#bash:

Inside double square brackets, == and != are not string equivalence tests, but glob pattern match tests, i.e. «[[ x == ? ]]» returns 0.

You can quote the right-hand-side to escape metacharacters: «[[ $X == ‘?’ ]]»

#bash: “Because the extglob option changes the way certain characters are parsed, it is necessary to have a newline (not just a semicolon) between the shopt command and any subsequent commands that use extended globs.” http://mywiki.wooledge.org/glob

You should go have tea with Chuck. Ask him what does in summer.

http://www.buildingstage.com/2012_shows/dickens_landing.php

#chicago #theatre #chuck #dickens #tea #begrudging

Thumbs up for We Three Lizas. Not what I expected, in a good way. #chicago #theatre [youtube.com/watch

“Undercover meteorologist”

♬ The Business End of Love ♬

Today’s word: “Kinderarchy”, as in being ruled by children.

“I hear people who say… they’re quitting coffee. They’re giving that up. But I think why would you do that? What is that getting you? You know what that’s getting you? Nothing.”

“It makes you think that you’re better than coffee.”

From All Songs Considered “The Albums We Missed This Year” episode, band that should exist: Hampster Pudding.

“When I give, I give tattoos.”

http://j.mp/VeNCMK

“… depictions of Santa change and evolve as time passes on, but lately I have noticed that many of your books and movies seem to be leaving out Santa’s whip. Let me assure you, he’s still got that whip.”

Bitsquatting: Abuse other people’s bad RAM for fun and profit— http://dinaburg.org/bitsquatting.html

Wowzers. Abusing bad RAM for fun and profit: https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~appel/papers/memerr.pdf

Some high weirdness going on… something on my Mac is running Firefox every time I try to type an exclamation point.

The means of guilt-tripping people into doing things via gifts has a name: the “rule of reciprocation”. http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2012/11/26/165570502/give-and-take-how-the-rule-of-reciprocation-binds-us

TRES LECHES!

Belated birthday cake.

Las Vegas

“On the left is the children’s museum…”

“How often do they let them out?”

SUGAR RUSH!!!!

“Slice n’ Share”

OMFSM. I’m in a Hot Topic and I spot myself in a mirror. I look like I belong here. I’m a cliché.