Monthly Archives: September 2007

CNET Open House on Tuesday: Under the Hood

Posted on 30 September 2007 by tychay

CNET is hosting an open house on October 2nd (Tuesday). Given that every PHP Meetup in SF has been cancelled the night before, I suggest you go to this.
GameSpot, TV.com, MP3.com and FilmSpot.com will be having a panel … Continue reading →

Posted in PHP, web development | 1 Comment

Our real selves

Posted on 29 September 2007 by tychay

Twitter has all of the sleaziness of stalking with none of the messy work of having to actually leave my desk. But I found a dark underside to it: it makes stalking way too easy. Sometimes I get caught in … Continue reading →

Posted in about me, Science, society and culture | Tagged Caltech, Cindy Burton, drunk, fiber optics, hard problems, inner dialogue, lasers, marijuana, optics, physics, pot, stoned, twitter, upperclassman, yellow people look alike | 15 Comments

Battle wounds

Posted on 27 September 2007 by tychay

A lot of people at work were asking me about this bright red cut I had on my nose today. The truth of the matter is, I was showering and the shampoo bottle slipped out of my hand and I … Continue reading →

Posted in about me, humor, web development | Tagged Harrison Ford, J2EE, Java, ninja coding, RoR, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, scars, stories, women | 7 Comments

Why PHP triumphs over Ruby

Posted on 24 September 2007 by tychay

“I’m really low on my scatological count here…I’m sorry I didn’t crack enough jokes or use enough [cuss words], but I’m sure people will forgive me. They can just attend one of my talks and get their cuss quota for … Continue reading →

Posted in PHP, web development | 44 Comments

Too much TechCrunch

Posted on 21 September 2007 by tychay

Dave finally found The Web 2.0 or Star Wars Character? quiz.
He told me he got around a 33 out of 43.
I said, “You read too much TechCrunch.”
[Small observations after the jump.]

Posted in about me, humor, Lunch 2.0, society and culture, web development | 5 Comments

Jobs in PHP at CNET

Posted on 21 September 2007 by tychay

This is actually another one of my infamous PHP job postings. But because the people of CNET are so cool, I thought I’d preface it with a couple of CNET stories first.
(I honestly don’t know if I should blog this. … Continue reading →

Posted in about me, jobs, PHP | 9 Comments

Flights of fancy

Posted on 21 September 2007 by tychay

Flights of fancy
somewhere over the Eastern United States
Leica M8, Cosina-Voigtländer NOKTON 35mm F1.2 Aspherical
1/90sec, iso 320, 35mm (47mm)

My tweets make no sense.
This is why nobody follows me and even my friends have turned off updates.
I just can’t seem to explain … Continue reading →

Posted in about me, books, PHP, society and culture | 16 Comments

’tis me fav’rite day o the year

Posted on 19 September 2007 by tychay

Like last year and the year before…

Text reads: Ahoy me mateys and buxom wenches!
The day ’tis ripe fer Talk Like A Pirate.
Ye be talkin’ like a pirate or ye be a scurvy bilge rat!
Arrrrrrr!
—The Dread Pirate Terry

I think the reason … Continue reading →