December 2008
WatchStroke as experienced by a brain scientist - beautiful and provocative.
WatchIl pres.
“The human mind can not grasp the complexity of a moderately sized program, much...”
– Alarming Development : Beautiful Code
November 2008
“He is defenseless, because as a cub he suffered the trauma of having his teeth...”
– WSPA - If you love animals, help free them from cruelty.
Turning Ideas Into iPhone Applications →
Dolphin power measured for the first time - life -... →
Happy Thanksgiving
Being that this is thanksgiving and all I just wanted to give a shout out to all our friends and family who helped us through the last month of being sick of being sick.
In no particular order, and probably leaving out a few, thanks to my mom, emily, bette, sol and ulrike, bill and vanessa, mike and aki, dan and kim, kimmer and zach, justin and ellen, tim and stephanie, greg and lael, bil kleb,...
Rails on Rack
< bitsweat> Rails 2.2 is rackable
< bitsweat> Rails 2.3 will be rack-only
“They died by the hundreds, both day and night, and all were thrown in …...”
– Black Death - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Magnatune: we are not evil. →
[Music] Miles Davis - Flamenco Sketches
Apple pie and coffee
I never eat desert, but nothing beats pie in the morning with deep black coffee. Our good friends Kim and Dan, with all 5 kids in tow, dropped a ton of food off for our family yesterday out of mercy for our month of being beleaguered by flu. I was out taking the kids fishing to give jen some rest when they got there, but enjoyed their visit vicariously via a sweet mixture of apples, butter, and...
“Boulder Free Radio, an illicit low-power broadcast signal that has been on the...”
– Hijacking the airwaves again : County News : Boulder Daily Camera
Getting the shit beat out of you and loving it
I’ve been pretty damn tired a few times in my life. The of end the 7 day sleep and food fast I did during finals week one year left me so tired I literally could not speak. And one of the week long stage races I finished with the stomach flu, feverish, and covered with vomit and diarrhea drained me so thoroughly that I literally blacked out a few meters from the line during the final stage...
Sick of being sick.
Going into week 4 of being nuked by massive viral attacks. Took Axel to the doctor yesterday to find out the reason he can’t hear is that his ear drum is blown from the infection and still has a huge hole in it. Plus the infection is still there. Jen stays precisely the same - bad - and for bonus points has picked up an ear infection now too. At this stage it’s so dreamlike I...
[Music] Prince - Little Red Corvette
45 miles per gallon
45 miles per gallonCreated by The Car Connection
Hard Times
The last few weeks have been some of the toughest I’ve had to deal with as a family guy. The response from people, both business and personal relationships, has been fascinating to witness: people tend to fall into two extremes, very understanding or very concerned with how my situation affects them. There really aren’t people who fall in the middle. I don’t know what to think...
[Javascript] auto resizing iframes to fit content
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Daily Artisan » AND NOW THE MANCHURIAN MICROCHIP →
“The reality is that languages such as English, French, and so on, are imprecise....”
– PragDave: The ‘Language’ in Domain-Specific Language Doesn’t Mean English (or French, or Japanese, or …)
[Music] Michael Franti - Oh My God
A Sad Day « evan.musing →
Bummer guys.
“Brooks muses that “good” programmers are generally 5-10 times as...”
– The Mythical Man-Month - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Taxi Driver Severs Cyclists' Leg in Violent... →
“Those who slept less than seven hours nightly had a 47 percent higher risk of...”
– Too little sleep tied to increased cancer risk | Health | Reuters
“For comparison, I wear a bib whenever I program in PHP now.”
– Twitter / therealadam
HTML 5 supports custom data elements! →