alexch's almanac

2009

December 15
November 42
October 38
September 67
August 102
July 86
June 115
May 157
April 91
March 77
February 128
January 77

2008

December 80
November 183
October 231
September 284
August 103
July 34
June 65
May 35
April 20
March 8
February
January
RT @ntoddpax: So according to Libertarians… “health” is not part of...
Jun 1st
So much cool shit at #makerfaire
Jun 1st
RT @alexch: Heading to Maker Faire in a pre-exploded car #makerfaire
May 31st
Heading to Maker Faire in a pre-exploded car
May 31st
“In Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, we put Buckaroo...”
— The Banzai-Trek Connection...
May 31st
sconover: via graphjam.files.wordpress.com
May 31st
“At the liberaltarian dinner, many of the liberals...”
— Bruce Bartlett on...
May 30th
“The Pentagon spokesperson, Bryan G. Whitman, who came to...”
— The Bogus Torture Coverup - ...
May 29th
Got a good night’s sleep for the first time in weeks. If only someone could bottle that…
May 29th
Cassandra
May 29th
Just got Crackdown (2007 XBox game). It’s like Grand Theft Auto, only fun.
May 28th
T4 suuuuuuuuuuuuuuucked
May 28th
“Like in the franchise itself, history has been changed, and...”
— EXCLUSIVE: WHAT WENT WRONG...
May 28th
“I know there’s been a lot of talk online about moving...”
— io9 - Sarah Connor’s...
May 28th
So sad that the Supreme Court cancelled The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Man-Robot marriage will one day...
May 26th
“Gregory: isn’t Obama just like Bush? Durbin: no...”
— The Bobblespeak Translations:...
May 26th
“Instead of closing or breaking up failed banks, dividing the...”
— Tough Love for Obama | The...
May 26th
“There is no question that Sonia Sotomayor would be on the...”
— The Dynamic of the Nomination...
May 26th
Kellbot! · Life-Size Katamari Actually more like a...
May 25th
Particletree » Rediscovering the Button...
May 25th
Blueprint is a CSS framework, which aims to cut down on your...
May 25th
“Any piece of software reflects the organizational structure...”
— Conway’s Law -...
May 25th
To Be a Baby § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM
May 25th
Ready for action
May 24th
Cold-brewed iced coffee. I started with the iced coffee...
May 24th
“When we demo Delicious Library to people, about ⅔ of them...”
— Delicious Library 2
May 24th
Monkey Patch Du Jour
May 24th
Trash. GigaPica : Mooi Milieu!
May 23rd
Almost 8 and still totally daytime. OMGWTF
May 23rd
Boston Police Department: We Will Let You...
May 22nd
I present to you a manifesto of done. This was written in...
May 22nd
devclue: Ruby's $LOADED_FEATURES
May 22nd
The Copenhagen Left From Bicycle Track Lessons Learned...
May 21st
“The distributed, collaborative nature of open source...”
— Daring Fireball: Ronco...
May 21st
“The idea that GUI software needs to be designed for “dumb...”
— Daring Fireball: Ronco...
May 21st
How to Choose Colors Everyone Likes |...
May 20th
how many licks does it take to get to the center of a...
May 20th
jar: sconover: PHD Comics: Science News Cycle
May 20th
Warch Watch
Elisabeth “Right Wing Idiot” Hasselbeck PWNED by Jesse “The Body” Ventura on...
May 20th
“We are so used to seeing the world through a camera lens...”
—  More Real Than Real: Star...
May 20th
Metasploit: +=
May 20th
B2B Pee Crimes: http://bit.ly/ILwDw
May 19th
Spent the morning optimizing Erector. Not a euphemism. http://erector.rubyforge.org
May 19th
United Nations Unconventional Culture Commission Denounces...
May 19th
“Props. 1A-1F would damage public services and lock the state...”
— San Francisco Bay Guardian
May 19th
“More and more the timeline is raising the question of why,...”
— Maureen Dowd, plagiarist for...
May 19th
“When viewing all items, a third option is available, called...”
— Sorting my reading list -...
May 19th
“Inconsolata is my favorite monospaced font, and it’s...
May 19th
Dragon Labs » Rainbows » The Demo
May 19th
Warch Watch
jar: 40 minute indie Lord of the Rings fan film coming free to the internet May 2009 THE HUNT FOR...
May 18th
Warch Watch
jar: REGULATION VACATION CELEBRATION! (via PublicServiceAdmin)
May 18th
I’ll tell you what would really hurt. jar: (via...
May 18th
Warch Watch
jar: bruceb: THE FACTS IN THE CASE OF MISTER HOLLOW (via nfb)
May 18th
Minim by Atomic Cicada
May 18th
“The proposal of Peak Wingnut Theory is understandable, as it...”
— “Wingularity”, the...
May 18th
Firedoglake » Give Paulson 150...
May 17th
“Months ago I noted that the simplest way to get banks...”
—  The consequences of (yet...
May 17th
“When banks are charging 30 percent interest rates, they are...”
— Bernie!!! The consequences of...
May 17th
“Gregory continues: “So that’s the reality of the...”
— David Gregory Yawns At Torture...
May 17th
“No one,” says another former official, “threw sand in the...”
—  AND HE SHALL BE JUDGED: GQ...
May 17th
Today is hot hot hot. And so’s the weather.
May 17th
“Ultimately, I would like it if we could suggest, by the...”
— Alan Moore...
May 16th
“We’re not sloppy as storytellers. We don’t go for this...”
— Alan Moore...
May 16th
“So the obsessive mindset required to put together an episode...”
— Alan Moore...
May 16th
“So in creating a League of Extraordinary Gentlemen for 2009,...”
— Alan Moore...
May 16th
Matthew Yglesias  » What Do Federal Taxes Pay...
May 16th
The Explorers program, a coeducational affiliate of the Boy...
May 16th
“While Lovelock uses “Gaia” to refer to...”
— Is nature one mean mother? -...
May 16th
Woot! Dollhouse v2: http://bit.ly/sMjPL
May 16th
Unit tests are awesome. I’m just saying.
May 16th
Rubular: a Ruby regular expression editor and...
May 16th
pozorvlak: If-statements in Smalltalk
May 15th
texts from last night
May 15th
Sinatra Cheat
May 15th
XHTMLized
May 15th
100 Geeks You Should Be Following On Twitter...
May 15th
Warch Watch
jar: My Favorite Movie (Star Trek vs. Star Wars) - CollegeHumor Video
May 15th
Warch Watch
MAX-Pixies-Debaser Ukulele Rock!!!ウクレレ・ピクシーズ (via maxevancejpn)
May 15th
RT @everyone RT this if you disagree with Twitter’s decision to hide replies to people you...
May 14th
“Anyway, apart from his godlike powers to create, Ray-Kay’s...”
—  The Singularity Is Lame And...
May 14th
“[F]or the average person, knowing their approximate home and...”
— Your Morning Commute is...
May 14th
“Storage [in 2030] is basically so cheap it’s nearly...”
— Charlie’s Diary: LOGIN...
May 14th
“SPELLING WITH MY BRAIN”
— Brain-Twitter project offers...
May 14th
TextMate Blog » Git Bundle
May 13th
Warch Watch
jar: Trekkie plays Star Trek theme on Theremin (via diggsharrington)
May 13th
jar: sumfight: Spock Obama
May 13th
jar: Eat the body of the FSM! Hallelujah! Sweet and chewy...
May 13th
“You give me a waterboard, Dick Cheney and one hour, and...”
— Jesse Ventura, via The Daily...
May 13th
Behavior-driven testing with RSpec
May 13th
So if Khan is still drifting in space somewhere asleep… then Star Trek II can be The Wrath Of...
May 11th
“Spanish Mathematicians have discovered a new pattern in...”
— Slashdot | New Pattern Found...
May 11th
“Does anyone think a carbon tax could be enacted into law...”
— Climate Progress  » Blog...
May 11th
Mexico OKs Bill Legalizing Narcotics | AHN |...
May 11th
This map at Wikipedia claims the entire energy output of the...
May 11th
Nanoo Nanoo
May 11th
Git Community Book
May 11th
chronic - a natural language date/time parser...
May 11th
Capturing Standard Out In Unit Tests
May 11th
JavaScript dependency management and...
May 11th
Smart Eric: “Star Trek is ‘Lost’ in Space.”
May 11th
“There are something about those flares, especially in a...”
— io9 - J.J. Abrams Admits Star...
May 10th
Call Recorder for Skype - Automatically...
May 10th
“In the next hundred days, I will strongly consider losing my cool.” - Barack Obama
May 10th
jar: Cloaking devices, like the Star Trek technology that...
May 10th
The world’s lowest-density solid is a silica nanofoam...
May 9th
“According to the Director, he did not read the email until...”
— White House Memorandum:...
May 9th
Trek was brilliant. Bravo, JJ.
May 9th
Raising my BAC to an acceptable minimum before seeing Trek with SODS
May 9th
“1970 - …Lambdas are relegated to relative obscurity...”
— One Div Zero: A Brief,...
May 8th
About a dozen people on plane wearing SARS masks, all Asian.
May 8th
RT @rcoder: Rails 3 Engines would benefit a lot from Erector-style templates. Writing parameterized...
May 8th
Just heard in IRC: “the problem with acts_as_ferriss is that it only works like four hours out...
May 8th
Just saw a guy walk by carrying a sack of hammers. (Couldn’t tell who was dumber. ) #railsconf
May 7th
Get CLEAN CODE wristbands for yourself, or for your team. ...
May 7th
RT @casademora: Seeing how to do views the right way with Erector @ #railsconf
May 7th
Jeff is totally nailing his Erector talk. #railsconf
May 7th
Room service arrived while I was in the shower. Said he enjoyed listening to my rendition of...
May 7th
“What killed Smalltalk is that it was just too easy to make a mess.” -Ward Cunningham...
May 7th
Uncle Bob nailed it. #railsconf
May 7th
Erector 0.6.3 - Now Ready to Conquer The...
May 7th
Preparing for my lightning talk: “Rails Is So Last Year” (or, “Rails Sucks”,...
May 6th
most people don’t know the difference between prolific and profound.they both have a lot of...
May 6th
The more engineers at dinner, the longer it takes to split the check. #railsconf
May 6th
Anticipating eating lots of meat with Cucumber
May 6th
I don’t really care about DRY; I care about “is it easy to read?” -Aslak...
May 6th
“GitHub made Cucumber possible” - Aslak #railsconf
May 6th
RubyGems Gets Plugins
May 6th
21 Ruby Tricks You Should Be Using In Your...
May 5th
Attending the “learning ruby” session at #railsconf. I figure it’s about time. :-)
May 5th
RT @photoemagery: a good system has a lot of ravioli code rather than spaghetti code. Rails is...
May 5th
Preparing the codebase for a #railsconf release of http://erector.rubyforge.org
May 5th
Working on Erector with Jeff Dean in the #cabooseconf room
May 5th
I am on the Tarmac! Where r u?
May 4th
Thanx tweetlings for info! Best way to #railsconf is in a limo with 3 supermodels and a jacuzzi. 2nd...
May 4th
Flying in to #railsconf — Dear twitter, what’s the best way to get from the airport to...
May 4th
Got through SFO metal detector without beeping, despite my new adamantium skeleton.
May 4th
RT @hasmanyjosh: “swine flu” is so boring. it should be called “hamthrax”...
May 4th
Overview EyeTV Hybrid
May 4th
Tech Test Drive: Nothing small about Mac Mini’s...
May 4th
RT @dws Barring an “erector helps you get it up!” presentation, you’re safe from...
May 3rd
“Today’s human population is descended from twice as many...”
— Is There Anything Good About...
May 3rd
Processing.js
May 3rd
“For now, the point is that it explains how we can have...”
— Is There Anything Good About...
May 3rd
“In an important sense, men really are better AND worse than...”
— Is There Anything Good About...
May 3rd
“Ruby 1.9 is 2x faster than 1.8. But the real world improvements are even better.”...
May 3rd
Catching up on the #gogaruco pr0ntroversy, and then suddenly honestly fearful of offending someone...
May 3rd
Warch Watch
Elisabeth Hendrickson Lightning Interview (via WardCunningham)
May 2nd
sconover: jar: lookingup: secondstar05: 1991: ...
May 2nd
I think I'm an agnostic...
May 2nd
Ship of Theseus - Wikipedia, the free...
May 2nd
David Chalmers - Wikipedia, the free...
May 2nd
Warch Watch
Obama Budget Cuts Visualization (via 10000Pennies)
May 2nd
“Chalmers’ book, The Conscious Mind (1996), is widely...”
— David Chalmers - Wikipedia,...
May 1st
Red Sarah (for Steve) Mike Sterling’s Progressive...
May 1st