July 2010
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Rands In Repose: Pick-Up →
Jul 6th
June 2010
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Testicle... It's What's for Dinner | Eat and Drink... →
Jun 1st
May 2010
2 posts
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Drunk on the Key
May 29th
NEANDERTALS LIVE! | john hawks weblog →
May 10th
April 2010
3 posts
That Which Does Not Kill Me Makes Me Stranger -... →
Apr 23rd
The Guts of a New Machine →
Apr 17th
Apr 9th
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March 2010
4 posts
Mar 28th
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...
Mar 23rd
The case for the 3G-capable iPad | Tablets |... →
Mar 18th
Mar 1st
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...
Feb 7th
January 2010
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Jan 30th
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.”
Nov 27th
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September 2009
2 posts
Sep 18th
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Everything Is Terrible!: ADVANCED DOS STRATEGIES! (via MetaFilter)
Sep 12th
August 2009
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Aug 30th
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July 2009
6 posts
Jul 29th
Jul 26th
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...
Jul 21st
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.
Jul 10th
“Absolutely beautiful: http://bit.ly/pUHnW”
– schwa
Jul 9th
Jul 9th
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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)
Apr 27th
55 notes
Torn about all of this DiggBar controversy. I really wanted to do something similar with FeedHub; the UX would have been greatly improved.
Apr 10th
Posted pictures of Ellen with Ruslan Fedotenko scraped from the Penguins’ site: http://gallery.me.com/edibiase/100051
Apr 10th
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.”
Apr 10th
Way psyched that @ellen_s won a shirt off of a Penguin’s back after the game! http://twitpic.com/32tbk
Apr 10th
Savoring the sweet, sweet smell of victory. And WD-40.
Apr 9th
Time to put together some equipment.
Apr 8th
Realizing how poorly “Kryptonite” by 3 Doors Down has held up. ★★.
Apr 8th
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.
Apr 8th
Starting to schedule classes in GHC, which I can only assume is the Gates-Hillman Center. Cool.
Apr 8th
Well, that test went badly.
Apr 8th
Just because I’m good at working late doesn’t mean I want to stay up any later. Heading to bed.
Apr 8th
Getting good at working late.
Apr 8th
Feeling my temptation to switch back to Gmail from MobileMe Mail growing.
Apr 8th
Just learned that “POSIX” is an acronym for “Portable Operating System Interface”.
Apr 8th
Way excited about Bigbird. I was hoping for a Tweetie for Mac, but I didn’t know it would actually *happen*.
Apr 7th
Wondering if and when iTunes is going to drop the “plus” branding, given that the entire music store is now DRM-free.
Apr 7th
Ate too much delicious, delicious almond butter.
Apr 7th
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.
Apr 7th
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.
Apr 7th
Having checked in some pretty nice parse-tree-matching code, treating myself to The Simpsons before heading to bed.
Apr 6th
(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.)
Apr 6th
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.
Apr 6th
Ah, I see. My partner inserted a System.setOut call deep in a crucial method.
Apr 6th
When System.out.println doesn’t write to the console, and you haven’t reassigned System.out, things are weird.
Apr 6th