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Monthly Archives: July 2008
I thought it was supposed to stay in Vegas
Got an e-mail today from a friend:
Terry, this might be of interest to your wife?
F—
My reply:
F—,
I got married? Oh shit! Vegas…
Take care,
terry
Posted in about me, humor, jobs
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Yogapalooza this Sunday
One May day, when I was visiting my college on a trip to the west coast, three former classmates said that they were headed to the gym for a workout. Would I like to come?
“Why not?”
It’s surprising how many bad … Continue reading
Posted in about me, society and culture
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Ogres Select Consumption Over Networking (OSCON)
It’s weird how worlds intersect. Here is some lobbycon dialog:
“I don’t know, but if you plot the points, there aren’t many intersections. I’ve noticed it on my Facebook: The Open Source world has different geeks, and then the Web 2.0 … Continue reading
Twitter is
Wired’s cover article caused a friend to try to explain twitter to someone else.
I thought I’d give a shot at trying to twitter what twitter is:
Twitter is about leaving bits of yourself to your friends in 140 characters or less.
(I’ll … Continue reading
Posted in society and culture
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I think I found my class
Apparently, it’s the leisure class
I can’t hang it up without turning it off, they keyboard goes fritzy, Contacts crashes when I click on a name, battery life is a joke…but I guess it gets me into geek parties.
Next time I … Continue reading
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Making a contribution
In condensed matter physics, there is an area called turbulence that has wide practical application: weather, golfing, navigation, bridges, building subs, boats, and planes.
(Most of you know turbulence from those random unexplained dips you get when your plane is in … Continue reading
Posted in about me, business and economics, Science, web development
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Top Rails
It came out in conversation today if there were other Ruby on Rails sites bigger than Twitter. The answer is, yes.
The top five ranked Rails-powered sites as tracked by Alexa and provided by this list. Note that the graph is … Continue reading
Posted in PHP, social networking, web development
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Eli leaves digg
Eli White is no longer at digg.
He was one of the first PHP programmers there, has given a zillion talks about it, and he works remote.
Someone should hire him stat!
Posted in PHP
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Great taste tastes great
At San Francisco Brewing Company:
View from a room
San Francisco Brewing Company, Financial District, San Francisco, California
Nikon D3, Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8G
1/60sec @ f/2.8, iso1600, 24mm (24mm)
I grab Marie’s glass and drag it toward me. “It smells like you squeezed a whole … Continue reading
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Unfortunate names
In college, I had a classmate and friend, Richard Chiu.
It hurts me to confess it, but it was two years before I dawned on me he had been given a most unfortunate name.
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