mark hewitt’s winter kiln opening was this morning. traveled with jane, chloe, and christy in two cars down to pittsboro, which made for very spacious in-car dozing when we arrived just after 6am–the fifth and sixth cars in line. and…
yesterday, in a battle of oneupmanship with a previous bbq birthday, patrick and i combined forces (and birthdays) to throw a pig pickin’ that can only be truly appreciated in pictures. jonathan, from The Barbecue Joint, unveiled the pig and…
there’s this groove that i experience only when i’ve done absolutely everything else i could possibly do, when i’ve already been staring at my computer for way too long, when i haven’t gotten enough sleep for a number of nights,…
if there were stages marking one’s growth as a programmer (aka hacker, coder), i’d be in the one where the programmer enjoys writing code to do low-level backend tasks that someone has probably already written. i started working on a…
strong’s was a laidback coffee shop on franklin street with good music, decent sandwiches, and wireless internet from campus that reached into the front half of the building. i spent countless hours there during grad school, people-watching and computer hacking.…
this weekend jane and i had nearly 7000 acres of hanging rock state park pretty much to ourselves. we hiked. we found a country-living-style bed and breakfast for the night. we feasted on baked spaghetti, fried chicken, and hushpuppies at…
it’s a wonderful life is not only my favorite christmas time movie, it’s also one of my favorite movies, period. it was on tv tonight, and i got so into it, and so choked up at the end. i think…
my favorite blog posts from each month during the past year. january: where in the world is carmen sandiego? one of the few memes i’ve participated in, and after traveling to killington in march, i can add vermont (and new…
factoid of the day: Honey is made from sucrose-rich flower nectar that is collected by honeybees and then regurgitated back and forth among them until it is partially digested. After the final regurgitation, the bees fan the substance with their wings until it is cool and thick. This mixture, which we call honey, is essentially bee vomit. #
congratulations, blog: you are the word of the year #
useful firefox extension: undoclosetab #
new thing: Chrismukkah #
new word: chromatism (meaning: 1: hallucinatory perception of colored lights 2: abnormal pigmentation) #
as seen on… amazon: Philips HeartStart Home Automated External Defibrillator #
carl’s already posted some excellent photos from our birthday pig pickin’ (they’re in reverse order, so scroll to the bottom and go through them backwards) #
oh my god, disgusting: Fox Will Become Main News Source For Clear Channel (radio has to change) #
dude, todd has like a hip hop blog: Right and Exact #
weird php syntax: Functions within functions #
jealous of anton’s new design over at mistersugar #
beautiful: Skeletal Systems of cartoon characters #
tuba city gets the picture of the day, posing with his man grandmaster flash #
ah, the youth in ukraine #
new tech word: dirify (meaning: to make usable as a URL, by converting spaces to underscores, etc.) #
hehe: A Brief History of Rhyme: MC Hawking’s Greatest Hits contains 16 dope, booty-shaking, digitally-remastered tracks from the undisputed king of theoretical gangsta-astrophysics #
strange bedfellows: nmap and porn #
not a good thing: Homeless Iraq vets showing up at shelters #
you might need to uncomment skip-networking in my.cnf in order to connect to a mysql database outside of localhost #
scary quote of the day: We have to prevent liberal libarians [sic] and trendy teachers from “re-engineering society’s fabric in the minds of our children” #
i wonder if this is going to hit the radio: Hanukkah Hey Yeah! (mp3) #
great trailer: spanglish (possibly a good adam sandler movie?) #
good idea: Paintingblog (link fixed) #
supanerdy: computer error tshirts #
holy cow: this is the javascript mojo that makes the new google suggest work (and this is a dissection of google suggest #
seeking: a common sense explanation of what openurl means for me #
this just blows my mind: pierce-nez eyeglasses #
has anyone heard of this? Meekmok.com — Printing the Web, One Page at a Time #
quite possibly the coolest thing EVER! LEGO Logic Gates #
phrase of the day: nomenclature of ramenculture #
someone with a penchant for building churches with legos #
i’m in the new york times! (my name is 4 lines down from the bottom of the word “Firefox,” between the “i” and the “r”) #
stumbled upon: picture of sept 11 attacks on nyc from princeton, nj #
anton in the news: What Vanuatu taught us about surviving #
a gingerbread motherboard! how cool! #
new word? exegesis (meaning explanation or critical interpretation of a text) #
cuteness! One point twenty-one gigawatts #
i feel dirty even linking to this: Gingerbread Kama Sutra (nsfw) #
anton is getting together a Triangle Bloggers Conference #
i’ve updated my family’s melt-in-the-mouth cookies recipe with a picture (and a cooking for engineers version of the recipe) #
to listen to later: IT Conversations: Ben and Mena Trott – Six Apart #
hmm, interesting proposition: 200,000 hits/month generates $5000/month of google ad revenue #
paying attention: casey saw his exhibition, kristina has him on her wishlist: Andy Goldsworthy #
