April 2009
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“I’m a little uncomfortable that the robot lady at the supermarket told me to “move [my] sweet onions to the belt.”
—Jason B. Jones
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“There are three types of kinds: kinds, damn kinds, and sorts.”
—Neven Mrgan
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Jordan Morris offers his impression of morning television hosts holding blackberries and pretending to be confused by Twitter.
“I prefer the term ‘lonely media.’ ‘Social’ makes it sound like you’re, you know, talking to someone. When, in fact, you’re totally alone.”
—Scott Simpson
Good Man Considered Harmful, Hard to Find (Without Other People's Grep)
I’ve been trying to get this goddamned script to run and I can’t do it and I’m sure it’s something dumb that I’m doing or not doing and that if one of you wants to send me some directions for a Mac I’ll get that shit running lickety split.
Anyway, as Eric Cartman would say, screw you guys, I’m going to bed. But I’ll try again tomorrow after the two, yes two, kids’ fairs we’ll be attending. Love ya bye.
I don’t use the command line much either. Here’s how it worked on my Mac:
1. Save the file on your desktop.
2. Open Applications—>Utilities—>Terminal.
3. In Terminal, enter “cd Desktop”
4. Then enter “perl faves.pl”If that works, it now wants your Twitter username, the rest is self-explanatory.
Whenever I realize how much I — a self-styled “technologist” — rely on other people’s tutorials, I mentally paraphrase my favorite line from my favorite Flannery O’Connor story.
He would of been a good nerd if it had been somebody there to copy from every minute of his life.
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