The Dark Balloon

A weblog by Hao Lian.
A terrible secret guarded by golems.
A note that thanks you for being born, all those years ago.

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You can try to write a poem.

I made you, you dear reader, a poem about the ocean. It is not safe for work. Yes. That is how good it is.

Thank you to @PrashanthK and @dtrinh for contributing.

[(2008 December 19) • • • • .]

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Back when arms were bronzed with olive oil and chests were chiseled with fury.

Some people post .emac files. Some people post .vimrc files. Real men post their LaTeΧ style files. This is mine. (I’ve added the \documentclass so that you know I am rh33t enough to use the memoir class, which would be more aptly titled “panacea.” That and the first few lines are just for context and would not really exist in a style file. Style file. Style file.)

By the way, I have yet to comprehend how to set margins with the memoir document class. You think a 300+ page manual would give a simple example for one-inch margins on all sides, but no. I guess you just can’t beat the geometry package.

\documentclass[article, oneside, twocolumn]{memoir}
\usepackage{amsmath, amssymb, charter, booktabs, graphicx}
\author{Me}
\title{About me}
\usepackage[margin={0.75in, 1in}]{geometry}

% Header.
\makepagestyle{dance}
\makeoddhead{dance}{Me}{}{\thepage}
\makeheadrule{dance}{\textwidth}{\normalrulethickness}
\pagestyle{dance}

% Figures.
\captionnamefont{\scshape}
\captiontitlefont{\itshape\raggedright}
\captiondelim{. }
\captionstyle[\centering]{\raggedleft}
\indentcaption{1em}

\newcommand{\ecoli}{\emph{E. coli}}
% Forget chapter numbering.
\renewcommand{\thesection}{\arabic{section}}
\renewcommand{\maketitle}{%
  \Large \textbf{\thetitle} \par \theauthor \par
}

% Bibliography.
\usepackage[sort&compress, numbers]{natbib}
\setlength{\bibsep}{0pt}
\bibliographystyle{abbrvnat}

\usepackage{color}
\definecolor{BWFBlue}{cmyk}{0.98,0.63,0,0.53}
\definecolor{BWFGreen}{cmyk}{0.10,0,0.67,0.46}
\definecolor{BWFRed}{cmyk}{0,0.9,0.85,0.27}
\usepackage[final, colorlinks=true, linkcolor=BWFBlue,
  citecolor=BWFGreen, urlcolor=BWFRed, pdftitle={\thetitle},
  pdfauthor={\theauthor}, pdfstartview={FitH}]{hyperref}

% booktabs.
\heavyrulewidth=.125em
[(2008 February 11) • • .]