gzt's Diaries
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Death
By gzt (Fri May 09, 2008 at 10:42:06 AM EST) gzt, batch renaming (all tags)
Are there any utilities packaged with Windows to do efficient batch renaming? Just simple stuff like removing caps and maybe replacing bad characters in filenames (ie, spaces replaced with _ or something). Or even just the first.

I'm in a situation similar to a recent diary, where the user did not have the ability to install his own programs or whatever on his computer at work but still had to, like, actually get work done occasionally.


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Educashun
By gzt (Wed Apr 30, 2008 at 11:35:22 AM EST) gzt, burgers, chess (all tags)
So last night I went to Bar Louie for their $2 burger nights and then went home and watched a couple episodes of Animaniacs. Not bad. They make you buy a drink to get the burger for that price, but $5 for a 1/2# angus beef burger and a beer is pretty doable. A little bit more if you want condiments. I split the burger with someone.

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Wizards and Hobbits
By gzt (Tue Apr 22, 2008 at 01:16:39 PM EST) gzt (all tags)
I should just quit my job and go back to school to become that. I miss Sanskrit. I'm going to go home tonight and break out my grammar and maybe some Mahaabhaarata or something. kaala(h) pacati sarvaan.i bhuutaani...

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Print Story More boring stuff.
Games
By gzt (Thu Apr 17, 2008 at 12:13:27 PM EST) gzt, friggin' intense, chess (all tags)
I wore a suit today because I have lunch with $CHIEF_SUCH_AND_SUCH_OFFICER and because I sometimes like to feel pretty. Honestly, it's no more or less comfortable than what I always wear to work, the only difference is that now I have a tie to worry about getting into soup.

Incidentally, I tied it in a Pratt knot. I feel degenerate.


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Print Story I thought it best to skip Wings Night
Diary
By gzt (Tue Apr 15, 2008 at 12:00:05 PM EST) chess, gzt (all tags)
For my own safety and yours. Instead, I played some chess. Not really so much playing as going over annotated games and then lying in bed with Polgar's brick until I fell asleep. Today was a basic day, it was some Chernev collection for patzers and the mates-in-one. Gotta drill the basics sometimes.

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Print Story d'oh! Back on the d20.
Security
By gzt (Fri Apr 11, 2008 at 10:51:49 AM EST) gzt, career suicide, friggin' intense, tactics, chess (all tags)
I did poorly on my chess tactics quiz last night. I took another and did worse. So I took a step back and ran through a large amount of easier problems and did decent. I think I should take a day off today. But it's a travel day. Frig, what am I supposed to do in the car if not play chess? Actually, I'm tired of tactical puzzles, perhaps I should have grabbed Ray Cheng's problem book instead.

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Diary
By gzt (Thu Apr 10, 2008 at 12:08:36 PM EST) chess, hooky, gzt, friggin' intense, a lot of chess, 64 squares, red-hot sin-loving soul (all tags)
So I told this girl I was going to be a full-time rickroller and therefore would probably be too busy to ever see her again took it well. She tried to engineer chillin' and drinkin' or something anyway, but I was able to dodge it.

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Print Story Too many Russian novels
Latin
By gzt (Wed Apr 09, 2008 at 11:39:54 AM EST) friggin' intense, gzt, chess, rolling, being awesome (all tags)
I feel like I'm a character in some Russian novel, one of those young educated roustabouts of decent birth in some irrelevant position as a functionary in the civil service which really has no bearing on who I am and how I think of myself or even my prospects; everything else is just dissipated in drink and cards or chess. Not quite, really, just the feeling of being a stupid functionary in the civil service and its being irrelevant to pretty much everything.

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Print Story I learned my British accent from Dick Van Dyke
Diary
By gzt (Sun Dec 16, 2007 at 09:59:25 PM EST) (all tags)
Never need a reason, never need a rhyme, step in time, step in time.

Snow was dashed inconvenient. Four, maybe five, inches. Had to go to church early to shovel, somebody else manned the snowblower while I got the stairs and then salted the walks.


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Print Story BFC I: NANOSHAMO Wrap up
Art
By gzt (Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 08:55:08 PM EST) beards, beard of justice, friggin' intense, rockstar, gzt, winsome (all tags)
I, alas, don't have a working camera at the moment. But, today is the last day of No Shave November, or NaNoShaMo, the HuSi Beard Fun Challenge.

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