Jay McGavren's Journal

#thelegendofchung

krysvs Once, @heisenthought coded a dating site in binary because he was bored. #thelegendofchung about 9 hours ago from Swift

jaymcgavren @krysvs I heard @heisenthought's favorite tool for searching server logs is "cat". #thelegendofchung about 8 hours ago from web

squanderingtime @jaymcgavren @krysvs I heard @heisenthought could bring a box out of kernel panic by glaring at it. #thelegendofchung about 8 hours ago from Tweetie

alandd RT @jaymcgavren: @krysvs I heard @heisenthought's favorite tool for searching server logs is "cat". #thelegendofchung about 8 hours ago from web

jaymcgavren I heard @heisenthought has to overclock his computer to play Quake... since it's a restored UNIVAC. #thelegendofchung about 7 hours ago from web

krysvs @squanderingtime @jmcgavren Bill Gates once personally apologized to @heisenthought (for everything). #thelegendofchung about 7 hours ago from Swift

squanderingtime I heard @heisenthought could make a fully functional webserver using only a Speak & Spell #thelegendofchung about 7 hours ago from Tweetie

jaymcgavren I heard @heisenthought had a client beg him to do Search Engine Optimization... it was Google. #thelegendofchung about 7 hours ago from web

krysvs I heard @heisenthought doesn't have an SSN; he has a MAC address. #thelegendofchung about 6 hours ago from Swift

@jaymcgavren: #ruby That prior one-liner calls every method it can on an integer, string, array, hash, and range. Use with caution on other objects!

less than 5 seconds ago via web

@jaymcgavren: #ruby -e'def f(o);o.methods.each{|n|m = o.method(n);puts %Q/#{m}:#{m[*[o]*m.arity.abs]}/ rescue 1};end;f 1;f "r";f [1]*9;f({:a=>1});f 1..9'

2 minutes ago via web

Lenny discovers GarageBand...

GarageBand was one of the reasons I wanted Lenny to have a Mac. So I was pleased that today, all on his own, he fired up Magic GarageBand and then proceeded to manually edit the generated song.

<a href=’http://jay.mcgavren.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/magic-garageband-song.mp3’ title=’Lenny’s First GarageBand Song’>Lenny’s First GarageBand Song</a>

His “bridge” starts about 1 minute in. It’s, um, a little eclectic, but it’s a start.

Another Ruby tweet...

Was browsing the new Popular Science archives, which led to an article from 1984, which had a picture of the book Creative Graphics for the BBC Microcomputer, which led me to an archived copy of the book online, which had a dirt-simple program to draw Lissajous curves, which led me to write this tweetable Ruby version. (Phew!)

ruby -rcurses -e"include Curses;i=0;loop{setpos 12*(Math.sin(i)+1),40*(Math.cos(i*0.2)+1);addstr'.';i+=0.01;refresh}" #ruby

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If your code base has .xsl files, and you sometimes confuse them with with the .xls files… You might be a Java dev.