SSH Todo!

Here is a great tip from the most recent Gentoo Newsletter:

Using TODO lists with your shell

Love the shell? Want to know what else you can do with it? This tip is for you!

An old issue of the GWN featured a tip on using app-misc/devtodo. It's great for creating TODO lists, but what about keeping track of them?

If you set PROMPT_COMMAND="todo" in your environment, the TODO list of the current directory (if there is one) will be displayed before every shell prompt.

If you use PROMPT_COMMAND="todo --global --global-database ~/TODO; todo" you will see your global TODO list followed by the current directory's TODO list. This makes keeping track of your tasks much easier.

My Drive Home

Here is photo from my 2 hour drive home. It normally takes me 45 minutes, but as you can see the weather was pretty bad. It did not help that the roads were completely unplowed!

First Snow of this Year!

Well not actually this Calendar year — but the first snow of this season. I knew it before I even opened my eyes this morning at 4AM because of the plow scraping the tiny bit of snow off the road. They sure are crazy about plowing in my town!

Angry Dick's Employees!

I found this group on facebook today — I gotta say that it makes me not want to shop at Dick's! I wonder if the corporate heads know about this. They will now cause I am going to let them know.

• Every time I go to work at Dick's... A little piece of me dies. - Facebook
• Dick's Sporting Goods

MUCC - kanashimi no hate

Kiyoharu and TMRevolution duet

For you enjoyment, Kiyoharu and TMRevolution duet

Cumberland Farms Salami Slicing Its Customers &mdash 1¢ scheme?

On the way home from work today I stopped at my local Cumberland Farms to buy gas. I swiped my debit card and lied to the machine and told it that the card was not a debit card. I pumped exactly 10.000 gallons. Now my hand is off the pump. A few seconds later I watch in disbelief as the pump adds an additiona .002 gallons to my total raising the amount I am charged by one cent! I suppose the valve on the pump could be malfunctioning, but I did not hear any more gas being pumped into the car!

Now I really don't care about the 1 cent — but if they did to every one of their customers it would add up quick. I still buy gas there as it is the cheapest even after the 1¢ scheme.

Just as a warning to others -- keep a sharp eye out when shopping at Cumberland Farms.

• Salami Slicing - Wikipedia
• District attorneys charged four men with fraud for allegedly installing computer chips in gasoline pumps that cheated consumers by overstating the amounts pumped.
• Cumberland Farms

Yahoo!! 3rd Season of Shakugan no Shana!

According Dengeki online it was hinted at the Dengeki Bunko Autumn Festival. If so I will be quite happy — that show has such great writing, artwork, and voice actors!

• Dengek Online
• Dengeki online (Google translation)