“May your organs fail before your dreams fail you.”

- The Matches
Little Maggots
on Decomposer

So I was buying our garden seeds at Territorial Seed and they had a stupid 90’s “no right click” script installed. Lame, I need my tabs!

So I took a look and then wrote my first Greasemonkey script. Check it out if you need it, it should work on other sites that try the same trick.

territorial.seed.no.right.click.user.js

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// Version 0.1
// Copyright (c) 2010, John Hobbs
// Released under the GPL license
// http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
//
// ==UserScript==
// @name          Territorial Seed No Right Click
// @namespace     http://www.velvetcache.org/
// @description   Disable the disable right click script on Territorial Seed
// @include       http://www.territorialseed.com/*
// ==/UserScript==
 
window.addEventListener (
  'load',
  function () {
    setTimeout( "document.oncontextmenu = null;", 150 );
  },
  true
);

I’ve been struck recently about how different my quality of life is when I am consuming versus creating.

When I am creating (writing, coding, cooking, etc.) I feel vibrant and alive. When I am consuming (watching T.V., reading inane articles on the web, playing video games, etc.) I feel slow and dull. The exceptions being group consumption (video games with friends) and books (reading good, engaging content).

As a reminder to myself and perhaps to others I created http://www.consumelesscreatemore.com/. It’s just quotes, presented in a more or less “pretty” way. You can grab the source on github and add your own quotes, I’ll be happy to take your act of creation and integrate it to the site.

The core point is: an act of creation, however small (a two page website for instance) is better than any amount of consumption.

Consume Less. Create More.

So I logged onto my twitter account this morning to find a message from @changelogshow telling me they had written an article about my fork of Storytlr.

That’s was pretty cool on it’s own, until I realized that The Changelog is the source of featured repo’s on Explore GitHub.

Awesome! I love github. There is so much amazing software on there, and I was lucky enough to have my repo featured!

I didn’t even develop the software, it’s a fork of the Storytlr core written by @eschnou & @alardw (and a fine piece of software at that). I just wrote some plugins and fixed the stuff that was broken for me.

Even so, it felt great to be on there! This is one of the first times anyone has ever made it clear that what I was doing in the open source world was seen and dare I say it appreciated. Unspeakably cool.

Look! That’s me!

So I learned something cool today, Psalm’s 14 and 53 are almost identical (in NIV anyway).

As a service to the community, I created a patch, just in case you have Psalm 14 already, why download all of Psalm 53?

Enjoy!

--- psalm-14	2010-02-04 10:23:49.000000000 -0600
+++ psalm-53	2010-02-04 10:23:17.000000000 -0600
@@ -1,30 +1,29 @@
-Psalm 14
+Psalm 53
 
 1 The fool says in his heart,
 "There is no God."
-They are corrupt, their deeds are vile;
+They are corrupt, and their ways are vile;
 there is no one who does good.
 
-2 The LORD looks down from heaven
+2 God looks down from heaven
 on the sons of men
 to see if there are any who understand,
 any who seek God.
 
-3 All have turned aside,
+3 Everyone has turned away,
 they have together become corrupt;
 there is no one who does good,
 not even one.
 
-4 Will evildoers never learn—
+4 Will the evildoers never learn—
 those who devour my people as men eat bread
-and who do not call on the LORD?
+and who do not call on God?
 
-5 There they are, overwhelmed with dread,
-for God is present in the company of the righteous.
+5 There they were, overwhelmed with dread,
+where there was nothing to dread.
+God scattered the bones of those who attacked you;
+you put them to shame, for God despised them.
 
-6 You evildoers frustrate the plans of the poor,
-but the LORD is their refuge.
-
-7 Oh, that salvation for Israel would come out of Zion!
-When the LORD restores the fortunes of his people,
+6 Oh, that salvation for Israel would come out of Zion!
+When God restores the fortunes of his people,
 let Jacob rejoice and Israel be glad!
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