So I was getting tired of manually building Emacs.app every time I wanted to check an update.

It’s not perfect, let alone ideal, right now. There’s some stuff I should definitely fix, for example, it shouldn’t try to install Emacs.app to /Applications if the build fails, but that can wait for now. No real guarantees on whether it will work or anything. It works for me – and for the last week and a half of the semester, that’s good enough.

In the United States, today is election day. If you are an eligible voter in the United States, it is your civic duty to vote.

I voted absentee two weeks ago, for Obama, and Jim Martin (GA Senatorial election), as well as a number of other county- and state-specific things. As far as things go, I’d really like it if the rest of you voted for Senator Obama as well, but if you are voting for another candidate then thank you for voting regardless.

Special shout-out to those in California: if you voted No on Proposition 8, rock on. There is no reason that same-sex couples should be denied the same rights and privileges as other couples. Not a damn one.

High school is and as far as my knowledge goes has always been the worst possible waste of four years known to man. A substantial number of people disagree with me entirely. I’m going to do the responsible thing and just call them names and brush off their opinions on the matter.

I’ll give you my opinion instead. I was asked to write an essay this semester as a university student about high school and the impacts it has had on me. A real bullshit essay. Barely a page long, but it did a nice job of encapsulating just how I felt about high school.

Here’s an excerpt:

It’s come up enough recently, and it gets old repeating it.

No, you mustn’t use Aquamacs or Carbon Emacs. You can easily compile Emacs from CVS/git/bzr/etc if you have XCode installed.

Bear with me on this one (I’m using git because it’s what I use):

People sometimes find themselves doing nothing but sitting on a cheap futon at 4 in the morning thinking tacitly. It’s rarely about anything in particular. That’d ruin the moment. The silence is unsettling, but not uncomfortable. As someone who constantly thinks aloud, letting my mind wander without offering ritualistic verbiage allows me to stumble upon ideas I wouldn’t otherwise.

Those are my best ideas.

Well, I can’t take full credit. After the silence got to be too much, I started listening to some of my podcasts. But the inspiration’s still there. The podcasts could be helping (I’m looking at you This American Life), but I like to believe that just thinking freely yields interesting results. Better results.

After my last post, it seems a few people are interested in Summa. I’m pleased to announce that 0.1 will be out “soon”. Don’t worry—I’ll be sure to let you all know the minute it does.

However, for release, there are a few pre-requisites we need to fix: namely, icons. Simply put, the icons we are using at the moment are “place-holders” (ideally).

Right now, here are the icons we need: