Diana's super-power of plot prediction strikes again...
Warning: Partial spoilers of Hancock plot within!
Read more...Here’s where my Safari Bookshelf sits at the moment:
Cross-Platform GUI Programming with wxWidgets By Julian Smart; Kevin Hock; Stefan Csomor Design Patterns in Ruby By Russ Olsen Ruby on Rails: Up and Running By Bruce A. Tate; Curt Hibbs The Rails Way By Obie Fernandez The Ruby Way: Solutions and Techniques in Ruby Programming, Second Edition By Hal Fulton
I’m actually pretty much done with the wxWidgets and Rails: Up and Running books, but I generally don’t delete books until I need the shelf slots. I retrieved The Rails Way because I’m not too pleased with the organization of the Rails: Up and Running book, and besides, I need a reference more than a tutorial now.
Gonna play with my new “purchases” starting tonight, so look for impressions in the coming weeks.
Read more...Omaha
Iz Izzy!
Enter the Nate
Jeremy Loves Mexican Juices
twtr is gud
This should save me some coding…
jmcgavre@JMCGAVREN:C:work $ gem install twtr Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org Install required dependency highline? [Yn] y Successfully installed twtr-0.1.4 ... jmcgavre@JMCGAVREN:C:work $ twtr setting >> C:/Documents and Settings/jmcgavre/twtr/twtr.yml Edit twtr config? [y/N]:y Twitter username: jaymcgavren ... jmcgavre@JMCGAVREN:C:work $ twtr ft jaymcgavren: @kstaken You should have Twitter SMS your phone so that you can never escape from it. :) (I'm not reading much either.) joshknowles: Should I be using git pull --rebase & git push or should I doing my development on a branch and pulling/merging with master? ... jmcgavre@JMCGAVREN:C:work $ twtr rp chrismatthieu: @jaymcgavren you rock! The htmlentities ruby gem was *exactly* what I needed! Thank you. joshknowles: @jaymcgavren thanks! jmcgavre@JMCGAVREN:C:work $ twtr up -m "Testing twtr command line client (sudo gem install twtr)... Nice so far." jaymcgavren: Testing twtr command line client (sudo gem install twtr)... Nice so far. jaymcgavren: @kstaken You should have Twitter SMS your phone so that you can never escape from it. :) (I'm not reading much either.) ...
API available for all the above, too.
Read more...Here at Gangplank hack night, and in the first 60 minutes I participated in an unexpected podcast and met my first angel investor (didn’t have an elevator pitch for him, but I gave myself a good introduction).
Not bad for the space of an hour. I like this place!
Read more...It’s about 6 AM, the morning after Dad and Ruth’s wedding. It was very successful. Nice ceremony and a beautiful, beautiful reception, they rented out Lauritzen Gardens in Omaha, got a string quartet, DJ, all that good stuff.
We retired to Glen and April’s with John and Lacey and cousin Chuck, just sitting out by the fire pit and yakking away. A really nice time, but unfortunately now we have to be up in time to get to an 11:30 AM brunch and we’re probably gonna be tired as hell. Oh, well I had a nice time and it’s well worth it.
Read more...Lenny is a REALLY cool kid...
I absolutely love, love, adore Stendeck’s “Frozen Sun” because of its eardrum-crushing, distorted drums and wailing sirens in the background, but I figured Lenny would hate it for the same reasons. I mean, he’s barely graduated from nursery rhyme CDs.
So I had Frozen Sun on in the car, but turned way, way lower than I’d like to because Lenny was in the back seat. Suddenly I hear him beatboxing to it (a habit he picked up from me). When it faded to synth pads at the bridge, he stopped, and I asked him:
“So, do you want this on CD?”
“Nah, no thanks.”
“Oh. OK.”
Disappointed, I drove on in silence, until the percussion kicked back in on the song, and Lenny exclaimed,
“OK, yeah, I do want this song.”
I gave a huge grin. “You just didn’t like the part without any drums, huh?”
“Yeah.”
I set up MTV Music Generator 3 on the old XBox for him the other day, and he gleefully set about randomly filling the score with nothing but bass loops, which when played simultaneously double their volume: “duhduhDUHduhDUHduhduhDUH”… Well, whatever, he’s having fun. Finally got him to add some percussion, and maybe we’ll do a more structured tutorial when he’s ready.
Should I be getting him violin lessons or something? Maybe, and I will if he asks for them, but I couldn’t do that with as much enthusiasm. Besides, exposing your kids to the things you love is the greatest reward of being a parent (and gods know I need some rewards).
Read more...Narrow Stairs
D and I are both definitely liking Narrow Stairs (Death Cab for Cutie). “Cath…” is a whole season of a TV drama wrapped up in a single song. “Bixby Canyon Bridge” evokes the lyrical part of “Different Names for the Same Thing”, “I Will Posess Your Heart” the rambling jam session part. There’s a few songs that are mediocre by the band’s standards but that means you merely listen to them instead of include them on “soundtrack of my life” mixtapes.
Plans remains the album to get first, but if you’re hungry for more after that, Narrow Stairs may satiate you.
Read more...What close button?
This isn’t a good first experience for a new major revision of the app you use most…
I saw what was going on immediately, of course (assumptions about my config), but if even a small percentage of those 8 million downloaders get confused by this, it’d be better to just leave that friendly little message off. (Personally, I’m sick of the welcome pages altogether, since I get one every time FF upgrades itself.)
Just had to point that out, because I’m used to better from the Firefox team. Aside from that my initial impressions are positive; the interface looks cleaner, and maybe more responsive (that could be the placebo effect though).
Read more...Whatever your expectations of The Happening may be, it’s probably not going to live up to them. Hell, it didn’t even piss me off like I was expecting, cause it actually has a couple moments. But that’s before they begin beating you over the head with the “mystery”.
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