August 2009
33 posts
The wall of gum is even more epic than I thought! http://yfrog.com/7273tj
Giz Explains: How to Actually Make Coffee →
A decent breakdown, starting with the beans and the roast. Money quote: There’s no way around this: If you care about coffee, you have to grind the beans right before you make it. As soon as they’re ground, the oils inside the beans are exposed to air, and the thousand different flavor compounds inside start dying. Coffee’s fragile, man.Unfortunately, doesn’t mention the...
The Longest Poem in the World: Generated real-time from Twitter status updates. Amusing and surreal. http://www.longestpoemintheworld.com/
Upgraded to Snow Leopard, now wrestling with various gems and MacPorts. May end up trying again with a clean install…
Sears Caught Selling "Grills to Cook Babies"... →
Hilarious. This is what happens when we let fellow developers cut corners. DEAD BABIES, people.
#songsincode do self.look_at($world) && self.notice!($world.turning) while (self.guitar.gently_weeps?)
A little shaky leaving @cfsd today. 150 wall balls in just under 18 minutes. Wondering if I’ll be able to walk tomorrow…
Brooklyn Artists Propose Local Currency →
Introducing the Illuminato X Machina →
More Worldwide Photo Walk Images Honored →
Week two at @CFSD continues to humble. Today: seven sets of 1x push press at max. (Mine? 98lbs.) Lovin’ the friendly & motivating community.
Health insurance considered harmful: Consumers are too shielded from the costs of what they demand. http://tr.im/wDcS, http://tr.im/wDcT
I’d trade my health benefits for an increase in salary any day. Insurance is for rare catastrophes, competition is for routine maintenance.
Just found URL for Google Reader’s “Most Popular” feed – as if I don’t already spend enough time reading RSS! http://tr.im/wDYX
URL-shortener tr.im to go open-source & provide real-time aggregate click data: http://tr.im/wzvS. Interesting potential here.
First Rule of Usability: Don't Listen to Users →
Classic wisdom on software development: speculation is the greatest enemy to usability.
Ultimately, the way to get user data boils down to the basic rules of usability:
Watch what people actually do.
Do not believe what people say they do.
Definitely don’t believe what people predict they may do in the future.
Speculation is the greatest enemy to usability. The best thing any team...
As time goes on I find it progressively harder to believe that I have squeezed so much of my life into such small computer screens…
Gentle summer evening and the sound of crickets for the perfect end of a restful day. Wait—iPhone, what are you doing here?!
Enjoying a free tasting of some awesome local beer! (@ Lightning Brewery in Poway) http://bit.ly/2lrtk8
Were I still a freelancer, I’d be all over @jetblue’s $599 unlimited ticket. Ah well. My travel plans for Aug–Sept should suffice :)
The Bait and Switch of Contemporary Christianity →
A dead-on rant on the tendency of contemporary churchgoers to substitute religiosity for love. The single most damaging phenomenon to the witness of Christianity in America today is the collective behavior of the Sunday morning lunch crowd. Never has a more well-dressed, entitled, dismissive, haughty or cheap collection of Christians been seen on the face of the earth.
Second workout at @CFSD today. My meager 114 at ‘Tabeta Something Else’ is definitely going to hurt tomorrow…
Decent posts from Intridea about CloudFront: http://bit.ly/2l8MMg, http://bit.ly/UAqHl. Based in part on my SDRuby talk: http://bit.ly/pwYU
This weekend’s recreational programming: Cappuccino and Objective-J. Really neat stuff!
Nothing feels quite so nice as taking a shower after violently sweating from every pore in your body.
The world would be a better place if bug trackers only had three milestones: “Today,” “This week,” and “Later.”
On my way to becoming a first responder for the Salvation Army’s Communications Network Link. Neat! www.sierradelmareds.org Next up: CERT.
Digging in to good ol’ Arban’s for some interval work.
Today marks the end of my first 90 days at Digitaria. Time to check how well I’ve done against Rands’ “90 Days” list… http://bit.ly/5ypjg
