December 2008
44 posts
sweet! I made it out to Saturday House
the street is thawing! which makes it a good day to rev up the bike and head to Saturday House
made it to my girlfriend’s parents house in Tacoma for a great christmas dinner, and friends played with my shiny new Kaosilator! Yay!
done playing my second and longest game of Settlers of Catan… I finally grok it and enjoy it
longest = 4 hours
Winter hack of the day (by my neighbors): using tupperware containers to make igloo bricks. pics to follow…
just returned from a friend’s jewish wedding. that was pretty fun :)
My girlfriend finally made it here. Now we’re ready to rock the snowpocalypse in style :)
We Heart Katamari for the iPhone 1.0.1 already starting to fix some of the control issues.
Comcast just upgraded our service to 15 down / 1.5 up. Sweet!
made it out tonight with help from friends (thanks!). much chaos was experienced, but also a lot of fun
I mean due to the ice… the condition of the atmosphere is related but not a problem :P
seems like my usual night out on Capitol Hill won’t be happening due to the weather - although I’d have places to stay over there
saying my final goodbyes to SPORE™; quite a disappointment - now I can have 4GB of hard drive space back
obviously, working at home today due to the snow. :) it was pretty fun tooling around last night on my bike at least.
rode my motorcycle out to finish a few errands before the hail started coming down
I can’t tell whether it’s going to snow today or whether it’ll be the first in four days that I can ride my motorcycle safely…
Aegisub: If programming languages were... →
E.W. Dijkstra Archive: On the cruelty of really... →
Teaching to unsuspecting youngsters the effective use of formal methods is one of the joys of life because it is so extremely rewarding. Within a few months, they find their way in a new world with a…
there’s too much ice on my street to ride the bike anywhere. I think it’ll stay put for most of this week
creative winter hack of the day: I poured hot water from a tea kettle onto my motorcycle’s brake discs to de-ice them. it worked perfectly
Pharo - Home →
Pharo is a fork from the Squeak open-source Smalltalk. We decided to start Pharo because as active Squeakers, and responsible for Squeak 3.9, we felt the need to reconsider choices made. We want to…
got some great photos of my street covered in snow. the ride to and from Capitol Hill was a bit harrowing, though
returned from the international motorcycle show and #saturdayhouse discussion in the snow on my motorcycle. it was quite beautiful
Looks like I’m riding some more in the snow for a good friend’s birthday
trying to keep my girlfriend from stressing about snow in Issaquah
Wired’s iPhone app only serves to highlight the irrelevance of Wired’s product reviews
skipping XCoders to focus on sinus/throat care. hopefully I can sink my teeth into Cappucino/Objective-J sometime on my own.
throat drops without the menthol just seem a little weak
Charlie's Diary: Shaping the future →
“This century we’re going to learn a lesson about what it means to be unable to forget anything. And it’s going to go on, and on. Barring a catastrophic universal collapse of human civilization […]…
40 years after The Demo: http://tinyurl.com/64fpod
tonight’s iPhone developer gathering was a more diverse crowd than expected.
Plug-ins with Cocoa →
it’s tea time!
relaunched the slate project at http://slatelanguage.org and http://code.google.com/p/slate-language
skipping today’s #sixhourstartup to take care of some more urgent personal projects
finally designing and ordering a new set of business cards
Stormy Productions: Building static libraries with... →
How to build a static library for the iPhone OS with Apple’s XCode-based SDK. It’s not well-documented but it’s not difficult.
Amazon’s one-click button for their iPhone app is scarily-cool. thankfully it can be disabled.
google profiles can be surprisingly rich now: http://www.google.com/s2/profiles/101856701826717012407
How Obama tapped into a powerful—and only recently... →
“In his forthcoming book, Born To Be Good (which is not a biography of Obama), Keltner writes that he believes when we experience transcendence, it stimulates our vagus nerve, causing “a feeling of…
apparently my desktop g5 was fixed on Friday and I didn’t get the call/voicemail - odd. picking it up now
Sports, segregation, and environmental eugenics. -... →
“Envireugenics is less dangerous. It spreads through culture, not coercion. It doesn’t employ murder or sterilization. Instead, it relies on segregation. If your kid is RR, he goes here; if he’s XX,…