February 2009
29 posts
Today we get to move a battery that is about half the size of a Reppert. Oh my.
I drug @gwennluin across the living room by two phone books held together only by interleaved pages. Science works!
Sometimes my favorite solution is not fixing the problem, but bypassing it altogether.
RT @diveintomark Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know, I’ll quote Jamie Zawinski.” Now they have two problems.
Oddest flash game ever: http://secrettechnology.com/gamegame/agame.html
Oh, Ze. 2 years later and The Show still brings the lolz.
Related, a conversation re: snapping on Tuesday reminded me of this episode: http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/archives/2006/09/091806.html
holy shit. just saw a drunk driver ram the divider and take out the traffic lights at 38th and market.
I just realized why `rake db:migrate` takes so damn long at work. Rails is generally designed assuming that the application will get its own database. This is normal in environments where “database” is a lightweight concept, as in MySQL, PostgreSQL, or SQLite. After updating the database, it dumps the database schema to a file so when you install a new copy of the application you...
wow. a flipped car on city line ave.
Also: while waiting for the network to come up, I told Chris the story of the 500 Mile Email. http://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html
no internet = no productivity. (don’t be confused and think that you can factor out a “no” to get internet = productivity, though!)
Step into the 80’s! with Tom Baker! http://tinyurl.com/5eqvdq
just got out of Coraline. very good movie!
off to the zoo.
Fascinating. A web-based code editor. https://bespin.mozilla.com/
Somewhat disappointed that Potiphar’s Wikipedia article does not mention pyramids at all.
No one wanted me to make them anything? Oh well. Your loss. :) We haven’t done the meme where everyone posts their desktop in a while. Here’s mine:
You should post yours too!
Post your desktop (via @radiocolin → @ferry) http://pics.livejournal.com/cpm/pic/0000sr52
… and power is back. Perhaps I should have turned off my light switch before going to bed?
ugh. power outage on our block. :(
Another Sunday rehearsal is over. means it’s time for the bar!
Been really enjoying the cast recording of “The Last 5 Years” this week. Kudos to @kellygrape and @sarady for pointing it out to me.
let me say for the record that spry gum is fantastic. we got a shipment of free samples at work and everyone loves it.
been reading Mastering Regular Expressions (http://bit.ly/132QF) and suddenly I long for lookahead assertions in CSS.
CMU is hosting a tiny conference on technologies that make programming fun/useful to kids and the artistic community - http://bit.ly/2KtRE6
Thanks to Rick, I now know that the Action News theme has a Wikipedia page: http://tinyurl.com/yoxcey
Survey: Anyone live/lived around Philly and unfamiliar with the Action News theme? My roommate heard it for the 1st time last night!
Finally got around to watching this week’s Heroes. It’s looking like the start of a good season.