visnu is me

there are often stars that you can see from my patio

31 Aug 9:22pm (16 days ago)

i didn’t realize until just recently, after getting some patio furniture, that you can see stars outside at night pretty often. i’ve taken to sitting on my lounge chair and watch planes fly overhead and cars drive by. sitting outside makes me want to move further south to where i could be outside all night and fall asleep.

pgrep in ruby

2 Aug 1:46pm (about 1 month ago)

because osx doesn’t have one.


[visnup@Octal ~]$ cat /usr/local/bin/pgrep 
#!/usr/bin/env ruby

list = `ps -Ao pid,command`.split "\n"
matches = list.select do |l|
  pid, command = l.split nil, 2
  command.downcase.include? ARGV.first.downcase and pid.to_i != Process.pid
end

puts matches

twitter vs. me

2 Aug 11:59am (about 1 month ago)

i still need to figure out how to consolidate twitter vs. a blog post.

summer movies i wanna see

2 Aug 11:58am (about 1 month ago)

i need to write these down or i’ll forget. there are so many:

forbidden kingdom
-harold and kumar 2-
-iron man- — 5/2
-indiana jones- — 5/22
-sex and the city- — 5/30
-incredible hulk- — 6/13
-wall-e- — 6/27
-wanted- — 6/27
hancock — 7/2
-hellboy 2- — 7/11
-dark knight- — 7/18
x-files — 7/25
star wars: the clone wars — 8/15

textmate go to file in vim

21 Jul 11:11am (about 1 month ago)

found this in the vim forums and tweaked it to be even better. put it in your .vim/plugin directory. also, do you have supertab? use with either :Find name or ,f (which is a mapping to :Fi). then type in something like ‘person’. if you’re going to abbreviate, use spaces where you want a wildcard. like:

pe show => could match ‘*pe*ople/show’
pe pl sh => also could match ‘*pe*o*pl*e/*sh*ow’

it’s case insensitive and takes path names into account. g’yeah!


" from http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=1432
" originally written by Samuel Hughes
function! Find(name)
  let l:_name = substitute(a:name, '\s', '*', 'g')
  let l:list=system("find . -ipath '*".l:_name."*' -not -path '*/.*' | perl -ne 'print \"$.\\t$_\"'")
  let l:num=strlen(substitute(l:list, "[^\n]", "", "g"))
  if l:num < 1
    echo "'".a:name."' not found"
    return
  endif

  if l:num != 1
    echo l:list
    let l:input=input("Which ? (<enter>=nothing)\n")

    if strlen(l:input)==0
      return
    endif

    if strlen(substitute(l:input, "[0-9]", "", "g"))>0
      echo "Not a number"
      return
    endif

    if l:input<1 || l:input>l:num
      echo "Out of range"
      return
    endif

    let l:line=matchstr("\n".l:list, "\n".l:input."\t[^\n]*")
  else
    let l:line=l:list
  endif

  let l:line=substitute(l:line, "^[^\t]*\t./", "", "")
  execute ":e ".l:line
endfunction

command! -nargs=1 Find :call Find("<args>")
map ,f :Fi

iphone 2.0 software fonts

12 Jul 12:19am (2 months ago)

random nice feature of the new 2.0 software is the international character support in the fonts. all of my thai songs now show up correctly w/o any jailbreaking along with weird left-to-right farsi.

arm wrestling huned

11 Jul 3:27pm (2 months ago)

3:26:13 PM huned: f'realz.  maybe i'll organize an arm-wrestle-off
3:26:16 PM visnu: oh true
3:26:20 PM visnu: or get people drinking
3:26:20 PM huned: i think i can beat everyone here
3:26:22 PM huned: maybe not brent
3:26:24 PM visnu: yeah
3:26:28 PM huned: and maybe not gerad
3:26:29 PM visnu: i was about to say brent already beat you handily
3:26:31 PM huned: but def natalie
3:26:40 PM visnu: ... uh, that's one other person there
3:26:56 PM huned: that's right, i can be the champion

i love this show

7 Jul 12:53pm (2 months ago)

fucking up ruby

1 Jul 11:27pm (2 months ago)

class Fixnum
  alias :plus :+
  def + other
    if self == 1
      plus(other).plus 1
    else
      plus(other)
    end
  end
end

puts 1 + 2
puts 2 + 2
puts (1 + 2) == (2 + 2)

yes, it outputs:



4

4

true

not using msn chat anymore

30 Jun 3:14pm (2 months ago)

just like hotmail, all i was getting from msn chat/messenger was spam and i barely talk to anyone via it anymore. so, goodbye msn. i hope you fix your spam problem.