RailsAddict
Pontiac G8 Commercial Awesomesauce
SpyHunter Pontiac G8 Commercial
Epic Gunfight
http://www.maniacworld.com/strangest-gunfight-ever.html
~/.toprc is your friend
This doesn’t work on OS X Tiger (at least not for me), but it does on at least Gentoo and Ubuntu 7.10. When you run “top”, press ‘z’ to turn on color mode, then ‘x’ to turn on sorted-column highlight mode. If you’re doing a pants-off dance-off, press ‘W’ to save the config to ~/.toprc. Otherwise, sorry I couldn’t excite you today.
Best Pizza this side of Brooklyn
Is at Coal Vines
16 bucks for a LARGE (not Domino’s Large….. this thing was at least pi * 82). And the music makes you feel like you’re having lunch with Jimmy Conway and Henry Hill.
Griffin Robert Bauer
He’s smellier than he looks, but just as handsome 
I drink your comment!
Comments are open, you’ll have to help ReCaptcha read books though.
Buying Music
I don’t usually, but I’ve been a NIN fan for a long time, so I sprung for the $10 2-CD set of their latest release: Ghosts I-IV. All instrumental, crazy, and new. Good stuff, you should buy it. It’s good coding music.
Learning Objective-C
Just getting the basics down, the syntax has always thrown me for a loop. It’ll take some getting used to the method declaration and dispatch syntax, but other than that its just like any other curly-brace language.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 | @implementation Cookbook; -(void) addRecipe: (Recipe *) r; @end Cookbook *book = [[Cookbook alloc] init]; // Calls "alloc" on Cookbook, then "init" on the result Recipe *recipe = [[Recipe alloc] init]; [book addRecipe: recipe]; // Call "addRecipe", pass it the newly created recipe. |
I obviously have a long way to go before I’m bustin’ out iPhone apps….
I take it back
TurboTax wouldn’t let me pay for their services in Safari (Mac) or Firefox (Win, Mac), so I had to use….. IE. I’ve made plenty of transactions with all three of those browsers and never had a problem, I wonder why they can allow ALL of my personal and financial information to be added to their system, but my measly credit card number has to be specially handled before submission? Weak.
Humor @ TurboTax
First, I’ll say that TurboTax beats the pants off H&R Block’s Online Tax Service, even with one or two rendering issues in Safari… Design is more intuitive, the flow makes sense, and somehow it found extra deductions, which means a fatter refund 
When I logged in, I got a nice little dialog with the message:
Just one more thing before we get started (our lawyers made us do it).
Nice to see that the suits allow a little humor in an “enterprise” app. Maybe its more common that I realize, but in my experience (prior to Biggu), even using contractions (you’re, it’ll, etc..) was frowned upon….
QOTD
Bring Me Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Sick and Injured. Ports 40000 to 60000 are open I say!
Viagra > Cialis > Levitra > Orgasm?
mysql> delete from comments where comment_content like '%viagra%'; Query OK, 9629 rows affected (5.67 sec) mysql> delete from comments where comment_content like ‘%cialis%’; Query OK, 2857 rows affected (5.62 sec) mysql> delete from comments where comment_content like ‘%levitra%’; Query OK, 462 rows affected (4.81 sec) mysql> delete from comments where comment_content like ‘%orgasm%’; Query OK, 61 rows affected (4.09 sec)
Open mouth, insert HTTP
Here’s a juicy tip. If you find yourself writing a HTTP library in virtually any language that you didn’t write yourself, you’re probably wasting your time. There are a multitude of http libraries you can use instead that are better than yours.
Robot Milk
Buy this for me
More here
RE: Customer Service
You’ll all be happy to know that my coffee grinder showed up on Saturday. It sounds like a jet engine, but its one smooth-grindin’ piece of kitchen machinery.
Crack
The DataMapper’s on it:
user system total real
RbMysql wo/ set_types 42.060000 2.390000 44.450000 ( 45.061188)
RbMysql w/ set_types 19.300000 1.970000 21.270000 ( 23.144316)
ActiveRecord 80.230000 2.860000 83.090000 ( 93.305118)
The DataMapper benchmark was: Iterate over ~31000 records 50 times, typecasting the db values into Ruby values.
The ActiveRecord benchmark was: ModelClass.find(:all) 50 times, 31000 records
I know I know, totally biased, Apples-to-Papayas comparison, but AR hadn’t even typecast yet (AFAIK it lazily typecasts), so take this with a grain of rock salt.
Change
everybody’s good enough for some change,
SOME FUCKING CHANGE!!!
- Ed Kowalczyk (Live)
Rant: Customer Service
GET SOME. I ordered a product from a kitchen supply store, and 24 days later it finally ships, a day after I sent their Customer Service a message using their craptastic online form. A few hours later I received a canned response letting me know that I should allow 15 business days for my item to be shipped/received.If you’re an online merchant, be frank with your customers. If the truck carrying my Cuisinart Burr Grider got jacked by a gang of angry cats, I don’t care. Just don’t reply to your “Valued Customer” to tell them what they already know. I know its not a horror story, but still, like my dad always says, if you’re gonna do something, do it right.
Done
Finally killed my Slicehost account. I was getting popped for like 24 bucks a month for my super-delicious blog that I nobody cared about. Now that I’ll have all that extra cash I think I’ll fill up 1/4 of my truck’s gas tank….