Editor’s Note: I totally meant to publish this yesterday, but apparently forgot to hit the “post” button. Eek. So here it is a little late. Hope you’re having a great weekend.

I’m ashamed to say that I don’t have any nifty philosophy for you this week. On the other hand the Deleuze Carnival is up over at Sportive Thoughts, which includes some great, up to date blogging on Deleuze.

I had a discussion this week about a Robert Reid-Pharr essay I read in a class some 3 years ago, that, perhaps more than Gayle Rubin(!) continues to define my notion of “queer,” and as a result of this, I realized how far, I sometimes stray from the core interests that got me into this. I think part of this is because I was in a particularly dense part of Deleuze, that dealt with issues that I don’t find particularly relevant, and I didn’t have a good way to go beyond them. The thing I worry about is that they’re so irratic, that by skipping, you can miss gems in the rough. So be it, I say.

Have a great weekend, I’ll probably keep updating /tychoish over the weekend, though I can’t promise how interesting that will be. I’m reminded that I started that blog as a virtual notebook, and here I am blogging. These things happen I suppose. In any case, I’ll be back next week, with more and better things.

Cheers, tycho

I just wrote a script for station keeping. it’s 6 pages and about the length of our usual installments. this means I have to write 1-2 more installments for the current season/run.

It’s formated like screen play, and frankly it’s designed to be read.

I just think that drama is an interesting form. Anyway, it’s pretty nifty, just thought i’d share.

I was just reading over this, had the sudden and unmistakable desire to knit a sweater with a hood.

stranded of course. ooh, that sounds fun. Maybe I’ll put a hood on the Domy heather sweater? hrm.

any suggestions, or am I going to have to wait for knit camp next year….

Red Sweater Blog - A Peek At MarsEdit 2

looks pretty spiffy I have to say

note to self: remember that you can use devon think pro as an outlining tool.

potentially in combination with the outlining in textmate. ooooh shiny.

I’m such a dork, continue on with your day.

I have in the past done a little bit of writing to explore and and list the software that I’m using in my computing life to keep on top of things and stay organized. What inevitably happens when I do this is that I change almost instantly afterwards to different solutions and programs. Alas.

While I don’t want to jinx anything, I’ve recently noticed that I’ve been using the same programs for a couple of months now, and I’m probably at a record low for complaints and frustrations with this set up. So go figure. Here’s what I’m using these days.

• Mail.app for email. It’s clearly not perfect, but I can’t imagine anything better, and frankly the organization of my incoming email is such a tower of cards, that I’m reluctant to change anything.

• DevonThinkPRO for database/content management. This is an incredibly powerful program, and I continue to use it to store a lot of stuff, though I haven’t been using it as much recently because I’m not in school and I, unfortunately, haven’t been doing enough to get to a place where I need to use it. For the DTP geeks out there, I’m keeping everything in one database that’s 1.56 GBs big, with about 1mg of synched text and RTF files.

• NetNewsWire and Camino for web browsing and feed reading. It’s how I consume the internet. I suppose I still wish that NNW would let me read f-locked LiveJournal entries (which some of the other programs do), but other than that, no complaints here.

• AdiumX for chatting. I’ve been using Adium since I switched to mac, and it’s great, and I think that the program has gotten even better, particularly recently, so check it out.

• MarsEdit Great program for offline editing. I find that I’ve taken to doing a lot of my editing in web-interfaces these days, and at least theoretically TextMate could prevent some of this, but a lot of my postings are time delayed, so that’s not really a problem. And I’m checking stats on the web-pannel’s anyway, so again, not a big deal. It’s still great software.

• Pukka for del.icio.us posting. It’s small and it works great. Can’t argue with that. I don’t post to my del.icio.us enough, but that’s another problem.

• VLC for playing videos. All videos, without complaining. Great stuff.

• Preview.app for reading PDFs, because I just don’t like the other programs enough, and I figure, it’s best to leave well enough alone.

• Terminal.app for bash shell goodness. It’s sort of surprising how much shell stuff I’ve gotten into in the past couple of months. It’s been nice to be able to figure out how to do some stuff in the shell, and it’s nice to have that fast interface. I wish I were a bit more hardcore about it, but I’m learning slowly.

  A couple of programs that I like and keep, but don’t find myself using very much this summer. I expect that I’ll get back into some of them.

• WriteRoom for distraction free writing. It’s basically a big black screen with big green lettering that auto scrolls. It’s simple, yes, but I really like how this software can allow me to be productive at odd times. I have to say that

• Quicksliver I haven’t been using QS as much recently, I’m not sure why. I think that a lot of the things I have been using QS for in the past, I do with the shell anyway. Go figure.

• Growl for system wide notifications. I sometimes turn it off and forget to turn it back on. It’s great to get notifications of what’s going on on your computer so that you’re aware of what’s happening, and then can keep on working on what you’re working on without getting caught up in checking for new IMs or Emails or download compilations, and so forth.

• TextMate I use this program constantly, and it’s great. I’ve changed a lot of things in response to this program, and I rather like it a lot. It’s nice to have all this power in such an intuitive environment. The Maruku tool, in combination with text-mate, has basically become my word-processor of choice. I use it to write blog entries and to code/program the websites. I use it in my job, and I’m thinking about using it to try to do the GTD thing again, so we’ll see.

My only real usage complaint at the moment is that my system of organizing text-files is more like a folder with a bunch of papers in it than an actual notebook. Maybe just opening my text-files folder as a project in TextMate will solve this, but I feel like something could be done. Also I think I’d like to be able to check my writing and whatnot into a subversion repository for backup and archiving purposes, but that’s mostly a point of lazyness, not a problem as such. I’ll get back to you on these points though.

Thanks for geeking out with me.

Cheers, ty

I didn’t really have time to blog last night, I had to dash over to the yarn store to drop off a sock as a demo for the class I’m going to be teaching in a couple weeks. Its going to be toe-up/stranded socks, if you’re going to be in St. Louis, and you’re interested. I’d love to see you there.

Then I had dancing, as I always do on wednesdays, and this left me feeling supremely beat. Hence no blogging. I did however post the first in my Better Living through Regular Expressions series/project. I did some regexp-ing at work yesterday, so I have something to use as a pun for next week.

Knitting and all other things continue at an expected pace. Tonight, I must must remember to write something theoretical for tomorrow at tealart. And then I lookforward to getting some real writing time this weekend. And knitting, boy do I need to get some knitting done.

G: My life is over!

H: What? Liar, How can you say that?

G: Huh?

H: You’re talking to me anyway?

G: But I cant find my files.

H [blank stare].

G: Ok, ok, I found the files, but there are a lot of them and they are huge. This is the problem with never throwing anything awa--

H: Regular Expressions.

G: Wha? My expressions are quite regular right now. I just can’t find any of the right--

H: I meant like Perl.

G: Oh, you would. Swine.

H: Whatever, at least I can find anything in an instant?

G: An instant? Really, and instant?

H: Well, theoretically.

G: Famous last words. Show me!

H: Ok! [pause] let me get my books.

G: Don’t bother. (Sigh.)

H: Now whose being melodramatic?

G: Just get over here and write the danm shell script.

H: Ok, ok. Where does it start?

G: ^.

H: ?

G: Oh Sh[aeiou]t…

H: that doesn[]t make sense.

G: If you knew how to type it would.