The Smoking Popes - First Time at Ted Roden

Jul 10

The Smoking Popes - First Time

This is the first real studio release (and a new recording) of a very old song by some old friends of the family. They had a great band, signed to major label, released a couple of really great albums and then broke up in their prime. They’ve gotten back together. I’m so glad this song finally came out. It’s pretty great, if you’re into that sort of thing.

Jul 09

The Poetic Prophet (AKA The SEO Rapper) (via nick)

Google Region

Somehow, this didn't occur to me until today: it would be really great to select some text and enter a key command to search for that text on google. It may have taken me a long time to realize I wanted something like that, but I've used it today more times than I'd like to admit.

Anyways, here's how to make that happen in emacs, complete with a "control-c g" shortcut.

;; google-region
(defun google-region (&optional flags)
  "Google the selected region"
  (interactive)
  (let ((query (buffer-substring (region-beginning) (region-end))))
    (browse-url (concat "http://www.google.com/search?ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&q=" query))))
;; press control-c g to google the selected region
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c g") 'google-region)

Jul 07

filesystems

This is a comparison chart of file systems on wikipedia.

Find the feature that doesn't belong. Here's a hint, it starts with "M" and ends with "urders your wife."

Flickr Comments

chromogenic

hahahahahans

Jul 04

I’m glad youtube finally upped the quality of the videos. Looks great!

Jul 02

Simpler Times

I don’t know if this will last. But it’s pretty cool.

Jul 01

I’m working on something really very exciting. I’ll give you $100 if you can tell me what this is…

“Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.”

— Before all of tumblr reblogs this into fact, I’d just like to point out for the record, that quote is about as old as Elvis Costello. And it’s been attributed to just about everyone.

Jun 30

“Too many tweets, too little uptime.”

— Michael Zimbalist

Jun 28

Shifd from emacs

I made a little extension for emacs so that I could shifd things directly from inside the editor. Here's a video of it in action. If you're interested in the extension, let me know. I can make it available.

Emacs and Shifd from Ted Roden on Vimeo.

Amazon is amazing. They emailed me this morning because they thought I might like a comic by the guy who did Perry Bible Fellowship. The new one is called Beards of our Forefathers. I am indeed interested in this product.

Jun 25

“Someone decided to trash the one part of Windows that was usable? The file system is no longer usable. The registry is not usable. …”

— Bill Gates

Jun 23