the Malling-Hansen Writing Ball

[roadrunnertwice]

WANT. More info here. Alas, there are apparently only about 80 left.

EDIT: Actually, let's have a good old-fashioned dump post.

Regexen: Are they great or what? If you had to pick just one majorly geeky computer skill to learn, regexen might be your best call—paired with a good text editor (or a great one), they will rapidly become your best friend. Yes, the learning curve is a bit steep at first, but it's worth it.

EDIT: No Country For Old Men is gorgeous. Still deciding whether I can keep watching it. (I don't do so hot with thrillers.)

EDIT: Late last month, early in the morning:


EDIT: Pursuant to my brief mention of the über-sweet drawings from Smith of Wootton Major & Farmer Giles of Ham—it turns out the artist died the day after I re-read them. Curse and goddamn—but a big thank-you to PNH for bringing more of her work to my attention. Go, see.

Comments

[b-zedan.livejournal.com]

I want to try one so bad. A person must look so rad typing on something like that.

[roadrunnertwice]

Man, I would be a magician-god in my world of brass and ink and machine oil.

[boopsce.livejournal.com]

Steampunkalicious.

[chronographia.livejournal.com]

Oh that writing ball is BITCHING. It reminds me of a long rant Douglas Adams once wrote for MacWorld about how the qwerty key arrangement is made of fail and sooner or later we're going to move to something more intuitive in order not to kill our hands txting. I vote for this as a substitution.

[roadrunnertwice]

Yes plz. I went with Dvorak as an interim solution, but YEAH BABY, THE FUTURE IS HEMISPHERICAL!

[boopsce.livejournal.com]

Regular expressions are indeed neat.

Now go and learn about finite automata.

Pretty soon we'll have you proving where in the Chomsky hierarchy formal language X lies.