November 2008
41 posts
although old episodes aren’t re-watchable, I doubt I will ever get tired of new (to me) Myth Busters episodes.
I don’t drink coffee and I only drink tea with a ton of sugar. does this make me a pussy? y/n
drive out to phoenixville was surprisingly quick. I believe our host who is cooking is rapidly losing patience with her immediate family.
I’ve been struggling with a broken child-proof cap for the past 3 days. I’m considering just cutting the damn thing off.
This one is for @amandabear: http://sonjaaa.livejournal.com/607659.html
apparently starcraft is the new poker? maybe just among nerds.
fortunately traffic soon picked up such taht i was no longer able to twitter while driving.
installing digsby on the lappy for the first time. wow, it bundles a lot of software nowadays. i guess that’s their business model?
enroute to whitehaven / pnose for weekend.
nice to see Get Your War On videos are branching out of politics now.
a slice of philadelphia: the Philadelphia Complaint Choir http://tinyurl.com/6kejtr
snow is sticking pre-thanksgiving? awesome.
catching ‘a new brain’ at upenn. almost accidentally went to a rap concert in the same building instead. oops.
long night of studying starts now. boo. in other news, 45°. Boo again, I say.
Is it just me, or is it really hard to google certain PHP topics because google matches the “.php” extension to so many different URLs?
trying out tinytwitter for my new moto 9qc. pretty! but I think it expects a taller screen. anyone have recommendations?
Fantastic infographic explaining the housing bubble and the fallout http://tinyurl.com/5tyv3e, via @radiocolin
I keep on getting drawn to starmen.net and Earthbound-related YouTube videos for reasons I cannot explain.
There are not nearly enough opportunities in adult life to play kickball. Who else wants to fix that?
^z using vim under cmd.com spawns a new shell since there’s no fg? nice attention to detail! over the past 7 years, ^z has become a reflex.
Sometimes I need to catch myself because I over-abstract and go a bit too DRY: http://pastie.org/315263
“Socialist? No I said he was sociable. Especially for a bla- for a blabber mouth. I wasn’t going to say a black guy.” http://xkcd.com/504/
Blah, I meant http://tinyurl.com/5hxdzu
xkcd is right. the crypto guys did miss an opportunity. :( http://xkcd.com/504/
Rails feels kind of heavy and not a great fit for some small apps I want to make, so giving merb a go. 47 gem dependencies seems a bit high.
Facebook seems to be dropping the ball on email notifications, but on the other hand, their targeted ads are getting better. Hm. PS. Brr.
Work is peculiarly chilly today. Sort of wish I had “smoker gloves” with cut out holes for my fingers.
Is anyone working on a Windows port of mod_passenger? Because that would be pretty fantastic.
Why, yes. I am taping more cardboard to the window to keep the blinding light from burning out my retinas. Thank you for asking.
not a good start to the week. flat tire + guy on trolley with no sense of personal space. plz remove your elbow from my kidney? thanks!
My nostalgic music phase took a strange turn the past few weeks. Will Smith has been on my playlist longer than I’ll admit in mixed company.
Occasionally I experience the webdev equiv to an existential crisis, wherein I reevaluate under which circumstances tables are appropriate.
Just saw Zack and Miri with @amandabear and @gwennluin. Therein lied lolz.
Best Obama Rickroll evar: http://tinyurl.com/649gr5
A day later, still happy about Pres. Obama, but less happy about the erosion of gay rights on the state level in CA, AR, AZ, and FL.
Yay President Obama!
Waiting in line to vote. Supposedly the machines were broken @ 7.
It’s 6:30PM the day before an American presidential election and so far there are three new posts on my Friends Page. LiveJournal is officially dead.
Wtf? Obama traffic is worse than phillies traffic.
Finished Mother 3. Enjoyable. Improvements in small details over Earthbound but the story, especially toward the end, wasn’t as strong.