Monthly Archives: November 2007

Yelp hangouts

Posted on 30 November 2007 by tychay

If you’re at the Yelp party, find me and I’ll apologize in person.

Posted in about me, society and culture | Tagged apology, Blind Pig, drunken physics, hangouts, Highdive, Murphy’s Pub, Urbana-Champaign, yelp | 1 Comment

Received an invite for an ANSI art showing from a friend:
She writes:
Remember the BBS days? I spent half of the 90’s on them…Wow! That dates me. An old friend is curating a collection of ANSI art at 20 goto 10 … Continue reading →

Posted in web development | Tagged 80’s, 90’s, ACiD, ANSI art, AppleCAT, ASCII art, baud, BBS, CAT II modem, dating, FidoNet, Hayes, modem, porn, printing, smartmodem | 3 Comments

Talent and tools

Posted on 28 November 2007 by tychay

“Photoshopped!”
So often people ask what digital camera they should buy. That’s a tough question since invariably people suggest the camera they own. I tell people:
The best camera to have is the one you have on you.
By this, I mean, the … Continue reading →

Posted in photography | Tagged artist, Bill Tani, camera, camera purchase, Canon, designer, digital camera, Leica, Nikon, Photoshop, talent, tools | 4 Comments

All your codebase are belong to Jenga

Posted on 27 November 2007 by tychay

Someone designed the framework like a big game of Jenga. Every time someone went into fix something they pulled it out of the core and put it on top. Now the whole thing is unstable.
—Mark Jen, talking about building code … Continue reading →

Posted in PHP, quotes | Tagged analogy, code base, coding, framework, Jenga, Mark Jen, object-oriented programing, OOP, PHP, software architecture | 8 Comments

Slick ad

Posted on 27 November 2007 by tychay

Very impressive flash Ad from Apple.

The ad is just a regular until you click for sound and then the ad really starts up. The reason: Two independent SWF files that sync actions across themselves. Both ads have to be delivered … Continue reading →

Posted in business and economics, television, web development | Tagged advertising, Apple, banner ad, Get a Mac, Macintosh, online advertising, shockwave flash, Windows Vista | 1 Comment

The sound of western medicine working

Posted on 14 November 2007 by tychay

Antibiotics are a pretty amazing thing.
But in my life, I’ve never seen it work, only read about it in books such as All Creatures Great and Small or heard stories about how the amazing things that happened when my grandfather … Continue reading →

Posted in about me, Science | 5 Comments

High maintenance

Posted on 9 November 2007 by tychay

Two of my friends over dinner discussing a third…
“I wonder if she’s ‘high maintenance’.”
Then he immediately adds, “She probably is. Women that pretty usually are.”
I quietly smiled to myself. Not because she was or wasn’t “high maintenance”—I hadn’t a clue … Continue reading →

Posted in about me, society and culture | 4 Comments

Using calls of civility to mask indecency

Posted on 7 November 2007 by tychay

Cal called me out on me pointing out the Swearing Festival Celebration of Profanity event with a link to his article on civility in the public political discourse.
But really, does it prove his point? Or does it parrot the use … Continue reading →

Posted in arts and letters, photography, religion and politics, wordplay | 6 Comments

2007-11-02 Party Dress Birthday Celebration

Posted on 6 November 2007 by tychay

Against my better judgement (health), I woke up from my disco nap and headed down to Etiquette Lounge to celebrate the “party dress birthday” of Halle, Michelle, Liisa who were turning 21 (again) and Peter who was turning 30 (again).

… Continue reading →