Taking a real book from time to time. The PPI ratio is only limited by your eye, no gloss and totally distraction free. Something about it that feels authentic and real. Cons: needs external light at night. I'm also planning to buy a vinyl player.
ooo yes! besides the wonderful sound of vinyl, I love everything involved in listening to a record. Physically pulling out a record and put it on the player, moving the arm over, and listening to an album in its entirety, not just skipping around songs or movements. The ease of mp3s is great for a lot of things (listening to music while you're exercising, for instance) but everything that's involved in vinyl just makes it feel like more of an experience.
I'm a CS student who still takes all my notes by hand. I tried taking them on a computer like all my colleagues, but my goddamn short attention span (ADD-I) won't let me take notes on a computer without losing focus.
Programming, I suppose. Not the code itself, these days I'm writing rather bleeding edge fancy apps... but I write them in Emacs, an editor from the mid 70s.
To be fair, I think several features I really depend on are from the 80s. Oh and there's js3-mode, that's fairly recent, 2011 or so I think.
Heh, I actually started using Emacs in the last couple of months. (I was born in 1990, so I grew up with Eclipse, Notepad++, Sublime Text, Intellij...) It makes the 4GB Windows machine I have to use at work so much more bearable. No more 50 instances of Explorer open at the same time!
I find that it's still so much easier to develop Java in Eclipse however; the auto-completion, wizard-generated code and the ability to run the project on a local Tomcat instance with a couple of clicks, for example. But Emacs is quickly taking over any project that involves dynamically typed programming languages or of course extensive tinkering with configuration files.
Haha you know, I started using Emacs in the late 80s (I was born in the 70s). Back then? The main gripe people had, the source of all Emacs jokes? It's soo bloated! Computers struggle to run that monstrosity!
Things have changed huh :D
And yes, of course, it's not that Emacs is so magic, but rather, people get used to what we learn to do and we're extremely reluctant to change. And, as you know now, of course, to be proficient in Emacs you not only have to develop spatial memory for all the weird keystrokes, but you need some understanding of Lisp, and a very good grasp of the code you're writing. As you say, no autocompletion or wizards or inline help, so you have to know your code very well, your symbol table is in your head like. And so must be the APIs you're using, and you have to know how to get to the docs on your own, quick. These days, I hardly think it's worth all that effort, learning to keep all that stuff in your head just to write code fast. Me, I did it because we had no option back then.
I'm pretty sure these days, a skilled young hacker with an IDE codes faster than I do with my Emacs. But it has to be a good one, 'cause I'm damn fast B) Haha.
Oh and yeah, js3 is magic. Seriously, I've looked, and I'm not aware of any editor that comes close to Emacs for editing Javascript (I mean, not snippets for HTML, but serious modules, for Node and such).
Talk to people face to face. Sure online sites and social media can be nice and useful but conversations online just always feel so cold and emotionless to me. Talking face to face you actually get to see the other persons reaction, expressions etc.
Also a note on future: If self-driving cars ever actually become a reality in my lifetime, I'll still much rather drive myself than let the car drive. I actually still enjoy driving quite a lot despite having had a license for nearly 10 years now.
I use a DE and a straight razor. Straight for my Monday, as I couldn't use it every day. Beard's gotta be at least a couple day's worth for it to be comfortable.
Homework, tests, and taking notes. Using buggy and unintuitive websites/software is the absolute worst. Being able to use pencil and paper was actually one of the largest reasons for me transferring to and getting my associates at a community college before transferring back to a university.
I really wish schools would begin utilizing overhead projectors again as well. Whiteboards and smartboards just don't do as good of a job.
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Drink Tea: Fuck starbucks.
I call some friends round or grab a beggar, brew up a pot, make cucumber sandwiches and we have tea party
That sounds delightful, cunt.
Taking a real book from time to time. The PPI ratio is only limited by your eye, no gloss and totally distraction free. Something about it that feels authentic and real. Cons: needs external light at night. I'm also planning to buy a vinyl player.
ooo yes! besides the wonderful sound of vinyl, I love everything involved in listening to a record. Physically pulling out a record and put it on the player, moving the arm over, and listening to an album in its entirety, not just skipping around songs or movements. The ease of mp3s is great for a lot of things (listening to music while you're exercising, for instance) but everything that's involved in vinyl just makes it feel like more of an experience.
Sex. I prefer to do sex the old fashioned way: In the bed, with a partner (or more, I ain't judging).
What's the new way?
Sexting and stuff.
And leave evidence that just anybody could find? That's stupid.
Gotta take your chances being a hipster!
Without a condom in a bathroom stall with someone you just met and will eventually realize meets the criteria of everything you hate.
I'm a CS student who still takes all my notes by hand. I tried taking them on a computer like all my colleagues, but my goddamn short attention span (ADD-I) won't let me take notes on a computer without losing focus.
You could just cut off the WiFi. :)
No unfortunately! Most of my classes are on the school computers.
I write code for work, and I always have a notebook nearby to jot down notes :-D
Programming, I suppose. Not the code itself, these days I'm writing rather bleeding edge fancy apps... but I write them in Emacs, an editor from the mid 70s.
To be fair, I think several features I really depend on are from the 80s. Oh and there's js3-mode, that's fairly recent, 2011 or so I think.
I just never got the hang of IDEs :S
Heh, I actually started using Emacs in the last couple of months. (I was born in 1990, so I grew up with Eclipse, Notepad++, Sublime Text, Intellij...) It makes the 4GB Windows machine I have to use at work so much more bearable. No more 50 instances of Explorer open at the same time!
I find that it's still so much easier to develop Java in Eclipse however; the auto-completion, wizard-generated code and the ability to run the project on a local Tomcat instance with a couple of clicks, for example. But Emacs is quickly taking over any project that involves dynamically typed programming languages or of course extensive tinkering with configuration files.
Haha you know, I started using Emacs in the late 80s (I was born in the 70s). Back then? The main gripe people had, the source of all Emacs jokes? It's soo bloated! Computers struggle to run that monstrosity!
Things have changed huh :D
And yes, of course, it's not that Emacs is so magic, but rather, people get used to what we learn to do and we're extremely reluctant to change. And, as you know now, of course, to be proficient in Emacs you not only have to develop spatial memory for all the weird keystrokes, but you need some understanding of Lisp, and a very good grasp of the code you're writing. As you say, no autocompletion or wizards or inline help, so you have to know your code very well, your symbol table is in your head like. And so must be the APIs you're using, and you have to know how to get to the docs on your own, quick. These days, I hardly think it's worth all that effort, learning to keep all that stuff in your head just to write code fast. Me, I did it because we had no option back then.
I'm pretty sure these days, a skilled young hacker with an IDE codes faster than I do with my Emacs. But it has to be a good one, 'cause I'm damn fast B) Haha.
Oh and yeah, js3 is magic. Seriously, I've looked, and I'm not aware of any editor that comes close to Emacs for editing Javascript (I mean, not snippets for HTML, but serious modules, for Node and such).
Talk to people face to face. Sure online sites and social media can be nice and useful but conversations online just always feel so cold and emotionless to me. Talking face to face you actually get to see the other persons reaction, expressions etc.
Also a note on future: If self-driving cars ever actually become a reality in my lifetime, I'll still much rather drive myself than let the car drive. I actually still enjoy driving quite a lot despite having had a license for nearly 10 years now.
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I shave with a double edge razor and a badger hair brush.
It gives a better shave and is far cheaper plus you can hand it down
Dang! Beat me to it!
I use a DE and a straight razor. Straight for my Monday, as I couldn't use it every day. Beard's gotta be at least a couple day's worth for it to be comfortable.
Peel veg using a knife. Never could get on with peelers, plus half the time you need a knife to get rid of the grotty bits anyway.
Homework, tests, and taking notes. Using buggy and unintuitive websites/software is the absolute worst. Being able to use pencil and paper was actually one of the largest reasons for me transferring to and getting my associates at a community college before transferring back to a university.
I really wish schools would begin utilizing overhead projectors again as well. Whiteboards and smartboards just don't do as good of a job.
I make my own bread which is old fashioned but the way I do it isn't.
An Old Fashioned.
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I was referring to the cocktail, but also yes.
I heat my house and cook with wood.
I grow a lot of my own food.
I spend less than I make.
I make plans years in advance and stick to them.
A handshake or a promise are a binding contract. Both ways.
I wash dishes by hand.
Sometimes I still wash clothes by hand.
I try to fix stuff when it breaks or stops working.
If I want hot water, I boil it.
I pay with cash.
That's all I can think of off the top of my head.
I carry a handkerchief.
Isn't gross to have a cloth full of snot in your pocket?