• Whenever you see a group of people running, you have to fight the urge to yell “La Migra!”
• You know at least one blood relative of paper hat.
• When you were a kid and one of your classmates came to school with a new haircut, you asked them if they got it at Huesca’s.
• When a kid in class got new shoes, you asked if their mom took them to La Judia.
• You know the real name of the cave in the barranca over by cemetery road.
• You know who the Char Man is.
• You had story hour with Mrs. Spencer.
• You baked your own pizza from Pandy’s.
• You played on the airplane at Glen City School.
• You know what the Pop Shoppe was, and what happened across the street from it.
• Wherever life takes you, and whoever you’re with, when you see a movie with Santa Paula in it, you have to point it out to the whole room.
• Whenever someone mentions Steve McQueen, you inform them that he lived in Santa Paula.
• You are not freaked out by snow cone flavors like tamarindo and leche.
• You’ve seen the giant pot of chile verde at the chili hut.
• You remember when a double scoop at Thrifty’s was a quarter.
• You never had a snow day or a heat day at school. You’ve only had “get your butt to school days.”
• You TOTALLY know that the Glen Tavern is haunted, and you know at least on person who has seen the ghost.
• You honestly believe La Llorona lives in Santa Paula Creek
• Whenever some other place claims to be the citrus capital of the world, you’re ready to throw chingasos.
• If you close your eyes and think about it for three seconds, you can imagine the smell of Tia Babe’s.
• Your grandparents talk in terms of “before the flood.”
• You go through a bottle of Tabasco or Tapatio sauce a week, but you have the same bottle of ketchup in your fridge that you bought a few years ago.
• Whenever you bring anyone to your hometown, you show them the SP on South Mountain.
• Your ice cream truck played mariachi music.
• You knew at least a little bit of lore about Teague Mansion.
• You learned a whole new shade of vocabulary from the graffiti carved into the tables at Mill Park.
• If you lived on the north west side, you remember the Haunted House on Anacapa Terrace.
• When your parents saw your high school class schedule, they had half the teachers on that list too.
• If you have moved far from California, you miss REAL oranges and apricots.
• If you have moved, you can’t understand why no one is celebrating Cinco de Mayo.
• You had at least two kids in school who had an uncle or an aunt in the same (or close) grade.
• And most of all, you realize that while you may not have appreciated it at the time, Santa Paula was one of the best places to grow up. Ever. You also know that anyone who read this and got a chuckle, no matter if they were stranger, friend, or foe in the past, you are now bound to them by your shared memories.

okay, i have decided to play with seaside for my next round of goofing around with web development. i wanted to make sure that i was setting
something up that would lend itself to a web app rather than a web
site. so, in order of appearance, here are the thing i am gonna play
with writing in seaside.

1. asset management system – where i work, we have about 12 machines. each has software that has licenses, and we sometimes
   transfer those licenses around. it’s a good idea for us to keep a
   track record of what employee has which machine, and any
   permutations of that information. although this would be totally
   easy to do with pretty much antyhing, it would be a good candidate
   to try with seaside.
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2. rhapsody scrobbler – i use last.fm like crazy. i also use rhapsody like crazy. unfortunately, they don’t mix. what you listen to in
   rhapsody does not count on your last.fm scrobbles. so, i decided to
   fix this. i wrote a library of functions in ruby that take the xml
   feed from rhapsody and scrobble it, all the while keeping track to
   make sure there are no repeats. by adding a multi user interface to
   this, i bet some folks out there would like to have something like
   this.

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3. amateur radio log – yes, there are millions of them, but i think it would be fun to make one that uses google maps and calculates
   distances, etc. it could be run locally, or on a multi user
   server. it might also incorportate LOTW i would imagine. i dunno
   how crazy i will get with this, as i currently use paper and pen
   for logging, but it would stil be a good exercise.

the only thing that i wonder about is how the multi user and multi role systems will work. i tried this before, and seemed to have some
trouble with it, but i will keep you posted.

like alot of folks, i was persuaded to drop emacs in favor of textmate for a short while. although i really like some things about textmate, there were a ton of things i cannot live without that emacs offers. mainly, they are:

1. buffers – this is just a great idea. an idea like crack. when you
   start using buffers, you are pretty much locked into it.
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2. tramp – while it was kinda cool being able to work on files
   remotely using cyberduck, it’s nowhere near as fucntional as using
   dired in tramp mode.
3. org-mode – pretty much my whole life is tracked in org mode. i
   haven’t seen anything nearly as hardcore as org-mode for textmate.

about a month ago, i saw that a whole bunch rails guys are starting to migrate over to textmate, so it thought it might be a good idea to
list out some extensions i can’t live without. for those who are just
starting out using emacs, this should get you going:

1. ido – this is sort of like quicksilver.. sorta.. it tries to guess
   what you are going to type in file find mode. it will make you very
   lazy, but it’s totally worth it. whenever i work on a machine
   without it, i get pissy.
2. org-mode – if you take lots of notes, and have a life organized by
   tasks.. and even want to use latex to pretty up your files, this is
   the way to go. there is so much to this, that it might be a good
   idea to watch carsten’s video on it. and scribble some notes while
   you watch.
3. w3m-mode – sooner or later, you are gonna end up wishing you could
   just view a bit of html as wysiwyg. most likely when you get an
   email in gnus that has been formatted in html. this is a quick way
   to check it out.
4. anything-mode – this mode keeps track of what you have been working
   on and what you have been typing. it then tries to guess what you
   are trying to do when you start pecking away.
5. boxquote – if you use mailing lists at all for support (and who
   doesn’t?) it makes alot of sense to break apart your text before
   posting it.. boxquote puts:
6. snippets – this is really a rip off (that i can tell) of
   textmate. i think the snippets are exactly the same. still, it’s a
   great idea, and it rocks.
7. rails – there are a ton of ways to do this. i suggest you try as
   many as you can find. development is a really personal thing, and i
   found that no approach and no IDE really works like you want it
   to. culling the best approaches from everywhere is the best, but
   starting at that link will give you a good takeoff point.
8. jabber-el – if you use twitter or identi.ca, you should probably
   think about accessing them through jabber. this plugin lets you do
   that with no weirdness. this is a good way to follow microblogging
   with a sensible (plaintext) interface.

that’s all i can think of for now, but i would really like to hear what everyone else can’t live without in emacs.