Archive for January, 2007

Rap-talk gone intellectual

Thursday, January 18th, 2007

During a chat session (partially) about rap, my great friend Rasmus suddenly wrote this: Jeg er genstand for anseelige mængder såkaldt "gaderespekt" eller "gadekredit". Det skyldes at det ungdomssegment der dyrker musikstilen "Hip Hop", anser undertegnede for at have en stor troværdighed i den specifikke subkultur. Jeg køler mig ned med den eksalterede kontinuitet. Og [...]

My Mac Is Complete

Saturday, January 6th, 2007

Yes! Finally. My entirely too generous family in Arizona sent me a Christmas present that arrived today – as it happens, the last piece of the puzzle called "make the mac feel natural": A US English Mac keyboard. The old keyboard is not busted per se – it's just the wrong layout. It's not possible [...]

Mac, Part 4

Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007

It's time for another mac update. I recently reached some level of habitual usage that felt like crossing a border. I manipulate the UI without thinking of it. It dawned on me suddenly that I was using iTerm and Finder and a few other programs with no effort and no pangs of "ugh… this is [...]