December 2009
36 posts
I am outside an abercrombie in a mall in Fresno.
No Internet at the house and we just got the tv working in the RV.
Sydney - Opera House / Rio - Jesus / Pisa - Leaning Tower / Rome - Collosseum / Athens - Acropolis / Chicago - Sears Tower
9 days late thanks to instapaper, I’m thinking of famous city icons, inspired by this muledesign post from @mike_FTW : http://bit.ly/4xGHso
New York - Empire State Bldg. / OK, now I’ve run out. Did I miss any?
New Orleans - Superdome / Hong Kong - Bank Tower / Florence - Duomo / Moscow - Kremlin / Beijing - Forbidden City
more: Baghdad’s crossed swords on the parade grounds
Any number of things in DC: Wash. monument, Pentagon, Capitol, White House, etc
more #cityicons : Tokyo - Mt. Fuji / Berlin - Brandenburg Gate / Vatican City - St. Peter’s
I’m totally with @al3x about tech news. Last few weeks, I check HN and nothing interests me.
RT @mkhl: @mikemccracken Can’t you also hit C-d “inside” C-x C-f to get to dired? (why, yes you can)
emacs tip: if using ido, set ‘show dot for dired’ and ‘enable flex matching’. Not being able to get dired from C-x C-f was annoying.
finally changed my cell number to Texas. Now to work on saying “Y’all”
New #BibDesk release v1.4 - congrats to the team! http://bibdesk.sf.net/ or see Adam G’s post at http://shiftingbalance.org/?p=160 for notes
I actually contributed to #BibDesk 1.4 - I wrote the IEEE Xplore web group parser.
Failing to get citation microformat defined: many months. Giving up and html-scraping: a few weeks. #bibdesk
I really can’t stop listening to Phoenix. Is there a cure for this?
“Cash for Caulkers”. Jay Leno sharpens his pencils. It’s going to be an all-nighter.
SOMETIMES MY WIFE YELLS IN EMAILS. THIS IS FUNNY WHEN IT’S ABOUT DOG PUKE. APPARENTLY THE BOTTOM HALF OF THE VITAMIN BOTTLE HAS RETURNED.
Old Panic logo reminded me of 3RCC logo: http://bit.ly/5pLLmF
Direct link to that Three-Rivers Computing Logo: http://bit.ly/6SjQXs Those were the other computers I grew up on.
Whoa, today I have to revisit code I wrote exactly a year ago. Not sure why that blows my mind, but it happened.
Morning coffee chat was about parallel graph-algorithm benchmarks and how to teach assembly language (using Fortran for I/O).
So, Fortran doesn’t null-terminate character arrays. So now I know that.
Just watched the end of “A.I.” - the suckage of that overlong ending really holds up.
Turducken: “Does one smoke it,” he asked, “or cook it in brownies?” http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/08/us/08bar.html
Having read a biography of Oppenheimer, I’m in favor of the JPL plaintiffs in that one, BTW.
It sounds interesting but maybe impossible to get through Congress…
1st time I’ve heard “Trade and Dividend” : http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/07/opinion/07hansen.html
That should have been “Fee and Dividend”
Been ‘pouring driveway’ on this project. I’m about a quarter of the way back to the garage. I blame @ccgus - I just went in for a lightbulb.
we’re rooting for Red Santa on Top Chef…
Having a little fun abusing django
-objectAtIndex: in Cocoa Uncanny Valley
rentzsch:
Objective-C:
NSLog(@"%@", [[NSArray arrayWithObjects:@"a",@"b",nil] objectAtIndex:-1]);
// => NSRangeException: *** -[NSCFArray objectAtIndex:]: index (-1 (or possibly larger)) beyond bounds (2)
Bit-pattern-wise, (int32_t)-1 == (uint32_t)0xFFFFFFFF, so that innocent-but-invalid -1 gets interpreted as ULONG_MAX.
ULONG_MAX is waaaay outside the bounds of our 2-element array, so...
suffering through a web app with 6-sec server round trip for every changed text field and hundreds of edits left to go #justletmedie
Saw part of “Welcome to Macintosh” doc. last night. some new trivia and cool artifacts - Apple II # 5 - Interviews were a mixed bag though.