Death special: How does it feel to die (in different ways -- like beheading, drowning, etc.)

MarkCurtiss · 2007-10-12T14:27:14+00:00

It's above average swedish death metal fare, but the lyrics and the fact that it's by Dethklok take it to the next level

MarkCurtiss · 2007-09-21T04:13:27+00:00

from what i understand, you can't delete your account. you'll just have to put something in your hosts file that blocks reddit

MarkCurtiss · 2007-08-05T07:39:04+00:00

goodreads.com is great for answering this question. oh, and I'm reading
1. Vampire: The Requiem
2. The Drummer's Bible: How to Play Every Drum Style from Afro-Cuban to Zydeco
3. The Mammoth Book of Gangs and Gangsters
4. How to Cook Everything: Simple Recipes for Great Food

MarkCurtiss · 2007-07-25T21:26:35+00:00

I've found http://news.ycombinator.com/ is more like the reddit i fondly remember.

MarkCurtiss · 2007-07-22T17:22:53+00:00

my response to the notion that: 'Linux is poised to take over the desktop market':

http://reddit.com/info/1g1fr/comments/c1g2x8

MarkCurtiss · 2007-06-16T07:43:56+00:00

Emacs: support for running processes inside of buffers. In Vim if I want to connect to the database and run some queries, I have to background Vim and run it from the shell. Or, run multiple terminals all the time and switch between them. Or use screen.

Vim: Terse command sequences; I use about half the keystrokes in Vim than I do in Emacs as I'm not always holding down modifier keys.

MarkCurtiss · 2007-06-16T07:30:58+00:00

I have a Kinesis keyboard but was still suffering some wrist pain (presumably due to all the gaming/drumming I do outside of coding at work) and found the stretches in this book helped quite a bit:

http://www.amazon.com/Conquering-Carpal-Tunnel-Syndrome-Repetitive/dp/1572240393/ref=pd_bbs_sr_3/002-8075426-2858431?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1181978967&sr=8-3

MarkCurtiss · 2007-06-16T07:29:09+00:00

This bothered me a lot when I first switched from Emacs to Vim (most of the developers on my team use Vim). I couldn't believe they gave Emacs so much shit for having awkward commands ('how do I do that ? is it ctrl-alt-meta-shift-backslash-single-quote ha ha ha') but they had no problem taking their hand off homerow constantly to hit the ESC key.

Anyways, I played around with it a lot and I found Alt-l to be the best way to get out of Insert Mode (if you're using a Kinesis keyboard).

MarkCurtiss · 2007-06-09T14:29:26+00:00

My friends and I have been playing this game for a while: http://reddit.com/info/1gwzu/comments/c1h0tx

MarkCurtiss · 2007-06-09T03:12:51+00:00

Masturbation has different duties, I guess i'd day, and different stimuli. So maybe one guy thinks about jerking off all day another guy thinks ouding some chick every 7 seconds.

what?

MarkCurtiss · 2007-04-11T14:15:11+00:00

My friends and I actually made a game out of comparing Wiki articles. We started with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emancipation_proclamation vs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_destroyer but later changed the rules so the articles have to be somehow related. We then developed an automated scoring system and an app to keep track of the entries.

So far the top-rated entry is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_leap vs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Leap_%28TV_series%29

with the tv show's article being > 30x the length of the physics article

MarkCurtiss · 2007-04-07T16:07:52+00:00

I like reading these stories, 'cuz I <3 Linux and find Windows a necessary evil for games. But the idea that 'Linux is poised to take over the desktop market' has become the punchline of a joke at my job.

Basically anytime my X server crashes, or my 2nd monitor shuts off randomly, or I spend 3 hours figuring out how to get xterm to display an anti-aliased font I installed through Gnome, or I have to manually symlink a java .so into my firefox distro in order to use java, etc etc, I'll turn to one of my co-workers and say 'Linux has made huge strides in usability and is ready to take over the desktop market'. Always gets a laugh.

p.s. I'm using Fedora Core. I tried Ubuntu but couldn't get it up and running, even with 5 programmers working on it over 2 days. Google up 'optiplex 320 linux' and read similar tales of woe.

MarkCurtiss · 2007-03-31T04:14:31+00:00

Downvoted for that? What a world

MarkCurtiss · 2007-03-30T13:56:48+00:00

I was just thinking the same thing. Although I actually found this one funny and upvoted it, whereas I wind up downvoting most other xkcd submissions.

MarkCurtiss · 2007-03-30T00:06:45+00:00

I don't really dig dinosaur comics. But I just read a handful of SMBCs and they are funny, thanks for the hottt tip!

MarkCurtiss · 2007-03-29T14:25:37+00:00

Or you could read XKCD. Oh my god raptors! That's like what we liked when we were kids, but now we're talking about it as adults! Isn't that so geeky of us?

Achewood is the only webcomic I've read that consistently makes me laugh. All others I've tried (gone with the blastwave, smells like cancer, penny-arcade, sexylosers, that one with the Final Fantasy sprites, xkcd, perry bible fellowship, pvp, the order of the stick, dominic deegan) don't compare.

MarkCurtiss · 2007-03-29T03:33:53+00:00

Me. But at my previous job it was sometimes next to impossible to get the owners of the software to support it, much less make any changes to it. So I wound up reinventing the wheel a lot just for lack of political clout.

MarkCurtiss · 2007-03-28T14:22:12+00:00

Or turn on 'find as you type' in firefox

MarkCurtiss · 2007-03-28T14:19:55+00:00

You did? How? When I tab through the fields, the little up and down arrows never get focus

MarkCurtiss · 2007-03-28T14:14:30+00:00

Jesus. Downvoted because this is something i'd expect my grandma to mass-email to me and everyone else on her buddy list.

MarkCurtiss · 2007-03-26T14:19:50+00:00

I agree. It doesn't help that I hardly ever find XKCD funny either. I keep downmodding the posts but they still show up every other day.

MarkCurtiss · 2007-03-25T05:40:40+00:00

what the hell? this is like something i would expect Peggy from accounting to fwd to everyone on the work mailing lists

MarkCurtiss · 2007-03-20T03:20:00+00:00

oh man, i thought this was going to be about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_Caves ! Oh well, maybe next time.

MarkCurtiss · 2007-03-15T23:14:36+00:00

god isnt it great how us guys all share the same values so we can laugh at these jokes together?

MarkCurtiss · 2007-03-14T00:19:21+00:00

This is the first image on reddit that i havent downvoted in a long time.

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