So, I rode my bike into work today, mainly to see if it would be a feasible alernative to driving the Dragon all summer. The answer is a decided "yes".
It's a great ride. Not too tough, no scary roads. I quite enjoyed it, and it only took about half an hour.
So, I had a zombie dream last night, but oddly, I knew it was a dream. At first it was the standard "run for your life" bit, but then I realized the absurdity of zombies and made a conscious decision in my dream, that if zombies can exist, then I get to have telekinesis.
The rest of the dream was pretty cool.
Today is day five of my switch to the Colemak keyboard layout. It's an interesting experience.
As I mentioned before, I know the key positions, but the muscle memory isn't there. It makes my typing erratic and halting, and this has manifested some unexpected consequences.
The first few days were simply agonizing. It took forever to type anything at all. I noticed that when I went home at night that I was grouchy, and that little things were getting under my skin. I believe that was a result of days spent struggling through formerly simple tasks.
It's getting better as my speed slowly improves, but I've noticed another odd side effect, which is that I just feel generally less confident. The inability for me to express myself quickly and efficiently has really messed with my sense of self.
At work I'm less willing to offer my opinion and more reluctant to take on tasks. I think it has helped to analyze the cause of those feelings, as it has allowed me to make a conscious effort to overcome them, but I didn't expect this experiment to be so disruptive in so many ways.
So, today is day three of my switch to Colemak. It's going as well as can be expected, I suppose.
I know all the positions and can type with near 100% accuracy if I go slow enough, but slow enough is way too slow, so I find myself subconsciously sacrificing accuracy for speed.
Still, I think I'm making good progress.
A few weeks ago I put in some long hours at work, so as a 'thank you' they got me a Kindle Fire.
I wasn't too hip on the stock firmware that came with it, so I rooted it and installed Cyanogenmod 7.
I'm loving it, now. It's pretty snappy, and I've been able to get OpenVPN set up, so I can hop on the wireless at work and not have everyone sniffing my traffic.
I've been away from Android for a few years, now, so I was curious about how far it's progressed. Some things look very similar (the plain config screens, for example) and some things are much improved (the bootloaders and launchers).
Overall, I like what I see. I'm excited for the Google Tablet to come out this summer so that I can compare.
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