there’s something utterly satisfying about listening to journey, polishing up the old unix commands and recollecting the cool detachment (unshakable calm determination!) with which you pulled the stitches from your finger the night before.

coming up this month is a nice stretch of rotation (2nd shift, 3rd shift, etc.) and then a much-anticipated trip to the west coast. my travelling companion will once again be sean p. (first canada, then europe, now euortle (porgeattle?) (seaortene?) )

i’m starting to make a very silly little list:

1. my cell phone stopped working. no one could hear my pleasant voice. and then, as mysteriously as it broke, it righted itself.
2. the shitty fan i bought from target lost one of its blades. now it’s unbalanced and lethal.
3. my windshield wipers have ground to a halt.
4. my firewall seems to be having difficulty functioning properly.

and another one:

• run a command again with a quick string replacement: ^string1^string2^
• run a new command on the last argument of your previous one: newcmd !$
• a new command with all the same arguments: newcmd !*
• sort based on the 5th field in a line: |sort -k5
• do reverse search on previous commands: CTRL-r

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