September 2009
33 posts
just returned from a ride up and down the Columbia Gorge, up to The Dalles. forgot my camera, but it was fun.
Also, I’ve hooked up with two old friends this week, and still can have the same quality discussions with each. Better than before, really.
[slate-language] http://bit.ly/RkYmh Brian T. Rice - 1 commits
reduced my Squeak mailing list subscriptions to just the daily digest of the main list, which I skim. Squeak meta-data only for me now.
Belated meeting report: The PDX geospatial user group had a great talk about cave-mapping, GIS, and developing processes to validate maps
Linus Torvalds is playing pool upstairs at this #linuxcon party. But I think they picked the wrong DJs for this event.
Huh! Benadryl is listed as a valid #psoriasis treatment. which I kind of knew, but never guessed it would be officially sanctioned
a commute that goes east in the morning and west in the evening is kind of painful on the eyes when there’s not enough cloud cover. #zigzag
is somehow the product of a damaged war veteran and a burned out white witch, and a lot of reactionary fundamentalism. And yet not…
bored, and not interested in the major scheduled events tonight…
Home Internet access out for 48 hours now. I might call Comcast tomorrow about it. @pdxfunc may have to wait for those slides
back in pdx after a weekend in Seattle and a ride through Mt. Rainer and Mt. St. Helens parks. My V-Strom hit 20,000 miles in 20 months
abhishek.geek.nz - Before you start learning Lisp →
Many people acquainted with other programming languages take an interest in Lisp based on advice, hype, rumour or plain curiosity.
Whatever the motive, they often dive in expecting to find a new but…
checked out Ground Kontrol tonight, watched gamers play RockBand Beatles surprisingly well, played vector graphics Star Wars and Berzerk
ɹǝʎɐls ɟo ʎɐp lɐuoıʇɐu *nod*
"Anonymized" data really isn't—and here's why not... →
“Such work by computer scientists over the last fifteen years has shown a serious flaw in the basic idea behind “personal information”: almost all information can be “personal” when combined with…
SmallRuby →
SmallRuby is an implementation of Ruby programming language for Smalltalk/X virtual machine.
Clamato: A Smalltalk Dialect for JavaScript →
Clamato is a Smalltalk dialect that is designed to operate within the JavaScript runtime. Clamato is self-hosting, in that it can compile itself to efficient JavaScript, entirely within the web…
The 3 key parts of news stories you usually don’t... →
Iâve come to the conclusion that there are four key parts to news stories, and we typically only get one of them, even though journalists possess all four, and the other three are arguably more…
spent last night and this morning with returning friends and girlfriend from Burning Man, on their way back to Seattle
technical manuals and howto’s should never use words like “obvious”, or omit explanation. If it were obvious, why would I be reading this?
Slate VM optimization work this weekend… using a new version of it in C++, and piping profile data into graphviz
just replaced my stolen carbon fiber helmet with a slightly heavier, but quieter helmet (due to better cranial fit). and my visors fit both
the weather’s so crazy today. gusts at all times and heavy rain followed by beautiful sunshine. I fit a decent ride in during a “lull”
Dynamic Web Development with Seaside →
“We are making this book available to you for free. You can obtain a printed copy through lulu.com. We wish to thank the European Smalltalk User Group (ESUG) for sponsoring this book. We are looking…
Tonight’s ADVrider meetup was quite good. I learned a lot. And wish TwistedEdge a great adventure ride into South America on his BMW F800GS
My V-Strom is within a day ride of 20,000 miles on the odometer at 20 months old. Maybe I will go out in the rain this weekend.
the ride home was slow, circuitous, and extra scary. There’s a reason you want your head covered at high speeds! Even for the wind pressure
Ugh. I exited a movie theatre to discover that my helmet and gloves were stolen right off of my motorcycle. Inglourious Basters, indeed.
RT @ciphergoth:Brilliant - elliptical wing biplane. http://is.gd/2NBGN wings are smaller and firmer; less wingtip vortices = 30% more power
oops, no Luke and no Puppet tonight at #pdxrb
At #pdxrb to learn some things about the Puppet DSL and maybe swap info with VM hackers
I’m not sure how CouchDB is a win for anyone not limited to “the cloud”