Month: December 2013

There’s worse

Started using Everpad [1] on my linux workstation this evening. It’s more responsive than the crapping Thunderbird extension [2] which, in the end, is merely a Mozilla browser window embedded as a tab running against the Evernote [3] site. Using Firefox is fine for that, as far as that goes…which isn’t far at all.

The good:

  • Heavily integrated into the Gnome/Cinnamon desktop
  • Lightweight and highly responsive
  • Supports some of the fancy note formatting available in the Windows/Mac client but not online or in the Thunderbird add-on

The bad:

  • Horrible sorting—no ability to sort notes by tags with a click
  • No ability to select multiple tags
  • No ability to select a tag + notebook combination

The bad things make it almost unusable as a primary GTD tool [4], which is what I use Evernote for. And, yet, I think I it makes a nice addition to the desktop. It’s under active development so here’s to hoping some of these crippling limitations are overcome in the near future.

I also spent a few minutes getting Infinality [5] installed/configured on my linux box. My font rendering is now on par with MacOS. The difference is truly incredible. Font rendering is one of those things that is generally pretty horrendous on *nix and after using MacOS, and I’ll even give Microsoft some love here, going back to a *nix box to plonk around on at home hurts. Infinality addresses this very well with the default settings. I’m not even sure it will be worth my while to wander back into that nest to do any additional tweaking.

All-in-all, a productive night on the laptop. I should do this more often.

[1] https://github.com/nvbn/everpad
[2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/thunderbird/addon/evernote-tab/
[3] https://evernote.com/
[4] http://lifehacker.com/5952540/get-things-done-with-evernote-using-templates
[5] http://www.infinality.net/blog/

Mustacular!

Remember the first time you tried a craft beer? The first time you bought wine that wasn’t on the bottom shelf? The first time you wore silk anything?

The first time I used Woodsman Mustache Wax [1] was like that. Oh for all that is holy, this stuff is ridiculous. A little BB-sized ball is all it takes to wax down the whole Fu Manchu.

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Clubman, while widely available was going at the rate of about a quarter of a tube per day. This stuff pays for itself. It’s tacky enough that I don’t need to roll the whole thing just to get it to stay in place. The unrolled look is way more comfortable. And I smell pretty frickin’ awesome too. So, yeah, grow yourself a mustache and then pick yourself up some Woodsman.

Now if you excuse me, I’m going to go hang out with Paul Bunyan and chop down some frickin’ trees.

Santa’s Brewery

Thanks to Santa I’ve got a pressure cooker and some other toys. Working on my first set of slants for yeast [1] right now. I’ve got two Wyeast strains in the fridge and could possibly be picking up another depending on what gets brewed this weekend. Still trying to choose from amonst these choices.

  1. another Belgian dubbel using the PC Dutch Castle [2]
  2. another run at the Rochefort 8 clone using the appropriate yeast [3] this time or
  3. veering wildly and revisiting the Cereal Killer recipe from a little over a year ago.

Going with the latter means a trip to pick up some 1056 [4]. The Belgians sound good but I’ve been having a hankering for an easy drinking blonde for a while and, hey, the CK was a pretty good beer if I do say so myself.

Hope your Christmas was as good as ours. How good was ours? Well, Jim yacked on the carpet from treat/bones overload, Morton is still sporting odd bits of wrapping paper and tape on his coat, Oscar barely crawled out of his kitty bong for dinner, and Elizabeth has rearranged her shrine to feature her salt lamp while watching her new movies. It’s going to be hard to top this next year.

[1] http://www.homebrewtalk.com/f163/slanting-yeast-133103/
[2] http://www.wyeastlab.com/hb_yeaststrain_detail.cfm?ID=66
[3] http://www.wyeastlab.com/hb_yeaststrain_detail.cfm?ID=130
[4] http://www.wyeastlab.com/hb_yeaststrain_detail.cfm?ID=8

Cranky

Because I’m cranky today…and a veteran of sorts: citizens who are willing to sacrifice other citizens to some nameless enemy to somehow save soldiers because they support our troops are dolts. Actually folks who say all kinds of stupid crap as some way of proving up their “support our troops” credibility rub me exactly the wrong way. You want to support our troops? Vote for representatives that don’t stupidly send the armed forces into meaningless conflicts in an attempt to eradicate nouns. That’s supporting the fucking troops.

Either that or enlist your own damn self…and then fulfill your fucking contract.

I’m fucking intolerant today. So be it.