A guy I’ve never met named Armando turned me on to a thoughtful article on “continuous partial attention”, which led me to an inspiring writeup about making difficult decisions.
Executive summary: Blackberry overuse is bad, and sometimes you just need to sleep on it (not the Blackberry).
Like, ROTFL funny. Really. I’m laughing out loud right now just thinking about it.
One thing I’ve wanted to do for a while is initiate a file transfer during an ssh session without having to do anything special, ie: let the terminal, the tunnel, or something I’m already using handle the transfer after I’ve told it to start, say, from the command line.
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