lucas oman

19:54:36

If you've been trying to get vim, Ctags, PHP and TagList to play nicely together, check out my latest blog post.

09:17:29

I really can't express how cool Steely Dan is. They have so many ridiculously good songs. They consistently maintain their solid style while giving each song its own unique flavor. Gaucho's song by the same title is brilliant. On that same album, "Third World Man" and "Babylon Sisters" are fantastic. And that's just one album. What about Aja, where each song is a stroke in a masterpiece, and their more recent albums from the last decade that show they've more than "still got it"---they're still innovating.

08:29:28

How ridiculous. I propose putting scorpions in gumball machine chutes.

09:18:48

Online survival skill: "social steganography" -- duplicity through an age-old spook method.

12:47:46

Of course Apple's little sandbox is cozier and more secure than an open-source, anything-goes Android phone.

11:10:41

A trip to the local flea market that would have otherwise been a waste of time was made fantastic by this sighting.

09:15:22

Someone took a Justin Beiber song and slowed it down 800%, which actually produced a very cool, 35-minute ambient track. Before you laugh, check it out.

16:17:52

For academia: a little bit of perspective.

10:20:51

Vim 7.3 has been released! Of note: persistent undo (by my friend Jordan Lewis) and relative line numbering.

16:01:11

Here's a fascinating presentation on the future of social networking and how people manage their online relationships.

I find it mildly appalling that duplicity is so commonplace and accepted. Apparently, one of the greatest challenges of online social networking is keeping one's identities separate. What happened to having one identity. Referring to an example in the presentation, if I'm a school teacher, but I don't want my students knowing that I posted a comment on a photo of a strip tease at a gay bar, then should I have made that post at all?

Why does this not give anyone pause to examine their choices and what kind of person they want to be?