2024-04-01: I’ve got two vacations coming up in the next few weeks: 1 night just me and my dog; and 4 …
2023-12-01: Happy Advent Of Code 2023! I’m learning Scala this year. I had a lot of fun with Kotlin in …
2023-10-17: There’s a good chance that reading The Hobbit to my six year old son will end up being the …
2023-07-16: People say “the customer is always right” but the original quote is “The customer …
2023-04-30: No salute emoji gets it right.
2023-04-17: Imagine a cylindrical glass with radius 1 and a cube of ice in it, and then bourbon poured exactly …
2023-03-26: Make a movie that’s sort of found footage for the 2020s. It’s a continuous view of …
2023-03-18: In 2005, I went to E3 with a small handful of friends. I wanted to blog a bit from the floor, but …
2023-02-24: Here is calendar prototype 2 (This is what prototype 1 looked like.) I’ve been living with …
2023-02-22: It’s good that the Android keyboard is a bit shit because it means I text my friends less dumb …
2023-02-14: If you woke up tomorrow the only human on Earth and also immortal, where would be the best place to …
2022-12-24: Like last year, I played a bit of video games in 2022, almost all on PC. Early in the year, I …
2022-12-12: The closest thing I have to synesthesia is a perpetual desire to find the volume of music that …
2022-12-01: Happy December, and happy Advent of Code. As per my tradition, I’m trying to learn a new …
2022-11-27: I just deactivated my Twitter accounts: @Plutor and 9 bots. So long, fucko. One bot I can’t …
2022-11-26: I’m building a storage bench for my kids shoes and hats and such, and it’s gonna turn …
2022-11-20: This is my new calendar idea, the spool calendar. The spool currently goes until the first week of …
2022-11-18: In response to this tweet, I asserted we were in the latter group and literally everyone else on the …
2022-11-15: My friend group’s Slack in 2020: “We should move to Discord” My friend …
2022-11-12: In June 1976, aliens landed on a quiet farm in northern Wisconsin. Three of them left their ship and …
2022-11-10: I invented a new type of wall calendar last night and I can’t stop thinking about it.
2022-11-09: This video allowed John Conway to blow my mind from beyond the grave. I can’t stop thinking …
2022-11-08: Coding in JavaScript makes me feel like Harrison Bergeron
2022-11-01: Painting of Plutor holding a large plate of vegetables, by Frida Kahlo Stable Diffusion trained with …
2022-11-01: The scariest part of my commute has bike lanes now, but I’m not totally sure if it’s in …
2022-10-31: Why does posting here feel so much more navel-gazey than Twitter did? I know it’s the same but …
2022-10-30: Waiting for Gödel
2022-10-30: I did not realize until I deleted my Twitter how much I depended on it for a mental health outlet. …
2019-12-31: Decade in Review Tomorrow, it will be 2020. In 2010, I was a web developer and manager at a small company outside of …
2019-04-12: The Scary <s>Future</s> Present of TV Back in 2013, I had a conversation with cmatta about what I thought was the scary inevitable future …
2017-05-10: Nexus One in 2017 I’ve been using my old Nexus One (running Android 2.3) for the past week, while a replacement …
2016-08-23: First Seven Languages My #FirstSevenLanguages: BASIC - I remember programming BASIC on my parents' IBM PC around the age …
2016-06-30: Upgrading a 8-year-old TV In 2008, when my parents sold the house I grew up in and started cruising the world in an RV, they …
2016-02-18: Red Sox 2016 preview Ever since my parents have been living within spitting distance of Fort Myers, I’ve sent them …
2015-12-31: Happy 2016 The number 2016 is 11111100000 in binary. Years whose binary representations are just 1s followed by …
2015-12-22: Records that The Force Awakens has set Star Wars: The Force Awakens had a pretty big opening weekend. It broke the records for domestic …
2015-05-14: The National Anthem retold simply Our Sign With Stars On It It’s morning now. That thing we saw last evening – can you see …
2015-04-06: A week's worth of paternity leave Stats from a week’s worth of paternity leave with a 3.5 month old: Naps: 22 (average 4.4 per …
2014-12-19: JavaScript Flickr carousel My wife and I made something a couple of weeks ago, and her name is Simone. Our families and some …
2014-05-09: What Bill Belichick has done with the Patriots' first round draft picks There’s a running joke that Bill Belichick likes to trade out of the first round of the NFL …
2014-01-28:
Analysis of "Gloss"
There is a short poem titled “Gloss” by David McCord, written to draw attention to …
2013-07-31:
Bouncing screensaver
We’ve all seen the bouncing screensaver. And we’ve all watched, hoping it would fall …
2013-07-18:
LearnedLeague Computing
I just finished creating and presenting a Computing trivia MiniLeague for LearnedLeague. It went …
2013-03-20: March madness bracket Assumptions: The quality of a basketball team, at the highest levels, depends more on the the …
2013-01-11: I cancelled my MLB.TV For the past two years, I’ve subscribed to MLB.TV. It allowed me to stream baseball games to …
2012-12-19: Where should I put my Internets? For the past six months or so, I’ve been wrestling with where to put all of my Internet …
2012-08-31: A bunch of sort algorithms Whenever I’m trying to get back into the swing of building and optimizing and evaluating …
2012-06-15:
Expected no-hitters
When Matt Cain threw a Perfect Game for the San Francisco Giants on Thursday, he became the fifth …
2012-05-26: Excerpts from my Kindergarten report card The Cottage School, Boulder, CO. Spring 1986 "He sometimes has problems controlling his energy, yet …
2012-05-24:
Planetary orbital foci
Planetary orbits are not perfectly circular; in fact, they are ellipses. An ellipse is a …
2012-05-17: Cans of beer at Citizen's Bank Park Earlier this year, Citizen’s Bank Park (the home of the Philadelphia Phillies) began selling …
2012-05-11: Bread puns Submitted for your approval, a thread from the non-work mailing list at Wayfair, replete with bread …
2012-05-04:
Choosing random keys
Say you had code that generated random keys. These random keys were 6 letters long, all caps, with …
2012-04-26: Another new Plutor.org This morning you may notice some changes to plutor.org (unless you’re reading this in an RSS …
2012-04-09: Reactions from PAX East 2012 Along with the pictures I took at PAX East – mostly of the predictably solid tabletop and …
2012-03-09: 2011 in books It is now March, and I have somehow never posted my reading log for 2011. Last year was a light one …
2012-02-09: I'm an image meme Three winters ago, I took this picture while I was working from home, waiting for the icy roads to …
2011-12-22:
Watching every MLB team play a game
Last April, to no one in particular, I asked the following question:"What's the shortest possible …
2011-09-21: NFL records - 2011 first two weeks The following records have been set in the first two weeks of the 2011 NFL season: Most total yards …
2011-09-13: Expected ERA Imagine two hypothetical pitchers. Their ERAs are very close together and both pretty average: 3.40 …
2011-09-03: Mass Brewers Fest The following is a full list of all of the beers I tried at the second annual Mass Brewers Fest last …
2011-07-20: These people are not me The following people are not me: This Mormon on a mission in Stockholm This crane operator in …
2011-07-12:
Texterity FedEx Day proposal
I just started the wheels moving for a FedEx Day at work. Here’s what we wrote up for it:We …
2011-06-29: The Eternal Shame of Your First Online Handle Inspired by The Eternal Shame of Your First Online Handle, here’s my story. My first online …
2011-06-07: Cloud confusion I have more than 40GB of music I’ve ripped from my own CDs, purchased from a variety of …
2011-05-19: Work laptop decision My laptop at work is getting a bit long in the tooth and is due to be replaced in the next couple of …
2011-05-02: Why We Watch, and NERD While looking for a little preview on tonight’s Red Sox - Angels game (which I’ll be …
2011-03-22: My Fantasy Baseball Team I just finished my Fantasy Baseball league draft. Every time it was my turn to pick, I picked the …
2011-03-04: Two Hundred Thousand Miles My 2003 Nissan Altima passed 200,000 miles this morning. I bought it new on April 30, 2003. Not only …
2011-02-24: Cowboy Stadium vs. NASCAR NASCAR uses about 6,000 gallons (of 110-octane E15 fuel) per race week. The United States averages …
2011-02-10:
Fantasy Baseball Nerd Overload
This year will be the fourth season that I’ve played Fantasy Baseball. I’m a baseball …
2011-01-25: 2010 Oscars scoresheet It’s Academy Award nomination season again – the time of year I reveal how few new …
2011-01-21: 2010 in books I tried to make a conscious effort to split my time half-and-half between fiction and non-fiction …
2011-01-17: Perl backticks and open files When trying to write some debugging code, I noticed something very strange. I could never get fuser …
2010-09-20: Patriots late game problems Yesterday, the Patriots went into halftime with a 14-10 lead. They didn’t score once in the …
2010-08-31: The Red Sox haven't been bad Since April 19, the Yankees are 71-47, Rays are 72-47, and the Red Sox are 70-48. It’s not …
2010-07-31: StarCraft 2 review I’ve now played StarCraft 2 for two days. I’ve finished five missions on the …
2010-04-28: Diamond Age review I wrote about the failings of The Diamond Age in a message to my brother a week ago. Now that I have …
2010-04-15: Idea: OEIS blog Someone should make a blog based on the Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences. Each week (or …
2010-03-29:
PAX East disorganized thoughts
I’m still a little too tired to intelligently compose all of my thoughts about this …
2010-03-22: Health care reform As everyone who cares already knows, the health care reform bill passed the House late last night. …
2010-03-12: Wordpress upgrade I just updated plutor.org to Wordpress 2.9.2 (from the antiquated 2.7). It went smoothly on my end, …
2010-02-03: 2009 Oscars Scoresheet The Academy doubled the number of slots for Best Picture nominees (to ten!) but it hasn’t …
2010-01-06:
2009 in books
Looking back, 2009 was great year for my reading list. Although I only read three fiction books …
2009-12-31: A Decade In Review Tomorrow, it will be 2010. Ten years agoNow I was a sophomore at RPI, considering a double-major in …
2009-11-30: The Anti-gift What I asked for for birthday/Hannukah/Christmas: Freedom from shoe shopping. I hate that all the …
2009-11-23: Non-fun with MySQL Some days, nothing goes right. mysql> drop table node_details; ERROR 1051 (42S02): Unknown table …
2009-10-23: Why I use Windows If you’re lucky, this is the last time you’ll hear me mention Windows 7 for a while. But …
2009-10-06: Quick ACL reviews Here are some quick reviews of shows I saw at Austin City Limits. Shows that were really great: …
2009-09-21:
Guy movie month
My wife is going to be halfway across the world for essentially all of the month of October. I have …
2009-07-22: Graphic design and misinformation Last week, Representative John Boehner released a chart intended to show the complexity of the …
2009-07-20: Kick-ass gazpacho What follows is my recipe for delicious summer gazpacho. In my opinion, it’s the bread and the …
2009-07-04: Transformers 2 reviews I never saw the first Transformers movie, and I never had any plans to see the second one, but …
2009-05-22: Stack Overflow I’m not a huge fan of karma-accumulation websites. You know what kind of site I mean: Other …
2009-04-28: An anecdote from my childhood My parents made a censored version of Raiders of the Lost Ark for me when I was young. Indiana Jones …
2009-04-08: Why I'm Still Writing Java Just over a year ago, I was sitting in a classroom at Sun’s virtually deserted Burlington …
2009-03-03: New desktop, try 2 After doing yet more research on benchmarks and prices, I’ve backed away from my revolutionary …
2009-02-26: The earliest news events I remember The first five news events I actually remember (and my corresponding ages) were: 1986-01-28: …
2009-02-23: New desktop specs I’ve got my new desktop birthday gift essentially planned at this point. I’ve been doing …
2009-02-07: Passwords in email Dear web sites: Please do not send me my password in plain-text in an email. My email is not …
2009-01-22: 2008 Oscars Scoresheet It’s that time of year again: Oscar nominations! The 81st Academy Awards nominees were …
2009-01-19: Logo tricks Lots of people know about the hidden arrow between the E and the x in the FedEx logo. Did you also …
2009-01-15: 1234567890 seconds after the epoch On Friday, February 13, at 23:31:30 UTC (6:31:30pm EST), Unix time (the number of seconds since New …
2009-01-12:
2008 in books
I thought that looking back on my list of books this year, I was going to feel somewhat …
2008-12-31: Will my new desktop be an HTPC? It’s been several years since microATX motherboards became commonplace, kicking the Home …
2008-12-20: Lessons learned from Film Addict It’s been a week since I posted Film Addict. It got posted to kottke.org, Slashfilm, …
2008-12-13: Film Addict A couple friends of mine posted one of those lame Facebook chain note things today. It was a list of …
2008-11-24: M's Fellowship Remember four years ago, when M had to make a huge list of hospitals where she wanted to do her …
2008-11-06: Massachusetts Politician Watch Massachusetts has two Senators who have been on the job for decades, and a newcomer Governor. …
2008-09-02: I Approve This Snowclone A new, occasionally very visible phrase entered the lexicon in 2003, after the McCain-Feingold Act …
2008-08-27: Astronomy Biathalon OLYMPIC SPORT PROPOSAL SUBMITTED TO IOC 2008-08-27 SPORT NAME: Astronomy Biathlon SUMMARY: Each …
2008-07-25: Lyme Disease Over Fourth of July weekend, I went up to Maine to M’s family’s lakeside camp. We went …
2008-07-21: Uncle Wes's waffles In case you’re wondering whether my propensity to being pleased by the appearance of puzzles …
2008-06-12: My grandpa My grandfather was inventive; he built his own lawnmower using, in part, the transmission from a $50 …
2008-06-04:
Promotion
I got a promotion yesterday. Effective more or less immediately, I am the manager of one of two …
2008-05-27: White wine tip Here’s a somewhat random but ingenious white wine tip we picked up in the Finger Lakes. Freeze …
2008-05-22: Rainslick Precipices I just paid the low low price of $20 for the brand new Penny-Arcade videogame, On the Rainslick …
2008-05-19: Low-carb diets Low-carbohydrate diets predate Robert Atkins' eponymous phenomenon by more than one hundred years. …
2008-05-07:
A Decade of Comic Book Movies
There have been 34 movies based on DC, Marvel, and Dark Horse comic books released in the past …
2008-05-05: CPR: As Seen on TV One of M’s co-workers is giving an interesting sounding talk this week. If it wasn’t in …
2008-04-30: Brunch bets We could tell that the waitress serving the next table had a tattoo, but only about a quarter-inch …
2008-04-18: Sudden update Those of you who subscribe to my RSS feed will notice that this morning’s link had some link …
2008-01-28: Sea change A few years ago, my dad was laid off from IBM, where he’d been working for more than 25 years. …
2008-01-22: 2007 Oscars Scoresheet It’s one my few yearly traditions to check the list of movies nominated for Oscars and see how …
2008-01-02:
2007 in Books
For the past two years, I’ve posted my reading list for the year as well as ratings and brief …
2007-12-28: Generating random user_ids At work, each new user is assigned a totally random alphanumeric 12-character ID. They’re …
2007-11-08: Redirect referer test A web user is looking at page A. He clicks on a link for page B. That page has a META Refresh to …
2007-11-04:
Sports Uberchampion trivia question
Here’s a trivia question (to which I currently do not know the answer) inspired by the Red …
2007-10-28: Live photocasting Halloween Sometime during the planning of our two parallel Halloween parties, Chris and I realized we needed …
2007-10-10: Solitaire probabilities For some reason, I’ve been thinking about Klondike solitaire probabilities a lot lately. …
2007-09-18: NYTimes archives free As of midnight last night, the New York Times has made anything in their archives newer than 1987 …
2007-09-07: FeedWordPress Collapse Filter There’s a serious dearth of FeedWordPress filter plugins out there. I aim to rectify the …
2007-09-06: Plutor.org v10 In celebration of what was apparently Plutor.org’s sixth birthday a couple weeks ago, I hereby …
2007-08-29: The cost of mass transit Boston has been considering linking the two halves of its weird bus/subway hybrid Silver Line for a …
2007-08-26: Mt. Everett Western Massachusetts has several notable mountains. The highest mountain in the state (Mt. …
2007-08-18: Dear Plutor of the future Dear Plutor of the future: I know that the crumbling economy, skyrocketing gas prices, and warming …
2007-07-30: 202 Summer Recipes Last week, New York Times published a list of 101 summer meals.[1] Some are lame (#1, for instance) …
2007-07-02: Katahdin report Mount Katahdin has rightfully earned its reputation as one of the hardest mountains in the …
2007-06-20: What would you do? Quick hypothetical: You’re at the library, and you pull a copy of The Tipping Point by Malcolm …
2007-06-15: Apple's Font Rendering and high DPI displays The release of a beta of Apple’s Safari for Windows earlier this week has resulted in an …
2007-05-31: Toxic waste garden Memorial Day weekend is a somewhat-traditional planting weekend in the Northeast. This spring, even …
2007-05-18:
Classic science post: Penta water
The following is a classic science post I wrote for the coolass metablog in May 2004. Sometime last …
2007-05-10: Medical jargon II More medical jargon you didn’t realize you needed to know: emesis - vomiting pandiculation - …
2007-04-19: So long, Planet For the last year or so, I’ve been using Planet to aggregate my del.icio.us links (white …
2007-03-29: Savory Spice Shop When M and I were recently visiting Denver, we ended up walking into Savory Spice Shop in downtown …
2007-03-14: The Feynman point Famed Physicist Richard Feynman once joked that he wanted to memorize π up to the 762nd digit. Why? …
2007-03-03:
Assuming Perfection
In November, I participated in National Novel Writing Month. Sadly, I only made it about 2500 words …
2007-02-20: Music coming to Boston Ever since we took a trip to see OK Go in Providence earlier this month, I’ve realized how …
2007-01-23: Academy Award Nominations In 2006, I hardly did any better than the year before. I’ve hardly seen any of the …
2007-01-16: Biggest gift under 20 dollars Gedanken game time: What is the largest (in volume) gift you could buy or make for under $20? Some …
2006-12-28: Book reviews for 2006, part 2 The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki (22 July 2006 - 7 August 2006) This book, along with …
2006-12-21: Book reviews for 2006, part 1 Like last year, I kept track of what I read this year. And like last year, I’m going to tell …
2006-12-18: I Don't Get It Would I be embarrassing myself if I admitted I didn’t get the notorious xkcd make me a …
2006-11-20: Wii reviews I know that Brian got a Wii after camping out overnight. I know that Chris and Nomad were planning …
2006-11-09: Vive la difference Anyone with more than a passing familiarity with baseball knows that there’s at least one …
2006-11-06: Where will the Wiis be? For those following the same strategy as me this fall – “If I can’t walk into a …
2006-10-30: NaNoWriMo I decided I’m not going to regret not doing National Novel Writing Month this year. …
2006-10-16: Pitcher's Pub On the side of a non-descript road in sleepy Cumberland, Rhode Island is a little bar with a tiny …
2006-10-02: USB cable nastiness I am in need of a product that I am virtually sure exists. I can’t, for the life of me, seem …
2006-09-26: Trivia in the Boston Area We’re trying to find a new location for trivia night that’s a little more central than …
2006-09-14:
Wii Day
Today’s almost certainly the day. With events planned for today in Japan and the US, and …
2006-09-07: Twenty Years in Connecticut My brother and I may have moved to Boston, but my parents have lived in the same house in Danbury …
2006-08-23: Is Google a killer? It’s hard to argue with the fact that Google has grown to the point where it can be a real …
2006-08-16: Three new planets Supposedly, there’s going to be a new planet definition proposal made the IAU today. Everyone …
2006-08-14: Fresh Plutor Wait, what? That’s an outrage. I hope it was a sale. Update: Ah, jeez. It was a photoshop. …
2006-08-12: Upgrade and coComment Some behind-the-scenes stuff: I’ve finally upgraded this blog from WordPress 1.5 to 2.0.4. …
2006-08-07: WWDC 2006 Is anyone else unimpressed with Apple’s WWDC announcements today? They’re cool, I guess, …
2006-08-05: Four random Saturday links Here’s a random Saturday link-dump: Don't believe BusinessWeek's bubble-math - Web 2.0 plus …
2006-07-31: Back to Magic Back in June, I came across a question on Ask MetaFilter about getting back into Magic: The …
2006-07-28: Melting down pennies Not many people know that there is very little copper in modern pennies. In 1982, they were changed …
2006-07-24: Starfleet employee database design How would you design a database of the names of Starfleet employees? At the very least, you’d …
2006-07-19: Water main mess Last night around 9, our water cut out. I spoke to a couple neighbors and they had no water, either. …
2006-07-10:
The story of my new bike
I got a new bike, and it’s an adventure story. Sometime last summer, on two separate …
2006-06-27: Could Wii Sports be bundled with the Wii? It’s been a very long time since a Nintendo console was launched with a bundled game. The last …
2006-06-11:
Shenandoah National Park (National Park Service)
M and I just got back from a four-night trip to Shenandoah National Park in northern Virginia. …
2006-05-22: Plutor, Homeowner For those who aren’t aware[1], M and I are now homeowners and Massachusetts residents. Friday …
2006-05-16: MD, MD My wife graduated from medical school on Sunday. For the past four years, I’ve been …
2006-05-05: Farewell, Priceline After four different positions in three different groups and two cities in the past seven years, …
2006-04-27: Nintendo Wii The Revolution now has a name. Say hello to the Nintendo Wii. Pronounced “wee”. Ugh. If …
2006-04-27: Does stretching matter? Does stretching really lower the risk of sports injury? Sports Injury Bulletin has a really great …
2006-04-14: Writing quines I wrote my first quine today, in Perl. It was surprisingly simple: $_=q($_=$$; s/\\$\\$/q($_)/; …
2006-04-10: Make Mag link dump Since I switched from Bloglines to a local install of reBlog (see the Lifehacker post by Mathowie), …
2006-03-28: New York Loves You I had the chance, possibly for the first time ever, to sit on a corner in downtown New York …
2006-03-27: Gometric is expiring The domain GoMetric.org is expiring on April 24. Should I renew it? Does anyone use it? It averages …
2006-03-23: Nintendo Name Game The GDC keynote (that supposedly might reveal the final name of the Nintendo Revolution) …
2006-03-21: Achewood's Great Outdoor Fight Are you reading Achewood, the best webcomic there is? Have you been following the Great Outdoor …
2006-03-18: What music have you listened to lately? In response to something Chris said last night, I’d like to try an experiment. I’d like …
2006-03-16: M's going to... M will be doing her Residency at Boston Medical Center in Boston, MA.
2006-03-14: Pi Day is a sham Pi Day is a sham. So-called Pi Approximation Day (July 22, or 22/7 in European date style) is closer …
2006-03-10: How I got a new DSL modem MetaFilter — or more accurately AskMetaFilter — is a thing of beauty. Last week, after about a month …
2006-03-06: Pinhole lessons My pinhole photos came on Saturday. Several of them came out pretty well, and I was surprised that …
2006-02-28: Pinhole camera links A round-up of the pinhole camera links that I used (and others that I just found interesting) while …
2006-02-23: Rank Order List finished Well, it’s done. Last night, at 8:30pm, M’s ranked list of residencies was locked. …
2006-02-22: Your DNA is Art There’s a company called DNA11 that makes up big, nice looking, (expensive) pieces of art …
2006-02-20: Recent Desktop Woes The biggest disadvantage to building your own desktop is that when things go wrong, you actually …
2006-02-15:
When is Powerball worth it?
Every time the Powerball Lottery breaks two-hundred million or so, people at work start talking …
2006-02-13: Half-Life 2: Episode One This is a really strange development that requires some pondering and discussion. An expansion for …
2006-01-31: Academy Awards 2005 I apparently haven’t seen enough movies this year. Of the top categories of 2006 Academy …
2006-01-24: Mil Millington Way back in August 2004, I posted about Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About, an amusing …
2006-01-23: Icehouse I want to get some Icehouse pieces (from the maker of Fluxx and Chrononauts). It’s a game …
2006-01-15: Interviews Done M’s last medical residency interview was Friday. Her rank order list isn’t due until …
2006-01-09: Musical Notation My mind tends to wander. The other day it wandered to the following question: “What is the …
2006-01-04: Three Words, Five Minutes I wrote Three words, five minutes this morning after about a year of procrastinating. It was …
2006-01-03: New Year's Resolution Among my New Years resolutions this year is to resume writing. I wrote a lot of angsty poetry and …
2005-12-23: I ♥ Jimmy Carter I think I’m in love with Jimmy Carter. I’ve started reading his most recent book, Our …
2005-12-20: Flickring the news I don’t get the newspaper, and I don’t watch TV news programs; instead, I get almost all …
2005-12-01:
Reading 2005
Late last year, I finally started requesting inter-library book loans regularly. As I started …
2005-11-15:
The Dilbert Blog on Intelligent Design
Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams has a blog that I was pointed to by a cow-orker a couple weeks ago. …
2005-11-11: M's Interviews Although there’s a chance that she may get a couple more in the next week or two, it’s …
2005-11-10: Hello, WP! Welcome to WordPress. This is my first post with the new system. Things are going to be a little …
2005-11-06: MT messiness I’m abandoning Moveable Type (the blog software I use right now) for something less.. er.. …
2005-10-28: New uberfeed I just spent the time this morning making a single over-arching RSS feed for Plutor.org. It should …
2005-10-21: Gimp 2.2 on RHEL3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux has ridiculously old versions of packages — especially those that are …
2005-10-18: Goats The webcomic Goats is probably the second one I ever read on a regular basis (the first being the …
2005-10-13: Bloglines and keyboard shortcuts Am I the only one who doesn’t like keyboard shortcuts on websites? I find it far easier to …
2005-10-10: Google Reader I’ve figured out what I don’t like about Google Reader, Google’s new RSS …
2005-10-06: M's Draft Application List The following is M’s current draft list for where she’s applying for residencies. In …
2005-09-30: Unanimous Justices Did you know that 4 of the 9 Supreme Court Justices now serving were confirmed by unanimous votes? …
2005-09-23: Sun Ray and Palm syncing Recently, Sun released version 3.1 of the Sun Ray Server Software. It now has Linux support for USB …
2005-09-16: Revolution Controller My first reaction to the now-revealed Nintendo Revolution controller was to think of every remote …
2005-09-14: Hurricane Craziness Even apart from the particularly catastrophic devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina, this has been …
2005-09-14: Uncle Steve, Lawnmower Racer My Uncle Steve will be racing his lawnmower at the Terryville County Fair north of Waterbury this …
2005-09-06: Google job I just got an email from an HR person at Google. It was really personalized, not just a form letter, …
2005-09-03: RHCE Yesterday, I passed my Red Hat Certified Engineer exam with flying colors. I’m willing to call …
2005-08-31: Front page broken Eris (my webhost) is doing some rolling OS updates, and I’m having some problems with the …
2005-08-29: Free (as in water) I’m at Red Hat training this week in Westford, MA. The water bottles here have the logo on …
2005-08-18: 72k miles This morning, on the way to work, my car’s extended warranty expired. I’ve driven 72,000 …
2005-08-11: Divisibility I love math. Not just complex math, but arithmetic, too. I simply adore mathematical shortcuts. …
2005-08-02:
Maximum concentration of ethanol
Have you ever wondered why grain alcohol like Everclear or Graves are only 95% ethanol (190 proof)? …
2005-08-01: The Time Traveler's Wife Recently I finished reading The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger. I had been …
2005-07-28: Goats extended info Okay, I’m not sure if this is ridiculous, inspired, or over-the-edge. The surreal webcomic …
2005-07-22: Pi approximation day Today is π (pi) approximation day. In a large portion of the world, the date is represented as …
2005-07-20: John Roberts I’m not entirely sure I’d vote to confirm John Roberts, Bush’s nominee for the …
2005-07-18: Wiki at work Today, I gave an intro to wiki class at work. Ever since I moved the Unix group’s home page …
2005-07-17: EXIF tools Almost all digital cameras (with the notable exception of all but the newest camera phones) support …
2005-07-08: Matthew 5:43-48 This post is going to be extremely unlike me. I'm going to quote the New Testament, and I'm going to …
2005-07-07: Nothing Nice To Say Last week, I was reading through some oldish posts on Websnark, and he pointed me towards …
2005-07-04: More precritic update Precritic update: Batman Begins has 83% on the Tomatometer. If we had used my fancy scoring for our …
2005-06-22: String to DOM I was working on a Greasemonkey script yesterday, and I ran into a problem for a second time. I had …
2005-06-15:
Carrying change
Nomad refuses to carry coinage. I recall one time (likely apocryphal) he purchased a soda for $1.25 …
2005-06-14: Flickr Pro A hundred thousand thanks to smackfu, my fellow MetaFilter user and Naugatuck resident. I added him …
2005-06-13: Precritic: Batman Begins Time to play precritic on Batman Begins. What will the tomatometer score for the movie be two weeks …
2005-06-13: Pink Floyd to Reunite Pink Floyd will reunite for the Live 8 show in London on July 6. Not just the latest line-up, but …
2005-06-07: Revolution back-titles not free So here’s the situation as it stands now. We know for a fact that there will be …
2005-06-06: Traffic I reiterate my derisive laugh at LA traffic: ha-hah! It took me more than three hours to travel the …
2005-06-03: ANUS.doc My wife just sent me an email with a file called "ANUS.doc" attached. It wasn't quite as hilarious …
2005-06-02: Bibliomation Global It’s a little-known fact that with a library card in the state of Connecticut, you can take …
2005-06-01: Birthday of scotch Today in 1495, the Friar John Cor made almost 1500 bottles of scotch whiskey from fourty-eight …
2005-05-31: Frankenshirt Nomad and Mari converted his E3 Pac-man shirt from a XL to medium this weekend. I’m …
2005-05-27: Xbox 360 too slow It’s fair to say that I was extremely impressed with the Xbox 360 at E3. The controllers are …
2005-05-26: Threadless sale All t-shirts at Threadless are on sale for only $10 apiece until June 6. Stock up!
2005-05-24: 24 Day 5 countdown A long time until the 24 Season 5 premiere. function update24countdown() { var n, f, s, t; n = new …
2005-05-20: E3 is over E3 is over. We yelled ourselves silly for three days and played about a krillion games. Some of the …
2005-05-18: E3 Day Zero Day 0 of E3 is over. We survived some serious turbulence on the flight over the Rockies, and met …
2005-05-14: Slashdot's short memory I’ve noticed an interesting pattern on Slashdot. They’re notorious for duplicate stories …
2005-05-13: E3 moblogging I hope that I don’t regret allowing any of the E3 folks to moblog to the front page here. The …
2005-05-11: Free Frosty Weekend To try to counter an anti-chili-finger backlash and sales drop, Wendy’s is giving away Free …
2005-05-10: New design, again I never liked the side-by-side bars on plutor.org very much, so this morning I spent a bit of time …
2005-05-07: NVAD photos I have about 250 photos from the six years of NVAD. I’ve decided to post a few of my favorites …
2005-05-05:
Cisco IP phone custom rings
Yesterday, I was surfing through the “24” tag on del.icio.us when I found a site that …
2005-04-30: Hitchhiker's Guide I saw Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy last night. It’s the first movie since Lord of …
2005-04-27: NIN's With Teeth Nine Inch Nails has made their entire upcoming album, With Teeth, available online for free. …
2005-04-26: My old car This is my old 1990 Toyota Camry. I purchased it for (I think) $2700 in the summer of 2000. It was …
2005-04-25: Brian's apartment photos My parents put up a bunch of pictures of Brian’s new apartment. Granted, it’s bare-bones …
2005-04-22: Wasting paper What’s the attraction behind printing things out? The new guy at work has printed at least a …
2005-04-19: E3 WE'RE GOING TO E3!!!!
2005-04-18: New job day Good luck to Brian and Nomad on their first days of work at new jobs. Stop reading this blog and get …
2005-04-15: Gay civil unions in CT Hooray, Connecticut! It’s a great day for equality, because the CT legislature has passed a …
2005-04-14: Tungsten X I’m starting to really like the looks (not to mention the rumored specs) of the upcoming …
2005-04-11: 3par service Our new 3par storage mega-arrays at work are something else. They have some amazing hands-off …
2005-04-10: M's Bloglines review M just looked over my shoulder at the list of blogs that I read, and said “Do you really read …
2005-04-07: Detailed process start time Once a process in Linux is running for more than 24 hours, it's impossible to get an exact …
2005-04-06: On the demise of Mefi Reading through this four-and-a-half year old thread on the demise of MetaFilter bends my mind. I …
2005-04-05: Brian's new job Congratulations to Brian for getting his first full-time job at TV Guide On Screen in Bedford, MA, …
2005-04-02:
Moblog test
This is a test of the moblogging interface that I’m setting up. Some other weirdos are going …
2005-04-01: Written Warning The conventional wisdom for when you’re pulled over by a traffic cop is to not admit anything. …
2005-03-30: Sun Rays My boss at work just told me we’re going to be getting ten old Sun Rays that he found on eBay …
2005-03-30: Discovery moves to the VAB The space shuttle Discovery was moved from the Orbiter Processing Facility to the Vehicle Assembly …
2005-03-25: Greasemonkey Scripts I discovered the Firefox extension Greasemonkey in early March 2005. I had probably heard of it …
2005-03-25:
Achewood 03-25-2005
I love Chris Onstad, the mind behind Achewood. Only he would try a joke like today's strip, and …
2005-03-23: Travelweb completed The aforementioned major deploy went out this morning. It went well. More than 5000 man-days …
2005-03-21: Slashdot and CSS A couple years ago, the great web zine A List Apart featured an article about rewriting the tech …
2005-03-21: New header Had a little time this weekend to do some HTML hacking, so I got rid of the much-derided orange …
2005-03-15: Blog slowness Just to allay any fears, I have not forgotten this blog. There’s a huge new site launch next …
2005-03-07: Future message I was reading through this AskMe today, and it started me thinking. Emailing yourself five or ten …
2005-03-01: Tada reading list Tada Lists were a blog-world meme a few weeks back, and I’ve finally come up with a good use …
2005-02-28: E3 Big for Nintendo This is something that I normally would just put in my links feed (to the right, if you’ve …
2005-02-24: Franz Ferdinand The other day, I finally got ahold of a copy of last year’s Franz Ferdinand album. M happened …
2005-02-23: TaskSwitchXP The “Alt-Tab Replacement” Power Toy never behaved properly with my text editor of …
2005-02-22: Trig challenge A new trigonometry challenge: Given a hexagon inscribed in a square as shown below, what is the …
2005-02-17: Dandelions Dandelions are what’s called an apomictic plant. Apomixis is essentially asexual reproduction. …
2005-02-15: Fark.com Arena The operators of FleetCenter in Boston decided it’d be a good idea to auction off single-day …
2005-02-14: Bloglines and RSS I switched from a big bookmark folder of blogs to using the great free website Bloglines only about …
2005-02-10: SuSE, not Redhat Yesterday, after three months of indecision, we finally decided on a Linux distribution. We’re …
2005-02-09: Fun Medical Terms Medical terms for parts of the body that don't really otherwise have a name: Antecubital fossa - …
2005-02-07: I Gave Blood I gave blood today. You should, too. Every two seconds, someone in the US needs blood, and …
2005-02-06: More E3 info The information on the next generation in game consoles is becoming more firm. We know that …
2005-02-03: Rethinking Okay, so maybe nevermind on the whole del.icio.us thing. I like being able to keep single links …
2005-01-31: links for 2005-01-31 FM radio station search I thought it'd be neat to make a radio station search engine. It turns out …
2005-01-29: links for 2005-01-29 Pokemon Protein Implicated in Cancer Development Researcher names a protein after a popular …
2005-01-28: links for 2005-01-28 Blake Ross on Firefox silliness A great overview of a lot of behind-the-scenes silly things from …
2005-01-27: links for 2005-01-27 OpenSolaris.org Sun is really serious. They kicked off their opensource Solaris initiative by …
2005-01-26: links for 2005-01-26 Flickr coincidence A guy from Scotland goes to Tokyo and takes a picture of a girl taking a …
2005-01-26: Photos of my parents' new bedroom My dad has posted some pictures of their bedroom remodeling project. I haven’t been there in a …
2005-01-25: Garry's Mod v6 Nomad will be happy about the big new feature in these preview screenshots of Garry’s mod v6. …
2005-01-25: links for 2005-01-25 Police hunt poo protesters “Legal experts say there is no law against using faeces as a flag …
2005-01-24: links for 2005-01-24 Don't Get Traffic To Your Blog I'm going to have to stop doing this. (categories: blog advice) The …
2005-01-21: Inauguration Protest Photos Inauguration protest photos. Quite excellent.
2005-01-20: Mars Meteorite The Opportunity rover has discovered the first ever meteorite ever found on another planet. The …
2005-01-20: AskMe and "ET P" bumper sticker Ask MetaFilter comes to the rescue, finding the answer to something that’s bugged me for two …
2005-01-20: Achewood 1/20/05 Somehow, I think Vlad’s idea in today’s Achewood would really be popular (in an ironic …
2005-01-19: 24 Apologizing to Muslims In previous years, 24’s bad guys roster has included a family from the Balkans, unidentified …
2005-01-18: Cool Keychains Gizmodo has a photo of some pretty damn cool keychains: miniature terrariums with cacti inside. One …
2005-01-18: Waxy and Sean Astin Interweb personality trivia: Andy Baio sat behind Sean Astin in Anthropology 101 at LAVC.
2005-01-18: flickr I’ve started taking some pictures with my low-res camera on my Visor, and posting them to …
2005-01-17: Woman eats six pound burger Remember those six pound burger photos that made the rounds a while ago? The bar’s challenge …
2005-01-17: Dissecting the iPod shuffle Dissecting the iPod shuffle
2005-01-14: Fark Photoshop: Goofus and Gallant “Satirize a Goofus and Gallant strip” Fark Photoshop contest. Possibly one of the best …
2005-01-14: Huygens The last time the European Space Agency tried to drop something onto a planet, the Beagle 2 was …
2005-01-12:
Apple hoaxes and scams
In celebration of yesterday's announcement of the iPod shuffle and Mac mini, here's a quick list of …
2005-01-11: Macworld Expo rumors Macworld Expo starts tomorrow, and here’s a good rundown of all the rumors. It’s been …
2005-01-10: Paper models of Polyhedra An offhand reference in The Golden Ratio led me to research Archimedean solids, which led me to a …
2005-01-07: Halo Hero Zyos The day before New Years, I went to MoMA in New York with the inlaws. We had reservations for …
2005-01-06: Garry's mod update There’s a Garry’s mod update, including “uncomplete (sic) and unsupported” …
2005-01-05: New Font for Highways Note: I wrote this post back in November, and accidentally saved it as “draft” instead …
2005-01-05: Mefi Swap I’ve signed up for the MefiSwap, and other Metafilter users should consider doing the same. …
2005-01-04: The Gates in the park Christo’s newest “masterpiece” has started being assembled in Central Park. (The …
2005-01-04: Learning a language with The Sims I installed The Sims for M last week and she spent the rest of the day playing it. In what would …
2005-01-04: New LCD speed record For me, 2005 is going to be the Year of the LCD. I will finally be replacing my aging Sun 21" …
2004-12-29: Jerry Orbach dies Long-time Law and Order star, Jerry Orbach, has died from prostate cancer at 69. I love that show, …
2004-12-28: Peyton Manning's statistics You know I love statistics/numbers/trivia. Last night in the gym, the UConn football game was on, …
2004-12-27: 2004 MN4 The Torino Impact Hazard Scale was created in 1995 to categorize near-Earth object impact hazards. …
2004-12-27: Walking Manhattan Walking every block of Manhattan. Somehow, I’m always captivated by obsessive projects like …
2004-12-27: Blacklist Dear spammers: I had been perfectly satisfied with allowing you to plop your online gambling and …
2004-12-23: Nintendo Revolution controllers The newest Nintendo Revolution rumor is that the new console will not have a D-pad or buttons on the …
2004-12-21: Sushi pants Do not buy a portable breathalyzer and bring it with you on a night on the town. It will be your …
2004-12-21: Freeipods.com As a birthday gift, I was presented with this lovely message on my Freeipods.com account this …
2004-12-20: Honda Fuel-cell car Honda’s fuel-cell car, the FCX, is now very close to large-scale commercialization. It’s …
2004-12-17: Name a Plant When typos go wrong
2004-12-16: Zeugma Plutor’s word of the day: zeugma /zoog'-muh/ n. 1: the use of a word to modify or govern two …
2004-12-15:
I, Robot
Half of me is offended by what the movie I, Robot does to Isaac Asimov's universe. The heart is in …
2004-12-14: Election Day 1996 crossword puzzle In the New York Times on Election Day 1996, the crossword puzzle correctly predicted the winner of …
2004-12-14: Edwards got an electoral vote Final 2004 election tally: George Bush, 286 electoral votes; John Kerry, 251 electoral votes; John …
2004-12-14: Game Boys as a drug An anesthesiologist has discovered that allowing children to play Game Boy for a few minutes can be …
2004-12-13: Sluggy Freelance story For those of you who don’t still read Sluggy Freelance on a daily basis, I would recommend …
2004-12-13: Osaka video game shopping Shopping for video games in Osaka, or, why I’m trying to convince M to get a residency in …
2004-12-10: Google Suggest I just said “Holy shit”. Aloud. At work. Why? Google just unveiled a new Beta project: …
2004-12-10: HL2: Ravenholm Done Quick Half-Life 2. Ravenholm. Hard difficulty. Done in 2:28 [WMV, 44MB]. Amazing. Those gravity gun jumps …
2004-12-09: Pay Boston parking ticket with Toys Boston is allowing anyone who got a ticket on December 1, 2, or 3 to pay for it in toys. Toys for …
2004-12-07: HL2 Story One of the things that’s a little upsetting about the Half-Life story is that you’re …
2004-12-03: Imported old plutor.org blog entries I’ve imported some ancient plutor.org blog entries from a text file I came across this …
2004-12-02: Why self-destruct DVD's won't take off I talked about self-destructible DVDs before, but I could never analyze its big downfall as well as …
2004-12-01: Cereality A cereal restaurant. Fucking brilliant. Goddamnit that’s a good idea.
2004-12-01: Gnome icon creation, high speed Check out this video of the guy who created most of the Gnome icons creating a new one. The …
2004-11-29: WoW Waiting Dance Someone has been considerate enough to put a flash-powered working World of Warcraft demo online. …
2004-11-29:
G-Man Sightings
A full list of G-Man sightings in Half-Life 2. I can’t believe I’ve missed so many; I …
2004-11-28: How to Eat Sushi How to eat sushi. You may wonder why this is really necessary, but you must remember that sushi …
2004-11-26: Source SDK next week The most recent news post for Steam contains this gem: Next week we will be releasing the Source …
2004-11-24: Jeff's Marathon Photos The New York marathon did a fantastic job with the photos. You can search by runner name or bib …
2004-11-23: Clipcopy is no more As of this morning, I am now using Remote Clip to synchronize the clipboards on my SunBlade 100 …
2004-11-22: Spelling the Vacuum The Adventures of Spelling the Vacuum. What the hell, folks? My life is like a Douglas Adams novel.
2004-11-22: Ponder This IBM’s monthly teaser, Ponder This, seems like fun. Part 1 of November’s only took me …
2004-11-20: War of the Worlds Stephen Spielberg will be filming a part of the War of the Worlds remake in my home town of …
2004-11-18: Metafilter new users Mathowie has turned MetaFilter signups back on, for a $5 one-time fee. Totally worth it. I hope the …
2004-11-17: HL2 First Thoughts First thoughts on Half-Life 2: Man am I glad I finally upgraded my computer. More importantly, I'm …
2004-11-15: New Yorker Discusses Copyright Imagine going to see a Broadway play, and discovering that it was based on your own life. This true …
2004-11-11: Mini-24 Fox is planning on creating twenty-four one-minute shorts based on characters from 24 for display on …
2004-11-11: Real without Realplayer RealPlayer is a steaming pile. I didn’t want to install it on my computer unless I absolutely …
2004-11-11: Mars Rovers 50k images Just before Halloween, the Mars Rovers silently passed the 50,000-image milestone. They have now …
2004-11-11: Filtering Vodka Oh My God It Burns, a humorous science experiement. Can a Brita filter turn vile cheap vodka into …
2004-11-09: Berlin Wall What’s the earliest news event that you can recall when it occurred? For me, it was the …
2004-11-09: Red states, Blue states, and cartograms More on America’s non-existant red/blue divide: a fascinating analysis of Election result maps …
2004-11-08: Marathon photos Flickr is fun, and the tag system is perfectly done. For example, check out the photos tagged with …
2004-11-08:
mount --bind
There are a lot of questions about this, but very few adequate answers available on Google. Solaris …
2004-11-05: New NYC street lights New York City has chosen new street lights. I like them.
2004-11-05: Improv Anywhere I’ve mentioned them before, but after Waxy Links mentioned another recent conquest, I’ve …
2004-11-04: Retailers halt DS preorders Gamestop has stopped taking pre-orders for the Nintendo DS because they won’t have enough …
2004-11-04: Red vs. Blue states It’s easy to think of the country in Red states and Blue states, especially for those of us …
2004-11-04: Free Sidekick II Looking for a new cellphone, with lots of extra features and huge nerd cred? Don’t want to …
2004-11-03: Paper sizes American paper sizes, like all other Imperial forms of measurement, are so arbitrary. It’s …
2004-11-02: Ken Jennings Another thing that might be happening on November 16: Ken Jennings' Jeopardy loss. The rumor is that …
2004-11-02: Dangerfield and Saget Scoffing at Dangerfield, an interesting story about dear ol' Rodney judging a contest for people to …
2004-10-29: Red Sox and the President Red Sox World Series victories predict incumbent presidential defeat with 100% accuracy!
2004-10-29: Grand Theftendo Grand Theftendo, a Nintendo Entertainment System fan port of Grant Theft Auto. It’ll be …
2004-10-27: GTA:SA Breaks Every Sales Record Ever With a 225 million dollar haul, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas has reportedly broken the opening …
2004-10-26: T minus 7 to E-Day Seven days to go. “You know what they call a candidate who’s counting on a lot of new …
2004-10-25: Gimli Glider The Gimli Glider: how a talented airline pilot saved hundreds of lives when coincidences converged …
2004-10-25: Graph Paper PDFs Free graph paper PDFs. Now if only I needed to graph something..
2004-10-22: Why Blu-Ray has already won Blu-Ray? HD DVD? Confused by the tech? Unsure why you should even care yet? Gizmodo presents a good …
2004-10-22: New job As of roughly 15:30 this afternoon, I am no longer a programmer. I am a Unix System Administrator. …
2004-10-22: Upcoming Lunar Eclipse There will be a total lunar eclipse next Wednesday, October 27 starting at 20:05 EDT. Totality will …
2004-10-22: GTA: San Andreas hands-on SPOnG.com has a long story up about their recent hands-on demo of GTA: San Andreas. This game sounds …
2004-10-22: Regret the Error Regret The Error, a blog that follows major newspapers' corrections. Interesting, sometimes funny, …
2004-10-21: Splashpad Between both cellphones and M’s Palm, we’ve got three things on my bureau charging every …
2004-10-20: Boston Sports Blog I’m normally pretty ambivalent about baseball. I enjoy watching the game, sure, but I’m …
2004-10-20: Zero Score WEBoggle game A zero-score Boggle board is possible. A chance to run to the bathroom for those who are addicted.
2004-10-20: Self-destructing DVDs For the time being, let’s ignore the environmental implications of mass-marketed …
2004-10-19: Photo mosaics howto How to make your own photo mosaics, courtesy of Engadget.
2004-10-19: RotK EE Pre-order on Amazon I know I signed up twice to be emailed when it was available for pre-order, so why didn’t …
2004-10-18: HL2 GOLD Half-Life 2 is Gold The release date is November 16. Mark your calendars. More information here. No …
2004-10-18: Cockeyed Terrorism Poll Results of a terrorism poll, courtesy of cockeyed.com: How many foreign-born men or women, with the …
2004-10-16: GTA:SA and HL2 gold As if you doubted its promptness, GTA San Andreas has gone gold. In other, less inevitable news, …
2004-10-14: Welt Welt (Windows Event Log Tool) collects event logs from an arbtrary number of Windows machines and …
2004-10-14: Inefficient sort algorithms Flashback with me to my CompSci days (and realize how much I’ve forgotten, and how easy it is …
2004-10-14: Hypothetical optimal imperfect election Remember the 2000 election (sure you do), when Gore won the popular vote but lost the electoral …
2004-10-13: Speedup I just rewrote a piece of code and tested it against a ridiculously huge dataset (63,000 points), …
2004-10-12: Nintendo Revolution in 2006? The future of Nintendo’s home console hasn’t been nailed down yet, but there are a …
2004-10-12:
Making GD::Graph beautiful
Before this morning, I never really looked too carefully at the pie charts I was generating with …
2004-10-11: Efficient cars The new hybrid Lexus RX 400h SUV is setting presales records. The Toyota Prius is outselling the …
2004-10-11: Pink Floyd Reunion Rumors of a Pink Floyd Reunion, including Roger Waters. I’m not holding my breath, but I sure …
2004-10-10: Webpads at Engadget Engadget is one of my newest daily links. They post several things a day about new cellphones, PDAs, …
2004-10-08: Improv Everywhere Improv is only one step removed from theater dorks in my book (not a judgement, just a fact). But …
2004-10-08: Detailed statistical election poll analysis Detailed statistical election poll analysis. Why dead-even polls mean that Bush will be buried on …
2004-10-08: Three Notes and Runnin When the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a lower court’s ruling that upheld the rights …
2004-10-07: GOP Fear Phrases The RNC fear-phrase video (Quicktime). Hypnotizing. (via)
2004-10-06: Half-Life 2 packages available tomorrow This just in: Tomorrow at 11 am PST [I think they mean PDT, which is 2pm EDT], the Half-Life 2 Steam …
2004-10-06: You Forgot Poland Now you, too, can forget Poland with this new You Forgot Poland Bumper Sticker! (What the hell is …
2004-10-05: DOM Image Zoom Here it is, the next in my unbounded series of DOM experiments. DOM Image Zoom. Enjoy!
2004-10-05:
John Edwards' trial record
You may or may not be aware that my wife, M, is a medical student. You might also be unaware of the …
2004-10-04: Presidential Candidates on the CT Ballot Presidential candidates listed on the ballot in the state of Connecticut: George W. Bush …
2004-10-04: Gmail Features New Gmail features are in the process of being added to the system, one of which is the …
2004-10-04: 1138 THX-1138 references in pop culture: American Graffiti - A car has the license plate "THX-138" …
2004-10-04: I'm moving to Unix It’s official, I’m going to be working for Priceline.com’s UNIX group as the …
2004-10-04: Presidential Debate Catch Phrases This is a neat Perl-powered Presidential Debate analysis.
2004-10-04: Star Wars DVD deal I meant to post this earlier, but I kept forgetting. If you buy the new Star Wars DVDs at either …
2004-10-01: A Murder of Scarecrows Happy October. Here’s an eerie fun Flash game for your Friday: A Murder of Scarecrows
2004-10-01: thttpd This is cool: thttpd, a tiny, fast, and simple HTTP server. Traffic throttling, IPv6 support, chroot …
2004-09-30: Half-Life is One Year Late Today is the one-year anniversary of the original release date of Half-Life 2. It doesn’t look …
2004-09-30: The Kleptones The Kleptones' new release, A Night at the Hip-Hopera is damn rockin. A lot of Queen and Beastie …
2004-09-29: Half-Life Purchase Options Half-Life Fallout has a list of purchase options for Half-Life 2. Six CDs, three different Steam …
2004-09-29: Microsoft sends 150 SP2 CDs This would make a good “This is Broken”: some guy was able to order 150 Windows XP SP2 …
2004-09-29: Tim Wilson - The Nascar Song The Nascar Song by Tim Wilson - This song is funny, my dad especially will get a kick out of it. If …
2004-09-28: New $50 Not that you see them as often as Yuppie Food Stamps, but the firty-dollar bill got a new design …
2004-09-28: The Incredibles trailer The Incredibles, trailer 2. Hell, yeah. Take that, dilettante Dreamworks dickheads.
2004-09-28: Canadian Journalist Saved by Google A few weeks ago, Canadian Journalist Scott Taylor was kidnapped by insurgents in northern Iraq. A …
2004-09-27: RotK EE Release Return of the King Extended Edition info: Release date: December 14 Pre-ordering starts: October …
2004-09-27: Voters Information Guide Everyone who’s a citizen of the United States should be required to read the Voters …
2004-09-27: Zipdecode Zoom in to a zipcode with zipdecode. I hate it when I see something and realize that I’ve …
2004-09-26: Database upgrade This weekend, Justin upgraded PostgreSQL on Eris (translation: the database software on my webhost). …
2004-09-22: Mars Rovers get another six months Just after passing behind the Sun ("conjunction"), the twin Mars Rovers (Spirit and …
2004-09-22: 350 GBAs “qdot: NRRRRRR I HAVE 350 GBAs.”
2004-09-22: Drag and drop DOM I do three kinds of things at work: Work. Sub-things: programming, monitoring management Not work. …
2004-09-22: Terminator 3 I finally saw Terminator 3 last night. I had heard mixed reviews of it when it first came out, and I …
2004-09-21: I Interviewed I gave an interview today. It was a totally surreal experience. I think I was more nervous than he …
2004-09-21: PStwo In the same vein as the PSone, here comes Sony’s PStwo. (Okay, that’s not the real name, …
2004-09-17: HL2 RC Sent The Half-Life 2, Counter-Strike: Source, and Half-Life: Source Release Candidates have been sent to …
2004-09-16: Milgram's Other Study This is the most amazing thing I’ve read in weeks, about Stanley Milgram’s other study: …
2004-09-16: Beer is Good For You The are a lot of good reasons to drink a glass of red wine every day. Now, there might be just as …
2004-09-16: The Norm is Over If I still read it, I would have known about this earlier, but Michael Jantze ended The Norm, …
2004-09-15: Quake IV Quake IV. Not being made by id, but based on an id engine (Doom 3, obviously). It’ll look …
2004-09-15: CD Spindle Lamp I think it’s been about four years since I purchased blank CD-R media, but somehow I have more …
2004-09-14: RotK EE Changes New Line has yet to announce an official release date for the Extended Edition of Return of the …
2004-09-14: 100 Photographs that Changed the World 100 Photographs that Changed the World
2004-09-14: Gabe's son Gabe Read the story about Gabe's son's birth (it's the second post on that day, titled "My son"). Here …
2004-09-13: Spam in Doom 3 In the second level of Doom 3, “Administration” (just as you arrive at the Alpha Labs), …
2004-09-13: Marathon Training The goal: Running a marathon before my 30th birthday. The next step: A 10k. The New York Road …
2004-09-11: 5k Road Race Katy, M, Nomad, and I — in that order — ran a 5k road race this morning. Congrats to …
2004-09-10: Alphabetic email Amail, Bmail, Cmail, Dmail, Email, Fmail, Gmail, Hmail, Imail, Jmail, Kmail, Lmail, Mmail, Nmail, …
2004-09-10: CS:Source quote It’s old, but this quote from Gabe Newell is pretty interesting. “We’re doing [the …
2004-09-10: Mains Power Plug Leave it to Wikipedia to teach me a ridiculous amount of stuff about a simple thing: in this case a …
2004-09-09: The Onion tells the future In January 2001, shortly before his Inauguration, The Onion published an article called “Bush: …
2004-09-08: Bush singing Sunday Blood Sunday Wow. Listen to George W. Bush cover U2’s “Sunday, Bloody Sunday”.
2004-09-08: Red Faction I’ve ranted a couple times recently about how tantalizing interactive physics — like that seen …
2004-09-07: HL2 RC The Geiger Counter on Planet Half-Life isn't archived or permalinked, but it's got a good discussion …
2004-09-07: Genesis Three years ago, NASA launched the Genesis mission. The satellite spent more than 1000 days orbiting …
2004-09-07: Ken Jennings, Day 39 Jeopardy is showing new episodes again, and Ken Jennings has won show number 39 in a row. My …
2004-09-07: What's Special About This Number? Lots of numbers are special. 2 is the only even prime. 28 is perfect. And if you’re patient …
2004-09-07: Something wrong There’s something big wrong with plutor.org right now. Things aren’t rebuilding right, …
2004-09-06: Trip to Maine M, Mari, Chris, Nomad, and I just got back from our trip to the family camp in Maine. It was a fun …
2004-09-02: MT 3.1 I just upgraded Moveable Type to version 3.1. The upgrade borked because Postgres 7.2.1 …
2004-09-02: Hacking Congress Only one article so far, but I plan on following this Hacking Congress column. I’m quite …
2004-09-02: The Nine Billion Names of God This is one of the few sci-fi short stories that really sticks out in my mind: The Nine Billion …
2004-09-02: Achewood 2004-09-02 Not only do I have dreams like Roast Beef’s in today’s Achewood (substituting …
2004-09-01: Tribes Vengeance The only game I wish I coulda tried at our LAN Party last weekend was Tribes: Vengeance. I gave the …
2004-08-31:
WEBoggle
Boggle is arguably one of the best candidates for a simple online multiplayer game. All of the …
2004-08-31: </bush> I was thinking of protesting at the RNC this week, since how often do you get a chance to protest …
2004-08-31: Liberated Games Liberated Games aren’t abandonware, but they’re just as Free (as in Beer in some cases, …
2004-08-31: Two disgusting medical photos Woman’s skin grows over wedding ring. Massive kidneys. Note: Neither of these links are for …
2004-08-31: Clerks sequel Despite the fact that God closed the book on the View Askewniverse at the end of “Jay and …
2004-08-30: Photos test This is a test of the new method for photo entries. Please ignore it for a while if it goes wonky. …
2004-08-30: thingsmygirlfriendandihavearguedabout.com Not to insult M or anything, but the “Things My Girlfriend And I Have Argued About” …
2004-08-30: Chubu International Airport Another massive construction project: Chubu International Airport (more on Wikipedia)
2004-08-27: Gmail invitation I now have one new gmail invitation available. If you want it, or know someone who knows someone who …
2004-08-27: HL2 Pre-load OMFG. The Half-Life 2 preload begins. “Purchase options will be released soon.” Be sure …
2004-08-27: New machine benchmarks Just some quick comparisons of benchmarks of my old machine (Athlon 800) and my new one: Benchmark …
2004-08-26: Greyson Long, but fantastic trailer for a movie that won’t exist: Grayson. Years after Batman’s …
2004-08-25: Thepiratebay's response to a C&D I wish I had had the balls (and the legal argument) to respond this way when I was served a Cease …
2004-08-24: The Tricks of the Trade The Tricks of the Trade
2004-08-24: I found a digital camera in the woods “I found a digital camera in the woods”, Blair Witch for the Internet. Keep reading a …
2004-08-24:
Science and Industry
Science and Industry is a teamplay based modification for the game Half-Life. I was an active part …
2004-08-23: VPU Recover errors For those of you having problems with VPU Recover errors with a brand new Radeon 9600XT (and the …
2004-08-23: 31337 H4X0R I don’t miss this car one bit. Okay, maybe one bit, but it’s a 0.
2004-08-23: Hard Drive Scam I was doing research into hard drives for my new computer, since I’ve determined that my …
2004-08-23: Crux Linux I discovered Crux Linux exactly when I needed to. I was getting sick of Redhat’s …
2004-08-23: Derek Redmond and the 400 meter Yeah, it’s twelve years old, but it’s an Olympic story that still moves me: Derek …
2004-08-23: The French Are Great “[W]hen an American mouths off about French military history, he’s not just being …
2004-08-20: Rosi's photos Rosi’s work on InLiquid. Update 08-23: Since I was just about on my way out the door, I didn't …
2004-08-19: Alton Brown's sorta-blog Alton Brown’s sorta-blog, updated every couple weeks or so. See his March 5 post in …
2004-08-19: Free iPods? First, you hear about free iPods, and it’s an obvious scam. Then you read a Wired article …
2004-08-18: The Tallest bridge in the world The Millau viaduct, the tallest bridge in the world. Details at Wikipedia.
2004-08-18:
Slashdot 10^7th comment
Slashdot's ten millionth comment sums up the whole thing very well.
2004-08-18: Achewood book preorder This is the only thing I’ve ever wanted.
2004-08-18: Adventures in Power Supplies Building a new computer can sometimes be a challenge. Not only do you need to know a lot of …
2004-08-17: Drinking Nitrogen Once in a while, when trying to debunk an urban legend, we can all forget that sometimes …
2004-08-16: Objects to links bookmarklet I don’t have Quicktime installed on my Linux machine, and unless you have crossover, you …
2004-08-13: Wikipedia and the Hurricane I love Wikipedia. It’s a bit scary to think that all of their hosting is done in a single …
2004-08-12: New computer configuration I think I've settled on the hardware for my new computer. I need to sleep on it though. …
2004-08-12: TV RSS Feeds Although it’s not quite what I had in mind, Nomad will find these TV RSS feeds awfully close.
2004-08-11: CS: Source Beta I’m posting this from “WebWarriorz” at the Brass Mill Center in Waterbury, CT. Ten …
2004-08-11: WEBoggle update Remember WEBoggle? The guy who made a mirror has ended up making tons of functionality improvements. …
2004-08-09: Penny Johnson Jerald Watching Season 3 of our Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Ghetto Box Set, I came across the episode Family …
2004-08-09: Remember when Google Answers debunked one of those stupid “So you think you know …
2004-08-06: Periodic Table Table I found this a while ago, but it makes a good Friday-afternoon goof-off link. The Wooden Periodic …
2004-08-05: Should NYC Secede? “If New York were its own country, its army, the New York City Police Department, would be the …
2004-08-04: Putty 0.55 A lot of people use it, so here’s the heads-up: All versions of Putty have a serious security …
2004-08-03: DailyWTF and ThisIsBroken Two sites, that while not exactly related, both focus on similar themes. Both are part of my daily …
2004-08-03: Sun and Quantum Tunneling My mom does reliability testing of computer chips for IBM. Once in a while I see a story that …
2004-08-02: Klein Bottle hat You gotta love those math nerds. Be the dorkiest kid on the slopes with your new Klein Bottle Hat! …
2004-07-29: PHP Suxors I’ve never really had anything specific against PHP. The problem I’ve always had is that …
2004-07-28: Nintendo DS So “Nintendo DS” is the official name. It’s one hot handheld. Stereo speakers …
2004-07-28: H2G2 Teaser Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy teaser trailer. Lots of mirrors in the discussion, but the …
2004-07-26: North Pole Apparently there’s a highway north of the North Pole.
2004-07-26: Fast Opteron servers At work, we got new dual-Opteron SunFire v20z’s for the newly-acquired TravelWeb. I got to …
2004-07-26: L&O: Artistic Intent Law & Order: Artistic Intent. I love the show, and I love the final piece in this collection: …
2004-07-24: Bourne Okay, so The Bourne Supremacy was pretty damn good. It sustained the atmosphere and intensity of the …
2004-07-23: Fleep Fleep. [via Chris]
2004-07-22: Doom3 Benchmarks There are no words to describe how I feel about 68.5 fps Doom3 at 1600x1200 at high quality. I …
2004-07-22: Rush and Bad Sound Okay, this link needs a little introduction. The article is primarily about the latest Rush album, …
2004-07-21: Most wanted Gmail features Vote for the Gmail features you want the most.
2004-07-20: Monty Hall redux The Monty Hall problem is hard enough to confound lots of smart people and lots of professional …
2004-07-20: Wikipedia I contribute to the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia on almost a daily basis. I’ve written …
2004-07-20: Plutor.org With Moveable Type, several freely available plugins, and a fair amount of HTML and CSS knowledge, …
2004-07-19: The Hundred Thousand Gallon Restaurant The Hundred Thousand Gallon Restaurant, from the infinite depths of the Halfbakery. Try the top ten, …
2004-07-19: Google math problem You’d think this would be easy. Sadly, 10-digit numbers don’t fit in 32 bits. I’ll …
2004-07-19: OMFG Magazine OMFG Magazine
2004-07-16: Summer gaming news: Doom 3 and HL2 Interesting fact #1: Doom 3 for PC has gone gold. Release date is August 5. “More remains to …
2004-07-15: Penny Arcade Remix Project Penny Arcade Remix Project. A little old, but still funny.
2004-07-13: Achewood book deal Achewood gets a book deal. I’m so fricken excited.
2004-07-12: Construction cam My parents are enlarging their bedroom and bathroom by about 50%. Being nerds, they’ve set up …
2004-07-12: Gmail API Gmail Agent API, plus a lot of great details on URLs and how the Javascript works.
2004-07-12: Temporal Anomalies in Time Travel Movies Temporal Anomalies in Time Travel Movies. Simply incredible. I recommend the 12 Monkeys article in …
2004-07-09: All-new Plutor.org Right now marks the official launch of the new Plutor.org site. Powered by Moveable Type 3.0 and a …
2004-07-09: New allmusic Allmusic.com gets a redesign Monday (07-12)! I’m excited! Update 07-12: Hey, my math was …
2004-07-08: Cruise ship illustration Ridiculously detailed cruise ship illustration, and how it was made. The resulting Photoshop file …
2004-07-08: 100 songs Big Songs For Little Attention Spans
2004-07-08: Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine Why Fiona Apple’s new album hasn’t been released. Two good songs from the album, …
2004-07-08: MT Might Be Okay So it looks like Moveable Type might end up doing what I want it to do. It’s not my favorite …
2004-07-07:
New blogging system
This is a test of the MT blogging system. Dear God, I hope this ends up working.
2004-07-06: Senator John Google News has a little tiny section labelled “in the news” where it picks what are …
2004-06-24: Batman Begins Photos Go to the Batman Begins web site. Click on the rusty Batman logo, you get two pictures of the …
2004-06-22: Chris' Library photo Chris' library sign photo on thisisbroken.com
2004-04-19: White Memorial Nomad, M, and I did some geocaching at White Memorial this weekend. We looked for four caches, and …
2003-05-14: Hiking Mt. Greylock Fourteen miles of hiking, and two-thirds of a vertical mile of climbing in two days to get to the …
2003-04-30: Logan's New Car Check out this “poke your eye out” blue 2003 Nissan Altima. Commence bragging.. now.
2003-04-24:
Password generator
Usage: ./genpasswd.pl [OPTION]...
Generate a set of random passwords that match certain criteria.
2003-04-04: IT Inventory System A few months ago, I was asked to make an inventory application for Priceline. I thought it would be …
2003-04-03:
SiteScope Management
Freshwater Software has a great site monitoring suite called SiteScope. It allows you to watch …
2003-04-01: Go Manhattan Using some free GIS data I found online, I made a Manhattan mapping application. Now that Chris has …
2003-03-21: Go Metric Go Metric is a web frontend for the GNU application ‘units’. It allows you to convert …
2002-11-23: L. Ron Hubbard + Elrond L. Ron Hubbard + Elrond = Elrond Hubbard (Thanks, Nomad)
2002-11-20: Sage investment advice: $1000 of Sage investment advice: $1000 of Enron stock one year ago is worth $16.55 today $1000 of Worldcom …
2002-11-19: How to do your laundry How to do your laundry - An essay by Plutor Put your dirty laundry in the washer, using your nifty …
2002-11-03: wsvw1u.com expiring Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2002 21:06:32 -0500 (EST) From: “DomainMonger.Com” …
2002-10-23: Apache logrotate You know you’re an obsessive-compulsive standards snob when you get upset at non-standard …
2002-10-16: Trigonomery refresher: Solved! Trigonomery refresher: Solved!
2002-10-11: In the break room here In the break room here at Priceline, the basket that the ‘hot cup’ lids are in is …
2002-10-07: Trigonometry refresher Trigonometry refresher: You are at the top of Castle Craig in Meriden, CT, 1002 feet above sea …
2002-09-11: Tourism There are very few places where the lack of something is a tourist attraction. Ground Zero and the …
2002-08-08: This morning on my way This morning on my way to work, I spent some time behind a police truck. This particular truck was …
2002-07-06: The lack of words that The lack of words that I come up with when I want to discuss my upcoming wedding is almost scary. I …
2002-06-16: Ever since I got my Ever since I got my CCNA certification, I’ve been seeing the OSI networking model everywhere. …
2002-06-13: Steve Irwin + Arwen = Steve Irwin + Arwen = Steve Arwen
2002-06-06: If you freeze water chestnuts, If you freeze water chestnuts, do they become ice chestnuts? Are puns funny in sign language? Answer …
2002-06-03: I consider The Wave to I consider The Wave to be the single greatest work that Mankind has ever created. A hundred thousand …
2002-05-19: This weekend has been the This weekend has been the best weekend of my life. I graduated from college, in what I considered to …
2002-05-13: Someone asked me about Ow, Someone asked me about Ow, My Foot! today, after seeing the wonderful mug my wonderful fianceé made …
2002-05-09: You'd think I'd be excited You’d think I’d be excited that graduation is a mere nine days away. But in all …
2002-04-26: My newest project is up My newest project is up and running. In order to stem the tide of ignorance and the use of the …
2002-04-17: Okay, so I'm giving in Okay, so I’m giving in and updating. Thanks for the boot in the pants, Chris. The wedding …
2002-04-05: MrSplatz: dude, update your blog MrSplatz: dude, update your blog Plutor: bite me
2002-03-18: Back from a nice relaxing Back from a nice relaxing spring break. Played some paintball, did some cleaning, and top it all off …
2002-03-06: I passed. I passed.
2002-03-04: I've been spending a lot I’ve been spending a lot of my time lately studying for the CCNA. In fact, almost all the time …
2002-02-19: I'm having an increasingly difficult I’m having an increasingly difficult time preventing myself from rationalizing a purchase of a …
2002-02-14: "Love does not consist in “Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same …
2002-02-01: Splatta and I, inspired by Splatta and I, inspired by a link from Memepool, created a script to search Google for pairs of …
2002-01-24: The college dilemma: If there's The college dilemma: If there’s a class that’s required for your degree, but you …
2002-01-21: My school schedule is strange; My school schedule is strange; my classes are concentrated into eight hours Monday, six hours …
2002-01-18: Jeremy named his mice. The Jeremy named his mice. The parents had been named 0 (zero) and 1 (one). The babies are Ada, Erlang, …
2002-01-15: Back at school. Weird schedule. Back at school. Weird schedule. Planning some fiction. Reading a lot. Studying for CCNA. Working for …
2002-01-04: I spent two long cold I spent two long cold days tenderizing my rear and my knees, so I feel very soft right now. For a …
2001-12-23: SNET conspired to create a SNET conspired to create a full month of downtime for coolass.net, plutor.org, and wsvw1u.com, among …
2001-10-30: After spending way too many After spending way too many hours trying to get SSI to work on anger – Splatta’s web …
2001-10-01: Thematic rant: The idea of Thematic rant: The idea of using tests to evaluate an individual’s education seems inherently …
2001-09-30: S&I Text Adventure The one and only release of my Science and Industry inspired web-based text adventure. Note that …
2001-09-30: I changed the site design I changed the site design since my last “update”. Added (and now removed, because of …
2001-08-23: Created the damn web page. Created the damn web page. Swank, eh?
2001-08-20: I got a little sick I got a little sick of having all my content on wsvw1u.com, since that was more of a community site. …
2001-07-05:
S&I Statistics
This is really how I broke into the S&I community. I wrote a statistics script to parse through …