March 2012
1 post
January 2012
2 posts
A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for...
– A quote by Mark Twain, quoted in a scary New York Times blog article The Demise of Public Libraries
November 2011
2 posts
March 2011
3 posts
February 2011
1 post
December 2010
1 post
October 2010
3 posts
Iron Man on Electric Guitar + Tesla Coils (source)
September 2010
2 posts
The young specialist in English Lit, having quoted me, went on to lecture me...
– Interesting essay by Issac Asimov about “The Relativity of Wrong”.
June 2010
1 post
New York Times - What Is I.B.M.’s Watson? →
Great article by Clive Thompson about I.B.M.’s Watson - a sort of Deep Blue for Jeopardy
April 2010
4 posts
12 Years of the DMCA →
Great summary by the EFF of a number of court cases through the years where free speech lost thanks to the DMCA.
February 2010
1 post
January 2010
1 post
November 2009
2 posts
leonids in kailua a bust. stupid clouds.
June 2009
2 posts
Anyone have a favorite CMS with an intuitive interface for laying out pages? Wordpress/Drupal/Joomla all feel a little too complicated
IT’S 2:02 A.M. ON A COLD SUMMER NIGHT.
I’m sitting in a book store next...
– mr. penumbra’s twenty-four-hour book store - Fun short story.
May 2009
3 posts
TheTumbler
Testing out my friend’s new iPhone App TheTumbler. You can get it at http://iTunes.com/app/thetumbler
March 2009
2 posts
February 2009
1 post
making a Hadoop cluster for fun
January 2009
1 post
Wondering why we can’t be both human and dancer
December 2008
13 posts
Phone located. Still waking up early for some reason. Going to Carmel, IN today.
5 Best Data Visualization Projects of the Year →
Can’t find my phone. Email instead.
Ice storm in Indiana! Also, I inexplicably woke up at 5am.
Layover in Chicago. Brrr
The good news is it seems to have stopped raining. The bad news is the appearance of GIGANTIC potholes in the road.
Last night, I switched from ALSA to OSS4 and I haven’t looked back since. The built-in software mixer is great!
Decent trailer: Monsters vs Aliens
Exhausted from 4 hour surfing marathon. Relaxing in Hawaii Kai, watching Bolt
November 2008
8 posts
Last day in Vegas. Taking it easy
At Rain in Vegas drinking a white Russian - open bar ftw
At Brent’s for lunch. Leaving for Vegas at 2. http://snipurl.com/59hs9