Jay McGavren's Journal

2008-07-21

If THESE guys can't make money...

So, looking up Dr. Horrible last night led me to find a whole slew of great web video series:

The Guild

Retarded Policeman

Gorgeous Tiny Chicken Machine Show (haven’t fully watched this yet, but it seems promising)

I’ll be keeping an eye on these to see if they monetize themselves successfully. If even they can’t, I’m declaring internet video still not ready for prime time.

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2008-07-20

Lenny saw a multi-exposure photo on Flickr and thought it was pretty cool, so I gave him a quick demonstration of how to duplicate the effect in Photoshop:

lenny_ghost.jpg

daddy_ghost.jpg

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2008-07-20

jay@MIDORI:D:applicationsInstantRails-2.0-winrails_appstest
$ ruby script/generate scaffold Recipe title:string instructions:string

Man, you miss out on a lot if you’re following Rails 1.0 tutorials. In fact, I tried setting up on Heroku and gave up, tried setting up on DreamHost and gave up, and was about to give up on InstantRails as well. Wonder how much of that was due to 1.0/2.0 incompatibilities?

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2008-07-19

NerdsOfAFeather.com is taken by a squatter. How %$#@ing clever do I have to be to get a cool domain name?!

Maybe I just need to get rid of this fixation on getting a .com… Surely laymen know about .org, .net, and .us by now…

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2008-07-18

They make ‘em better than they used to...

Sitting here looking at the Civic’s odometer - 100,004 miles. It made it (no thanks to me), and is probably good for another 100,000.

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