Entries from mistersquid: a digital fiction tagged with 'text-processing'
Some Thoughts Regarding the Creation of Text-to-Speech Audiobooks Using Consumer-Grade Software, or One Possible Outcome for Academic Professionalism as a Result of Fully Digitzed Text
Codex Books, Audiobooks, and Assistive Devices: A Tale of Near Misses The last book I checked out of Alden Library while still a faculty at Ohio University was Clay Shirky’s 2008 Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing without...
Paste Clipboard Contents as Plain Text: An AppleScript
The MacOSXHints community has responded to the script I provided in my last entry with two excellent observations.1 First, it doesn't make much sense just to transform the contents of the clipboard. Better would be to paste the transformed contents....
Convert RTF Clipboard Contents to Plain Text
Much of the work I've been doing recently involves moving information between PDF and RTF documents. Often, the information I'm copying is formatted and Mac OS X presently copies that formatting by default. As a result, pasted text retains the...
Not So Silver
In the Fall of this year (I think), twenty-five years will have passed since I began keeping a journal. In Jr. High, I headed every entry "J.A.W.'s Journal" followed by the date.1 For the first decade, I composed my entries...
Copycat, a Reprieve
“I haven't been up to anything today. I can't be bothered with anything recently. Nothing seems worth thinking about. I haven't gotten anything done recently, but oh well. Not much noteworthy going on worth mentioning.”1 Notes1 My gratitude [goes] to...
Data Dada
Great boobies, honey bun! My lower intestine is full of spam eggs spam bacon spam . . . spam spam spam . . . —”Spam” Monty Python The Brothers McLeod Spamland #1iPod-compatibleCtrl/Right-click on the link above to “Save File...
It's 2006. Do you know where your passwords are?
Today I met with one of my M.A. students. She is developing an interpretive model that complicates the gender dynamics Clover details in “Her Body, Himself,” with an aim to offset Clover's emphasis on masochistic and sadistic spectator positions...
de-woot, Redone
I went to bed shortly after the previous post, looking forward to waking up in the morning. I sometimes envision sleep as a one-way tunnel that requires unconsciousness to enter. Waking puts one on sleep's other side, rejuvenated and altered....
flip man page
You move between operating systems, spend a lot of time at the UNIX command line, and open files in GUI-based text editors. You have trouble with the line-breaks and need a way to determine which kind exist in a file...
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