August 2010
Just zoomed out a few clicks too far on Google Maps and Hawaii said “HI”
RT @tylerschultz: lambda expressions in JDK 7? http://bit.ly/blgEVN @kevinb9n
Hardware woes: my Mac Pro won’t stay on and my MacBook won’t stay asleep. Time to go back to Windows? jk
Movements Are About Something Real (Steve Benen) →
This is about “freedom.”
Well, I’m certainly pro-freedom, and as far as I can tell, the anti-freedom crowd struggles to win votes on Election Day. But can they be a little more specific? How about the freedom for same-sex couples to get married? No, we’re told, not that kind of freedom.
This is about a fight for American “liberties.”
That sounds great, too....
RT @BadAstronomer: A tornado made of fire. Seriously. A TORNADO MADE OF FIRE! http://is.gd/eD8rV
My first morning glory bloom of the year! http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexchaffee/4929508391/ (Yes, now I’m a gardening dork too.)
Thank God the nice weather is over (@ Dolores Park Cafe) http://4sq.com/6ow7eu
“Peter Shumlin 18,183 - 25 percent
Doug Racine 17,993 - 25 percent
Deb...”
– Shumlin: ‘Looks like we’ve won’ | The Burlington Free Press | Burlington, Vermont
The margin of victory was a couple hundred or so votes among the top three candidates. Amazing (and a desperate cry for IRV).
“The FiveThirtyEight forecasting model, which was based on a rigorous analysis of...”
– Election Forecasts - FiveThirtyEight Blog - NYTimes.com
“Few customers realize the chain is owned by Germany’s ultra-private...”
– Inside the secret world of Trader Joe’s - Aug. 23, 2010
The horrible green box in Dolores Park is gone! http://yfrog.com/j3kolcj
Feels so right, it can’t be Wrong. http://github.com/alexch/wrong
RT @jeremy6d: My #whyday lesson: there is a good reason Camelbak does not make a computer bag. Let’s leave it there.
Working on Wrong for #whyday — a stripped-down assertion library inspired by Assert2.0 — http://github.com/alexch/wrong
“After upgrading to Safari 5.0.1, I noticed that the flashing text insertion...”
– TidBITS Problem Solving: Solve Gmail’s Disappearing Cursor in Safari and Mailplane
I’ve been using rvm so much that I just updated the cheat page with enhanced install and usage: http://cheat.errtheblog.com/s/rvm/
So much time and so little to do. Wait a minute. Strike that. Reverse it. (RT willywonka)
“Until working here at Pivotal the words ‘factory’ and...”
– Life of an Intern - Design Patterns and it all
Where, oh where has my gem server gone? →
Uh-oh! ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::RemoteFetcher::FetchError) bad response Moved Permanently 301 (http://gems.rubyforge.org/latest_specs.4.8)
Whew! gem sources -a...
“P != NP”
– P= NP by Vinay Deolalikar
“The methane—normally frozen at great pressure as gas hydrates embedded within...”
– How Brilliant Computer Scientists Solved the Bermuda Triangle Mystery - Salem-News.Com
“Solved” is an overstatment, but it’s a nice theory.
Oops du jour →
Uh-oh! ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::RemoteFetcher::FetchError) bad response Moved Permanently 301 (http://gems.rubyforge.org/latest_specs.4.8)
Whew! gem sources -a...
Birthday Moustache! http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexchaffee/4873537034/
gem server moved permanently
Uh-oh!
ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::RemoteFetcher::FetchError)
bad response Moved Permanently 301 (http://gems.rubyforge.org/latest_specs.4.8)
Whew!
gem sources -a http://production.s3.rubygems.org/
gem sources -r http://gems.rubyforge.org/
Looks like they weren’t kidding when they said to switch from rubyforge to rubygems.org (née gemcutter)!
Having a beer with the Pope (@ Fly Bar) http://4sq.com/4cpIK7
Having a coffee with two nice dogs (@ Duboce Park Cafe) http://4sq.com/1aA54
Apparently Dolores Park taggers aren’t fans of Firefox or Jesus. http://yfrog.com/0diqxwj
“Censorship is telling a man he can’t have a steak just because a baby can’t chew...”
– Mark Twain
“As far as your cell phones are concerned, I am now indistinguishable from...”
– Hacker Spoofs Cell Phone Tower to Intercept Calls | Threat Level | Wired.com 