August 2007
52 posts
btucker: getting some work done while waiting around in PHL
btucker: got our water back, but we’re not allowed to drink it
btucker: still no water here… this sucks
btucker: no water thanks to this: http://tinyurl.com/22fg29
“Every religion is not equal. That’s my belief. That’s logic.”
– Tim Wildmon, president of the American Family Association
“With half a trillion dollars [amount spent on the Iraq War] you could build...”
– The Sietch Blog » Running The Numbers - Bending Swords Into Wind Turbines
Ben Tucker: still dealing with nearly unusable wireless on campus. But managing to get some work done between classes.
“Most folks I know have a preferred candidate - Hillary, Obama, Edwards or Gore....”
– I no longer fear the Kucinich Revolution. » Town Called Dobson
Ben Tucker: pissed at bittorrent for continuing to render the campus-wide wifi @ cmu worthless.
Seesaw: An Improved Restart System for Mongrel →
“If blue states care less about moral values, why are divorce rates so low in the...”
– The New York Times > Week in Review > To Avoid Divorce, Move to Massachusetts
How I made my presentations a little better →
Ben Tucker: sad to be finishing my last day in the office til December
Ben Tucker: that was bizarre.. got another call from the emergency thing and it was some guy jabbering on about what kind of car we wanted to buy.
Ben Tucker: interesting… cmu is using some new emergency alert service and I just got a message on my phone that there was a bomb threat. ugh
Ben Tucker: getting GTDInbox setup… I’m really liking this. http://www.gtdgmail.com/
Ben Tucker: good timing: filled up my mocha joe’s card on last day in town
Ben Tucker: just noticed “I’m Feeling Lucky” is suddenly gone from google search result pages. (it’s still on the homepage, though). End of an era.
Ben Tucker: someone really needs to make a fbml preprocessor that mimics what facebook’s hidden system does.
Ben Tucker: pleased that my stock pick from yesterday, LLNW, is up 11% so far today, bummed I didn’t actually buy any.
Ben Tucker: working late trying to get three projects in decent shape by friday
Ben Tucker: playing with our fancy new chairs: http://tinyurl.com/27e2vu
Ben Tucker: @Ellis: very cool about the TC20 news!
Ben Tucker: filing a rails bug after getting bitten by this: http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/9339
Ben Tucker: reading about zipcar.com which is opening up a location on CMU’s campus.
Ben Tucker: trying to backup with mozy once again after getting a little to excited about messing with its sqlite db last month
Ben Tucker: ZOMG! down to just six 70s
Ben Tucker: in pain after getting stung in the lip by a burrito. yeah, my question too.
prefuse | interactive information visualization... →
“My UPS goes chirp. Randomly, but a lot. When I put a towel over it, it stops....”
– Sucking less, on a budget: Forty two
Facebook is Closed
I’m totally out of the honeymoon period with the “Facebook Platform”, it’s so obvious the power grab they’re making. It’s down right brilliant that they’ve managed to offer a fairly extensive API with nearly zero potential value outside of their walled garden
Ben Tucker: really sad facebooker isn’t released yet. I’d love to use it instead of rfacebook
Ben Tucker: pissed at the facebook application registration interface. it deletes all your data if there are validation errors! argh, retyping
Ben Tucker: back in the office after a couple days of meetings and work in beautiful Green River
Moody - Mac OS X app to mood tag your music in... →
Ben Tucker: really digging pandora tonight… when it’s good, it rocks. Just had an awesome run of Immaculate Machine, Ben Folds, & Fountains Of Wayne
Ben Tucker: i hate making forms.. so. so. boring.
“class Swivel < Startup; has_many :jobs, :limit=> 4; end # Swivel needs 4...”
– Ad showing above a gmail conversation discussing rails. swivel.com/about/jobs
“So, an E-flat, a G-flat, and a B-flat walk into a bar.
And the bartender says,...”
– QDB: Quote #791482
Ben Tucker: thinking it’s cool that in the ad for the new iMac they have the mouse setup for a lefty. http://www.apple.com/imac/ads/
Ben Tucker: doing some massive code & spec refactoring
Ben Tucker: hating IE6, and annoyed that I’m getting a ton of spam in my inbox all of a sudden
Ben Tucker: mucking about with bibme hosting configuration
Ben Tucker: watching “Minesweeper The Movie” http://tinyurl.com/3ylzwr
Ben Tucker: learning about and playing with SVK and discovering it solved much of SVN’s clunky-ness around branching. Plus you get a local repository!
“Senator: “I’m just asking you what you do. Let’s not be too...”
– The sound bite every American should hear
Ben Tucker: heading home after a long day at the office