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 an un-conference. Then you have Lunch 2.0, the un-power lunch. Heck you’d think this whole [...]
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 the observer’s computation cannot be separated from the physical system that implements it.
Quantum Mechanics? Observation [...]
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: “Where the Hell is Matt?” and “Otters Holding Hands”—she confessed to me she watched the [...]
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 was jetlagged and hungry. She was non-plussed with my behavior and threatened to “take me [...]
“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 clarity. If a woman’s auditory systems is tuned to hearing a baby cry, a man’s [...]
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 since we recently tore down the cubes, I finally set up my workstation. You can [...]
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 perfection, don’t forget to add a dab of “hot cock sauce” (Sriracha hot chili sauce).
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 talk so you better go see it! (Besides, if everyone goes to this, I’ll have [...]
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 the nation’s largest, innovative, billion dollar companies. My client provides an online product that is [...]
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 mind control lasers, Google Earth, and Tang—all of which, by some coincidence, scare the be-jesus [...]
