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David Sedaris
With sardonic wit and incisive social critiques, David Sedaris has become one of America's pre-eminent humor writers. The great skill with which he slices through cultural euphemisms and political correctness proves that Sedaris is a master of satire and one of the most observant writers addressing the human condition today.
David Sedaris is the author Barrel Fever and Holidays on Ice, as well as collections of personal essays, Naked, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, and When You Are Engulfed in Flames, each of which became a bestseller. There are a total of seven million copies of his books in print and they have been translated into 25 languages. He was the editor of Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules: An Anthology of Outstanding Stories. Sedaris's pieces appear regularly in The New Yorker and have twice been included in "The Best American Essays." His newest book, a collection of fables entitled Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary (with illustrations by Ian Falconer), was published in September 2010.
He and his sister, Amy Sedaris, have collaborated under the name "The Talent Family" and have written half-a-dozen plays which have been produced at La Mama, Lincoln Center, and The Drama Department in New York City. These plays include Stump the Host, Stitches, One Woman Shoe, which received an Obie Award, Incident at Cobbler's Knob, and The Book of Liz, which was published in book form by Dramatists Play Service. David Sedaris's original radio pieces can often be heard on This American Life, distributed nationally by Public Radio International and produced by WBEZ. David Sedaris has been nominated for three Grammy Awards for Best Spoken Word and Best Comedy Album. His most recent live album is David Sedaris: Live For Your Listening Pleasure (November 2009).
Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls
Little, Brown, 2013
A guy walks into a bar car and...
From here the story could take many turns. When this guy is David Sedaris, the possibilities are endless, but the result is always the same: he will both delight you with twists of humor and intelligence and leave you deeply moved.
Sedaris remembers his father's dinnertime attire (shirtsleeves and underpants), his first colonoscopy (remarkably pleasant), and the time he considered buying the skeleton of a murdered Pygmy.
With Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls, David Sedaris shows once again why his work has been called "hilarious, elegant, and surprisingly moving" (Washington Post).
Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk
A Modest Bestiary
(Little, Brown and Co., 2010)
Featuring David Sedaris's unique blend of hilarity and heart, this new collection of keen-eyed animal-themed tales is an utter delight. Though the characters may not be human, the situations in these stories bear an uncanny resemblance to the insanity of everyday life.
In "The Toad, the Turtle, and the Duck," three strangers commiserate about animal bureaucracy while waiting in a complaint line. In "Hello Kitty," a cynical feline struggles to sit through his prison-mandated AA meetings. In "The Squirrel and the Chipmunk," a pair of star-crossed lovers is separated by prejudiced family members.
With original illustrations by Ian Falconer, author of the bestselling Olivia series of children's books, these stories are David Sedaris at his most observant, poignant, and surprising.
David Sedaris
Live For Your Listening Pleasure
(Vinyl Record: Hachette Audio, 2010)
Live recordings brought to the comfort of your very own den via this quality 12-inch LP, a 33 1/3 RPM vinyl pressing.
SIDE A: "Author, Author"
SIDE B: "Innocence Abroad"
Every purchase of this unique collector's item comes with a special code that entitles the bearer to the modern convenience of a DIGITAL DOWNLOAD of the entire 75-minute unabridged audiobook, including additional stories "Cat and Baboon," "Laugh Kookaburra," and "Diary Entries."
If you were lucky enough to have caught a performance on David Sedaris's most recent sold-out, 34-city tour, you already know that David Sedaris Live For Your Listening Pleasure is a must-have album! If you didn't hear it live and in person, then you're in for a treat-hilarious brand-new recordings from performances in Denver, New York, Durham, LA, and Atlanta, in one convenient collection.
From the bold feral rabbits of his French backyard to the eating habits of a carnivorous bird Down Under, Live For Your Listening Pleasure takes listeners on a veritable tour of natural wonders, beginning with a fable, "Cat and Baboon," and moving on to the peculiarly American habitat of the "big-box" store.
New York Times Best Seller
When You Are Engulfed in Flames
(hardcover: Little, Brown & Company, 2008)
(audiobook: Hachette Audio, June 3, 2008)
"David Sedaris's ability to transform the mortification of everyday life into wildly entertaining art" (The Christian Science Monitor) is elevated to wilder and more entertaining heights than ever in this remarkable new book.
Trying to make coffee when the water is shut off, David considers using the water in a vase of flowers and his chain of associations takes him from the French countryside to a hilariously uncomfortable memory of buying drugs in a mobile home in rural North Carolina. In essay after essay, Sedaris proceeds from bizarre conundrums of daily life-having a lozenge fall from your mouth into the lap of a fellow passenger on a plane or armoring the windows with LP covers to protect the house from neurotic songbirds-to the most deeply resonant human truths. Culminating in a brilliant account of his venture to Tokyo in order to quit smoking, David Sedaris's sixth essay collection is a new masterpiece of comic writing from "a writer worth treasuring" (Seattle Times).
Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules
edited and introduced by David Sedaris
(paperback: Simon & Schuster, 2005)
From the #1 bestselling author of Me Talk Pretty One Day and Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim comes a collection of the short stories David Sedaris loves most. Containing the work of both contemporary and classic writers, Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules, edited and introduced by Sedaris, gives his legions of fans a glimpse at the writing he finds inspiring - and helps them discover the truth abut loneliness, hope, love, betrayal, and certain, but not all, monkeys.
David Sedaris fell in love with short stories while living in Odell, Oregon. Sedaris writes, ""When apple-picking season ended, I got a job in a packing plant and gravitated toward short stories, which I could read during my break and reflect upon for the remainder of my shift. A good one would take me out of myself and stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit."" Featuring such notable writers as Alice Munro, Tobias Wolff, Lorrie Moore, and Joyce Carol Oates, readers will reconnect with classics, as well discover fantastic but lesser-known writers. Included in Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules are: Introduction by David Sedaris, "Oh, Joseph, I'm So Tired" by Richard Yates, "Gryphon" by Charles Baxter, "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri, "The Garden Party" by Katherine Mansfield, "Half A Grapefruit" by Alice Munro, "Applause, Applause" by Jean Thompson, "I Know What I'm Doing About All the Attention I've Been Getting" by Frank Gannon , "Where the Door Is Always Open and the Welcome Mat Is Out" by Patricia Highsmith, "The Best of Betty" by Jincy Willett, "Song of the Shirt, 1941" by Dorothy Parker, "The Girl with the Blackened Eye" by Joyce Carol Oates, "People Like That Are the Only People Here: Canonical Babbling in Peed Onk" by Lorrie Moore, "Revelation" by Flannery O'Connor, "In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried" by Amy Hempel, "Cosmopolitan" by Akhil Sharma, "Irish Girl" by Tim Johnston, "Bullet in the Brain" by Tobias Wolff, and Epilogue by Sarah Vowell "Borrowing."
The book's name, from an Adriaen van der Werff painting, "Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules," is David Sedaris's attempt to share his passion for short stories with a wider audience -- and his enthusiasm is contagious. "The authors in this book are huge to me, and I am a comparative midget, scratching around in their collective shadow. 'Pint sized Fanatic Bowing Before Statues of Hercules' might have been more concise, but people don't paint things like that, and besides, it doesn't sound as good." David Sedaris is publishing this book to support 826NYC, a nonprofit tutoring center in Brooklyn, New York. All of his proceeds, after permission expenses, from Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules will benefit this organization designed to help students ages six to eighteen develop their writing skills through free writing workshops, publishing projects, and one-on-one help with homework and English-language learning. In the book's epilogue, Sarah Vowell describes the fine work done by 826NYC.
Me Talk Pretty One Day
(Paperback: Back Bay Books, 2001)
David Sedaris became a star autobiographer on public radio, onstage in New York, and on bestseller lists, mostly on the strength of SantaLand Diaries, a scathing, hilarious account of his stint as a Christmas elf at Macy's. (It's in two separate collections, both worth owning, Barrel Fever and the Christmas-themed Holidays on Ice.) Sedaris's caustic gift has not deserted him in his fourth book, which mines poignant comedy from his peculiar childhood in North Carolina, his bizarre career path, and his move with his lover to France.
Though his anarchic inclination to digress is his glory, Sedaris does have a theme in these reminiscences: the inability of humans to communicate. The title is his rendition in transliterated English of how he and his fellow students of French in Paris mangle the Gallic language. In the essay, "Jesus Shaves," he and his classmates from many nations try to convey the concept of Easter to a Moroccan Muslim. "It is a party for the little boy of God," says one. "Then he be die one day on two... morsels of... lumber," says another. Sedaris muses on the disputes between his Protestant mother and his father, a Greek Orthodox guy whose Easter fell on a different day.
Other essays explicate his deep kinship with his eccentric mom and absurd alienation from his IBM-exec dad: "To me, the greatest mystery of science continues to be that a man could father six children who shared absolutely none of his interests." Every glimpse we get of Sedaris's family and acquaintances delivers laughs and insights. He thwarts his North Carolina speech therapist ("for whom the word pen had two syllables") by cleverly avoiding all words with s sounds, which reveal the lisp she sought to correct. His midget guitar teacher, Mister Mancini, is unaware that Sedaris doesn't share his obsession with breasts, and sings "Light My Fire" all wrong -- "as if he were a Webelo scout demanding a match." As a remarkably unqualified teacher at the Art Institute of Chicago, Sedaris had his class watch soap operas and assign "guessays" on what would happen in the next day's episode. It all adds up to the most distinctively skewed autobiography since Spalding Gray's Swimming to Cambodia. The only possible reason not to read this book is if you'd rather hear the author's intrinsically funny speaking voice narrating his story. In that case, get Me Talk Pretty One Day on audio.
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
(Little, Brown, 2004)
David Sedaris plays in the snow with his sisters.
He goes on vacation with his family.
He gets a job selling drinks.
He attends his brother's wedding.
He mops his sister's floor.
He gives directions to a lost traveler.
He eats a hamburger.
He has his blood sugar tested.
It all sounds so normal, doesn't it? In his newest collection of essays, David Sedaris lifts the corner of ordinary life, revealing the absurdity teeming below its surface. His world is alive with obscure desires and hidden motives — a world where forgiveness is automatic and an argument can be the highest form of love. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim is another unforgettable collection from one of the wittiest and most original writers at work today.
David Sedaris Live at Carnegie Hall
(audiobook: Time Warner Audio Books (2003)
If you are driving, pull over. If you are at work, close your door-unless you don't mind your colleagues seeing you doubled over, in tears, on your office floor. With this CD, taped before a delirious sold out audience at Carnegie Hall, you are there as David Sedaris performs new stories from his upcoming book. A parrot who mimics an ice maker, lovers quarreling over a rubber hand, and a Santa Claus who moonlights from his job as bishop of Turkey -- the cast of characters in these stories is like no other. This new work will appeal to David's loyal fans as well as admirers of the classic comedy albums of George Carlin, Bill Cosby and Steve Martin.
(paperback: Little, Brown, 1998)
(audiobook: Hachette Audio abridged, 2001)
"Perchance, fair lady, dost thou think me unduly vexed by the sorrowful state of thine quarters? These foul specks, the evidence of life itself, have sullied not only thine shag-tempered matt but also thine character. Be ye mad, woman?"
In Naked, David Sedaris's message -- alternately rendered in "Fakespeare," Italian, Spanish, and pidgin Greek -- is the same: pay attention to me.
Whether he's taking to the road with a thieving quadriplegic, sorting out the fancy from the extra-fancy in a bleak fruit-packing factory, or celebrating Christmas in the company of a recently paroled prostitute, this collection of memoirs creates a wickedly incisive portrait of an all-too-familiar world. It takes Sedaris from his humiliating bout with obsessive behavior in "A Plague of Tics" to the title story, in which he is finally forced to face his naked self in the mirrored sunglasses of a lunatic. At this soulful and moving moment, he picks potato chip crumbs from his pubic hair and wonders what it all means.
This remarkable journey into his own life follows a path of self-effacement and a lifelong search for identity, leaving him both under suspicion and overdressed.
Barrel Fever
(Paperback: Little, Brown, 1995)
(Audiotape: Time Warner Audio Books, 1998)
A collection of stories and essays based upon Sedaris's own experiences and the hidden perversity that can be found in Anytown, U.S.A. Here are images and blasphemies that nice people don't dare look at--blatantly exposed and told with the clear, casual voice of intimate knowledge. Sedaris' humor is born of compassion and his tales range from the sharing of cheery Christmas letters featuring infanticide, to experiences of the Gay and Famous (Charlton Heston and Elizabeth Dole, for example), to the lives of siblings named Hope, Faith, Charity and Adolph and to alcoholics and chain smokers you can laugh with.
NOTE: The audiotape includes a combination of previously unpublished material and stories from the original book that turned Sedaris into a bestselling author. Here, listeners will laugh out loud as a do-it-yourself suburban dad saves money by performing home surgery, a man who is loved too much flees the heavyweight champion of the world, and a teenage suicide attempts to incite a lynch mob at her own funeral.
Holidays on Ice
(Audiotape: Time Warner Audio Books, 1997)
Holidays on Ice is a collection of three previously published stories matched with three newer ones, all, of course, on a Christmas theme. David Sedaris's darkly playful humor is another common thread through the book, worming its way through "Seasons Greetings to Our Friends and Family!!!" a chipper suburban Christmas letter that spirals dizzily out of control, and "Front Row Center with Thaddeus Bristol," a vicious theatrical review of children's Christmas pageants. As always, Sedaris's best work is his sharply observed nonfiction, notably in "Dinah, the Christmas Whore," the tale of a memorable Christmas during which the young Sedaris learns to see his family in a new light. Worth the price of the book alone is the hilarious "SantaLand Diaries," Sedaris's chronicle of his time working as an elf at Macy's, covering everything from the preliminary group lectures ("You are not a dancer. If you were a real dancer you wouldn't be here. You're an elf and you're going to wear panties like an elf.") to the perils of inter-elf flirtation. Along the way, he paints a funny and sad portrait of the way the countless parents who pass through SantaLand are too busy creating an Experience to really pay attention to their children. In a sly way, it carries a holiday message all its own. Read it aloud to the adults after the kids have gone to bed. --Ali Davis
When You Are Engulfed in Flames
From Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Sedaris's sparkling essays always shimmer more brightly when read aloud by the author. And his expert timing, mimicry and droll asides are never more polished than during live performances in front of an audience. Happily, four of the 22 pieces are live recordings, and listeners can hear Sedaris's energy increase from the roaring, rolling laughter of the appreciative audience. Sedaris's studio recording of his 10-page "Of Mice and Men" runs 16 minutes, while the live recording of "Town and Country," which runs the same length in print, expands to 22 minutes thanks to an audience that often doesn't let him finish a sentence without making him pause for laughter to subside. The studio recordings usually begin with an acoustic bass and brief sound effect (a buzzing fly, the lighting of a cigarette, the clinking of ice in a drink, etc.). Sedaris's brilliant magnum opus, "The Smoking Section" (about his successful trip to Tokyo is quit smoking) stretches across the final two CDs.
-- Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
With essay collections such as Naked (1997) and Me Talk Pretty One Day(2000), Sedaris kicked the door down for the "quirky memoir" genre and left it open for writers like Augusten Burroughs and Jeannette Walls to mosey on through. Sometimes the originators of a certain trend in literature are surpassed by their own disciples -- but, this is Sedaris we're talking about. When it comes to fashioning the sardonic wisecrack, the humiliating circumstance, and the absurdist fantasy, there's nobody better. Unfortunately, being in a league of your own often means competing with yourself. This latest collection of 22 essays proves that not only does Sedaris still have it, but he's also getting better. True, the terrain is familiar. The essays "Old Faithful" and "That's Amore" again feature Sedaris' overly competent boyfriend, Hugh. And nutty sister Amy can be found leafing through bestial pornography in "Town and Country." Present also are Sedaris' favored topics: death, compulsion, unwanted sexual advances, corporal decay, and more death. Nevertheless, Sedaris' best stuff will still -- after all this time -- move, surprise, and entertain.
--Jerry Eberle
From Entertainment Weekly
"The preeminent humorist of his generation...His reluctant charm and talent for observing every inch of the human condition remain intact."
Whitney Pastorek
From People
"What makes Sedaris's work transcendent is its humanity: He adores some truly awful people, yet he invests them with dignity and even grace.... He's the best there is."
-- Judith Newman
When You Are Engulfed in Flames
From Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Sedaris's sparkling essays always shimmer more brightly when read aloud by the author. And his expert timing, mimicry and droll asides are never more polished than during live performances in front of an audience. Happily, four of the 22 pieces are live recordings, and listeners can hear Sedaris's energy increase from the roaring, rolling laughter of the appreciative audience. Sedaris's studio recording of his 10-page "Of Mice and Men" runs 16 minutes, while the live recording of "Town and Country," which runs the same length in print, expands to 22 minutes thanks to an audience that often doesn't let him finish a sentence without making him pause for laughter to subside. The studio recordings usually begin with an acoustic bass and brief sound effect (a buzzing fly, the lighting of a cigarette, the clinking of ice in a drink, etc.). Sedaris's brilliant magnum opus, "The Smoking Section" (about his successful trip to Tokyo is quit smoking) stretches across the final two CDs.
-- Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
With essay collections such as Naked (1997) and Me Talk Pretty One Day(2000), Sedaris kicked the door down for the "quirky memoir" genre and left it open for writers like Augusten Burroughs and Jeannette Walls to mosey on through. Sometimes the originators of a certain trend in literature are surpassed by their own disciples -- but, this is Sedaris we're talking about. When it comes to fashioning the sardonic wisecrack, the humiliating circumstance, and the absurdist fantasy, there's nobody better. Unfortunately, being in a league of your own often means competing with yourself. This latest collection of 22 essays proves that not only does Sedaris still have it, but he's also getting better. True, the terrain is familiar. The essays "Old Faithful" and "That's Amore" again feature Sedaris' overly competent boyfriend, Hugh. And nutty sister Amy can be found leafing through bestial pornography in "Town and Country." Present also are Sedaris' favored topics: death, compulsion, unwanted sexual advances, corporal decay, and more death. Nevertheless, Sedaris' best stuff will still -- after all this time -- move, surprise, and entertain.
--Jerry Eberle
From Entertainment Weekly
"The preeminent humorist of his generation...His reluctant charm and talent for observing every inch of the human condition remain intact."
Whitney Pastorek
From People
"What makes Sedaris's work transcendent is its humanity: He adores some truly awful people, yet he invests them with dignity and even grace.... He's the best there is."
-- Judith Newman
David Sedaris Live at Carnegie Hall
(audiobook: Time Warner Audio Books (2003)
From AudioFile
Fans get a preview of Sedaris's next essay collection in this live performance. As he draws from a mix of recent Esquire submissions and new book material, this recording has an even lighter feel than his previous one. Family, fashion, and fake arms aren't safe from his eccentric, hilarious observations. "Six to Eight Black Men," an essay on Holland's Christmas customs, will send listeners into hysterics. Expect Sedaris's signature style -- nasal, easy to listen to, and entertaining, especially when he does his deadpan delivery of astonishingly funny lines. This is a real treat for old fans, and an inexpensive introduction for new ones.
J.M.S. © AudioFile 2004, Portland, Maine
-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine
From The New York Times Book Review
I recently made the mistake of reading David Sedaris while I was eating lunch. Fortunately, I was alone in my office, so there were no witnesses when I spewed a mouthful of pastrami across my desk. Not one of the 17 autobiographical essays in this new collection failed to make me crack up; frequently I was helpless.
-- Craig Seligman
From Booklist
Readers familiar with Sedaris' hilarious National Public Radio commentaries will hear his distinctive radio voice in their minds as they read his newest collection of wicked autobiographical writings, but few if any of these unnervingly frank, cynical, and explicit tales are suitable for the airwaves -- and therein lies their power. As Sedaris chronicles the low points of his life, from his suffering as a boy from debilitatingly compulsive behavior (licking light switches, counting steps) to his earliest, terrifying intimations of his homosexuality, to some near-death hitchhiking experiences, he goes further than he's ever gone before, leaving his readers breathless with laughter and wide-eyed with wonder at his daring both out in the world and on the page. A self-described "smart-ass," Sedaris is a gifted satirist with an uncanny knack for re-creating dialogue and revealing fantasies. And his targets are always worthy: people of wretched insensitivity and prejudice, be it sexual or racial. Brutally honest and brilliantly eloquent, Sedaris is positively tonic.
-- Donna Seaman
Copyright© 1997, American Library Association. All rights reserved.
From Kirkus Reviews
In this collection of essays, playwright and NPR commentator Sedaris tops his anarchically hilarious miscellany, Barrel Fever (1994), by inventing a new genre: autobiography as fun-house mirror. From the first sentence ("I'm thinking of asking the servants to wax my change before placing it in the Chinese tank I keep on my dresser''), Naked pretty well clobbers the reader into dizzy submission. Growing up in Raleigh, N.C., Sedaris had disruptive nervous tics that only disappeared once he took up smoking, which, "despite its health risks, is much more socially acceptable than crying out in tiny voices.'' The author volunteered at a mental hospital and spoke solely in Shakespearean English for a spell. One Christmas his sister brought home a coworker who moonlighted as a prostitute: "From this moment on, the phrase `ho, ho, ho' would take on a whole different meaning.'' Sedaris's best humor is generally rooted in misery: At college he befriended "a fun girl with a degenerative nerve disease'' and confined to a wheelchir, with whom he successfully shoplifted (no one stopped them) and hitchhiked (everyone stopped for them); he astutely illuminates the weird mixture of altruism and vanity that motivated him to become his friend's caretaker. Sedaris's extensive resume of hitchhiking trips and dire jobs has provided him with an absurd array of distressing incidental characters, like the belligerent, legless Jesus freak for whom he worked making jade clocks in the shape of Oregon. The author's wisecracking mother emerges as a full-blown comic heroine, and the essay discussing the months before her death achieves a brilliant synthesis of solemnity and humor. Only at the end, when describing a visit to a downscale nudist camp, does Sedaris disappoint, as he seems to have gone on the jaunt solely to acquire filler material. Sedaris applies the same deadpan fastidiousness to his life that Charlie Chaplin applied to his shoe in The Gold Rush -- this is splendid stuff.
-- Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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Barrel Fever
. . . refreshing, enlightening and hysterically funny . . .
Sedaris' sardonic wit will already be familiar to listeners to National Public Radio's Morning Edition, but the venom he exposes in these pages proves he is more than a cuddly curmudgeon. Here he lets loose with a devastating comic ire worthy of Dorothy Parker. Demonstrating low tolerance for human foibles, his misanthropic humor is vindictive and nasty. More than once it crosses the line of good taste, but it's also extremely, relentlessly funny. The short stories in this collection dwell on themes of domestic hell and self-delusion as dysfunctional families tear each other apart and losers refuse to see how pathetic they are. The essays, some of which have in different form been heard on radio, effectively and humorously detail the seeming contemporary cultural conspiracy to destroy the individual. His "Santaland Diaries," which depicts his experiences working as an elf at Macy's during the winter holiday season, in particular is a minor classic.
-- Benjamin Segedin
Copyright© 1994, American Library Association. All rights reserved.
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
(Little, Brown, 2004)
From Whole Earth Review
From Booklist
Amazon.com Audio Review
It just isn't fair: most of us would be lucky to be able to express ourselves in writing half as well as David Sedaris does in his new book, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim. But on top of his skills with the written word, the author also has substantial gifts as a performer, and he proves this on the audio version of the book. In his essay, "The Change in Me," Sedaris remembers that his mother was good at imitating people, and it's clear that he takes after her. Whether he's doing impressions of high-voiced brother Paul, or recalling times when he and his sisters tried to win good karma by speaking and acting like well-behaved, fairytale children, Sedaris's nuanced performance hits the right note on both the opening, comedic stories, and the more poignant essays that tend to come later in the reading. In fact, for those who have already read some of the best stories in other publications includingThe New Yorker, the CD or cassette version of this collection is probably the best bet for furthering your appreciation of the material.
Sedaris's career is closely linked with two things: audio (he was discovered by NPR's Ira Glass), and the personal lives of himself and his family. In Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, he describes fights with his boyfriend, and his sister-in-law's difficult pregnancy. When sister Lisa complains about the stories involving the family, he writes about that, too. Sedaris's latest provides more evidence that he is a great humorist, memoirist and raconteur, and readers are lucky to have the opportunity to know him so well. Perhaps they are luckier still not to know him personally.
-- Leah Weathersby
From Publishers Weekly
In his latest collection, Sedaris has found his heart. This is not to suggest that the author of Me Talk Pretty One Day and other bestselling books has lost his edge. The 27 essays here (many previously published in Esquire, G.Q. or the New Yorker, or broadcast on PRI's This American Life) include his best and funniest writing yet. Here is Sedaris's family in all its odd glory. Here is his father dragging his mortified son over to the home of one of the most popular boys in school, a boy possessed of "an uncanny ability to please people," demanding that the boy's parents pay for the root canal that Sedaris underwent after the boy hit him in the mouth with a rock. Here is his oldest sister, Lisa, imploring him to keep her beloved Amazon parrot out of a proposed movie based on his writing. ("'Will I have to be fat in the movie?' she asked.") Here is his mother, his muse, locking the kids out of the house after one snow day too many, playing the wry, brilliant commentator on his life until her untimely death from cancer. His mother emerges as one of the most poignant and original female characters in contemporary literature. She balances bitter and sweet, tart and rich — and so does Sedaris, because this is what life is like. "You should look at yourself," his mother says in one piece, as young Sedaris crams Halloween candy into his mouth rather than share it. He does what she says and then some, and what emerges is the deepest kind of humor, the human comedy.
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text: Research firm NPD today announced the results of its latest survey of tablet and notebook usage trends, finding that the share of tablet users taking advantage of cellular connectivity for their devices has declined compared to earlier this year. According to NPD's numbers, 60% of users reported using their tablets on Wi-Fi only back in April, but that number has risen to 65% over the past six months. Apple's iPad is the dominant product in the tablet market, and 3G-compatible models continue to carry a $130 premium over their Wi-Fi-only counterparts. While carriers have attempted to make data access for tablets flexible by offering as-needed access without the need for a data contract, cellular data service is still not a major add-on for most consumers. With the growing prevalence of Wi-Fi and features such as mobile hotspot functionality on smartphones, it is becoming less common for users to require on-board cellular data connectivity for their tablet devices. One development that could increase cellular data usage is shared data plans, which could allow users to draw from a single allotment of data on multiple devices. Such plans could make it easier for tablet users to sign up for occasional data usage on their tablets drawn from their current smartphone data plans, without incurring a full month's data charge for the tablet alone. Article Link: Share of Tablet Owners Utilizing Cellular Connectivity Declining

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The lead researcher of one of the controversial H5N1 avian influenza transmission studies in ferrets said today that he hopes scientists can resume work on the studies in about 2 weeks, after key groups have discussed the issues.
Dutch researcher Ron Fouchier, PhD, of Erasmus University, said the voluntary 60-day moratorium on lab-modified H5N1 viruses expired Mar 20 and added that researchers are waiting for national governments to release their lab biosecurity assessments. These assessments were a component of a plan stemming from a World Health Organization (WHO) meeting of technical experts in February.
Fouchier made his comments during a live episode of virologist Vincent Racaniello's "This Week in Virology" (TWiV), which was broadcast via webcast from the Society for General Microbiology conference in Dublin, Ireland. Racaniello, a virologist at Columbia University, authors Virology Blog and hosts the weekly virology podcast series.
Click "source" for more. Video of this event will be released on Sunday on MicrobeWorld Video.
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Since its founding in 1953, Sonic, America's Drive-In has believed in the franchisee system, with a motto that "owners make better operators." Now, more than 50 years later Sonic is in the midst of a re-franchising initiative, partnering with its franchise base to foster innovation and expansion in a tough economic climate. HT talks to Sonic's VP of brand technology Brad Sheriff and franchisee Angela Owen about the communication strategies, technology solutions and partnership best practices that are creating opportunities for the entire Sonic community.
One group of individuals from across the retail technology industry is embodying the spirit of lessons learned from the fallout of the global economy, to rally around a singular cause of providing opportunities and resources for the 143 million vulnerable and orphaned children across the world.
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I think you are SOL with Suntrup. Why would they deal with you when the chances of you doing any future business with them is non-existent? You should probably plead your case with your home BMW shop's service manager to see if he/she will cut you a break on their hourly shop rate in return for all your future service business. If they give you a break on price call up the GM at Suntrup and see if he/she will split it with you to make you go away and stop putting up bad press on the internet.
This is a much smaller case but when I bought my 335 I didn't notice a bubble in the sidewall until I got home with it. The dealer tried to accuse me of hitting a curb in the 5 mile journey from the lot to my garage but in the end he ended up splitting the $375 with me to fix the tire. However, he has some chance of doing business with me in the future where Suntrup doesn't with you. I really don't think you have a chance in court unless you can prove they knew about the wire condition prior to your purchase. Without a service record stating such you are pretty much screwed there. This is just bad luck, unfortunately, and you are going to have to rely on mercy from the selling dealer or your repairing dealer. Sorry to hear it but just get it fixed and forget about it. Hopefully it isn't a bigger issue.
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Documents acquitted reveal about Newman governmentAccording to newly revealed documents, environmental health is not important to the governing body as it cut programs and sold Ecofund for less than what it costs. Ecofund was a state-owned carbon and environmental offsetting and advisory company.
CSIRO warns climate change may cut Australia's ski seasonThe Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) has predicted that that Australia's ski season could be cut by as much as 80 days every year by 2050. The forecast was in line with worst-case predictions of climate change.
Ivanka Trump meets with Al Gore to discuss climate changeFormer Vice President Al Gore is ready to set their differences aside and find common ground on more important issues.
Climate change: Australia's greenhouse gas emissions are risingIn just about four years, Australia has already spent nearly 20 percent of its greenhouse gas allowance for year 2050.
NZ Youth Delegation seeks evidence of government's plan to meet weak commitments to Paris AgreementThe New Zealand government ratified on Oct 4 the Paris Agreement which targets to address climate change. However, the New Zealand Youth Delegation (NZYD) to the UN climate negotiation to be held in November, while it welcomes the move, is seeking evidence of Wellington's plan to meet the country's weak commitments to the agreement.
Thousands of heat deaths predicted in New York by 2080A new study has predicted that climate change will put New Yorkers at the risk of overheating. The study has predicted thousands of heat deaths by 2080. If no steps are taken to reduce emissions and adapt to warming, as many as 3,331 people may die every year in New York alone by 2080. By that time, the number of hot days is going to triple, and that would cause heat deaths due to respiratory conditions, heart problems, dehydration and heat exhaustion.
Scientists identify 'golden ticket' to stop coral bleachingIn a study that has brought relief to scientists and conservation experts, researchers have identified genes in algae that may allow corals to survive in high ocean temperatures. The genes in algae may stop coral bleaching that has rendered most of Australia's Great Barrier Reef lifeless.
Red snow heating up with algae absorbing more sunlightA study has revealed that fields of pink-coloured algae are forming on world's glaciers and it is accelerating global warming. Previously, the experts thought the pink colour of the snow was caused by some chemical spill or baby seal clubbing.
Australia's most-isolated mammal, Bramble Cay melomys, are gone foreverThe mosaic-tailed rat, popularly known as the Bramble Cay melomys, has been declared extinct by Queensland researchers. These rats were a resident of an island in Australia's Great Barrier Reef. Researchers believe that the reason for their extinction is manmade climate change.
Antarctica's surviving ice sheet mystery solvedAntarctica is far less affected by climate change than the Arctic. North Atlantic's cold and deep ocean currents dull the effects of global warming and even slow down sea level rise.
Cow dung causes climate change via methane emissionsA new study has revealed that feeding cows with antibiotics may increase greenhouse gas emissions from cow dung, burps and farts.
Earth may become uninhabitable by 2300Burning all fossil fuels would make Earth so hot that global temperatures would soar by eight degrees. It would release five trillion tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
Global warming driven Totten Glacier melt may wipe out global citiesResearchers are worried as global warming is rapidly melting Totten Glacier atop East Antarctica. It may raise ocean levels by two metres, which could be the "tipping point" of no return.
Earth's shifting axis calls for sustainable and renewable measures to revert climate changeScientists discover the reasons why the Earth wobbles from its rotational axis is due to its increasing water levels caused by melting ice sheets.
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Manmade climate change claims five Pacific islands, claim Australian scientistsIn March, NASA scientist James Hansen, who is well-known for his studies on climate change, estimated that in the coming century, sea levels may rise by seven metres.
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Climate change making it difficult for marine life to breatheOxygen levels in the seas are falling at an alarming rate and widespread evidence of the trend will be evident 2030 onward. Climate change makes oceans turn over less.
Greening Earth may be disastrousWhile the greening of Earth seems like a positive sign for many, Canadell expressed grave concerns as such exponential increase in CO2 levels would mean severe weather and rising sea levels.
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Belgian Waffle Works
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The sandwich it self was a house made waffle that was then cut in half and filled with the meats and cheese. It also comes with maple syrup along with the other sides. I preferred to use the maple syrup with my meal. Like most places the description of the dish sounds better then the actual plated dish. Some slices of turkey and a few cuts of ham and the Swiss cheese was barely present. The waffle it self was crunchy on the outside but dry on the inside. The turkey was also dry but the ham added a nice salinity to each bite to give you that salty, sweet combination. The sandwich was okay, there can definitely be improvement made. I think part of the problem is my expectations are so high it will be hard to find a Monte Cristo the meets or exceeds them.
Belgian Waffle Works was not a bad place to eat at, the rest of the family and our friends enjoyed thier meals. Everyone was clearly stuffed and satisfied with what they ordered. My advise would be, if you have had a Disneyland Monte Cristo then stay away from this version, you will be disappointed. However if you are a Monte Cristo noob and this is your first venture into the sandwich then I would recommend it as is it a great way to be introduced to this concoction.


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Thanks to the two posters from the front who offer their steps on getting the script to run. I used winscp and putty to get my app working.
Copy and paste the script.
Named it 'weatherfix.sh'
Used winscp to navigate to '/private/var/root/'
paste the file in there.
Run putty and cd to '/private/var/root/'
type 'sh weatherfix.sh'
that is it. what for a reboot and test the app.
this is how i did it and work just fine
If you have MobileTerminal installed, you can actually run the script straight from your device itself. Otherwise you can tunnel into your device in iFunBox, or log in through SSH.
Step 1: Copy the following script from your device's browser:
chmod -x /usr/libexec/mobile_installation_proxy
killall -9 mobile_installation_proxy
rm /var/mobile/Library/Caches/com.apple.mobile.installation.plist /var/mobile/Library/Caches/com.apple.LaunchServices-045.csstore
launchctl stop com.apple.mobile.installd
launchctl start com.apple.mobile.installd
while [ ! -f /var/mobile/Library/Caches/com.apple.mobile.installation.plist ];
sleep 1
while [ ! -f /var/mobile/Library/Caches/com.apple.LaunchServices-045.csstore ];
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sleep 10
chmod +x /usr/libexec/mobile_installation_proxy
Step 2: You can't paste directly into MobileTerminal, so we'll have to work around this first. Open MobileTerminal, press the information button, and enter the shortcut menu. You will be able to paste the script into a new shortcut. Make sure the script is entered correctly, as the iPhone's copy tool may miss the beginning or the end of the script.
Step 3: Open MobileTerminal and log in as root. The command is 'login root' and the default password is 'alpine'.
Step 4: Open the shortcut menu on the left hand side of the screen and select the new shortcut you created.
Step 5: Set the device aside and let the script do its work. Once the command is finished, it should reboot automatically.
go to cydia, there's a new update.... it fixed my weather app.
Fix for stock weather app seemed to be uploaded to cydia by Saurik. UIKit Tools 1.1.6, Just installed it and now weather app works. iPod 5th gen on 6.1. Going to test on 4s now with 6.1
Update did not work on my iPhone 5. Will try running the script manually and see if it works.
Planetbeing saying on twitter that ******* is messing with the fix. Uninstall it and reboot if the fix didn't work for you.
Kinds funny if you ask me lol
Gotta love them pirates arrrgggghh
The UIkit tools 1.1.7 update didn't fix my weather crashing on iPhone 5.
Yes I did
With this recent update do we still need to install respringcrashfix .
This weather issue is still there.. Urghhh
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Volleyball Battles Cleveland State but Falls in Three
Sept. 13, 2013
CINCINNATI - The University of Cincinnati volleyball team put up a good fight but fell short against Cleveland State 3-0 (25-23, 25-20, 25-23) at Fifth Third Arena. The match was the second for the Bearcats as part of the UC Invitational II.
Cincinnati clawed for three sets, but ultimately could not break through. UC accounted for 34 kills and had a .157 hitting percentage, its highest of the season. Freshman Ciara Hill (Bolingbrook, Ill./Bolingbrook) led the team with 10 kills while classmate Kristin Conor (Lone Tree, Colo./Highlands Ranch) collected 24 assists.
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The Bearcats were plagued by the long scoring runs in the second game. Cleveland State managed to score at least three points at a time on four occasions, including a four-point run that saw them go ahead 19-14. Cincinnati climbed to within 22-19 following a block by freshman Samantha Schrenker (Elmhurst, Ill./York Community) and junior Madi Lang (Commerce Township, Mich./Florida Atlantic) but could not close the gap, falling 25-20. The Bearcats out-blocked the Vikings three to two in the game and Schrenker had a hand in all of them, posting two assists and one solo block. UC also managed an assist for every recorded kill (10) with Conor collecting eight.
The third game looked to be when Cincinnati would break through, but after a good fight CSU came out on top 25-23. The scoring went back and forth for a majority of the game and the Bearcats kept up with the Vikings step for step until CSU put together three straight points to go ahead 22-20. Two more kills gave Cleveland State match point at 24-21, but with the Bearcats' backs against the wall, Wegman surged out of a timeout with a kill and a block to force a CSU timeout at 24-23. The rally would end, however, with a CSU kill and a 25-23 score line.
The Bearcats will close out play in the UC Invitational II on Saturday afternoon 2 p.m. when they face local rival Northern Kentucky University in Fifth Third Arena.


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Reflecting on a week in which the government suffered its first Commons defeat since Brown became prime minister, Clarke said: "There have been things that have been done recently which have made me feel ashamed to be a Labour member of parliament, which was [a position] I never ever wanted to be in. I worked over my whole political life to get Labour into a position where it could be a good government and I do see that fading away … and it feels absolutely appalling."
Clarke is a longstanding critic of the prime minister who called off hostilities last autumn, impressed by Brown's handling of the economy, but has refreshed his criticism in light of the government's strategy on MPs' expenses. This week ministers were forced to abandon a Commons motion on the reform of the second home allowance for MPs to avert what looked like becoming its second defeat in as many days.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy said yesterday that Europe must "have resolved its problems" by the time G20 leaders meet in the French Riviera resort of Cannes at the beginning of November.
He was speaking at a joint press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin after talks lasting more than an hour on Europe's debt crisis that has brought Greece to the brink of bankruptcy.
Mr Sarkozy vowed a "global, lasting and quick response" to the crisis before the end of the month, adding this had been the "main result of this Franco-German meeting".
Paris and Berlin agree on a recapitalisation of banks, Ms Merkel said, adding they were "decided on doing what is necessary to recapitalise (the) banks in order to assure the granting of credit to the economy".
Mr Sarkozy added that "agreement was complete", following reports that Europe's two biggest economies were at odds over how to proceed on shoring up banks overexposed to risky sovereign debt.
"An economy is not prosperous without stable and reliable banks," he said.
Mr Sarkozy also said that Paris and Berlin would propose "important changes" to European treaties, adding he favoured greater integration of the eurozone.
For her part, Ms Merkel said the "goal is to have closer and more binding cooperation of eurozone countries" to avoid overspending.
Leaders want to prevent any new, bigger reduction of Greece's debt triggering a banking crisis reminiscent of 2008 which set off a global recession.
In July, leaders agreed a 21 per cent "haircut", or reduction in the value of the debt banks hold, in exchange for lowering Athens' debilitating repayments in the next few years.
Berlin and Paris reportedly differed over how to go about recapitalising Europe's banks, which the IMF thinks will need between €100 and €200 billion ($135 billion and $270 billion) to cover potential losses.
Germany, Europe's strongest economy and effective eurozone paymaster, wants under-pressure banks to first turn to investors for funds before appealing for national or European cash.
France, fearful of losing its top-notch AAA credit rating, would rather dip into European funds than its own coffers.
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What is the most effective gutter protection for a 12/12 pitch roof? Assuming the gutters are sized properly, will a fine mesh filter allow water to enter the gutter or will the water flow over the filter/gutter? Do any "covered" (non-mesh type filter/screen) gutter guards work with this pitch roof?
Given that all our gutters need to be replaced, the incremental cost of almost all protection systems we have been offered would pay for themselves immediately given they give no clog/cleaning guarranties. However, we are not convinced the water will enter the gutter system and therefore are concerned the guarranty would be meaningless. In other words, we would be spending money on a guard system that created a waterfall over the gutter sysem not through it. The feared result would be no clogging to exercise the guarantees, but also that the water would not be properly drained away from the house.
Would be most appreciative of gutter experise. Thanks!
The best system we have used on roofs that flow water quickly is the Raindrop gutter guard.
It can handle any amount of water you can throw at it.
I'm in the same situation, 12/12 pitch metal roof with no gutters currently. My problem is that I don't want the snow to rip my gutters off!
I put on 6" gutters and Leaf relief on mine and it works great.
As for the snow and ice ripping them off,do you have problems with ice dams?
The reverse curl systems work best for that but they suck at keeping the debris out in my opinion.
I agree with you, I had poor experience with the solid hood covers when I used to install them years back. I also have had good luck with the raindrop gutter guard system with metal roofs at 12/12. I saw their videos on their website and the one that shows all the water going into the gutter was unbelievable.
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National Feast
The Continental Congress proclaimed the first national Thanksgiving in 1777. A somber event, it specifically recommended "that servile labor and such recreations (although at other times innocent) may be unbecoming the purpose of this appointment [and should] be omitted on so solemn an occasion."
Presidents Washington, Adams and Monroe proclaimed national Thanksgivings, but the custom fell out of use by 1815, after which the celebration of the holiday was limited to individual state observances. By the 1850s, almost every state and territory celebrated Thanksgiving.
Many people felt that this family holiday should be a national celebration, especially Sarah Josepha Hale, the influential editor of the popular women's magazine Godey's Lady's Book. In 1827, she began a campaign to reinstate the holiday after the model of the first Presidents. She publicly petitioned several Presidents to make it an annual event. Sarah Josepha Hale's efforts finally succeeded in 1863, when she was able to convince President Lincoln that a national Thanksgiving might serve to unite a war-torn country. The President declared two national Thanksgivings that year, one for August 6 celebrating the victory at Gettysburg and a second for the last Thursday in November.
Neither Lincoln nor his successors, however, made the holiday a fixed annual event. A President still had to proclaim Thanksgiving each year, and the last Thursday in November became the customary date. In a controversial move, Franklin Delano Roosevelt lengthened the Christmas shopping season by declaring Thanksgiving for the next-to-the-last Thursday in November. Two years later, in 1941, Congress responded by permanently establishing the holiday as the fourth Thursday in the month.


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Whether it's for fundraising, business development or sales activities, being able to contact people you don't know is a significant factor on your way to success. So here's a short guide of Do's and Don'ts.
One big don't is cold calling people. Even if you're lucky enough to be answered, most chances are that the person you're contacting is in the middle of something else and would get irritated by the interruption.
Sending cold emails is usually not effective as well. This is especially the case when you're approaching someone very busy. The business contacts you probably need, get more cold emails than anyone could handle.
So what else can you do?
1. Find someone who can make an introduction. The most effective way to approach someone is to find someone else who can make an introduction. Ideally, the person introducing you should be someone you know well. But if you don't have someone like that, any introduction is usually better than a cold email. When you're asking for someone to introduce you, make their life easy and send them a few sentences about your company that they can simply forward on (i.e. write it in third person). I'll try to publish an example I've personally used in the near future.
2. Use LinkedIn. Most people still use their email as their main communication channel. This makes their inbox extremely overloaded. However, only few people have an overloaded LinkedIn inbox, which makes it more accessible for you. In addition, when you get a LinkedIn InMail, you can easily see the profile of the person approaching you. This makes the communication somewhat more personal, and thus increases the chances of getting an answer.
3. Network. Networking is about creating connections with people before you need something from them. So if you're planning a financing round, start hanging out in events that investors attend enough time before you want to use these connections. The same goes for business development. Start attending conferences that are related to your industry and make connections long before you need to start your business development process.
4. Ask for general advice before asking for a specific favour. If you have no other choice but sending a cold email, then first ask to get the person's general advice. People love offering their opinion and are more responsive when asked for non-specific help. So first create a relationship by asking for general advice. If it's an investor your approaching, then if you're project is interesting enough he'll anyhow ask by himself whether you're looking for funding.
And whatever method you're using, keep your message short and to the point!


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IDE vs. Editor
Are you using an IDE, or an editor? Are you a "hardcore" programmer, or you are one of those sissy modern developers that use IDEs? Have you personalized your emacs or vim to make you 200% more productive? Or do you think that emacs is useless, at least for Java. Either way, it's an interesting topic to discuss – what are the pros and cons of using an IDE vs using a customizable text editor (vim/emacs/Sublime/…). And of course, I'm starting with the disclaimer that the distinction between "IDE" and "editor" is not that sharp.
Let's first look at the trivial example – Java (and C#). It is a no-brainer there and the IDE wins by a huge margin, because of all the wonderful features like refactoring, debugging, hierarchies, integration with frameworks and build tools. Writing Java in anything other than an IDE should be restricted only for educational purposes, otherwise you are losing too much.
But it's not that black-and-white for other languages, where the IDEs are not that mature or you cannot have some of the features that you have in statically-typed/compiled/jvm/.. languages.
Let's take Groovy. A JVM language. The IDE has syntax coloring, autocomplete where possible, jumping to files with shortcuts. You get that with text editors as well. But with a text editor you can easily plug shell scripts that run your grails application and then run selenium tests, while running a grails application from within the IDE is (or at least used to be) painful. So, you might be better off going for a text editor?
Additionally, the IDE may leak something into the application. Novice developers may commit absolute build paths, the IDE might have a very cool support for a framework, but lack one very important parameter that appeared in the latest version, so that you have to make a workaround. The IDE may make it too easy to generate tons boilerplate code, that will later be hard to support. Minor, even subliminal pitfalls maybe, but still – an editor isn't leaking anything because it doesn't have anything to leak.
But let's elaborate a bit more on customizability. The cool text editors allow you to write simple scripts that plug into the editor and thus let you improve your experience. And that's important. I didn't realize it until I had to switch to IDEA and there ALT+arrows didn't jump through camel humps, but only through whitespaces. And hovering on a class didn't show its package. Very minor things that it turns out are important for me. Luckily, IDEA had these things configurable, but it might not have had them. If you want to write a plugin, you may need to know OSGi, SWT, a complex plugin API and whatnot. It's an overkill to write a plugin for such small things.
So a very important thing I would like to see from IDEs – they should be more easily customizable. Simply dropping a file (in any jvm language, for example) should have the ability to alter the behaviour. At your own risk, of course, and soon you may spend hours debugging which two files are in conflict and are blocking your IDE, but that should be available.
Remember the example where you add a shell-script that runs selenium tests. It poses a question that spans a lot of these editor customizations – should they really be part of the editor? Don't they belong to the build tool instead? Many of them indeed belong to the build tool. Pre/post-processors, code-generation, one-command deployment, performing release, running functional tests, etc. I would say that these belong to the build tool, because a CI server must be able to do them as well, and it's headless.
And apart from the "plugins" you would add to the editor, that make writing code and navigating the project easier, all others will probably need to be shared with other team members. Having a separate repository? And tested on multiple versions? That might turn out to be a time-consuming task, while keeping them to yourself may lead to inconsistency across the team. And you would usually bring your entire text editor configuration with you on each project, but then the configurations of other members may conflict with yours. I cannot give a concrete example, because I've never heavily customized a text editor, but the general feeling is that you should not make something too custom for yourself, and for your personal process, unless you are working on your own. A good argument here is that you will be able to switch the language you use without having to lose the productivity tricks. And that's a fair point, given the lack of interoperability of IDEs. But most sensible IDEs do allow you to reach a certain, significant level of productivity, and maybe the rest 20% are not worth it.
Regardless of whether you agree with the statements in the above paragraph or not, if IDEs provide the "plugs" for quick and easy customization, I don't think there will be any remotely compelling reason for using a text editor, apart from "I'm too used to that". Any IDE by definition has more features than a text editor, but it lacks the flexibility/customizability. If that issue is fixed in a reasonable and reusable way, it will no longer be a tradeoff to use an IDE even for a dynamic language. Open-source IDEs, of course.
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You've just written about one a pet peeve of mine. I actually hate both categories.
I've been trying out every editor/IDE I found on my way that would run on my computer (Windows) and would remotely serve my needs (PHP coding). Most of them fell in these clearly defined categories:
– Editors stuck in the glory days of Unix (1970s), where you can write your own scripts to do any kind of advanced stuff like saving files.
– Editors stuck in the glory days of Windows (2000s): hundreds of toolbars with useful features like "bold". The most advanced include a "Code" pane with a plain text list of everything that has a bracket on current file.
– TextMate clones, with… Well, I'm a Windows guy so I've never used TextMate. I've seen screenshots and it's definitively a GUI tool; it even has dialogues—no idea why its clones don't.
– Conventional IDEs, with everything you need to code C and C++. In the best cases, their PHP support consists on syntax highlighting (.htaccess support not included).
– Java IDEs, with support for many languages, as long as they're Java. No, seriously, with awesome code intelligence, assuming you have an 8-core computer with 16 GB of RAM and a solid-state drive.
In fact, bloated Java IDEs are among my favourites, especially:
– NetBeans, where file encoding in a global setting.
– PhpStorm, where you cannot type the € symbol.
At least, they help me with the part of programming work that's not related to typing text. But we already had extraordinary text editors on the late 1990s that were lightning fast on our Pentium computers and had already invented most of the basic tools known today (syntax highlighting, rectangular selection, regexp search, snippets…). Why do modern IDEs embed editors that are hardly better than a ?
Being a bit easier to work with another languages is probably the biggest reason for me to invest in learning and customizing an editor.
Developer tools maturity takes a long time, and so your language options are kept very small if you stick to full-blown IDEs.
Most people choose languages mainly based on the tooling available for it — that's a bit unfortunate, if you share the vision of better languages being the future.
Simplicity is always a valid argument. Except the obvious(Java, C#, etc.) IDEs bring in way much more complexity than they solve(IMHO). A text editor is rarely more complex than needed, because it gains features progressively as you find the need for them. And IDE has all the fancy functionality needed in a workflow that it's creators have deemed most useful in some sense. And for many people use cases that is obviously good and should not be thrown away for the sake of being "the text editor guy".
I tend to have this itch(call it a NIH thing if you will), that not knowing how something works drives me crazy. Your text editor rarely does something you don't understand in a good degree of detail, as most it does is what you extended it to do. Same reason why I think things like prebuilt dotfiles for editors are a bad way to start learning them, it starts you off on the wrong foot. It's about building it yourself, since that will allow you to know as much details about it's functionality as you can.
For the same reason someone who likes he's IDE and is comfortable in it, won't use a heavily packed vim/emacs setup with all the good plugins for the needed language, it doesn't have the same idea behind it. An IDE is a monolithic structure and you can depend on it to always function the way it does, you are free to accept it as a black box. A text editor you view as a black box will either not give you much more than a bare vi(mind you: vi != vim :)), or even worse – explode in your face once every few days and cause you far more loss than gain.
Hands down. I've tried eclipse, worked in VS for years, FlashDevelop. For editors I tried notepad++ and sublime text. Now I'm doing primarily javascript with frameworks and JetBrains webstorm is the BEST IDE / CODING EXPERIENCE i've ever had. I do not work for them, but would consider it. Code completion and jump-to-definition is a must for fast coding.
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And as soon as our supper dishes were washed we went inside to our lantern and our game of cribbage.
Miss West and I abandoned our rubber of cribbage and hastened on deck.
He was a noted gambler, and has the distinction of being the inventor of the game of cribbage.
In the evening he came in again to have a game of cribbage with Mrs. Caldwell.
cribbage was Hatchett's one passion, unless another was—beating the Indians.
Her knowledge of the mysteries of cribbage extended no further.
There was no cribbage player round, and Peter himself sat across deeply immersed in a magazine.
Until one evening, with a stifled sigh, she murmured the word, cribbage!
During the remainder of the day, between games of cribbage, Cousin Egbert and I discussed the venture.
"The only thing that settles his nerves is cribbage," he explained.
the card game, 1620s, probably from crib "set of cards thrown from each player's hand," of uncertain origin, though this word is later than the game name.