blog.tonybaldwin.me - Latest Comments

Re: Testing 1 2 3

tony baldwin — Mon, 09 Dec 2013 15:39:36 -0000

Okay. That worked!

Re: Tony’s Runlog

tony baldwin — Fri, 09 Aug 2013 22:36:53 -0000

And, now I've run up to 9 miles. Training for a 20k (12 mi) race in September.

Re: how real men edit html

tony baldwin — Sat, 27 Jul 2013 04:40:04 -0000

Meh...don't know what happened to that screenshot, but who cares?
I've since learned the *REAL HACKERS* use VIM, not nano, anyway.
I've been using VIM for a couple of years, now, and even though I imagine I've only unlocked 1/10 of it's power, it makes nano seem like a kid's toy.

Re: Tony’s Runlog

tony baldwin — Sat, 27 Jul 2013 04:38:20 -0000

Since then I've done some 6 and 7 mile runs now. Keeping running further, and feeling GREAT!

Re: Is it Secret? Is it Safe?

tony baldwin — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 23:06:07 -0000

It did please me to see Jitsi mentioned for chat.

They really, really should have mentioned SFLPhone for secure, encrypted voice communications (telephony), as well.

Re: Tony’s Runlog

tony baldwin — Sun, 09 Jun 2013 22:17:38 -0000

I've been thinking about this.
I was never particularly fast.
What I am is dogged and stubborn, obsessive and compulsive.
I know that about myself.
I don't quit. I don't know when to give up.
That's what took me from the fat, slow kid sophomore year to winning races senior year at Fitch.
But today, I wasn't particularly fast, 08:27 min/mile.
26 years ago (yeah, I know, a long time ago), I could have run this whole race in under 14 minutes.
I would have been mortified with today's performance.
But, I'll probably never run that well again. I'm not going to be unrealistic.
But I've been jogging around doing 9:30 to 10:00 min/mile, and I get into a race, and the competitive spirit takes hold,
so
I bit hard at the start, and then, out of sheer stubborn,
pigheadedness, I refused to slow down, and I brought my pace down from
those 9:30min miles to under 8:30. After only jogging around for about 2
months.
If I actually train, I'm certain I could bring that down. A lot.
And the guy who won the race today finished in 18 minutes. c. 7:12 min/mile.
I
might not ever be able to do the 5:00 minute miles I did 26 years ago,
again, but I think I could beat 7:12 by next year, if I train.
I'm certain of it.
I
still don't think, even if I do 7:00 min/mile, that would make me
particularly competitve, even in the 40+ bracket, on anything grander
than a local scale in small fun-runs, but, being competitive, as I am,
it gives me something, a goal, I suppose.

Billy Rogers was 38 when he first won the Boston, and had only stopped smoking around 1 year prior that.
I
don't have any illusions about winning Boston, but I think I could win
some of these small local races, and I think that would be fun.
(Today's race had a field of some 60 to 70 runners. Not a big race).
I think my running career is far from over.
And for years, I had thought it was over.

There was an 80 year old guy at the race today.
There
was a good bunch of people who finished behind him (I wasn't one of
them, but I think I only had him by like 4 or 5 minutes, which, I
suppose in 2.5 miles may seem like a lot, but it really isn't,
considering he's 36 years older).
I want to be that guy in another 40 years.
I thought,"Wow. I hope I can do that at 80."
As far as I'm concerned, that's the dude that won the race, today.
And, of course, even the people who finished after him were lapping anybody still in bed at that time.

Re: La Cena a Machu Picchu

tony baldwin — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 22:34:14 -0000

When you go to Machu Picchu, though, definitely order "los choritos" for an appetizer. Mussels with lime, salt, and cilantro. SO YUMMEH!

Re: Skating @ Guptill’s Arena, Cohoes, New York

tony baldwin — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 16:33:24 -0000

It was. We have a lot of fun skating with our crew, bunch of weirdos that they are.

Re: Skating @ Guptill’s Arena, Cohoes, New York

bill bates — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 14:38:27 -0000

Wow!! Looks like an awful lot of fun!!

Re: Sugar-Free Peanut Butter Fudge – SO YUMMEH!!

tony baldwin — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 23:32:06 -0000

this didn't last long...

Re: Life without Cable TV. Not so bad!

tonybaldwin — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 13:39:25 -0000

Last night I watched the Horror Express, a classic horror film, with Telly Savalas, Peter Cushing, and Christopher Lee (Saruman!).

Re: Ice on Titan’s Lakes: “May Host an Exotic Form of Life” –NASA/JPL

tony baldwin — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 15:55:00 -0000

Related: http://www.dailygalaxy.com/...

Saturn's moon, Titan, mirrors conditions that led to life on Earth.

Re: Abolish Slavery

Tejpal — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 21:43:00 -0000

Good post and I shall extend its gospel further, if permited.

Re: God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

tony baldwin — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 04:43:00 -0000

same video on yt: http://www.youtube.com/watc...
(just this past couple of days, the vimeo seems troubled...buffering or loading slowly or something, which it usually doesn't do...)

Re: Web Word Count – count the words on a website with bash, lynx, curl, wget, sed, and wc

Alex Trout — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 10:51:00 -0000

You are the man dude. Best method I found so far. And I was already thinking perl/python. Phew. Thanks again.

Re: More creEpy in CT

Manni King — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 01:32:00 -0000

Thanks for your post and you can Joyfax server data with your colleagues by:

this tool.

Re: Connecticut is CreEpy

tony baldwin — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 22:36:00 -0000

For the real goods on crEepy stuff in CT, see http://www.damnedCT.com

Re: Who is responsible?

tony baldwin — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 07:00:52 -0000

Or, really, shutting them down for delivering photocopies...since what we're talking about isn't deadly (unlike all that death and drowning and drugs stuff).

Re: Who is responsible?

Pete Christie — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 02:22:38 -0000

A better analogy, I think, is that of shutting down and suing the USPS because of mail order street drugs or anthrax mailings.

Re: DjVu: Free alternative to PDF (and a script to convert plain text to DjVu)

tony baldwin — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 00:54:59 -0000

Yeah, but who cares about some reader for crappy windows? :P

Re: DjVu: Free alternative to PDF (and a script to convert plain text to DjVu)

kod — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 18:54:52 -0000

just a reminder that SumatraPDF reader can also display djvu files (aswell as chm pdfltx etc)

Re: Find IPs – a script to find all nodes on the LAN

Endle — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 23:33:55 -0000

Hey, thanks for the script. This is useful because the router interface does not always give you an IP of machines that have the IP set manually.

Re: ¡Viva la FREE WEB!

tony baldwin — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 04:50:58 -0000

This article has been expanded significantly and posted at http://www.farcebork.com/

Re: Tickle Text does LJ!

tony baldwin — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 15:44:53 -0000

Wordpress and other blog software, like serendipity, moveable type, blogspot, etc., mostly have wysiwyg editors available, AND the option to edit the underlying html code.

Re: Tritium WM

Roman — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 19:08:13 -0000

After having been using the ion window manager for four years
I was lost when it disappeared from my apt-get sources. Searching
for an alternative I installed tritium. I was puzzled by the
lack of documentation, and also I had to start it manually from
failsafe (without window manager) session. Therefore the above
list of key mappings and instructions about how to add a
tritium.session to /usr/share/xessions have been very helpful.
Thanks.