July 2010
9 posts
I just ousted @kellygrape as the mayor of Swarthmore Players’ Club on @foursquare! http://4sq.com/dgfA6s
I just unlocked the “Local” badge on @foursquare! http://4sq.com/aayqVy
Lady at checkout bought 2 tubs of ice cream, 24 hot pockets, and 5 individual rolls of toilet paper. Obviously an exciting night planned!
Every time I think I’ve found a good use for position:fixed, I regret it within 6 months.
RT @ConanOBrien: Congrats to my staff on 4 Emmy nominations. This bodes well for the future of The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien.
I now have business cards. I think that means I am obligated to do adult things like “networking” and drinking coffee.
I have a peculiar tendency to fall ill on holiday weekends. Poor planning, self!
GAFYD Gmail is ridiculously slow today.
Hrmph. Mean/median tell much less when the standard deviation/variance are not provided.
June 2010
25 posts
I forgot how awesome Blades of Steel is. It’s a pass! Also, didn’t realize there’s a playable ad for Gradius between period 2 and 3.
Yay. Came home to power.
Flash hail is ridiculous and amusing. I love a good storm. Kind of wish it didn’t take out the power, though.
Great. Back from the office and power is still out on my block.
Let me rephrase. Powerless and extremely hot. And according to PECO’s automated line they don’t even know why the power is out yet. Ugh.
I’m about 40% sure my apartment is haunted. (and rising!) This is odd/significant because I don’t believe in that malarkey.
RT @ferry: http://lab.andre-michelle.com/tonematrix
RT @ginatrapani: Google Voice just opened to everyone, no invitation required.
PHP has closures? Really? Good for them. create_function is ridiculously ugly.
Power outages are not awesome.
I just unlocked the “Explorer” badge on @foursquare! http://4sq.com/cMiR1e
Hm. My console seems to freeze up every time I sudo. Well, that’s new.
Partial layouts can’t yield parameters? Boo. Could write a helper… that means remembering how concat wrapped around form_for works. Gross.
Who has two thumbs and a callback on Wednesday? Oh, right. This guy. :D Totally thought they didn’t like my audition!
RT @elihorne: You know who is ready for a rebranding? RadioShack. Seriously. They are the “Beeper World 2000” of retail outlets.
Clearly my old naive approach of tokenizing a string and LIKE’ing each word against a ton of columns won’t work forever. Sigh.
The distance from 0 to 1 and 99 to 100 is always much larger than the distance from 1 to 99.
Talk went well, I think. Very informal and conversational. Must dedicate a slide to closures if I do it again, though.
Off to give an intro to ruby talk for PLUG North!
gvim has spell checking? Fantastic! Learn something new every day.
IE testing is a misaligned hole in the ground: http://digs.by/9q74id
Spent the evening rearranging furniture + cleaning. Totes worth it. 3 rooms to go. I’m looking at you, bedroom. Don’t give me those eyes.
I need an adhesive that’s water resistant, sticks to tile and metal, and doesn’t drip. Suggestions? #lazyweb
Every time I read re: AMQP I can’t decide if it sounds useful or gross. Maybe I don’t understand or I don’t have the right problems for it.
Hrmph. Going from Rails 2.2.2 to 2.3.8 was surprisingly more annoying than I anticipated.
May 2010
12 posts
Isn’t it supposed to be cooler later in the day? The temperature was far more acceptable a few hours ago.
Ugh. I am tired of getting bees and wasps in my house. Must find the breach!
If you have a pop or rock song as your ring tone, we probably won’t get along.
RT @MoveOn: BP wants Twitter to shut down fake account mocking the oil co. Twitter wants BP to shut down oil leak thats ruining the ocea …
What motivates us? More speeches should be charted on a white board with fun pictures: http://digs.by/cJlVe7
Mark Twain left instructions that his autobiography remain unpublished 100 years after his death. That’s this year. http://digs.by/90OzhK
Up’s plot might have been stolen from a French student film. Sad. http://digs.by/cWFwdf
Ghost Busters prank NY Public Library: http://digs.by/9aVo7l
Surprised this ruby behaviour hasn’t caught me before. (nil && true) is nil, not false. Always !! if false/nil mean different things.
RT @diveintomark: (# of hours barefoot) / (# of hours awake) seems to be strongly correlated to my happiness.
RT @rjs: So much complexity in software comes from trying to make one thing do two things.
RT @bradfitz: Google Chrome Speed Tests: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCgQDjiotG0&hd=1 (potato gun! explosions! lightning! fire!)
April 2010
28 posts
Bah. dist-upgrade to Ubuntu 10.04 broke X. :( At least it was just a VM. Hopefully a clean install will just work.
RT @ginatrapani: who else finds Jobs’ thoughts on Flash letter highly ironic? http://bit.ly/bWLflu
Saw Kick-Ass with @gwennluin, @fatdogsinspace, and Park. Enjoyed it!
Wow. Apple is so developer unfriendly it’s not funny. RT @codeslinger: I hope to hell this is a fucking joke http://bit.ly/bA91i6