve been sitting around sooo bored and figured i’d say hellooo.. hope i didn’t bother u

awesomecoleyxo3@aol.com: there is like no one around to talk to anymore…. 27.f here how bout u??

ME: Oooh. It’s that kind of chat!

awesomecoleyxo3@aol.com: ohh cool so whats up??

ME: Can you post some shady links and implore me to visit them?

ME: Still thinking?

awesomecoleyxo3@aol.com: well ii have an idea if u wanna have sum fun!!! i was gonna get on my cam and “unwind” a lil u should cum join ;-)

awesomecoleyxo3@aol.com: l joined this awesome sitethat is just like fb but w/o the annoying kidz.. wanna check it out???

ME: I see what you did there.

ME: Clever.

awesomecoleyxo3@aol.com: it only takes asecond to signup and it’s 100% free 2!!! http://badUrlHasBeenRemoved.com/ just click the ‘Join Free’ at the top of thepage

awesomecoleyxo3@aol.com: once you signup u’ll be allgood and u can join my private chat and tell me what 2 do ;)

ME: I think I’ll pass. Can we just chat?

awesomecoleyxo3@aol.com: ya you will need a card of sum kind but they wiII not charge u anything!!!!!

ME: What kind of card?

ME: And, really, I just want someone to talk to

awesomecoleyxo3@aol.com: i can not wait this is going to be sooo much fun… wait till u see what i’m wearing right now lol i think u’ll like it;)

ME: Cinnabon? Cuz I’m kind of hungry and didn’t have time to pick up some peanuts from the Kum ‘n’ Go on the way in to work this morning.

awesomecoleyxo3@aol.com: are u in hun??? i’m going to go get some “toys” but ill brb and hopefully u’ll be in when i get back hurry uppp

ME: Oooh…that hurts. Women should never ask “are you in hun?” because, well, that’s just plain demoralizing.

ME: Also, is your ‘P’ key sticky? My kitteh knocked over a glass of koolaid on my favorite keyboard last summer. No matter how many times I cleaned that keyboard some keys just stick. Especially in high humidity.

ME: Hey. Do you like the silent membrane keyboards they make today or are you more of the old school, buckling spring type?

ME: Because I loves me an M Series keyboard.

ME: They’re more resilient. And the tactile feedback lets you know you’re *typing*. Know what I mean? I really really like them.

ME: Hey. Are you there?

ME: Man….just like my ex. All fun up front but no follow through. Meh.