July 2010
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Rands In Repose: Pick-Up →
June 2010
1 post
Testicle... It's What's for Dinner | Eat and Drink... →
May 2010
2 posts
WatchDrunk on the Key
NEANDERTALS LIVE! | john hawks weblog →
April 2010
3 posts
That Which Does Not Kill Me Makes Me Stranger -... →
The Guts of a New Machine →
March 2010
4 posts
Princeton researchers find that high-fructose corn... →
A Princeton University research team has demonstrated that all sweeteners are not equal when it comes to weight gain: Rats with access to high-fructose corn syrup gained significantly more weight than those with access to table sugar, even when their overall caloric intake was the same.
And they didn’t just gain more weight—they had higher levels of triglycerides, as well—both symptoms of...
The case for the 3G-capable iPad | Tablets |... →
February 2010
1 post
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Adventures in C++: Disappearing Strings
The first project for my Distributed Systems class must be done in C++. The majority of my coding efforts, however, have been in C, Objective-C, or Java. And while this project could have easily been hacked together using, essentially, only C, I decided to take the three weeks we had for the project to learn to write the best C++ solution I could.
After a few days of fumbling around with...
January 2010
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November 2009
2 posts
Back to the Land →
“If you eat too much of this food, you become sick and also fatafat. And no amount of fatafat pills will help you.”
September 2009
2 posts
WatchEverything Is Terrible!: ADVANCED DOS STRATEGIES! (via MetaFilter)
August 2009
2 posts
July 2009
6 posts
Apollo 11 and Other Screw-Ups →
For the lunar missions, 36K words of “fixed” (read-only) memory, each word consisting of 15 bits plus a parity bit, were available for the program. In addition there were 2K words of artfully timeshared “erasable” or RAM memory. Allowing for the identical Apollo guidance computer (AGC) in the Command Module (CM), containing a program called COLOSSUS, it is correct to say...
Dieting Monkeys Offer Hope for Living Longer →
A long-awaited study of aging in rhesus monkeys suggests, with some reservations, that people could in principle fend off the usual diseases of old age and considerably extend their life span by following a special diet.
“Absolutely beautiful: http://bit.ly/pUHnW”
– schwa
April 2009
38 posts
“As if it were a swarm of bees, you should stay away from the SyncServices folder...”
– Apple support document HT1865 (via marco)
Torn about all of this DiggBar controversy. I really wanted to do something similar with FeedHub; the UX would have been greatly improved.
Posted pictures of Ellen with Ruslan Fedotenko scraped from the Penguins’ site: http://gallery.me.com/edibiase/100051
Need to set an alarm that goes off every Friday around noon and says, “DO NOT GET THE GENERAL TSO’S CHICKEN; YOU WILL REGRET IT.”
Way psyched that @ellen_s won a shirt off of a Penguin’s back after the game! http://twitpic.com/32tbk
Savoring the sweet, sweet smell of victory. And WD-40.
Time to put together some equipment.
Realizing how poorly “Kryptonite” by 3 Doors Down has held up. ★★.
What I would like to see: an iTunes DJ that picked tracks based on Genius, updating after each play based on which tracks played through.
Starting to schedule classes in GHC, which I can only assume is the Gates-Hillman Center. Cool.
Well, that test went badly.
Just because I’m good at working late doesn’t mean I want to stay up any later. Heading to bed.
Getting good at working late.
Feeling my temptation to switch back to Gmail from MobileMe Mail growing.
Just learned that “POSIX” is an acronym for “Portable Operating System Interface”.
Way excited about Bigbird. I was hoping for a Tweetie for Mac, but I didn’t know it would actually *happen*.
Wondering if and when iTunes is going to drop the “plus” branding, given that the entire music store is now DRM-free.
Ate too much delicious, delicious almond butter.
Loving how E*TRADE never seems to get around to telling me that they need me to do something to move things forward with my account.
Two years ago, I would have been really excited about the DSi. Now that I have the iPhone and the App Store, it seems pointless.
Having checked in some pretty nice parse-tree-matching code, treating myself to The Simpsons before heading to bed.
(I’ve already purchased it. I’m just saying that 30 minutes of productivity plus 30 seconds to restart it isn’t much of a deterrent.)
While I’m thankful that IDEA will let you run for 30 minutes on an expired license, I have to admit it makes it easier not to buy it.
Ah, I see. My partner inserted a System.setOut call deep in a crucial method.
When System.out.println doesn’t write to the console, and you haven’t reassigned System.out, things are weird.