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Avanti WD-50

Water cooler. It's not stupendous or anything, but it gets the job done.

pasta

Carbohydrate. And how can I mention pasta without mentioning the three things that make pasta so totally eatable??? Sockarooni, cayenne pepper and oregano. Also, here's to you, heat and water!

rice

Unprocessed wine. Also, a hilariously menacing (and powerful) black woman. Cook in rice cooker (mine doesn't have flowers on it...), and apply hot sauce and/or chili garlic sauce liberally. Flinch on toilet. Rinse and repeat.

Mountain Dew

Soft drink. But then again, most liquid is soft. So why do they feel the need to specify? I suppose "Carbonated beverage" would have been a better description, but then again, so would have "Carbonated, caffienated beverage"... I think that about covers it. Oh, and it tastes better than coffee.

Mozilla

Web browser. I use this instead of Firefox for its more advanced security options and its finer-grained control over cookies and such. I also use the WebDeveloper and Adblock addons, available for both Mozilla and Firefox.

Mozilla Thunderbird

Open-source email client. Does everything I need and much more. My only gripe is that if I filter my email server-side using procmail, the unread status of a folder I filter something into doesn't get updated, effectvely hiding new mail that I filter, and requiring me to keep as many copies of my filters around as I have Thunderbird installations.

Avant Browser

Web browser shell. I don't actually use this anymore, but if, for reasons beyond your control, you must use Internet Explorer, this is a good way to make it more tolerable. It acts as a shell around Internet Explorer; adds tabbed browsing, 1-click popup and flash blocking, and more.

eterm

Terminal client. I spend most of my time at work staring into a terminal. For the uninitiated, a terminal is a text-based connection to a remote (usually) computer. My eterm isn't heavily customized, but it's possible to set random background images on your different windows and stuff.

vim

Text editor. Some variant of vi is always installed on any self-respecting unix/linux box. It is a modal text editor, which makes it confusing to lots of people, especially those who learned emacs first (like me).

perl

python

javascript

emacs

Text editor. Emacs was the text editor with which I was most comfortable for a long time. I didn't use many of its more powerful features, however, so not too long ago I challenged myself to learn how to do everything I was doing in emacs using vim. It's been a while now, but the biggest thing that (I think) emacs had was it retained its undo history for a buffer even after you switced to another buffer and back again.

oracle

mysql

postgresql

PuTTY

ssh client. I spend a lot of time at a terminal, and this is the best one I've found (for Win32).