I've recently experienced a personal loss that resulted in my moving from Portland to Los Angeles, but just before I left, I had the privilege of seeing Dr. Jane McGonigal speak at Concordia University. The lecture, presented on Thursday, September 20, was titled 'The ...

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Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time.

Okay, that has nothing to do with the subject of this post, but when I tweeted out a request for suggestions for an opening line, that was the most interesting response (thank you, @kantrn). I got others that were a lot ...

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I was tasked with a fairly simple project:

• Traverse a directory with several hundred subdirectories, each containing up to half a dozen images of different sizes
• If a directory already contained an image where [-8:] == "_175.jpg", just delete the entire directory, it was not needed
• If the directory ...
  
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I use vi in the OS X terminal pretty much exclusively. A few weeks ago I did something to blow away my original .vimrc file - I have no idea how I did that, which is a little scary. One of the results was that vi automatically started creating backup ...

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