Category: Personal

So I’ve finally decided to get a Mac. “But Steen!” my friends say, “I thought you were Mrs. All-Linux-All-The-Time!”

Well, I still am! Even though I still like others better, to be honest Macs also essentially run on a Linux distro.

Initial thoughts:

• It looks like I will have to manually install Basemap to get it working on the Mac so I can do this on it, as even Homebrew doesn’t have it. Which isn’t so bad, but since I already have a working machine with Basemap set up, it is easy for me to slide into laziness and not manually install it on the Mac. But I’ll probably do it eventually.
• Macs have `say`
• MACS ARE MADE OF METAL. Nothing drives home the reality of how often you use your laptop without pants quite like getting a metal laptop.
• I only use the terminal on my Mac because I cannot figure out the GUI for the life of me. Like, what the heck is going on there? At least the terminal is familiar!

But then again, there’s this:

uniq on mac only compares first 8kb of line, use sort -u instead #waytoospecificcmdlineadvice

— Pall Melsted (@pmelsted) February 12, 2016

That is legitimately terrifying :/

I’ll be sure to continue using my other machine for any sort of bioinformatic work.

But it is not all bad, I always have fun getting to know a new computer. I’m looking forward to seeing how this all pans out.

Ugh, so just as the weather was getting nicer and it was becoming an increasingly attractive option to bike to work again, my beloved Mission Bicycle got stolen from the garage. I’m assuming that our neighbors left the garage door open again, just like last time, but this time I didn’t notice it until I went downstairs to go to work in the morning. My bike was long gone, and all the doors were closed. My helmet was strewn out in the middle of the floor. Other than that, no sign of the bike. But I think in this case, our neighbor just came back before I went downstairs, noticed their mistake, and closed the doors.

We contacted our property manager and asked for a bike rack, just like our neighbor’s garage (in the same building – presumably they just complained enough to get a rack installed), but we haven’t heard anything back yet.

The bike is registered here, so if you see it somewhere – let me (or the police) know!

I really, really loved that bike. Unlike Bikey Red, which was a piece of crap and yet I loved because it was so endearing, this bike was amazing and nice and a pleasure to ride!

Somehow, Doc and I must have forgotten that today was Sunday Streets. Luckily, we had headed over to Ritual to hang out this morning, and we saw the road closures. Well, I just knew that this time I finally wanted to use the roller skates that I had purchased from Schauplatz at a previous Sunday Streets… years ago.

So, after we finished at Ritual, we went home and got our skates! And spent the afternoon skating around at Sunday Streets. It was super fun. I was never very good at skating, and it has been years since I had done it, so it took a while for me to get back into it. But the whole time was still fun! I mean, if you need to learn/get comfortable with skating, there’s no better time than Sunday Streets. I also figure that’s the whole point of it.

Also, a lot of people loved my skates. They commented on how they hadn’t seen skates like them for many years. Which makes sense, because they were skates from Schauplatz, which sells vintage stuff. Too bad I couldn’t do the skates justice. One day!

Hooray!