December 2011
3 posts
From just where in the gene pool did my 14-month-old get the ability to dance? Girl rocks it.
RT @jsjohnst: Since 9/11, Islamic terrorists have killed just 17 Americans. During that same period, 200x as many drowned in bathtubs ht …
RT @bokmann: Do you agree with *any* politician on all points? Either Ron Paul is viable or he’s not. He’s certainly most principled pol …
September 2011
2 posts
4-year-old encounters old scientific calculator; declares that the “log” and “int” buttons are what one uses to Log In.
RT @emarshal: One base class to rule them all: http://t.co/iO7tqLU
So weather change => mold season. Sudden flush of symptoms or musty smells in your house? Join us as we turn to http://www.epa.gov/mold/
Client: I suddenly decided I need something, please cancel your weekend. Me: Sure, here’s how much that will cost.
Just got the iTunes update. Looks like Apple’s on its way to excising the Aqua look entirely.
Yay: iTunes 10 the music player feels closer to the music somehow. Boo: Ping is totally unaware that music exists outside the major labels.
My 9-year-old son doesn’t understand why I’m not spending the time & postage to enter a 1:130,000,000–odds sweepstakes for $1 million.
Our thoughts and prayers are with the newly departed @mattpuchlerz, and with all at @ObtivaCorp. —Platte family
RT @ktaylor: @mattpuchlerz, an Obtivian and friend, is in the ICU. His only hope is a miracle. Please pray for him today and get the wor …
It’s been a long day—I just had a bug because I’d failed to test the happy path!
If you can’t admit you’re wrong, you should…stay home and knit sweaters…[not impact others’] health, life, or liberty. http://j.mp/9f71K2
August 2010
13 posts
Just called a store and the person who answered knew the answer right away in perfect detail. Tweeting it and still coming out ahead.
Lunchtime features mindblowing heirloom tomatoes from the farm. Fun to watch customers’ eyes widen suddenly when they taste a sample.
Selective enforcement indeed: in Wyoming it’s illegal to cook food at home. http://www.ftcldf.org/wyoming-food-freedom-wallis.htm
Glad to’ve deactivated my Facebook. http://www.aclunc.org/issues/technology/blog/facebook_places_check_this_out_before_you_check_in.shtml
They’re taking over! @HibariApp-launched URL brings up a page with ClickToFlash.
RT @charlesdavis84: WikiLeaks kills _another_ 3 Afghan civilians — http://bit.ly/9jmfNU — Oh wait, it was the US military. Never mind …
RT @iheartquotes: ” If you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” ~ Albe …
The Gmail redesign is really messing with my muscle memory. I keep reaching for the Archive button in the wrong place.
Research on the relationship between one’s financial status and generosity: http://www.economist.com/node/16690659
A moment of silence for Gmail’s just-retired pixelly rounded corners, b. 2004, d. 2010.
RT @raganwald: Converting Pi to binary: Don’t do it! http://bit.ly/90DdGT
So Google Wave wasn’t just like OpenDoc after all. It got killed much more promptly.
Recommended reading: http://civsol.org/content/my-memories-of-collateral-murder and http://lettertoiraq.com/
July 2010
6 posts
“Who’m I gonna call?” “Ghostbusters.”
“Why’d I pick up the phone?”
“To call Tyrone.”
Mr/Ms Perspic Unde of Omnis is quoted on a production website. Something tells me they didn’t test without Flash. http://twitpic.com/29kjlj
“Ian clicked a cow in Cow Clicker.” How “social” this and that steal our lives for dollars. http://www.bogost.com/blog/cow_clicker_1.shtml
Today, I was right on the Internet.
SOMEBODY UNDERSTANDS ME! http://www.paulgraham.com/addiction.html
Positing a thought, your reactions?: Facebook is the world’s biggest social engineering attack.
June 2010
1 post
Obvious in retrospect, but it was fun to see that Facebook’s IPv6 block is prefixed with “face” in hex.
March 2010
3 posts
“When we judge those who have chosen to abort, we abort them from our lives. And the second sin is greater than the first.” —Met. Jonah
I recommend RescueTime very, very highly. http://www.rescuetime.com/
Poor craftsmen blame their tools. OK, I’m a poor craftsman. Particularly when I’m using ColdFusion.
February 2010
8 posts
Really enjoying GnuCash so far. Nice piece of software. Better than Intuit even with GTK baggage on OS X.
Congrats @tyler_jennings!
Implementing chat in a Rails app. Looks like not many posts about it since ’08. Any pointers on state of the art? Prefer not Juggernaut.
Reviewed jQuery UI table options today. Going with http://www.datatables.net/ . Big weak point: variable names all Hungarian! My eyes hurt.
Listening to a quite abstract track from Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew. My 3-year-old came in and sang some of the musical ideas along with it.
RT @mozaffar: Student asks why Muslims are always killing. I suggested that we now assume all murders in Chicago are done in the name of …
RT @petdance: Police in 4th-largest US city testing surveillance drones. http://boingboing.net/2010/01/12/video-of-houston-pol.html
Buzz in Gmail: hidden in my “more labels” section.
January 2010
13 posts
Drinking water is a big constraint in Haiti. Consider donating drinking straws: each lasts 1 year for $10. http://waterislife.com/donate/
Just saw a screenshot featuring Geneva 9, my old friend.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was far more than a four-word soundbite. Read what else he said, for your own immense benefit.
We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the…words & actions of the bad people, but for the…silence of the good people. —MLK
…the Negro’s great stumbling block…is not the…Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate who is more devoted to “order” than to justice… —MLK