Stuff I found funny, interesting, just plain disturbing, or for my own personal benefit.

Rainer Brockerhoff :: Quay

Tags: apple, mac, osx, utility, dock, totry

tms [fernLightning]

Tags: apple, mac, osx, backup, utility, unix, cli, timemachine, totry

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Stuff I found funny, interesting, just plain disturbing, or for my own personal benefit.

BustedTees – Funny T-Shirts

Tags: shopping, wishlist, clothing, funny, tech, geek, tshirts

ThinkGeek :: T-Shirts

Tags: shopping, wishlist, clothing, tshirts, geek

Spreadshirt: Customized t shirts and hats

Tags: shopping, clothing, tshirts

J!NX : Clothing for Gamers & Geeks

Tags: shopping, wishlist, clothing, tshirts, geek, videogames

Tcritic – The Daily T-Shirt Fashion and Design Blog About T-Shirts

Tags: tshirts, clothing, blog

NoiseBot.com

Tags: funny, shopping, wishlist, clothing, tshirts, geek

Eyeglass Cleaner, U.S. Patent No. D475166, Jaon Koo

Tags: shopping, wishlist, cool, tool, cleaner, eyewear, glasses

mtsend.py – A Command Line Tool for Movable Type | SYP

Tags: blogging, unix, wordpress, cli

Merrell Canada: Performance Footwear

Tags: footwear, shoes, shopping, reminder

The NeoCube

Tags: magnets, shopping, wishlist, cool, toys

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From my home computer:
[Odin:~] maguirer% history -1000|awk '{a[$2]++} END{for(i in a){printf "%5d\t%s \n",a[i],i}}'|sort -rn|head

  130	ls
  129	cd
   38	lo
   26	unzip
   24	rm
   23	m
   19	rjm
   16	find
   13	mv
    9	ll

From my Web server:
[rjmaguire:~] maguirer% history -1000|awk '{a[$2]++} END{for(i in a){printf "%5d\t%s \n",a[i],i}}'|sort -rn|head

  171	ls
   68	cd
   48	rm
   35	svn
   19	vi
   16	mv
   12	m
   11	scp
   11	lo
   11	ll

Sadly, nothing terribly exciting.

A few notes:
“rjm” – aliased to ssh for opening a secure connection to my web server
“find” – was trying to find a list I thought I lost for a blog entry I’m working on
“unzip” – recently updated my WoW addons by hand
“scp” – how files make their way back home from my server
“vi” – w00t!
“ls” – apparently, I have ADD, but really I’ll often sit in front of the terminal just typing “ls” over and over. Somehow, it helps me think

As for who to tag… share ‘em if ya got ‘em, folks!

So who am I? I’m a geek.

Officially, my given name is Robert, but I prefer to go by Bob. I’m half Irish and half German, but 100% Canadian. I was born in, raised, and am currently living in Regina, the capital of Saskatchewan. Having been born on October 12th, 1976, means I am now in my 30′s, and I can’t wait to see what that brings.

I’m a software programmer by trade. Having a father in the industry, I’ve been around computers practically all my life. I love problem solving and designing algorithms, and I get off on making computers do my bidding. My favourite platforms of choice are Mac OS and Unix, which means I think Mac OS X is the best operating system in the world. But I know the world needs Windows, too. I’m currently employed by a large federal corporation here in town.

I love movies and rarely find anything bad to say about them. My favourite kinds of movies are comedies, sci-fi, fantasy, and action. I’m a sucker for romantic comedies, but I also love a good Hong Kong shoot ‘em up. I have more DVDs than I’ll ever be able to watch (and now an ever-increasing collection of Blu-rays), and that’s A-OK with me. Some of my favourites are 12 Monkeys, Bean, Office Space, Dutch, Hudson Hawk, Galaxy Quest, Groundhog Day, Swordsman, and Sneakers. My favourite actors include Bruce Willis, Stephen Chow, Jackie Chan, Bill Murray, and Rowan Atkinson.

I don’t watch anywhere near as much TV now as I did in the 80s as a kid. I still love to watch my early childhood cartoons like Rocket Robin Hood, Spider-Man, The Mighty Hercules, Dungeons and Dragons, Gummi Bears, M.A.S.K., and so on. The best series, past or present, is Doctor Who, and I love every British comedy that has ever been written. Except for The Mighty Boosh; that stuff’s just plain weird.

Canadian Football is my favourite sport, the Riders are my favourite team, and I don’t watch NFL. I’ll watch hockey as long as it’s the playoffs or the Olympics, but will just as easily turn it off or turn to something else. I refuse to watch golf, baseball, and basketball, but I’ll watch soccer or rugby as it’s something different. Nascar is not a sport.

I used to carry my entire music collection with me on my iPod, but have since moved to an iPhone, requiring me to be a little more selection. In some respects, that’s OK, as my musical taste seems to have frozen sometime in 2002. My tastes vary wildly, but there are some artists and bands I can always trust to deliver like They Might Be Giants, R.E.M., Chemical Brothers, and FatBoy Slim. I don’t know if I’ll like something until I hear it, so I have a lot of one hit wonders and chart toppers (unless it’s hip hop or from the last 7 or 8 years). I also have a lot of soundtracks and scores from movies, tv shows, and video games that I’ve enjoyed over the years. Generally, I don’t like easy listening or jazz unless, of course, I’ve heard it and liked it. To sum up in as few words as possible, I’d say anything that I can tap my feet to.

I’d love to travel, but have never done anything about it. I prefer more temperate locales, as I hate being hot and sweaty. The UK and Scandinavia are my dream vacation spots, but I could probably convince myself to go anywhere if I worked at it hard enough. My biggest obstacle is food, as I have zero imagination or courage when it comes to experimenting with food. To me, meat and potatoes is not a stereotype, but a way of life.

I collect comic books, but rarely ever read them. Much like my movies, it’s more about the collecting, categorizing, sorting, organizing, and recording in a database, that I enjoy than the actual spoils.

Genealogy is my favourite hobby, but I don’t hang out in graveyards like some kind of devil worshipper.

I hate small talk, and would prefer silence instead of it. This is because I don’t read the news, I don’t listen to the news, and I don’t watch the news. Politics don’t interest me in the slightest bit, but I still vote when I’m told, usually for whoever I hate the least (I had a fleeting romance with Canadian politics recently, but that was abruptly quashed on election day). I was raised Roman Catholic, and went to Catholic schools, but I don’t go to church, I don’t pray, and to me the Pope is just a nice old man. In short, I’m an agnostic, but I still like to think there is or was a higher power at some point, at that there is something for us to do after we die, whether or not it’s heaven, because life seems short enough as it is. Basically, I know right from wrong, and that’s all I feel I need. That’s my own opinion, I don’t try to force it on others, and I have no problems with people having their own beliefs and opinions. I just wish they wouldn’t try to push it on others, or judge people because they’re different.

Carl King wrote a pretty good piece on what he calls the 10 Myths About Introverts that I think explains a lot about me.

Did I miss anything? Questions? Comments? Drop me a line.

Go Riders!

Of course, when it rains, it pours. My mom’s computer likely has the
same problem. Hers is making strange sounds, so it’s likely to fail
very, very soon. I should have a drive arriving at work tomorrow to
backup her files later that evening. Hopefully, it will go smoothly.