September 2010
5 posts
On Running
I love running.
I really enjoy all sorts of exercise — that sensation of feeling pain, but a delicious pain, a pain that tells you you’re improving yourself. An ache that lets you know you’ve pushed yourself just a little bit further and made yourself just a little bit stronger.
But of all forms of exercise, running is one of the few I enjoy purely for joy of doing, not just...
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The ViM Experience
After an absence of about five years, I’ve finally come back to ViM, at least for a while. When I first started doing programming stuff in high school (after escaping the terror of Turbo Pascal on some weird Novell system), I used Vim, since that’s what my programming mentor/inspiration Wolever used. Not long after, however, I came across the writings of Steve Yegge, which convinced...
Relgion As A Tool
One of the things I think about a lot is the nature of religion: Why do we humans persist in believing things where proof is not only not required but actively considered irrelevant? More importantly, why do we allow such beliefs to continue to spread when we can see the untold deaths and human misery that these ideas have unleashed on us over the millennia? It was something that just...
A Return to ViM?
Well, after about five years using Emacs, I’ve decided to give ViM a try again. While Emacs, being the self-contained operating system that it is was excellent on Linux, I feel like OS X is more suited to a smaller, more orthagonal editor (and TextMate has some issues that are getting to be too much for me).
I’m planning on writing about what this switch is like soon…look for...