February 2012
29 posts
“@LOLGOP: Thinking everyone should be able to go to college: snob. Thinking my...”
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★ OfflineIMAP is archiving all of my email
The email geekery continues this weekend.
After using Mutt with Gmail’s IMAP for the past week or so, I’m finally getting comfortable again. It’s been a long time, but Mutt is just really fast and fun to use, once everything is configured nicely. The slow link in the chain now is the network lag when accessing IMAP mailboxes remotely. To work around that, I configured OfflineIMAP and it’s now...
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★ I just can’t seem to shake VIM
Remember a few months ago when I said that I had permanently deleted MacVim from my machine(s) and was going GUI forever? Yeah, about that.
My recently renewed fascination with Mutt reminded me how truly nice it can be editing text with VIM. So I’ve installed MacVim once again and spent some time tweaking my .vimrc file. I know, the urge to tweak the .vimrc file is one of the reasons I decided...
“@scottsimpson: I was driving in LA when Bon Iver came on the radio. Next thing I...”
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“@clairemaxwell: You know how we all now hate those horrendously overdone...”
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★ Mutt Makes for Powerful Email
I haven’t used Mutt for email since sometime around 2004. At some point I tired of dealing with attachments and links and too many HTML-only emails and started using a normal GUI email client like everyone else.
This past weekend I was becoming terribly annoyed by how slow Mail.app had become. Every click meant a lag before what was supposed to happen happened. For the hell of it, I thought I’d...
“@bailey: Whoever does the PR for cats does an amazing job.”
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“@LOLGOP: If you want to prevent abortions, you make sure everyone has health...”
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“@shelbyfero: We’re only racing if I win.”
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“@tehawesome: One time I was Facebook friends with a girl I kinda know but then...”
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“@Pinboard: Principle of Most Time: The most elegant and simple solution to any...”
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“@ftrain: That stuff about people connecting with your brand on the Internet, we...”
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“@biorhythmist: When I was your age we had ONE browser tab we all had to share...”
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“@lmorchard: tl;dr: I’ve made a huge mistake”
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★ batyphoto.com
Since I’ve finally gotten into the Squarespace 6 beta I thought I’d use it to create a proper photo blog. Or try to. It’s still new and may or may not stick around, but why not?
batyphoto.com
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★ Recipe Box
I don’t cook very often. You can tell by the contents of my recipe box. Most of the recipes were given to me by my mother many years ago and have only been used once or twice since. Even so, this ugly wooden box is precious to me. Those cards were handwritten by someone I love and who loves me. They’re permanent and meaningful, and I’ll always know where they are.
I realize that it would be...
“@lonelysandwich: When someone puts a confidentiality notice in their email...”
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★ Olympus OM-D
One of my favorite cameras ever is a beat up Olympus OM-1n I picked up on Craigslist for next to nothing. It’s compact, nicely built, and the OM lenses are terrific. I love that camera.
When Olympus started the recent retro fad with the E-P1 I fell in love and bought one. The E-P1 was a nice camera (is a nice camera, I still have it) but lacked a viewfinder. I need a viewfinder. Also, the...
“@Kalli: I like to think Robert Capa was too hungover to use the morning light to...”
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“@Kalli: I hate Safari Web Content more than I hate fascism.”
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“@Mike_FTW: “Ugh. Are you watching Idiocracy AGAIN?”
“No. CNN.”
“Ohhh.”
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