Monthly Archives: October 2007

Spontaneous Drinking

Posted on 23 October 2007 by tychay

They say a great idea comes from seeing a need and satisfying it.
In the Web 2.0 world, most of the ideas come from taking what people have been doing and putting an “Un—” in front of it.
So you have BarCamp … Continue reading →

Posted in food and wine, society and culture, web development | 15 Comments

Collapsing the female wave-function

Posted on 23 October 2007 by tychay

The solution to the greatest paradoxes of the twentieth century physics is the realization that the observer cannot be separated from the experimental design.

General Relativity? The observer can’t tell the difference between gravity and an accelerating reference frame.
Maxwell’s Demon? Even … Continue reading →

Posted in about me, photography, photos, Science, society and culture | 17 Comments

Feel Good Trifecta

Posted on 19 October 2007 by tychay

My sister, Mia, has been feeling a little stressed out this week, so I told her to watch the Bouncy Balls commercial I keep sending her.
She did today and felt compelled to rewatch two other videos I sent her before: … Continue reading →

Posted in television | 3 Comments

Brain error

Posted on 16 October 2007 by tychay

19th century German neurophysiologists successfully map out the brain after a transcontinental flight

Researching my last article was amusing, but doing so made me realize an error in something I said last month.
I didn’t recognize someone I should have because I … Continue reading →

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A religious experience

Posted on 15 October 2007 by tychay

“Oh, God! Oh! OhhhHHHH!!! God!!!!! Ohhhhh”
—anonymous neighbor who didn’t close her window last night
Right before I fell asleep last night, I heard someone in my apartment complex shout this. My window was closed, but the voice penetrated it with uncompromising … Continue reading →

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The open office

Posted on 12 October 2007 by tychay

See our open offices with free food, beer, and t-shirts at Lunch 2.0 today!
Photos of my workstation are like photos of “What’s in my bag”—they seem to draw a voyeur-like fascination just short of a shot of a pretty girl.
Well … Continue reading →

Posted in computers, society and culture, stuff, Tagged | 7 Comments

Ode to my breakfast

Posted on 10 October 2007 by tychay

Oh cup o’ noodles,
I love your salty goodness—
It is all a lie.
Cup Noodles, you will be the death of me.

Cup Noodles
Tagged, Financial District, San Francisco, California
Nikon D200, Tokina 16-50mm AT-X PRO f/2.8 DX
1/25sec @ f/2.8, iso 800, 40mm (60mm)
For true … Continue reading →

Posted in food and wine | 3 Comments

At ZendCon tomorrow – see my talk, drink their drink

Posted on 8 October 2007 by tychay

I love teasing Zend and right now their conference, the largest PHP conference in the world, is going on.
As I mentioned earlier, I’ll be giving my talk on “The Internet is an Ogre” tomorrow at 10 AM. It’s a fun … Continue reading →

Posted in about me, PHP | 9 Comments

Job: PHP Application Engineer

Posted on 5 October 2007 by tychay

Received this a couple days ago. It involves a project of combining two codebases, updating the Ajax, and building out the scalability in each. Might be interesting to some of you:
Abby is working with a client owned by one of … Continue reading →

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Happy Sputnik Day!

Posted on 4 October 2007 by tychay

Text reads:
Dear person-with-vaguely-Russian-sounding-name,
Fifty years ago today, the Soviet Union threw a beeping metal sphere into low earth orbit scaring the be-jesus out of every American and touching off the Space Race which gave us 100+ TV channels, GPS tracking, orbital … Continue reading →

Posted in Science, society and culture | 5 Comments