Guillaume ([info]hommedeterre) wrote,
@ 2006-09-11 20:57:00
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Who you gonna' call? 911
· I woke up this morning around 7 and used the downstairs toilet near my room, fairly certain my mom was showering upstairs, but forgetting and not caring. As I lay back down I heard the shower door upstairs open and my mom shout something to my dad. He yelled something back and then I heard his voice call downstairs, "Hey, turn off the shower. Your mother's trying to take a shower." My brother, asleep on the couch, mumbled, "Yeah, okay. We will." I heard my mom yell something else and my dad say something about a pump. They talked more then she resumed her shower.

I don't quite understand why there is always an investigation when someone's shower goes cold. This is usually caused by someone flushing a toilet and the warm water resumes momentarily. Every time this happens to me I jump and flail then move to a corner of the shower (and it's a small shower) not being sprayed by cold water. Every few seconds I move my hands under the water and resume once it's warm again. The end.

· I've been having (too much! ah ha ahoy!) fun with filters and labels in gmail. It's not a big deal, but I've needed a To do list saved and accessible somewhere central.

1. Create a label called 'To do'
2. Create a filter, From: my e-mail, Has the words: "qazx"
3. Skip the Inbox (Archive it) and Apply the label: 'To do'

I then write my to do item in the subject line, 'Get a haircut', and type 'qazx' in the body and send it. When I look at my items from the 'To do' label I see:



Now I'll stop patting myself on the back like a goofy bastard.

· Humans are far more interesting and intelligent than machines. It angers me on a daily basis how stupid* machines are. Until a machine can argue with me against the statement, "Machines are dumb," I will forever feel superior them and cheers all you human-friends with imaginary champagne. I just hope they want to discuss that with me before getting angry and either deleting all my valuable data or kill me.

*purely logical, unable to understand simple commands



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now we're all going to email you things called qazx
[info]sckot
2006-09-12 02:05 am UTC (link)
I use the stars for essentially the same thing, inasmuch as I use the gmail interface.

I wrote something like this last summer (but it's still too quick and dirty to share, I spent like an hour on it) which plugs into my fetchmail/procmail/mutt setup. I send mail to myself with a tag in the subject, and it appends the body of the email to a specified file. (A keyword from a list, not a file pathname, that'd be a big security risk.)

For example, I can be like
(from: me)
to: me
subject: lee
--------------
spendinglog
dine 23.00 thai with megh
clothes 20.00 obscenely comfy sweater
---------------

I named it after Lee from Secretary.

Oh -- I don't know that I'll get back to the timmer in the forseeable future (very busy semester for me), but I'm going to go through and neaten up / more thoroughly comment the code in case you or someone else wants to run with it.

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Re: now we're all going to email you things called qazx
[info]hommedeterre
2006-09-12 04:55 pm UTC (link)
The filter only applies to mail sent BY me. And I want to use something for my personal computer, but I'm kind of shifting more towards all web-based. I'll download occasionally, but I'm on so many different computers now that having to synch them all is annoying.

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[info]orangejoy
2006-09-12 04:45 am UTC (link)
I like the convenience factor of having this in the inbox, but I still find the Google homepage to do list function more practical, in that you can prioritize your items. That could be related to my to do lists always being ridiculously long and unattainable, though.

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[info]hommedeterre
2006-09-12 04:57 pm UTC (link)
I used the To do list on Google's personalized page for a while, but then it just randomly stopped working for me. So, eff that. Now I use my to do filter and calendar and I'm set to go with one site at all times, accessible anywhere.

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[info]sweetjayne27
2006-09-12 02:16 pm UTC (link)
It's weird seeing all the stuff you have to do to prepare for this trip, like translating your berf certificate.

Thank you for watching Twin Peaks with me.

Every time you write these dorky posts I get a little moist.

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[info]hommedeterre
2006-09-12 04:56 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, I'd already checked off Twin Peaks, otherwise you'd be seeing that too.

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[info]gumbyhunny
2006-09-13 05:04 pm UTC (link)
i heard you were having a going away party this friday mister timmer.

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[info]bizzzay
2006-09-14 12:41 am UTC (link)
it's good to see that user icon again. i've missed it.

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