On Procrastination and its Variances Among Subjects

[missroserose]

Me: How many words have you written?

Brian: I'm not sure. Five or six hundred, I think.

Me: What program are you using? It should be able to tell you.

Brian: TextEdit.

Me: Huh. I'm not sure TextEdit has a word-count feature.

Brian: I wrote a script that counts words.

Me: ...Okay, I know I have no room to talk on the subject of procrastination, but that's a new one on me...

Comments

[joyfulleigh.livejournal.com]

Some of us write LJ entries, some of us write code...

L.

[flewellyn.livejournal.com]

Is this on a Mac? He could just drop to a shell and type "wc -w $FILENAME".

[alexmegami]

...wow.

[bkleber.livejournal.com]

He's not goofing off, his code's compiling!

[likable-lemur.livejournal.com]

While this is true, now I can just click the Scripts icon in my menu bar, go to my script, and it pops up a little window with my word and character count! It is easier! Probably!

[flewellyn.livejournal.com]

Mmmh, well, if you MUST use AppleScript...