Bulleted List Poetry
January 25, 2013Winter
- Crisp air
- Ground covered in salt
- Bitter cold reflects my soul
- Spring far away
Be
- Nowhere
- Everywhere
- Life in ambiguity
- Never again
Good Dreams Are Actually Bad Dreams
August 8, 2012"Good" Dreams
- Won the lottery
- Can fly
- Getting laid
"Bad" dreams
- Friend died
- Lost all money
- Unprepared for presentation
So called "good" dreams are actually bad dreams and "bad" dreams are actaully good dreams.
The President isn't an Average American
July 12, 2012I'm hearing Mitt Romney take a lot of criticism for not being able to relate to the average American. I think this is totally stupid, just as I did when Obama got it before the 2008 election. The President of the United States is not, and should not be an average American. I want him to be smarter, calmer, more decisive, better looking, and richer than the average American. The things he deals with on a daily basis are entirely different than what the average American encounters. I don't care if he doesn't "feel the pain" of $4.00/gal gasoline.
Trying out Disqus
I'm trying out Disqus for comments. What do you think?
Things to Look Forward To
End of the Workday
The Economist's Style Guide
Anybody who knows me is aware that I’m a total The Economist fanboy. It’s just the best way to keep current on world happenings, politics, business, and finance. They have recently re-posted their Style Guide - a fantastic reference for tricky usage situations, commonly misspelled words, and general rules-of-thumb to keep your writing concise. From the introduction:
Keep in mind George Orwell's six elementary rules ("Politics and the English Language", 1946):
- Never use a Metaphor, simile or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
- Never use a long word where a short one will do (see Short words).
- If it is possible to cut out a word, always cut it out (see Unnecessary words).
- Never use the Passive where you can use the active.
- Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word or a Jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.
- Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous (see Iconoclasm).
Now if only I didn’t hate writing...
Sports
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Links
Create favicon with ImageMagick
test .htaccess code in your browser
.htaccess ModReWrite tutorial at corz.org
Online Photo Editing Free and seems to have many of the features I use in Photoshop
Gravatar offers "A Globally Recognized Avatar" unique to an email address.
Alex Juice My good friend's homepage - rants, video games, musings, and a happening forum.
Gradient Editor CSS gradient generator.
LinuxCommand Linux command line and shell scripting tutorials.
jsfiddle Test JavaScript, HTML and CSS on the web
Well Tempered Clavier Analysis by Siglind Bruhn
Computer Generated Art and stuff
I Love Chew
My good buddy Alex Krasny and I have been slaving away at ilovechew.com for months. I'm proud to say it is now live!
The idea is pretty simple: click the gum enough times to gain a spot on the leaderboard. Bonus chews are awarded for clicking other high score holders, AND for sharing the site on facebook, twitter, digg, and reddit. But even a "simple" game such as this was no small task to implement! What follows is an overview of the architecture of I Love Chew.
Technologies
- PHP
dopula server-side scripting language used for page generation, database interaction, back-end scripts for session management and scorboard logic
- JQuery
- MySQL
JQuery is a JavaScript library which simplifies DOM interaction. I Love Chew uses JQuery for the client-side game logic, image switching, and AJAX calls for sending and reieving scoreboard updates.
MySQL is an open-source database, which is how I Love Chew stores usernames, user URLs, chew scores for active users, and historical scoreboards.
Over at Mortalpowers.com Stephen has written up a technical analysis which should give a potential hacker everything he'd need to cheat the system.
Computerscare's New Digs
You may notice that Computerscare loads at basically the exact same speed, behaves identically, and seems no different than it has ever been. Well you are SOOOO wrong!!! I switched hosts to RackSpace so that I can get a little bit sicker. Love you.
Ants
During a classic interesting conversation with soon-to-be-ex-roomate Cat (over it - I mean 2 years is nothing in the grand scheme of things...), the subject of ants came up (of course). Specifically, their ability to build complicated colonies was considered to be quite out of its mind. The question "is there some sort of guiding entity (ant or not) helping these ants along to build for instance complex ventelation sytems?" was posed. I am of the opinion that the ants just do these things without any 'boss' telling them what to do, just like the human body grow bones and veins without any boss telling them which direction to go or when to stop. There are so many orders and instructions, that when looked at from afar it seems to be guided by some sort of master. Feel free to discuss in the comments section that doesn't exist, or share via the facebook,twitter,etc links that aren't there. jjj.
Chat With Prisoners
Chat with a prisoner from a random maximum-security prison somewhere in the United States!
Standup Comedy
This is the only time in my life I have truly been "in the zone"
The Blues Scale
The Blues Scale in E
e ------------------------0
B --------------------0-3--
G --------------0-2-3------
D ----------0-2------------
A ----0-1-2----------------
E 0-3----------------------
Code Anywhere
I have been fetting on a web-based way to
- Edit php/css/javascript files online and
- use an ftp connection to my server to make push the changes immediately to my site
Well, what do you know, you can find it on the internet!. codeanywhere offers 50 MB of bandwidth per month for free, as well as more for pay (of course)
Need More Words.
Did you see how far Andy threw that baseball?!?!?!?!?
Did you hear how loud Saul was chewing at dinner?!?!
Did you smell Emily's potroast? I can't wait to dig in!
There is a word missing from the english language. All of the words in italics above express how we sensed something in particular. How
do you describe how long something took? e.g. :
Did you _________ (new word here!) how long it took Paul to tie his shoes?
Did you _________ (new word here!) how fast Trish ran to her car?
People generally use the words 'see','hear' (usually not 'smell') to describe this, but there is something missing. You could hear that a football player had a very fast run to the endzone, or you could see the player actually doing this, but there is no exact word to describe the experience of differing amounts of time. What gives?
I propose tempra as the word to fill this void. Tell your friends.