Archive for May, 2008
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31 May 2008Carlton Wharf East Boston
Working in Eastie isn't much fun, but the view is worth a million.
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30 May 2008
Valve's got some nice new features and some great ideas. Also good news for game publishers: Free weekends on Steam directly translate to increased sales at retail. -
30 May 2008
"No Lost season finale can ever live up to last year's."
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29 May 2008
This is going to be big.
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28 May 2008
"Oh WAR files, where have you been my entire life?"
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28 May 2008
Permanent hosting of jQuery, et al. by Google. I might have to take advantage of this for Greasemonkey scripting.
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28 May 2008
"PVP has been giving me chills on a daily basis for two weeks now. I wish he'd stop."
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27 May 2008
A good recap of the recent Linux Firefox fsync "bug". I love getting a look behind the covers at the quasi-political things like this.
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27 May 2008
Here’s a somewhat random but ingenious white wine tip we picked up in the Finger Lakes. Freeze some grapes. The next time you bring home a bottle that’s not chilled, but want to drink it right away, throw them in the glass. They won’t water down the wine like ice will, and it’s about one-third as tacky.
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27 May 2008
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26 May 2008Atwater estates
One of many gorgeous vineyards along Seneca lake. $1 per wine tasting. Eat that, Napa.
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24 May 2008Saranac Brewery
In Utica, NY
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22 May 2008
I just paid the low low price of $20 for the brand new Penny-Arcade videogame, On the Rainslick Precipice of Darkness: Episode One. After playing the ten-minute demo, I’ve decided it was a bargain. Features: great art (both 2D and 3D, including seamless transitions between the two), absurd situations, fun and simple RPG-like gameplay, and a black sense of humor without equal.
Support webcomickry in all its forms, buy a copy for yourself. Available right now for
PCWindows, Mac, Linux and on XBLA.Update: I realized that I didn’t make it clear enough that (at least in Windows) you can do things in this order: 1) Download, 2) Enjoy the demo, 3) Pay, 4) Enjoy the remainder. And no downloading is necessary between steps three and four.
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22 May 2008
A user gets harassed continuously and repeatedly, even after Twitter is informed. They refuse to do anything about it.
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22 May 2008
"When I saw the Indiana Jones trailer, I thought "It's a little weird that he's fighting Romulans.""
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21 May 2008
I didn’t follow the last one of these poll memes that went around the nerdosphere, but something about this one is compelling. Christopher Blizzard asks: What do you have open right now?
- Two Firefox windows, one with email, the other with six tabs (including one where I’m writing this post and one where I’m finding URLs for stuff I have open.)
- Three terminals, one of which is running irssi with connections to two different IRC servers.
- Eclipse, with 14 files open.
- gvim, with 5 files open.
- Misc apps: Pidgin, Sonata, and gTwitter.
How about you?
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20 May 2008
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19 May 2008
Low-carbohydrate diets predate Robert Atkins’ eponymous phenomenon by more than one hundred years. The theory behind the diets goes like this: Food contains starches, which your body very quickly converts to glucose. When glucose levels spike right after a meal, in order to prevent blood sugar levels from getting too high, you convert them into triglycerides for storage (usually in fat). When your blood sugar gets very low, said fat stores (ideally) get converted to ketones, which your body can use like glucose. Low-carb diets work on the theory that the modern American diet never allows blood sugar to fall low enough for step 2 to occur.
On a whim, M and I are trying a one-week low-carb diet. Lunch and dinner we can handle. But what do you eat for breakfast when cereal and fruit and bagels are off limits? I can only eat so many hard boiled eggs before I go nuts.
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19 May 2008Tough Balloon
Brian trying to decorate his apartment for his 66th birthday party. We inadvertently got him gag balloons.
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19 May 2008
"Advance preview of my MefiSwap mix: http://plutor.muxtape.com/"
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16 May 2008
"The bouncer waved me in and carded everyone with me. WTF?"
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16 May 2008
"My boss called me perspicacious in my annual review."
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16 May 2008Azaleas
May is the most rewarding time of year to have a garden. Every morning, there's a new flower or a different sprout.
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15 May 2008
Great news while it lasts. There'll be a push for a constitutional amendment in November, and it's not clear what chance it has.
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15 May 2008
"A user experience mistake I've been arguing against for weeks is finally going to be rectified! Victory!"
