June 2011
1 post
The simple things...
Son: Dad, I'm gonna tell you the things I like about mac and cheese.
Me: Okay.
Son: EVERYTHING!
August 2009
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July 2009
1 post
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Excerpt from "Let Us Now Praise Awesome Dinosaurs"
INTERVIEWER: Nice racing.
DINOSAUR RACER 1: Thanks.
INTERVIEWER: Where you boys from?
DINOSAUR RACER 1: Atlantis.
INTERVIEWER: I thought your people came from Mars.
DINOSAUR RACER 2: The Atlantis basin, yes, on Mars.
INTERVIEWER: What brings you to Tampa?
DINOSAUR RACER 1: We came to do high-speed stunts in double gravity.
INTERVIEWER: So how do you like Earth?
DINOSAUR RACER 1:...
June 2009
1 post
Infographics from GOOD Magazine →
I’m a total geek for infographics :)
May 2009
1 post
April 2009
5 posts
March 2009
3 posts
Cosmos available on Hulu →
Awesome! I’m a huge Carl Sagan fan, so I’m super excited that the full Cosmos series can now be viewed on Hulu!
The Dezurik Sisters make me smile. Definitely not...
February 2009
2 posts
Greatest 101 questions of all time →
What is OK short for?
The most popular theory is that OK comes from ‘oll korrect’, a deliberately
misspelled writing of ‘all correct’. It was popularised in Boston newspapers
around the 1840s when it was fashionable to go around spelling things
incorrectly for humorous effect. Legend also has it that New York Democrats
later adopted the abbreviation to promote their candidate...
January 2009
3 posts
Openness is good.
Excellent! The new Obama administration has issued a memo to all gov’t agencies, instructing them to take “affirmative steps” to make information public, and to “adopt a presumption in favor of disclosure”.
This is in contrast to the standing policy from Ashcroft instructing agencies to “disclose information only after considering all possible reasons to...
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This makes me smile
This is uber-nerdy, but I do think that (in a small way) it exemplifies what alot of us are hoping for in this administration:
http://www.kottke.org/09/01/the-countrys-new-robotstxt-file
For the non-web-devs out there, a site’s robot.txt file is an optional file that is used to tell search engines what parts of your site to include or exclude from its indexes. The previous...
November 2008
3 posts
Advantageous
I just used Advantageous MP3 for the first time to buy an mp3 — very sweet. I don’t think I’ll ever go back. Instead of buying the track from iTunes, I get a 256k, non-DRM’d mp3 for $0.89 from Amazon. Definitely check it out.
This just made me want to cry. →
“Bailout costs more than Marshall Plan, Louisiana Purchase, moonshot, S&L bailout, Korean War, New Deal, Iraq war, Vietnam war, and NASA’s lifetime budget — combined!”
October 2008
6 posts
Are you a high earner but not rich yet? Higher... →
See if you can hold back the tears for these poor souls. These people may redefine the term ‘sense of entitlement’.
tongodeon: Marginal Tax Brackets →
Wow, a valuable little primer on how tax brackets work…
Luke Skywalker's Insanely Stupid Plan To Rescue...
Luke: “Okay so, first we get Lando Calrissian posing as a guard inside Jabba’s Palace.”
You: “How do we do that?”
Luke: “We just get him a costume and he—just walks in.”
You: “Um, okay, say it’s that easy. So then Lando gets Han out of the carbonite and we pick them up and get away?”
Luke: “No. What happens next is that I put my lightsaber in a hidden compartment in R2-D2 and send R2-D2 and C3PO to Jabba the Hutt as gifts.”
You: “Wait, why-“
Luke: “Just listen. Next we have Leia pose as a bounty hunter arriving at Jabba’s palace with Chewbacca captured. She’s going to hand over Chewbacca to Jabba.”
You: “Wait, why? Wouldn’t that mean we would now have to rescue Han Solo, Chewbacca, R2-D2 and C3PO? That just makes it more difficult, right?”
Luke: “Just go with me here. Next, Leia is going to sneak around at night and get Han Solo out of the carbonite, but get captured.”
You: “What? Why would we get everyone captured like that?”
Luke: “Now I’ll show up, use my Force powers to get in to Jabba’s fortress, get past the guards to an audience before Jabba and then use my Jedi mind trick to get Jabba to release everyone. If that doesn’t work, then I’ll get captured.”
You: “Okay, if you can just use your Force powers to get in to the palace and all the way to Jabba, then let's just have you go in right now and get Han out."
Luke: “No, that's stupid. I’m going to get myself captured. Because then you see, we’ll be taken to the sarlacc pit and then, when we’re on the skiff, I’ll get sent out first and then R2-D2 will manage to get to the top of Jabba’s sail barge and shoot out my lightsaber, and then with Lando’s help, we’ll just—rescue everyone and then everything will be fine!”
You: “That is the stupidest plan I’ve ever heard of.”
Luke: “I’ve thought of everything.”
You: “Clearly you didn’t.”
I am speechless (but overjoyed) →
September 2008
4 posts
“Ask yourself: how has “elitism” become a bad word in American...”
– Sam Harris on Sarah Palin and Elitism | Newsweek Politics: Campaign 2008 | Newsweek.com
WatchSome recent Daily Show coverage of the RNC. Absolutely golden.
August 2008
4 posts
“I’ve been so focused on state government, I haven’t really focused...”
– Sarah Palin, Republican Vice-Presidential Nominee
English is a silly language
I take it you already know,
Of tough and bough and cough and dough.
Others may stumble, but not you,
On hiccough, thorough, laugh and through.
Well done! And now you wish, perhaps,
To learn of less familiar traps.
Beware of heard, a dreadful word,
That looks like beard and sounds like bird.
And dead - it’s said like bed, not bead,
For goodness’ sake, don’t call it ‘deed’!
Watch out for...
Gump For Heisman: Gump4Heisman's 10 Things To Look... →
It’s time to start getting excited.
'Major discovery' from MIT primed to unleash solar... →
July 2008
2 posts
Make sure to check out the photo gallery :)
http://omaha.com/index.php?u_page=1219&u_sid=10384712
Twittourette →
Tweets containing multiple expletives.
I like this alot. Oh, and Yahoo Pipes is awesome!
June 2008
9 posts
Mmmm...
I’ve never really been into wine. I think a root beer tasting is more up my alley.
Why HTML →
Great explanation of the merits of HTML vs. XHTML. I have to say I agree. I’ve been HTML4.01 Strict for a while now. Warning - if you don’t write (X)HTML for a living, you are soooo not going to care about this.
Hey Fox News, Just Call Her A N***** And Be Done... →
John McCain: Pro-Warrantless Wiretapping and against Net Neutrality. Very lame.
May 2008
2 posts
I’m a sucker for huge type. I particularly like this one.
John Resig - Processing.js →
Absolutely amazing. John Resig, the creator of my favorite javascript library has ported a large chunk of the Processing visualization language to javascript using the canvas element. I would have even thought it was possible.
April 2008
1 post
March 2008
5 posts
At least it's comprehensive...
tylerriewer:
I like to spit at work sometimes… usually when I’m angry or to make a point. We have concrete floors so it’s no big deal. In fact, it’s often funny. Today I found out that Sarah has been keeping track of these moments since she started working here. I give you her list…
6/11/07 - Spit after getting off phone 6/15/07 - Spit on my desk because I wouldn’t share my fruit 7/10/07 -...