Tiny Little Life

Its nearly November, so who should appear but this green insect. Still no idea of what it is, still no idea of where it comes from.
This time around, the photos are a little bit better.

This bug didn’t want to stay still for a picture, so these are the best I could do.

Gentoo has updated the Prompt Magic page to reflect my suggested changes. The difference is the line
\\$
If you are not root, inserts a $; if you are root, you get a #. If you delimit your string with ‘ instead of “, you should use a single backslash instead.
You can still see […]

Why is there a worm on the side of my house? Why is it there on a cold night in October?
I haven’t seen worms climb walls since team 17.

Caught in an LED flashlight spot.

I’m as confused as you are. The best I can offer as to why I’m shamelessly exploiting this […]

Introducing my new line of pastel-colored arachnids. (100th post!)
Hi.
Go ahead, check out the full size version.

To put it bluntly, images like these make me feel like a better photographer. Sometimes you are there with the right settings at the right time, and get cooperation from the spider at the crucial moment. And […]

The other day I made a shelf for my cookbooks.
I had originally intended to use an old vegetable crate for this shelf, but all the ones I could find turned out to be either too flimsy or too rare (i.e., I only found flimsy ones. I considered stenciling on a graphic for cabbage or […]

I noticed this spider lurking in my shed. I would have thought the weather was too cold, but I’ve been wrong before.
When I found it, it was hiding in the crack here and I almost didn’t see it — I was thinking “no way is that a spider this time of year”.

Of course, it […]

I helped build my back porch this weekend. It was rainy.
Remember, kids: electrical safety first! Keep those power tools reasonably dry by working under a tarp, and use the ground fault socket in your bathroom for the extension cords. Leather gloves are good too, if the drill makes your hand tingle. […]

I heard back from Daniel Robbins, the author of Prompt Magic.

Thanks for the tip, I’ll forward it to the current doc guru at
Gentoo….
Best Regards,
-Daniel

I found a typo (well, a misstatement) in the famous prompt magic article (originally here at ibm’s site).

The problem I found deals with the use of the escape sequence for indicating privileges in your prompt. In other words, the sequence that becomes $ if you are a regular user and # if you have […]

Not a blue beetle in the Stephen King sense (for those of you who get the reference), but an actual iridescent blue insect that was largely indifferent to being handled.
This is the way we found it, clinging to the leaf.

It became apparent that I could move the leaf around to get a better shot without […]