Monthly Archives: July 2007
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How to code properly: A revision control tip
One of a developers best tools is his revision control system. Be it the crufty old standby CVS or Subversion, the darling of the hipster Rails community, or a wacky fringe “I hope you paid attention in school. And majored in math. And got an advanced degree in it” system like Darcs, it can be [...]
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Pasadena loves cycling. No, wait: it doesn’t!
The route for the 2008 Tour of California was released a few days back. Pasadena was lucky enough to score the final stage – a road race from Santa Clarita to Pasadena, concluding with a circuit race in Pasadena. Cycling isn’t a really popular sport in the US, but Pasadena is sure to rake in [...]
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Help me find a new bank – Wells Fargo sucks
I need a new bank. Wells Fargo has committed unforgivable sins of customer service, so I’ll be switching within the next week. Does anybody really like their bank? I’m looking for a pretty vanilla checking account with a branch that I can walk in to. (Because I like walking in to the branch.) The story [...]
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Fox Sports is awesome
Here’s the lead from today’s “Dime daily blog” on Fox Sports: Last night the Dime crew was up at Rucker Park for something unprecedented and pretty cool: 2K Sports’ motion capture session for NBA 2K8 on the world famous playground court with Andre Iguodala, Gerald Wallace, Rudy BLEEP and 2K8 cover guy Chris Paul. Chris [...]
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Why the US shouldn’t have formal relations with Iran
Or why they should! This can’t be true, but if it is, it’s the best thing to happen ever. From a batshit crazy story about SQUIRRELS INVADING IRAN on the Washington post: “A few weeks ago, 14 squirrels equipped with espionage systems of foreign intelligence services were captured by [Iranian] intelligence forces along the country’s [...]
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The United States *owns* the Tour de France
As of today, the US Discovery Channel cycling team has riders in first and third — Contador and Leipheimer respectively — in the GC at the Tour de France. They lead the team race by nearly 17 minutes. Contador will hold rights to both the white (by 13:31 over Soler) and yellow (by 1:53 over [...]
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I am a published photographer
Well, sort of. The Schmap web travel guide used a photo I took for their San Diego Art & Entertainment page. Which, you know: cool. This is one of the neater uses of Flickr I’ve seen. Seems like if you’re just putting low-res pictures up on the web you can get away with a snapshots [...]
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White on black or black on white?
Whenever I use the web or write email, my working environment displays in black on white and I’m just fine with that. When I edit text, black on white just seems wrong and I always switch things around to be white on black. This never struck me as odd until today. Does anybody else think [...]
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Fair Dice (for Settlers of Catan and other games using dice)
I love games, but I hate dice. They vex me so. Especially while playing Settlers of Catan. If you’re twice as likely to roll a seven as you are a four, then why in the hell has four come up five turns out of the last six? Etc etc. You get the idea. Inspired by [...]
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MPL “family read-along” night
My most infamous middle school moment came while we were reading Shakespeare. Richard III, 8th grade. I didn’t get in to it. It was just so dreary and boring. Every day we read it felt like somebody was dropping an anvil on my balls. From an airplane. Or maybe from space. At the end of [...]
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