I heard about the Movember Movement at Ignite SLC #6. I decided it is high time I use my facial hair for something useful (other than impressing the missus). Shout out to Clark Winegar of Mustache Power for his Movember presentation @ Ignite. ◀ 1 of 2 ▶

I went to a Beans and Brews in American Fork to get some work done. It was a total disaster: I decided to try dirty Chai (Chai w/ espresso ) which tasted terrible. I got no work done, thanks to the noisy coffee grinder and their horrible excuse for a music. My netbook was having too many problems and I gave up trying to get any work done on it....

Brain spill is a dumping ground for my incoherent thoughts and incomplete ideas. It’ll be training ground to practice my writing skills.

A typical Saturday evening conversation between me and my inner voice. Setting: Salt Lake Roasting Co., after an intense Aikido training. Me: I’m bored. Inner Voice: Go take a nap. Me: Meh! I think I’m gonna do some Python coding. Inner Voice: What are you going to code? Me: Remember the Cows and Bulls word game that I used to play when I was little. Inner Voice: What? That sounds kinda lame....

All I wanted was to extract only the 4 letters words from /usr/share/dict/words. It tooks me a full 10-minutes to figure out the regex for it to work with egrep. $ egrep '^[A-Za-z]{4}$' /usr/share/dict/words  Note to self: Must practice regex syntax more often. Update (a slightly cleaner way, from @gabegundy): $ egrep '^[a-Z]{4}$' /usr/share/dict/word