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]]> Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:30:02 PDT Janell and Henri http://dreadedmonkeygod.net/home/archive/2404

  ]]> Sat, 24 Jul 2010 15:56:43 PDT Walk the Walk http://dreadedmonkeygod.net/home/archive/2403 I'm finding this a very useful bit of wisdom today:

"When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl. Then I say, 'Bitch, you're Lady Gaga, you get up and walk the walk today.'" -Lady Gaga

Chris, your family needs you. It doesn't matter if you're exhausted, if you didn't sleep well last night, if your shoulders ache from scraping wallpaper or if your bank account is empty. Get your ass up and make it happen.

]]> Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:08:31 PDT Neglect is not benign. http://dreadedmonkeygod.net/home/archive/2402

It's plain that the previous owners simply did not give a rat's ass.

]]> Mon, 12 Jul 2010 09:33:35 PDT Heroic Henri http://dreadedmonkeygod.net/home/archive/2400

The Move has officially begun. Once we're in our new abode, we'll keep on trucking with the cleanup efforts and get the yard and the house ready for Henri. Until next week, Henri will be on vacation at All Dogs Rule (AKA "The Dog Ranch"), living it up with the other dogs.

We'll miss our Henri while she's away, so I wanted to post something here to give me a daily dose of Henri awesomeness. Enjoy.

]]> Fri, 9 Jul 2010 13:55:35 PDT Some days feel like this http://dreadedmonkeygod.net/home/archive/2399

Stolen from Threadless, where you can get the image above on a shirt.

]]> Wed, 7 Jul 2010 16:30:30 PDT Happy Hacking Keyboard, FTW! http://dreadedmonkeygod.net/home/archive/2398

Have I mentioned that I love my Happy Hacking Keyboard? I love it so much, that I'm giving back the shiny new Apple Keyboard that came with the laptop I got at work, and I'm going all-Happy, all the time.

The only reason the Apple keyboard even came out of its box is because I couldn't find the OS X system settings to map the HHK's "meta" key to OS X's "Command" key. Turns out I was looking in the wrong place. I turned the HHK over, consulted the legend, set the jumpers accordingly, and now I'm all good.

]]> Thu, 1 Jul 2010 15:43:13 PDT The Last Airbender http://dreadedmonkeygod.net/home/archive/2397

  ]]> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:22:10 PDT Mapping Apple's Command Key to Meta in EMACS http://dreadedmonkeygod.net/home/archive/2396 Handy line for my .emacs file, that tells EMACS to treat Apple's Cmd/Apple key as "Meta": 

(setq mac-command-key-is-meta 'true)

Simple, handy. Now if I could just get it to un-map M-o as OS X's "open file" dialog...

UPDATE: Turns out this didn't really work. I fooled myself into thinking it had worked because I'd mapped a few commands manually, etc.

Rather than fight with GNU/EMACS 23.2, I just downgraded to GNU/EMACS 22.3 for OS X, which works perfectly.

]]> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 09:39:22 PDT Enabling full Keyboard Access http://dreadedmonkeygod.net/home/archive/2395

I don't know how I missed this, but now that I've found it, I never want to forget where it is. To enable full keyboard access to forms:

  1. System Preferences
  2. Keyboard
  3. At the bottom, click the radio button next to "All controls."

Getting better...

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