October 2007
63 posts
btucker: Buying a copy of windows xp. Oh the humanity. On the bright side it was only $16 thanks to this whole being a student thing.
btucker: loving that I can finally bounce all my misdirected gmail messages thanks to Mail.app + gmail imap
btucker: @Ellis, me too! I’ve been wanting this big time. I really hope facebook will someday support it… though I’m not holding my breath.
Matrix Tutorial 3: Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors →
useful notes to complement CMU 36-350 lectures
btucker: boo, leopard killed gcc. sounds like the fix is only a download away, though
btucker: the calculator functionality in the spotlight search is really nice
btucker: trying to decide what to put in my spaces
btucker: Bummed out I have to stop pretending I’m not a student soon.
btucker: getting acquainted with the new cat
btucker: totally loving that @brandtkurowski has leopard installed before me.
btucker: about to cross the border into VT after being away since August.
btucker: trying using netbeans (with vi key bindings) as my rails dev environment. So far, so good. Actually, I’m loving it!
btucker: loving the smell of this late fall night. Winter’s coming!
btucker: Heh, you apparently can’t start a csv file with “ID”, or excel can’t parse it. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/323626
btucker: Impressed/dismayed facebook pulled off their insane 15B valuation. Though in retrospect they played the whole thing perfectly.
btucker: SWEEET!!!! Gmail’s getting IMAP support!
btucker: Wishing testing was DRYer
btucker: trying out the new CPC facebook ads. So far 6000+ impressions, 0 clicks. :-/
btucker: interested what’s going on at facebook on tuesday. My guess is Google’s buying a healthy portion at an insane valuation
btucker: The next revision to the MacBook will have a black border around the screen. Remember you heard it here first.
btucker: watching the leopard guided tour. Hey, it looks like a nice upgrade
btucker: enjoying a quiet saturday night eating homemade pizza, watching season 3 of Arrested Development, and hacking in ruby
btucker: wondering why does anything with steamed milk cost so much more at starbucks?
btucker: rockin’ my new chair! It came today and it’s pretty sweet!
The Lessons of Shrek
My parents saw Shrek (the first one from 2001) recently and were telling me how much they loved it. I said that I, too, thought it was a great film, but got totally hung up on what I saw as a major mixed message it conveys. That being namely that it’s okay to be different, unless you’re short. I figured I couldn’t be the only one to bothered by this, and sure enough...
btucker: checking out mailtrap, this could be incredibly useful: http://rubymatt.rubyforge.org/mailtrap/
btucker: woah, waking up after sleeping for like 13 hrs yesterday.
“Q: I’m not a lawyer and I don’t understand the recent Supreme Court...”
– It’s The “Gore Exception”
btucker: so loving the design (both visually and functionally) of vimeo
Moose - A complete modern object system for Perl 5 →
btucker: dear US Airways, how hard do you have to make it to purchase tickets through your site? I’m on the third time through now
btucker: is it weird that I’m sitting in a perl conference writing python? I dimmed my screen for good measure. ;-)
Pittsburgh Perl Workshop: Day 1
I’m taking a break from getting killed by 15-441 and spending the morning at ppw2007. I’ll post some thoughts on the sessions here.
Keynote
This was mostly a look at the demographics of the perl community which didn’t interest me too much. My main takeaway from the Perl Survey is that the community (and by correlation Perl’s use) has stagnated. This is sad, but logical...
btucker: spending the morning/early afternoon at ppw2007 before diving back into schoolwork
btucker: trying to create witty testing data at almost 5AM is probably not a wise idea…
btucker: getting killed by stupid off by one errors
Ze's Back! →
Well not exactly. But a great new little ditty. Have a listen.
btucker: mildly bummed I missed the smashing pumpkins concert here a couple days ago. Stupid networking project sucking away all my time.
btucker: dammit verizon. it is NOT OK you decided to start resolving non-existant domains to your search site with ads. I’m paying for this. sheesh
btucker: sheesh… having btucker [%] gmail.com is not fun. this does not bode well for the competence of the btuckers in the world.
“Insiders will realize that this is another step in our nefarious master plan to...”
– ongoing · The Plot Thickens
Hahaha
btucker: seriously thinking about ditching gmail.
btucker: enjoying the first beautiful day in too long. It even smells like fall!
btucker: amused someone was HTTP_REFERER spamming us with his resumé.
btucker: making an impulse purchase: http://tinyurl.com/25a4a2
btucker: wasting time looking through the google maps pittsburgh street view that got released today.
btucker: totally disoriented afterbeing up all night and then sleeping for 3 hours this afternoon. Sitting outside enjoying the newly cool weather.
btucker: amazed at how many emails with confidential info get mistakenly sent to my @gmail.com address. I get them about twice/wk, never same sender
btucker: IPhone just crashed hard for the first time since I got it.