February 2009
41 posts
disappointed in his HP printer’s utter systematic failure. I expect the warrantee expired a couple of months ago, as well
Features: 'Philosophy’s great experiment' by David... →
“Experiments in moral psychology may be making back-to-Aristotle ethics less plausible. But in another sense, the experimental philosophy enterprise is eminently Aristotelian. In Raphaelâs famous…
Hey, what's that? →
“You hike to the top of a mountain or pull off at a scenic overlook. You see mountains in the distance. Which mountains are they? HeyWhatsThat will tell you, providing a 360° panoramic sketch…
Northwest Motorcycle Tours →
“You’re too busy to make the arrangements, you don’t know the best roads, you feel uncertain about what to do in case of a breakdown, you’d rather have a small group to ride with, and you want…
iPhoneWebDev →
finally got an employment answer, in the negative. I wish they’d give me a reasonable critique, though
Aspie-quiz →
Home (Seattle Gothic Yacht Club) →
“Welcome to the Seattle Gothic (seagoth) Yacht Club. Established in January of 2009 the Seagoth Yacht Club is the longest running gothic sailing club in the United States. The club is dedicated to…
CSS-Tricks Downloads →
Some of the better examples from the CSS Tricks blog
WTF Would Jesus Do? →
“My name is Jocelyn and I like to blog. I also like Jesus. I also really don’t like the majority of Christians, because they’re a bunch of hypocritical fuck-nuts. WTFWJD? reflects these many and…
yes, today’s Slog unemployment line story was from/by my girlfriend
tonight’s Yes concert at the Moore has been cancelled - time to improvise
Kaffee und: [Kuchen]: Seaside 2.9: Partial... →
Explanation of the previous and new implementation of continuations in Seaside.
back from an awesome ride and a nice walk around the park
preparing for a ride through the “backwoods” of Capitol Hill to Seward Park, thanks to @zerothousand
language design arose in a dream last night. it involved a Scheme dialect and someone sketched out a heuristic equation of tradeoffs.
thinking about psychological dissociation after watchin Waltz with Bashir
VMWare runs much more smoothly now. I just needed to feed the beast
expanding my MacBook’s RAM to 4GB
searching the Stranger for my valentine while something unholy is composed live with Wiimotes
listening to industrial electronic noise
finally back up to speed on work issues
iPhone on Rails and ObjectiveResource →
ActiveResource port to Cocoa/Objective-C, making it useful for the iPhone and accessing REST/XML/JSON APIs for remote transmission.
#ssw2 slightly perverse that I wore my iphone dev t-shirt on the last day, to avoid being roped into an iphone project on the first two days
#ssw2 our newspaper hosted widgets are the pointy tip of the spear… which means they’re doing the most data aggregation of any component
#ssw2 making up for some inadequate early data modeling. at least our use cases are clearly defined
#ssw2 hacking in a hotel lobby
#ssw2 mmm, there’s a sailboat putting through the fremont canal past Google’s offices. I can’t wait to be on the water again
#ssw2 seems like there’s better traction than last year, probably related to smaller self-selected teams
#ssw2 back online with a team member’s clearwire modem. whew! but still rationed on power, trading magsafe dongle…
#ssw2 designing an embeddable widget for tweetreporting to newspaper/tv sites
#ssw2 LAMP developers in short supply? not what I would expect. Cocoa devs, otoh…
quickly refreshing on the technology stack choices (php, zend framework, smarty) #ssw2
#ssw2 listening to bizdev discussion for tweetreporters, which is thankfully specific and concrete. tv vs. print news balance is tricky
starting #ssw2 day 2 with the tweetreporters camp
packing up for #ssw2
making sure my girlfriend can deal with her flu quickly
finished the interview… this company’s mission is very compelling to me. hopefully I’m the right fit.
confirmed an interview this week for the interesting job
re-hacking/updating my iPhone
feeling much better now. at least the weekend wasn’t a total loss