January 2012
1 post
The way to a developer's heart is great...
http://blog.parse.com/2012/01/11/designing-great-api-docs/ “Designing Great API Docs” there’s also a discussion going on here: http://reddit.com/comments/ocy2g
December 2011
2 posts
my favorite tebows
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Today at the High
See the full gallery on Posterous Picasso to Warhol and MOCA GA
November 2011
4 posts
2 crushes collide: bluegrass and cello inYo-Yo...
http://www.npr.org/2011/11/21/142520794/yo-yo-mas-bluegrass-goat-rodeo?sc=21&f=10003Yo-Yo Ma’s Bluegrass-Inspired ‘Goat Rodeo’ by NPR Staff NPR - November 21, 2011 A sense of humor comes through The Goat Rodeo Sessions, the latest Americana exploration for the world-renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma. He’s joined by three other virtuosos, all in the world of bluegrass:...
Buy nothing day: whirl-mart
“Whirl-mart: Participants silently steer their shopping carts around a shopping mall or store in a long, baffling conga line without putting anything in the carts or actually making any purchases.” Not to be confused with the zombie walk. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buy_Nothing_Day Image from adbusters.org
Thank you
See the full gallery on Posterous Sleeping dogs on home made quilts Nalgene sweating with cold water Reading machines from the future House plants begging open porches Family game time - never forced fun Take also unto thee wheat and barley and green smoothies Guys and Dolls I’m not exactly sure who to thank for many of these things… But I am thankful for them.
Derrida on 'Thank you'
“By politely responding with a ‘thank-you’, there is often, and perhaps even always, a presumption that because of this acknowledgement one is no longer indebted to the other who has given, and that nothing more can be expected of an individual who has so responded. Significantly, the gift is hence drawn into the cycle of giving and taking, where a good deed must be accompanied by a suitably...
October 2011
1 post
Schrödinger's Cat
Check out this video on YouTube:
August 2011
2 posts
Electronic Sensor Temporary Tattoos
“Solar cells and wireless coils provide options for power supply. We used this type of technology to measure electrical activity produced by the heart, brain, and skeletal muscles and show that the resulting data contain sufficient information for an unusual type of computer game controller.”...
hang gliding photos
July 2011
1 post
Hadoop and NoSQL Downfall Parody
File a Jira ticket to have the secondary name node renamed…. Hilarious!!!
June 2011
13 posts
Admiring my new SewPixie totes
Clojure/core — Reading
Clojure/core Reading List via clojure.com via http://news.ycombinator.com/news
More BlytheCon 2011
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BlytheCon 2011
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In line for BlytheCon 2011
Succulents at McMenamins edgefield
See the full gallery on Posterous Next to Middle Golf course
Hiking near Multnomah Falls
Ponytails Falls
Breakfast at Fuller's
Pancakes and egg breakfast before hiking at the Gorge
The tri-met max is very clean
Headed for the ace hotel!
Give us genuine green computers
I am a consumer who wants to be able to buy green electronic products. 1. MAKE IT SAFE. Design out the toxic chemicals, and design in recyclable materials, so you can recycle your old products into new ones 2. MAKE IT LAST. Products should last longer and be upgradeable - even when the operating software changes 3. TAKE IT BACK. Products should be made by working with recyclers who are...
The Go-Go's: Still Going
The all-female band is back on the road for the 30th anniversary of its milestone debut, Beauty and the Beat. http://www.npr.org/2011/06/12/137127044/the-go-gos-still-going?ft=1&f=2&sc=17
advanced build and deploy techniques at facebook...
From planet tw… facebook-bittorrent This weekend at Hackernews I stumbled across a great video showing how Facebook pushes new code live. It’s the most advanced push deployment system I have seen. The video is excellent. If you are into software, looking for advanced build and deploy techniques, or just looking for ammunition to improve your own build and deploy process, watch this video....
Bryan Magee's Old TV Interviews with Philosophers
Hell’s a yeah!!!!Bryan Magee’s Old TV Interviews with PhilosophersAll collected in one place! It includes conversations (all from 20-30 years ago) with Bernard Williams, Herbert Marcuse, W.V.O. Quine, John Searle, Martha Nussbaum, and others. (Thanks to Robert Stevens for the pointer.)
May 2011
15 posts
Liking Is for Cowards. Go for What Hurts.
Our infatuation with technology encourages shallow self-reflection, and liking, rather than the harder work of loving. “To speak more generally, the ultimate goal of technology, the telos of techne, is to replace a natural world that’s indifferent to our wishes — a world of hurricanes and hardships and breakable hearts, a world of resistance — with a world so responsive to our wishes as to...
Blanche and Aesop
Posing in their new clothes
My kids cramp my style
They cramp my style in telling a story or copping a feel from Sara or just getting high on grass.
More picture book love
From my friend, lindaj, who always finds the best cuteness :)
Fungi app
The iPhone app store has incorrectly categorized the fungi app in the plants section.
A friend thought you would be interested in this...
Pandora is a free music service that helps you listen to and discover new music. Your friend thought you would be interested in the song “Lover Of Mine” by “Beach House” http://www.pandora.com/music/song/beach+house/lover+of+mine Enjoy!
Fountains of Optimism for Life Way Out There
A newfound abundance of water in the solar system has inspired scientists who hope to find traces of life, but I found this interesting…”Many scientists say it is likely that much of the ice in the inner solar system came from comets. On Earth, cometary impacts early in the planet’s history could have provided this raw material, and the Sun and atmospheric pressure would have done the...
Hume: A Philosopher in Love
David Hume proved himself equal to his philosophy…Yesterday was Hume’s 300th birthday. The “chief triumph of art and philosophy,” he wrote years before meeting Boufflers, is that it “refines the temper” and “points out to us those dispositions which we should endeavor to attain, by a constant bent of mind and by repeated habit.” http://nyti.ms/jfVASx
Playing bakeshop today
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More clojure notes
In Clojure, it is idiomatic to name predicates with a trailing question mark, for example true?, false?, nil?, and zero? Clojure does not allow programs to define new reader macros. The rationale for this has been explained (and debated) on the Clojure mailing list. ...
Picture book love
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On the cloud
You’re a fool to entrust your data to someone else’s servers. Or, for that matter, to your own. It’s the law: your data belongs to Murphy, and one day he’s going to come to collect.
NYTimes: What Drives History
History isn’t always driven by deep historical forces. Sometimes inexplicable individuals step in and take the reins. Just look at Osama bin Laden. “We think of terrorism leaders as hard and intimidating. Bin Laden was gentle and soft, with a flaccid handshake. Yet his soldiers have told researchers such as Peter Bergen, the author of “The Longest War,” that meeting him was a deeply...
A Green Genie Tip: Reduce your driving
Reduce your driving Did you know that cars are responsible for 1/3 of global oil use? And the average car releases about 19 lbs of carbon dioxide per gallon! Try to reduce your driving by just 5-10 miles a week and keep that unnecessary pollution out of the air. Starting your car creates less pollution if the engine is already warm, so combine errands into one trip, and walk or ride a bike to...
One tired dog
See the full gallery on Posterous And one dog still wide awake :)
April 2011
1 post
October 2010
1 post
January 2010
1 post
i've been writing alot of squidoo lens lately...
it is pretty fun.
i don’t want to admit that it’s addictive… like Wikipedia for people who are too lazy to cite sources.
October 2009
4 posts
Scientists try to explain Homer Simpson's... →
In the 1995 Halloween episode of The Simpsons, Homer Simpson finds a portal to the mysterious Third Dimension behind a bookcase, and desperate to escape his in-laws, he plunges through. He finds…
rtexprvalue - what is it? →
That is true or false based on whether or not the attribute can accept a run time expression.
50 Twitter Tools and Tutorials For Designers and... →
the halting problem in javascript →
September 2009
2 posts
digg-style comments in java
/**
* Creates a list of links to pages determined by the displayCount
* If the page number equals the current page or the page number is greater than the page count
* then no link will be added, only the page number.
*
* @return a list of links
*/
public ArrayList getPagingLinks()
{
ArrayList pages = new ArrayList();
if (pageCount < (7 + (adjacents * 2))){
...
oh, the side effects of thinking in jstl
<%@ taglib uri=”http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core” prefix=”c” %> <%@ taglib uri=”http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/functions” prefix=”fn” %> <h2>Site Status:</h2> <%— oh, the side effects of thinking in jstl —%> <c:set var=”envUrlList” value=”${fn:split(‘http://url1.com|http://url2.com|http://url3.com|http://url4.com|http://url5.com|http://url6.com’,’|’)}” />...
August 2009
1 post
WatchStanding Out in the Crowd - Women in Open Source
July 2009
2 posts
require ‘android’
name = android.getInput(“Enter text to speak”, “”)
android.speak(name.result)
android.exit()