R.T. Lechow » Nerd http://rtlechow.com Philosophy, Magic, Software Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:13:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 LOLCAT CONDOMZ http://rtlechow.com/2009/01/lolcat-condomz/ http://rtlechow.com/2009/01/lolcat-condomz/#comments Wed, 21 Jan 2009 05:22:05 +0000 rtlechow http://rtlechow.com/?p=173

I know what you’re thinking: how can I introduce more innernetz memes into my sex life?

Fortunately, I have an easy answer for ya. Head over to this contest and vote up my lolcat condom! Also be sure to check out my Soviet-inspired ‘dome.

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Mexican payphone brought to you by Canon

Mexican Batphone?

Gotta love the public batphone. If you want to see more, check out 2600′s Payphones of the World. I checked the wikipedia article for stats on the decline of payphones, but I was surprised to find it pretty barren. I guess that comes with the whole decline thing.

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  • Installed iTerm.
  • In iTerm, hit option+cmd+B for “Profiles”.
    • Under “Keyboard Profiles, Global”, I removed all the mappings and set the “Option Key as” to “+Esc”. This allows me to switch channels in irssi with option+number.
    • Under “Terminal Profiles, Default”, I changed “Type” to “xterm-256color” and checked “Blinking cursor”.
    • Under “Display Profiles”, for “Dark Background” and “Light Background”, I tweaked the “Cursor” colors to be more visible.
  • Grabbed this perl script that prints a 256 color test palette to the console. Ran it outside of GNU Screen, and everything looked good.
  • Added the following lines to my ~/.screenrc:
#terminfo and termcap for nice 256 color terminal
# allow bold colors - necessary for some reason
attrcolor b ".I"
# tell screen how to set colors. AB = background, AF=foreground
# the first two are for other terminal emulators, just in case.
termcapinfo xterm "Co#256:AB=E[48;5;%dm:AF=E[38;5;%dm"
termcapinfo xterm-color "Co#256:AB=E[48;5;%dm:AF=E[38;5;%dm"
termcapinfo xterm-256color "Co#256:AB=E[48;5;%dm:AF=E[38;5;%dm"
term xterm-256color
# erase background with current bg color
defbce "on"
  • Ran the test script inside of GNU Screen, everything looked good.
  • Added the following lines to the top of my ~/.vimrc, because apparently “set t_Co=256″ must appear before any syntax and color settings:
set t_Co=256
:colorscheme railscasts
  • Started up vim inside GNU Screen, and voila!
  • Wrote about it here so I never forget this stuff.
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