March 2011
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December 2010
1 post
Tron Girl Costume →
Since Tron: Legacy is coming out tonight (do you have your midnight tickets yet?), here’s how I made my Tron Girl costume for Halloween this year.
September 2010
2 posts
“Don’t be afraid to be a fool. Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young...”
– Stephen Colbert, via Dave
Last Flickr Photo Widget →
This simple javascript widget displays the last photo you uploaded to Flickr. (I use this with the Flickr iPhone app to always display the last photo I took with my phone.) A fun Labor Day project!
February 2010
0 posts
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January 2010
3 posts
1 tag
December 2009
2 posts
The Mostly-Random Password Generator →
The difference between typing the words “authentic” and “aggregate” is small, true, but multiply it by the number of times you type your password … it’s a lot.
How a web design goes straight to hell →
The hardest I have laughed in a long, long time
November 2009
2 posts
“Every time you attempt to parse HTML with regular expressions, the unholy child...”
– Stack Overflow (via Cody)
October 2009
4 posts
1 tag
Business model
Boris: also, not only the layout but user experience may need to be custom tailored to each mobile device to maintain parity with other native apps
Heather: as much as I hate this argument, at least the underserved are used to being underserved
Heather: iPhone users are definitely not
Heather: they complain if it doesn't do foot massages
Boris: that's my next app btw
Boris: turn on vibrate and put it under your foot
Boris: I'll call it iPhoot
Boris: and i'll sell it for free, but I'll also sell special handy wipes that cost $5
Sum-up Stories →
I also love Jane Solomon’s flash fiction.
September 2009
2 posts
“But even factoring in their annoying eccentricities, the disobedient attitude of...”
– Paul Graham, The Word “Hacker”
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English IPA visualizer →
I made this little toy forever ago and didn’t bother putting it on the interweb because, well, it’s totally useless. But I just realized there is NO PENALTY FOR USELESS TOYS ON THE INTERNET.
July 2009
2 posts
No, no, the Night Runner DELUXE.
Orion: At the new space, the guy next to me is trying to order 48 hamster wheels, but they have to be a very particular model of hamster wheels and they need to be shipped to Phoenix
David: You can't cut corners when it it comes to vengeful practical jokes
“Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call...”
– Stanley Kubrick, 1987 (No Kubrick Movie is Just a Movie)
June 2009
4 posts
Geek Etiquette: Dress codes
Dresscode
Geek version
The rest of the world
None
Dressing gown; underwear; nothing; Frankenfurter Klingon outfit
Trackpants, tshirt, and sneakers
Casual
Trackpants, tshirt
Jeans, tshirt or collared shirt
Business casual
Jeans, tshirt
Chinos, collared shirt
Business
Chinos, collared shirt
Suit and tie
Semi-formal
Nice pants, nice shirt
Dark suit and tie
Formal
Suit and tie
Tux (”black tie”) or...
“One or two generations from now, the impossibility of scrubbing every private...”
– Anil Dash, Privacy Through Identity Control via @grantbarrett (This is what I’ve been banking on all this time with my incurable oversharing.)
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May 2009
8 posts
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“Well, what goes around comes around, Repellent Californian Hatebags. Sooner or...”
– Twisty, spinster aunt extraordinaire
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Things I will miss about Chicago
Hitchcock Movies in the Park
People knowing who Wesley Willis is
Daaaa Bears!
Stopping by the Ghirardelli downtown for free samples so much that they probably have our pictures behind the counter
The Art Institute, one of the few museums I could actually live in
How each miserable winter unites us all in commiseration
How each miserable summer unites us all in commiseration
How that one...
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“Basically … I spend my time trying to make software that will take over your...”
– Delightful summary of computational linguistics from Michael Reimer
“Live every week like it’s shark week.”
– Tracy Jordan of 30 Rock (Grant’s favorite TJ quote, which says a lot)
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CNN.com Survey: Support for terror suspect torture... →
Real nice.
“So Christian devotion correlates with approval for absolute evil in America. And people wonder why atheism is gaining in this country.” —Andrew Sullivan
April 2009
5 posts
2 tags
“Such is the dilemma of the linguist, or at least the linguist who has any desire...”
– Ben Yagoda, In Defense of Common English. The cathartic rants on this subject that my friends have endured could fill a book. (I would write that book, but it would be full of graphic profanity, and national bookstores would certainly refuse to carry it.)
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Cover letters
Jen: What the heck do I put in a cover letter for this thing?
Heather: Ugh, cover letters suck.
Jen: They do. You ever see that South Park episode about hybrid cars? Everyone who drove a hybrid car eventually started to enjoy the smell of their own farts because they were so smug. That's how I feel whilst composing these things.
Jen: "I am detail oriented! [fart] *sniffff* ahhhh"
March 2009
2 posts
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February 2009
4 posts
In sovietRussiavoice …
Erin: Remember PERFECT IS ENEMY OF GOOD.
Erin: whoops, I forgot the tag was deprecated in html 4
Orion: no, in sovietrussiavoice, html 4 deprecates you
“…information is received in inverse proportion to its predictability.”
– Mike Ford, This American Life #258: Leaving the Fold. (Keep that one around the next time you’re underestimated.)
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Crest Pro Health
Me: Hey, Jen, can you do me a favor and start using this new toothpaste I got so it's gone sooner? It's really awful.
Jen: Dude, your toothpaste tastes like Pepto Bismol.
Jen: I was all, "whatever, no toothpaste can really be that bad, I've tried just about every toothpaste sample under the sun, hit me with your best shot, Crest," but oh man. That is some mad unpleasant toothpaste. It's … offensively bland. With an assy aftertaste.
Jen: It's still not as bad as the Citrus Blast Whitening Expressions (marketed by Emeril Lagasse, as in BAM! that's some gross-ass toothpaste) or the chocolate-flavored extra fluoride stuff I had for my braces, but it ranks pretty low.
January 2009
5 posts
“The internet is the greatest generation gap since rock and roll.”
– Bruce Schneier (Filed under “recently reminded that …”)
The country's new robots.txt file →
Grant pointed this out. Fantastic!
Is there anything sadder
than a planeload of people flying from San Francisco to Chicago in mid January? Today, the temperature difference is just about 80 degrees.
Smooooth jazzzz
Orion: for those of you not here in the lobby with us:
Orion: everybody loves the sunshine
Orion: folks get down in the sunshine
Orion: the sunshine
Orion: GOTO 10
December 2008
4 posts
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I found my diploma
lying in a brown, crusty snowdrift outside my building on the way to the airport. Poetic, UPS.
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