Infinite Regression

So, I went to see a neurologist yesterday. I was feeling quite happy, unstressed and at peace with the world. By the time I left, I felt like hitting something, very hard. She basically told me, I was an overweight veggie. And that all my problems would go away if I lost weight. Of course this all hinges on the fact that the NHS version of “ideal weight” is accurate, which it isn’t. Because, of course she has no idea that I used to powerwalk 8 miles a day, and go rock climbing every week. Most of my body mass was, and still is, muscle.

She said it was all because I don’t sleep. I don’t sleep because I have headaches, and I have headaches because I don’t sleep. I should get more excercise, by going swimming at 8 in the evening. But, if I wan’t to sleep, I can’t excercise in the evening. I need to do balance excercises. So she gives me a sheet, telling me to play basketball and go bowling. I think tenpin might take offence to me turning up, flailing a bowling ball about, then falling over.

Now, I’m stressed.

Anyway, meme.

I saw this around, and none of the posts I’ve seen it on actually explain what it is. So, I shall. It takes your bash history, sorts it, and counts and displays your most used commands. So, here we go:

Paradox:~ zane$ history | awk '{a[$2]++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}' | sort -rn | head
40 ./mileage.pl
32 ls
30 cd
28 ssh
27 emacs
19 sudo
16 clear
9 history
8 rm
7 scripts/WebKit-nightly-updater.sh

Explanations:

• mileage.pl is an old perl script I was writing that takes a plain text file with my dad’s fuel receipts in, processes them, and returns things like fuel consumption, average pence per litre and mile, and so on. I don’t use this anymore, It’s gone up in the world, and been converted to php with the receipts in a MySQL database. Much nicer.
• ssh – for access to my webserver.
• emacs – for editing aforementioned perl script.
• Webkit-nightly-updater.sh downloads and installs the latest nightly build of webkit.
• the rest are self-explanitory.

Now, feel free to do it too. Post in the comments if you do.