December 2007
68 posts
Volley 10 →
Van Meter puts it away, and this match is over!
November 2007
46 posts
GOP YouTube Debate: Who Loves Torture and Hate... →
Holy hell… you almost feel like you’re watching satire, except… it’s actually a presidential debate. And these are really candidates.
Why Global Warming Is Bad for the iPhone →
Some Python I find really hard to read
I was puzzling over this for awhile:
return 1 in afterloss and max(afterloss) > 1
What I really don’t like about that style is it’s awfully easy to misread/type as:
return 1 if afterloss and max(afterloss) > 1
which of course means something completely different.
@brandtkurowski: yeah, it is surprising. Anyway, I’ve used List::Util::reduce (which is in core) in the past and really like its syntax.
Google Reader on the iPhone tip
If you find it annoying that google sends external links through gwt you can turn that off in the settings screen linked at the bottom of the page.
learning about doctest.. this is really cool. It just needs to integrate with autotest
trying to figure out how this week is going to happen
coping with no internet or cell service. Well, I actually may have just gotten dialup-quality internet
made it to VA, watching it’s a mad mad mad mad world.
downloading some podcasts for my drive to VA (for which I’m already behind schedule leaving).
Feeling really lame that I just learned NilClass#to_s => “”
so the whole, bounce emails sent to my gmail address by not intended for me thing only kinda works. 75% of the time the person resends it.
thinking about learning how to use illustrator/freehand. I’m finally reading the Tufte books i’ve had since 2004 and I’m inspired..
wondering how much IGC is paying for all the ask.com product placement in Weeds
btucker: mission for next semester: be able to keep normal hours like a regular person
btucker: sooo…. tired, but miles to go, etc, etc
btucker: laughing at the new “get a mac” commercials: http://movies.apple.com/getamac/ Those were really funny (especially “Podium”).
btucker: giving my roomate a ride. His car was either stolen or towed. We’re hoping the latter.
btucker: adding and removing columns to MyISAM tables with over a million rows kinda sucks
btucker: why oh why to the _counter variables rails creates default to 1 (and not 0) if you don’t pass render a collection?
btucker: crappy apple hardware strikes again: my keyboard decides to stop responding every few minutes.. this is annoying!
btucker: amazed at the extent Starbucks embraces the whole christmas thing and how much the customers eat (or drink) it up.
btucker: dealing with stiffness in the right-hand fingers for the past couple weeks. not sure what’s going on, but it makes typing uncomfortable :(
btucker: I really don’t understand the whole recruiting thing. from watching classmates it seems exactly like applying to college all over again.
btucker: recusing myself from one commitment in an effort to make my life slightly less insane.
btucker: somewhat amused at getting spammed by catalogchoice.org
btucker: loving the new gmail… it’s so fast!
btucker: is it a bad sign I can never remember where I parked anymore? I seem to always go to where I parked on the prior day.
btucker: wishing I could be spending my time more productive pursuits.
btucker: really impressed with the new advertising in twitterific.. I’m actually noticing it and find myself clicking on them often..
btucker: hey, cool! CMU beat out stanford this year in the Darpa Grand Challenge! http://www.darpa.mil/grandchallenge/
btucker: having a really hard time focusing on this CS project
btucker: trying to figure out what courses to take in the spring.. registrations coming up soon already
“Giuliani claims he might not have survived prostate cancer under...”
– Rudy Giuliani, socialized medicine, national health insurance, healthcare, prostate cancer | Salon.com
btucker: BDD’ing it up
btucker: somewhat excited after finding out Randall Munroe’s coming to campus next week
btucker: wow another beautiful fall day. This weather’s been rocking!