This guy is a bit nuts. I finally got around to putting down my idea for a very short story about a guy who spends all his time (not just his free time) on the internet, creating accounts.
I told a friend of mine that it was coming, but that was a while ago, when the thought first crossed my mind. If you're still wondering where that story is, it's linked above. Not sure if the story captures the dementia / giddiness / inanity of Charles' quest.
Charles Bridge
Charles Updike
Chuck Young
Charles Kurogi
Charles Dunn
Charlie Griffith
He paused to reflect on his accomplishment. He'd done so much already. So, so much in only three months. His counter read 9,999.
But Charlie's work wasn't done. One more for now. The mouse moved; click; a few seconds pass and he started typing, click, type again.
Submit. Charles Thorough now had free internet checking.
It was so easy. Charlie updated his counter before getting up to find something to eat. He smiled that in three months time he had managed to create ten thousand online accounts. They were everywhere. News sites, bulletin boards ... social networking sites, of course. Charlie had fourteen terrabytes of free storage. There were hundreds of his personal ads for people to find and connect with (good luck with Chuck). Thousands of sites had only a name to recognize him by. Charles now had a roast beef sandwich to enjoy as he continued growing his digital footprint.
Setting down the plate, sliding forward in his chair. Click went the mouse. Sign up now for a free account! Click again; and a pause for the page to load. Charlie started typing again, filling in Charles Wurst's information. He took a bite; the sandwich was good. Updated the counter. It was only half past three. Charlie could get plenty more work done today.
When I saw the headline Boy on milk carton still missing after 30 years, I thought I was looking at a headline from the Onion. Horrible but true.
The story is not from the Onion; it's from CNN. About the first missing child with notices on milk cartons.
My ability to recognize basic mathematical phenomena is going.
I was a bit embarrassed not to realize that zero added to a number was that same number, and when subtracted from the same number, results in zero.
I should play more with math.
Ooh, I found it!
While looking for how to remove annoying abbreviation definitions in vim, I stumbled upon something I had been looking for a few months ago.
You can have multiple viewports in vi with the command:split
Move to the next or previous window with Ctrl+w j or Ctrl+w k
Apparently there's a :vert alternative as well.
yay, internet!
