September 2009
66 posts
Apparently the student loan reform bill passed the house this week.
My little project finally has a matrix abstraction… http://bit.ly/4qVYJv
Nice, I think I might use this for trailreporter.com RT @gisuser consider Drupal Nice Map http://su.pr/2YVYLy (via @jimmyrocks)
resistance is futile (if < 1 ohm)
Statistically, software engineers are the worst drivers. And here I was, thinking no one could drive but me :) http://bit.ly/7Csxz
RT @kevinferrero @colinmlenton hey … do you guys have an insane amount of issues with the network in the basement Annenberg lab?
RT @phillybikeclub An electric bike that travels 30 miles at 32 kph for $0.10usd (about 1500mpg)… http://pimobility.com/
If you break a unit test, removing the unit test is not “fixing” it. Bleh.
Gotta take advantage of Restaurant Week — http://tr.im/zpXD. (via @hectcastro)
2009 mono remixes of the Beatles sound way better than stereo ones.
WebGL works great in Firefox.
RT @freepress Wow, FCC launches www.openinternet.gov. Big move.
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Nice, the @FCC is on twitter.
Ugh, that “google” puzzle on TechCrunch just leads to some other company who lied. Nothing to do with @googlejobs.
Just ran two miles down kelly drive yesterday after roughly a year and a half of bike riding to get over my plantar fasciitis.
Best description of lambda calculus EVAH!!!! http://worrydream.com/AlligatorEggs/
I just finished a javascript-based vec4, point, line, angle, and cylinder with webgl based rendering. <insert evil scientist laugh here>
crazy javascript… http://bit.ly/QADIq …it’s time for bed :)
Hamiltonian quaternions are really useful for abstract linear interpolation between two angles.
It’s time to build another custom webkit to test my map.
I think this is the first time I’ve ever ported fortran to javascript. Hopefully it’s the last as well.
Why do I think it’s fun to convert java code into javascript? I’m weird. :D
Just wrote some javascript to generate a frustum from the projection matrix. Anyone wanna place bets on if this thing is gonna work? :D
“Your Year-to-Date Rate of Return” …. 36.2%
You know it’s going to be a crazy day when “H”.equals(“H”) returns false and causes an annoying bug. Bleh! :)
Kimchi is really good for you. One serving is 80% of daily vitamin C and carotene. Also has vitamin A, thiamine, riboflavin, calcium, iron.
There’s a few people in the office who refuse to realize that hand washing and sanitizers do nothing to stop the spread of N1N1. Bleh.
Drinking organic peruvian coffee and manipulating satellite images with crazy maths makes for an excellent friday afternoon at work…
I think I just figured out why my workstation has been slow all day… I was running Oracle in the background…. whoops.
A new xkcd book, volume 0…. http://bit.ly/lTkLi
Nosebleeds at the Phils game… http://yfrog.com/0w92ksj
Apparently switching from closures to prototypes is roughly a 500% speedup in js.
Do me a favor and help spread the word that we are looking for speakers for Ignite Philly 4: http://www.ignitephilly.org (via @hectcastro)
An awesome little summary of math behind 3d apps… http://bit.ly/KPE9P
I think I may have finally taken the git pill. No more svn for my personal projects. Local branches ftw.
Heading down to @refreshphilly now.
The first implementation of WebGL is released and it’s already being adopted by the geospatial crowd. No more applets. Woo!
I just found a case of Weyerbacher Pumpkin ale at the distributer. Woo!
Why I’m not an organ donor: because penndot makes me wait two hours to sign up.
RT @iconjohn Twister taking shape off I-95 in Philly? http://yfrog.com/09aqbj
I wonder if we could somehow make a non-satellite, land-based GPS using the same thing carrier pigeons do.
The flight simulator in google earth actually just made me dizzy. And yes, it’s actually work related. :-)
Congrats :D RT @luminara19131 so we finally picked the building we’re designing our system for. It’s a 15 floor hospital in orlando.
I’m waiting for the fallout that’s going to result from my new integration test adding 14 HOURS to the nightly suite. This should be fun.
Open a terminal and type “telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl”.
Testing out identi.ca. It seems like a nice twitter alternative, but still not distributed at heart.
I’m standing in front of an sr71 … http://twitpic.com/gq5z6
A crazy Boeing thunderbolt http://twitpic.com/gq7te
Skunkwerks http://twitpic.com/gqbsr