If you’re curious to see which commands you use the most just run:

$>history | awk '{a[$2]++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}' | sort -rn | head

# local server
133 l
70 cd
47 svn
38 ..
29 e
26 mv
20 ll
10 rm
10 cp
8 ror

# remote server
123 l
74 cd
35 svn
31 touch
26 ..
23 exit
23 cat
20 ll
18 rm
16 rake

A few notes

here are those goofy aliases that you see:

alias ll='ls -lah'
alias la='ls -a'
alias l='ls -lh'
alias ..='cd ..'
alias ~='cd ~'
alias e='mate '

alias ss='./script/server'
alias console='./script/console'
alias migration='./script/migration'

alias ror='/var/rubydev'
alias www='/var/www'

I was just goin around on the interblagosphere today and stumbled upon Erling Ellingsen’s smackbook pro. If you’ve never heard of this then you’re in for a shock. The basic idea behind what he has created is a way to switch virtual desktops simply by tapping the side of the laptop’s monitor.

I was immediately in love and wanted to play with it a bit but he was using DesktopManager to do the space switching. Since I’m running leopard on the laptop I figured that was a waste of time and I’d never actually use a 3′d party virtual desktop switching app… and so the journey began. I turned to my mortal enemy, applescript, to accomplish this. After some browsing and hacking I found that this simple code can send CONTROL-# keystrokes to get the job done:

tell application "System Events"
	tell process "Finder"
		keystroke "[SPACENUMBER]" using control down
	end tell
end tell

If you toss that into osascript from the command line we can finally start to get somewhere. So the next step was to grab that sudden motion sensor app. Erling was using AMSTracker by Amit Singh so that seemed a good place to start. After that a quick ruby script tied the SMS dump to the applescript and a fun new project was born. It is a lotta bit rough around the edges and needs some sensitivity tuning, but it _does_ get the job done… just be a little rough*

I am definitely not responsible for any damage caused by using this script — it was a proof of concept hack.

Based off “SmackBook Pro”

YouTube Video

This is not mine, but mine does essentially the same thing, only using native Leopard spaces… and ruby.

Where to get the script?

• shakebook project site

Running it is as simple as $>AMSTracker -S -u0.01 | shakebook.rb then tap away (or shake if you want to be careful)

Revisions will probably be made to sensitize it once I have time to mess around with it — if you come up with anything shoot me back a comment

By the way, this is the 1 year anniversary of the Official Pirate Ship Cubicle! (Well, 1 month and a few days or so.. I’m a lazy blogger)

Enough blathering… Give me pictures and video!
Fine.

Napolitopia: Pirate Cube (Pictures, “The Making Of,” and Video!) … Satisfied?

<jealousy>

</jealousy>

EDIT (2008-06-12):
Interested in more “crazy cubicles?” — check out this article from iReport.com: Creative cubicles

Usage

• Save the annoy_friends.php script to wherever
• edit the $_mail settings accordingly
• chmod +x [filename]
• ./[filename]
• giggle uncontrollably
• wait for $_mail['to'] to come and punch you in the face
• rinse and repeat

disclaimer
Don’t actually run this, and especially don’t run this on my e-mail address .

[Update:2007-11-12]
The first link is broken — Joe is lazy
The second link is the newly made write up by Sam — which rocks.
The third is a mini gallery of the pictures of the Pirate Cube (well the results, which is what I was physically there for

My Pirate Cubicle
Napolitopia: Pirate Cubicle << video!
Pirate Cube @ Picubrious

Blogubrious: The _NEW_ version of this page… check it.

**update**

I took some pictures cause we are moving soon and this will soon be torn down..

— the stupid face alone is enough to click and laugh.

What if you had to setup weekly meetings just to analyze your life? (I do this anyway, I like to call it a “bar”) Or everytime you made a friend you had to bring them up to speed on every aspect of your life as fast as possible? If you wanted to goto the shore for the weekend you would have to alert yourself 5-7 days in advance to get it cleared.

On the upsides it could justify a lot of things. Say you wanted don’t want to do the grocery shopping. You could just say ‘NMJ’ (not my job). When its time to clean the bathroom, NMJ. Want to splurge on buying 93 octane gas, or buy that fancy gadget? Write it off!

I think I’m going to start doing this. Every week I will bust out the spreadsheets and run my numbers. If they aren’t what I want I will start to fire friends, parents, women, pets, etc.

Just some spam email i thought was pretty funny.

Every year, English teachers from across the country can submit their
collections of actual analogies and metaphors found in high school
essays.

These excerpts are published each year to the amusement of teachers
across the country.

Here are last year’s winners…..

1. Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two sides
gently compressed by a Thigh Master.

2. His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances
like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free.

3. He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a
guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of
those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country
speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar
eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it.

4. She grew on him like she was a colony of E. Coli, and he was
room-temperature Canadian beef.

5. She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes
just before it throws up.

6. Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.

7. He was as tall as a six-foot, three-inch tree.

8. The revelation that his marriage of 30 years had disintegrated
because of his wife’s infidelity came as a rude shock, like a
surcharge at a formerly surcharge-free ATM machine.

9. The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a
bowling ball wouldn’t.

10. McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty bag
filled with vegetable soup.

11. From the attic came an unearthly howl. The whole scene had an
eerie, surreal quality, like when you’re on vacation in another city
and Jeopardy comes on at 7:00 p.m. Instead of 7:30.

12. Her hair glistened in the rain like a nose hair after a sneeze.

13. The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when
you fry them in hot grease.

14. Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced across
the grassy field toward each other like two freight trains, one having
left Cleveland at 6:36 p.m. Traveling at 55 mph, the other from Topeka
at 4:19 p.m. At a speed of 35 mph.

15. They lived in a typical suburban neighborhood with picket fences
that resembled Nancy Kerrigan’s teeth.

16. John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who
had also never met.

17. He fell for her like his heart was a mob informant, and she was
the East River.

18. Even in his last years, Granddad had a mind like a steel trap,
only one that had been left out so long, it had rusted shut.

19. Shots rang out, as shots are wont to do.

20. The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike Phil,
this plan just might work.

21. The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not
eating for a while.

22. He was as lame as a duck. Not the metaphorical lame duck, either,
but a real duck that was actually lame, maybe from stepping on a land
mine or something.

23. The ballerina rose gracefully en Pointe and extended one slender
leg behind her, like a dog at a fire hydrant.

24. It was an American tradition, like fathers chasing kids around
with power tools.

25. He was deeply in love. When she spoke, he thought he heard bells,
as if she were a garbage truck backing up.