December 2011
54 posts
Croupier
“Gambling is not about money. Gambling is about not facing reality, ignoring the odds.”
True that. Gambling is silly.
Taking dumb people’s money, well, that’s how it should be.
“The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good, and the very gentle, and the very brave...
Dear Thinkgeek:
Hire better people in your packing department.
First package of Matrix clock and poster somehow survived a box four times bigger than required with absolutely no extra packaging to hold the items down. Contents just sliding around.
Then a second package with a rolled up poster set in just a plastic bag, with its content bent on arrival. Just a thin plastic bag.
Have you heard of a...
OMG DRESS PANTS
No, I did not gain any weight.
And yet you refuse to fit.
Such sadness…
Serenity
This entire single shot opening sequence… AWESOME.
El Scorcho
Goddamn you half-Japanese girls
Do it to me every time
Oh, the redhead said you shred the cello
And I’m jello, baby
// El Scorcho has been stuck in my head for about a week and a half now. WTF.
// Also, why couldn’t it be a redhead half-Japanese cellist girl? Snap all in.
// Oh dear, I’m using Poker lingo. Ugh.
3-6 weeks?
Why couldn’t it have been my right arm? Argh.
That way, at least I could get my left equally strong as my right…
Tendons… why must you suck.
Health Insurance, Investments, Taxes
So much fun. I love this stuff. Why don’t you love it like I do?
Man, it’s a new type of geekiness that’s being formed. Sweet.
149.6lbs 18.2%
NO. Arm must get better, or muscles will just atrophy and die and I’ll become super thin and lame.
Hah.
But seriously, this is getting out of control. EAT MORE JK EAT MORE.
149.8lbs
I do not approve. Why did I just drop past 150.
I don’t think I’m eating enough. Or working out as much as I should be, but now running more and more.
ARGH. What happened to my arbitrary goal of 155?
Ibuprofen
Thanks to Fast’s mother’s diagnosis, I will be icing and taking Ibuprofen.
Maybe it wasn’t just the biceps after all.
Need to limit typing… maybe this is when I start my audiolog.
While My Arm Heals...
I will become better at Poker.
I think I’m officially hooked, like I was with SC2, and with electric guitar before that.
Chapters of my life… what fun. At least this hobby may pay off faster, or steal my moneys faster.
3 Weeks
For the last three weekends, I’ve gone out to the Strip.
It’s all been quite the experience. I think I really do need to step outside more, see the sights, and meet new and interesting people.
And maybe… on the 1st? Not sure yet, because I hear traffic is murder out there.
150lbs 18.4%
This is… kind of good news?
Body Fat Percentage is the lowest ever, as well as the body weight but… Am I losing too much weight?
Dang it, stupid injured biceps, stop being stupid already and let me go back to upper body.
Making Your Own Food
Eating the results of your labor. So cool.
Also… eating the errors. I could have cut this better, or cooked this more evenly.
Life is just filled with possibilities, but I need to leave the house more to increase them.
Maybe I’m training myself to go live underwater or on the moon, some remote colony somewhere else than on this Earth.
And all of this, brought to you by being...
Moonlight Sonata
Four sharps.
The brain explodes.
I recall playing maybe one song with four sharps on the violin. Don’t recall how I scraped on past that one.
And on the piano, an instrument that I really wished I knew a whole lot better and know a whole lot less than the violin, this is going to be hard to do.
But as always: Divide and conquer.
You Know You've Destroyed Your Abs...
When coughing causes massive massive pain in that region.
Solo Piano Music
Oh, man. I got the desire to play the Variation on the Kanon again, arranged by George Winston.
Can I get this memorized by the end of this year? Plus refresh myself on Fur Elise?
Be Awesome. Quick.
You know how you become awesome at something? Step 1) Pick that thing. 2) Do only that thing.
Do it, before this man-made time period they call a ‘year’ is over.
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
I’ll endorse it. Go watch it.
This should do until I somehow get to see Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.
I love the authenticity of the Macs, as well as some of the nerdier… SQL (which I’m about 80% sure was MySQL). I love that exasperated look that Lisbeth gets when Mikael is fumbling with his own laptop. iPhoto usage is also top notch. How you hack into a remote session via the...
Rest
Such an important step, in everything we do as humans.
My bicep has been out of commission for about two weeks, and I think I screwed it up again yesterday doing a Abdominal hold exercise. Now, it looks like it’s in pain even as I type.
Note to self: No more posting. Just do the reps, but don’t post at the end.
Everything can become an obsession. Everything.
Still gotta keep...
Technology and Human Relationships
I’m reading way too much on this, and I’m getting super sad and lonely.
Hold me.
Wow, I really need to start composing long form essays again, or I’m going to explode into tiny JK bits, and you’ll have to scrape the awesome off the walls.
Oh, solitude, how much I’ve respected you… and now… Hmm. Time to record an episode?
Headphones causing neck pains?
This is… very possible. Even a couple of pounds on your head for most of your waking hours…
But velour is soooo awesome!
Carmack's .plan files
So he did it too, eh?
Always interesting to see people’s logging systems.
HAML, SASS, and CoffeeScript
I’m beginning to go back to the other way on this. Back to boring old HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
Errands Before Noon.
Trust me, it’s awesome.
I’ve always told myself to stay off the roads during the 1700-1900 rush hour, as well as the noon lunch hour, but never really thought to compare the 1000-1200 to the 1300-1600.
Groceries? Haircut? Much faster and enjoyable. It was weird, because even though I started to make small talk with all the people around me, it was still faster than what I had been...
Steve Jobs in 1980
Rare. Watch it. 23 minutes.
On Dancing
C Locs: alright....think of it this way
C Locs: given the body you have, that is, all possible configurations and velocities (and higher order?), search/learn the best way to move in order to match/express the music....and there may be a range/set of moves or types of moves
C Locs: is this presentation of the problem more interesting?
The Threat Against the Web →
“So when one company uses its market share, ecosystem or whatever leverage it has, to try and “own” the web, I get a little worried. For years, Microsoft almost owned the web, and it nearly killed progress on the web for that time. Mozilla played an integral part in making sure it wasn’t going to be that way, and we are all grateful to them for that. But Webkit is now the new Firefox, and...
Been Keeping Quiet
I know. It has been quiet.
Lots of things to do.
Just give me my Propellerheads in FLAC, and let’s get a move on.
Refocus, JK
When I read things like this, I realize that I’m not doing my job to make the world a better place.
Refocus. Refocus on the few complex things to make simpler for everyone else.
Scroogled
Finally took an hour off to read some on the Kindle.
Definitely worth the time. Nice little short story. Kind of fun, kind of thought-provoking.
See, Don't Get The Touch
Aren’t you glad you just got the Kindle 4 instead? For some reason, it looks like it’s slower than the Touch.
And even though Marco is saying that fingerprints are not a problem, that can’t be right. I can’t stand seeing prints on my Kindle 4’s screen, period.
Highlighting got worse with this new generation of Kindles, but that’s for another post. I just...
Slowly beginning the move to FLAC
Slowly. SLOWLY.
Since my Sansa Clip+ will play them, I should be fine. But iPhone is still closed, so…
Slowly. SLOWLY, with things that are out of your control.
/Stoicism.
More on Airlines
But now the problem is… the rules are all different.
Southwest lets you have two checked bags. JetBlue? one. Spirit? not even one carry on.
And the miles… oh the miles. I have a JetBlue AmEx, so I make sure I only use that for buying anything, but there’s a $40 annual fee. Southwest also has a credit card… I wrote on this earlier in some minor detail. And now,...
Spirit Airlines, Part 2
I have only myself to blame, though, with respect to the baggage pricing.
I used to use Hipmunk, the hip new way to do airline ticketing. But since it doesn’t refer you to the actual airline’s website, but to some other aggregator like Orbitz, I’m pretty sure there was some kind of fine print that said there would be extra charge on the baggage.
Southwest. JetBlue. And now...
Skinny
I’m pretty sure I’ve heard of this option before, but I don’t know why I haven’t taken it until now.
Definitely not a Starbucks pro. And don’t really have to be. So expensive for nothing.
But thanks for the free drink on my birthday, Mr. Corporation. Got me to drive out to you.
My One A&F Article of Clothing
I bought this red sweater back in Jan 2005. I fit comfortably back then.
Maybe it shrank a bit, but now this medium muscle fit of a sweater no longer does it. My arms… holy crap, really?
Probably like the one time in my life I’m glad I’ve physically outgrown a piece of clothing. W00t.
Eink Posters
I had this idea yesterday.
I’ve always wanted to get projectors to cover the walls in my room, sort of a stopgap until we get LCD walls, to put up posters or data or neat stuff like that.
I went to Eink’s site to see if I can order some kind of dev kids, but it looks like the largest they make are 12”. I guess the solution would be to buy 4 or 9 of those, hook them together?...
Continuing to remove feeds
Partial feeds are useless. Unsubscribe them.
Community
If you’re not watching this show, chances are, I’m not your friend.
I really should start a list of requirements for me to recognize you as one.
YouTube Redesign
Finally, it got propagated to me.
I like it. Don’t really solve anything for me because I don’t want to use YouTube in the manner that Google wants me to, which is to subscribe to everything.
Until YouTube fixes this, I don’t really care. Also higher number of keyframes would be nice, so I don’t feel like I’m wasting time when I switch resolutions.
Oh, and if...
Silk, iPad, Galaxy browser speed comparison
I wouldn’t have even bothered with the Galaxy, but this is quite interesting.
I may have to get a Kindle Fire in the future, just for the browsing since I don’t have an iPad anymore (again, for… the third time?). Or maybe, just wait for the iPad 3. All I know is, my iPhone is doing just fine for now.
“The writers seem to think that humor comes from shrill caricatures, hyperbolic...”
– http://warmingglow.uproxx.com/2011/12/how-i-hate-my-teenage-daughter-destroyed-everything-i-love-about-tv
