I woke up to a better world than the one I fell asleep in.

As you might be able to tell from my post “Evolution”, I’ve spent a decent amount of time thinking about my keyboard.

From the  diary of Samuel Pepys:

Kids, a fun little fact is that when you grow up, you gain both the ability to do what you want and the maturity to realize that some of it may be a bad idea.

I love to cook, but I hate baking.

Today, I managed to impress and possibly freak out one of my coworkers.

autojump and fasd are incredible. Walking the UNIX tree (OK, it’s actually a DAG with symlinks) is pretty much trivial.

I just got a great practical lesson on the art of salesmanship.

Besides (finally) learning how to touch type, I’ve been training myself to write neater.

Two months ago, my typing speed was about 20 wpm (words per minute.) Now, I’m up to almost 50 wpm, and can do 60 in short bursts. My accuracy is pretty high. Only about 4% of my keystrokes are the wrong ones.

Some differences:

As a fan of metal music, I’ve noticed some traits peculiar to the genre and its fans.

This affair started quickly, but I knew it was love when I first saw it. A friend of mine first introduced us.

I used to think dimmer switches were pointless. Consequently, I went through 20 years of life without ever using them.

Since freshman year of high school, I’ve always dressed rather classically. In practice, that means I have far more suits than the average college student or Silicon Valley resident ever would consider.

Especially in Silicon Valley, we hear about the benefits of meditation.