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“I’m sorry sir. The medbay is out of bodies.”

I looked at the corpseman. He was about my son’s age, but breathing. “How long until the next batch of clones come online?”

“Soon. The vats are scheduled to pop tonight. We can start reanimating once the memories are trimmed.” He turned and walked towards the lift, not waiting to be dismissed. The damned Personnel Restoration unit didn’t respect the chain of command. I wanted my troops alive again, my son included. So I let them be arrogant as they wanted.

This has been one of those weeks where I’ve done lots of stuff. I’ve also failed to accomplish anything worthwhile.

The highlight of the week was on Wednesday when the city decided to turn off the water to install new meters in the building. We got warning letters stuffed in the doorframe on Monday. So it wasn’t a surprise. I thought about toughing it out. But then I decided that having a working toilet for those six hours would be a good thing.

I already yell at my computers. I don’t want to yell at them just to make them work.

I’m not quite sure how it happened. Somehow I wound up on the night shift. I’m sitting here at 3:22 a.m. writing this. Over the last few days I’ve been staying up later and sleeping in.

Tonight learning how to use ImageMagick was the culprit. Earlier today I posted about how I automate resizing my screenshots. This got me thinking if I could do it better. I saw few examples online and dove in. I finally figured out what I needed after too many hours.1

I’m not sure what happened to the world.

https://twitter.com/TheTweetOfGod/status/562416681260027904

Hazel is a all-purpose file moving tool for the Mac. It can move and rename files based on rules for a given folder. But it can do a lot more.

This is how I use Hazel to manage my screenshot workflow. I don’t like a bunch of files littering the desktop. This action sweeps them up and renames and resizes them for me.

I’ve been thinking about this for the last day or so. Is having Windows on an embedded board something the world needs?

The announcement doesn’t have much in the way of specifics. It’s more of a landing page, with the focus being on signing up for the program, and getting “more details about our Windows 10 plans for IoT in the coming months.”

So well said. If Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr were to go away, what would your online life look like?

Most of my writing is done electronically. I have a combination of laptops, keyboards, and even keyboard computers. Even while those are my main source of input, they’re not always the first thing I turn to.

When I need to get something down now I reach for old-fashioned pen and paper. There’s no boot up/wake from sleep time, and it doesn’t require a password start using.1 It’s also non-modal. Meaning I can switch between words to pictures at will. This free-form creativeness can lead to the unexpected.