LESS FEAR: Lessons from my Dr. Phil (@stevenbristol)
I consider myself so extremely lucky to have a friend so amazing and Good and True as Steve. I’ve been going through a lot lately that not only affects me but also him personally and professionally. I feel like I’ve come through the crucible and, despite the situation being bad for him, talking with him only made me feel so much better about who I am.
Here’re some tidbits:
- Be genuine in the moment, be reckless and be happy.
- Be fearless.
- Don’t care what others think. I am perfect, realize this and it doesn’t matter what others think. What they think doesn’t make me any less perfect.
- Let the pendulum swing, let your heart be exposed. After being full of fear, let the fearlessness spill out.
- When you look back on your life, do you want to regret the things did or the things you didn’t do?
2 year old: “Daddy, where are you? Are you playing Work?”
Me: “Yes. Yes, I am. I’m playing Work.”
4 bash (bourne again shell) tips
Some quick keyboard commands I use often on the command line
Repeat last command: !! and Meta(Alt)+. Not sure about the usefulness of this one, but might keep your fingers a little closer to the home row instead of the land of arrow keys.
Begin and end: CTRL+a by itself moves your cursor to the beginning of the line. CTRL+e moves your cursor to the end of the line.
Delete a line of text: Probably my most used keystroke: CTRL+a, CTRL+k = nuke the whole line of text. Don’t hit control twice, just hold it and hit “ak”. You can also do CTRL+u for the same effect, but I find myself using CTRL+ak more because of its home row goodness. The secret here is that CTRL+k deletes from the cursor positon to the end of the line. Well, if you are already at the beginning of the line then you’ve got the whole thing nuked.
Undo: Whoops, you just nuked a line of text that you want back. Try CTRL+_ That’s an underscore, so you’ll need to press the shift key. Another way of writing it is CTRL+SHIFT+-.
All these commands work great in most Mac text input too (dagger-eyes at Adobe Air).
SPSS Statistics on MAC OS X Snow Leopard
If you are running Snow Leopard and are trying to install SPSS 17, follow these instructions. I had to adjust a few steps personally, so YMMV. Specifically the instructions listed a path as /Library/System, and I’m pretty sure they meant /System/Library because the former wasn’t present on the system I was installing SPSS on.
Charlie
- 2yearold: I want to watch a show
- me: Sorry, charlie
- 2yearold: I not Charlie! I Kai!
Work with non-printable characters in Vim
If you are working with a file in vim that has unprintable characters in it (^@) to duplicate those for search and replace do CTRL+v CTRL+@ or whatever character it is.
In shorthand: ^v^@ is what you want.
Flowdock icon for Fluid or Prism
