power tools and beer

just rollin' the dice, tonight.

so that's what the cat thinks of this pull request...

me: BUT IT'LL BRING THE TEAM GLORIOUS VIRTUAL MACHINE GOODNESS!
cat: don't make me look at it any longer. your comments are useless and your rakefiles are ugly
me: find me a beautiful rake file
cat: not in this project
me: ouch. I think I need to request a different reviewer.
cat: are you still here?

memorial-day weekend recovery

feet up, bonfire, beer. there were snores and a bunch of jokes as the family hung out, too. now, it's just the OM waiting for the fire to burn out.

tmux clear backscroll...

I've recently started using tmux on my OSX work box. I had avoided it because I've developed a strong attachment to clearing my screen before running commands that are going to kick out a lot of output, which in a regular terminal or iterm2 on a mac is Command+k. Well, if you do that during a tmux session, it clears the tmux screen elements and things are really fubar-ed until you resize the screen. Anyway... I added the following to my .tmux.conf

# clear scrollback
bind-key C-k send-keys -R \; clear-history \; send-keys "Enter"

Which is nice, so I perform a control+b control+k and it clears the screen. However... there's a really nice side effect that I stumbled on completely by accident. If I already have a command queued up and ready to go when I use that keystroke combination, the send-keys "Enter" causes the command to execute.

That way, I get the command to execute and the only output I'll ever be able to scroll to is the entire output of the command! I had added the send-keys "Enter" to this because the rest of the command was leaving me with a blank screen and I had to hit enter to get my prompt back. Now... I have a new workflow I like.

and then there was yardwork

the outdoors called, but, unfortunately, it wasn't for cycling (for me). there was yard work to be done, but i made the best of it.

view from my desk, this afternoon

"working" from the game...

all-time favorite chain cleaning technique

cut it off and put a new one on. a year#s worth of foul weather commuting and it's friggin done.

i know roosters are your traditional weather vane animal

but it appears we just had a duck volunteer for the job

may?

heh, may... as in may i have my friggin spring back?