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Also: Wisconsinites never use the term “Sconnie.” Ever. RT @ebertchicago Chicagoans never use the word “Chitown.” Ever.

@panic any way I can rewire Coda’s [redacted] implementation of backspace in the terminal? This ^H^H^H^H^H^H^+restart is making me sweary.

All done, save some blocking.

A Shakespeare in the Park rehearsal going on over there, and all I can think is: SMITENING BOLT! SMITENING BOLT!!

I just got Snow Leopard* and it’s blown away some obscure tricks I’d left for myself. This is a note to future me, should I need to fix Coda’s annoying preference of ^H instead of backspace in their terminal window.

As nice as Coda’s UI can be, I’d ditch it, if I could just get TextMate to play nicely with remote projects.

*yes, finally; upgrading from Adobe CS2 had to be in the budget first…

A long time ago, the pantry used to be a bathroom. The refrigerator was in the middle of the kitchen, and the dishwasher rolled over to the sink. A day with a Sawzall and some new plumbing skills later, we had a somewhat serviceable pantry. Paint, the pegboard, and the hanging potrack helped a lot, but it’d still have been charitable to call it tolerably grim. Racks of shelves never really fit next to the fridge well—there was always too much space around them for things to fall; the garbage and litter boxes stood in front of the shelve bottoms, and were nasty to navigate; and, for all the space it seemed like we might have, it never really stored anything well or accessibly besides the pots. The first—and gnarliest—thing to tackle in finishing the pantry: the floor.

The pantry’s previous life as a bathroom meant that there basically was no floor where the shower stall once stood; just plywood. The crappy installation job of the previous owner’s vinyl, plus the humidity, also meant it was curling up around the corners. Perfect places for dirt to hide forever, and perfect ways for mice to sneak in during the winter.

Over the new year holiday (yeah, this post is a little late) we took a week off to rip everything out and lay down a new bamboo floor. We got off pretty easy—unlike the bathroom, the base was pretty new and didn’t require more than a day’s work leveling and tinkering. A new floor and new shelves have made this space a lot more usable, and a lot less gross. There’s still more to be done, though: next up, we’re looking for a smaller fridge, and then we can put a counter across the back wall and bring the shelves around the corner.

My friend Jim just sent me the best thing I have seen in like, at least a month. I would watch the shit out of that show.

@billmaher thanks for the great show last night in Madison! See you in six years.

I hate untidy code, and always work with invisibles showing. Regardless, sometimes spacecruft slips through. Here’s two ways to fix that:

1. custom language bundle that highlights the offending space
2. macro using the built-in strip-trailing-spaces command on save

I’ve gone with the first option: I think it’s nicer to keep yourself in the habit of watching your code, rather than relying on the software. Also, as the author notes, it blows away any bookmarking and code folds. If you’re working with large files and hit save at least every five minutes like I do, well… that sucks as much as Coda’s lack of code folding does.

CHAD DEITY!!1!’s next Elaborate Entrance: New York. GO SEE THIS PLAY! http://bit.ly/ah41ys @ChadDeity

bottled the biere de garde / racked the dark ale / just brewed a weiss: …relaxing, and no longer worried.

If you’ve ever had to deal with any development for Facebook, you’ll remember that they strip out browser hacks from your CSS–fun for you, when the client OMG needs something to work in IE6. They also strip out the more forward-y browser-specific styles, while using them liberally themselves.

Their CSS, which was putting an unfortunate border on our buttons:

uiButton,
.uiButtonSuppressed:hover,
.uiButtonSuppressed:active,
.uiButtonSuppressed:focus { -moz-box-shadow: 0 1px 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1); }


Here’s how to get around that:

.uiButton:after {
content: "OMGFACEBOOKIHATEYOU";
display: block;
color: #fff;
margin-top: 44px; /* height of your button */
border-top: 1px solid #fff; }


Ta-da.

The NYTimes reports that being constantly online makes us easily distrac (via @BorowitzReport)

no tornado here, so it’s back to weeding …

Tornado sirens in Madison; weather sites / tv stations == no info. Are they testing, or are the StormTrack!!OMG!WEATHER! teams napping?

My brother was right: driving over everything/everyone in Crackdown, with the volume off and Luxuriamusic.com on == full of win

Dunkelweiss bottled; Scotch ale on the hob, next to a pot of chili.

If you ever hear me talking about discovering the north pole in a balloon (or airship), talk me out of it.

He had to go to Milwaukee today, and he brought me back dinner from Suburpia. I FUCKING LOVE HIM.

Hot Tub Time Machine FTW

It’s 145 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of beer, it’s dark, and I’m wearing pajamas.

Racked last week’s amber into a carboy, and brewing brown ale this afternoon.

maker’s schedule vs. manager’s schedule http://bit.ly/cUJGTG

I’m making sure I stomp the shit out of that thing

RT @erinmharris I secretly always think of Shaun White as being the secret, snowboarding Weasley child. – J

The US snowboarders uniforms FTW #Olympics

Our giant web application “validates” to HTML “5,” so… yay for that, I guess. #strictEdge

What kind of a fruity name is Bode? When you and me have kids we’re going to give them good names like “Shannon” or “Rick.”

BREWING. FUCK YES.