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 world is mixed up. Priorities are f’d—people like X, who are big in the […]
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 twat it when Twitter stops Fail Whaleing.) Flashback: Apparently Chris seeing me […]
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 am outside waiting to get in, I wonder if I can just whip […]
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 flight.) But for theoreticians, turbulence is different. In 1941, some Russian guy wrote a […]
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 semi-log.
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!
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 lemon.” I take a sip. “That’s way too sour! You […]
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.
A random post on my stalker feed brings me back of the last party … “Are you single?” It’s the second time at the party, Alex has asked that. The internal dialog is now in fine form. This is San Francisco, shouldn’t you ask if I’m gay first?, “Stop trying to fill out my social […]
A friend sent me this article with the comment, “I think you will enjoy reading this.” I did. Thanks.