Powdered Non Sequitur Man

Swiped from tiggrrl: “Indecent Proposal”. Definitely not safe for work; Flash-encoded video; requires sound.
As she says, best fake Mastercard ad ever.

And the vote for “least helpful message of the month” goes to this lovely Java exception:
Exception in thread “main” java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError
Python, take me away!

Eclipse has some fantastic features, but it is painfully slow. How slow, you ask? It’s so slow that if I don’t pause for a little while — sometimes a few seconds — between highlighting some text and hitting Cmd-C, it won’t copy whatever’s highlighted. So slow that I sometimes have to wait [...]

Woke up this morning to the sound of a chainsaw. (In Chez Geek terms, my Sleep card was canceled.) This was actually, more or less, a good thing. I’d spoken to my neighbor about six weeks or so ago regarding the possibility of doing in the GIANT EVERGREEN HEDGE on our mutual [...]

During the hottest part of the afternoon, we headed over to the air-conditioned theater to watch Episode Three. My verdict: it didn’t suck, but it wasn’t great either. Much of the dialogue was physically painful. The visuals were cool, although at times they seemed a bit gratuitous. Bonus: Jar-Jar [...]

From the “blatantly unconstitutional” department comes this jaw-dropper of judicial stupidity: Judge: Parents can’t teach pagan beliefs
(PLEASE NOTE: In today’s climate of “no, it would be wrong to shoot judges, nudge nudge, wink wink” terrorist rhetoric — thank you, GOP — I feel it’s necessary to point out that I’m keen on judges, [...]

How to disable the annoying clipboard manager toolbar in MS Office 2000
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I was fine this afternoon, if a little sleep-deprived… until it came time to give a group presentation in my CS class. While we did a better job than most, there was a certain lack of focus to our presentation. I think that would largely be because we didn’t really coordinate it, so [...]

It is official: I hate Michael Gaiman.
Not only does this young fellow have possibly the Coolest Dad Ever (that’d be Neil Gaiman), but he did his senior project for his computer science degree in Python, and it sounds pretty cool. Link here: CS @ GW | SD Project | Michael Gaiman

Here in Portland, it’s not uncommon to have bright sun and brief, intense periods of torrential downpour in the same day, and sometimes even in the same hour. But they’re not usually simultaneous.

Clay Shirky has a new essay up, titled Ontology is Overrated — Categories, Links, and Tags. Don’t let the five-dollar word scare you — it’s actually quite accessible. It does help to be a bit geeky, though, since it’s basically about ways of organizing information, and the difference between libraries and the Web.
Choice [...]

…when your sweetie, who is sitting next to you on the couch, looks over at your computer and says, in that tone of voice you use when you’ve just spotted a hairball, “what is *that*?” — and she’s looking at your calendar program, which is displaying your current schedule, it could be a sign that [...]

I’m sitting here bored in math class, so I wrote a quick Python script to demonstrate the probability behind the Monty Hall problem. (Go ahead, read the link — this post will still be here when you get back.)
True enough to what all the math smarties have said, you’re twice as likely to win [...]

Just got back from seeing The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy — our second movie in the theater in two weekends. Next week, if we go see Episode Three, it’ll be an unprecedented three movie weekends in a row — that’s practically our annual supply of them.
But I digress. Despite the changes (which, [...]

The Daily WTF — the Internet’s premier source for appallingly awful code. Some of these require more time to decipher than I have, but when I get them, damn they’re funny.
Today’s post could have been replaced with “i = 0;”. Yesterday’s (”HTML Programmer”) shows someone going through some rather extreme (non-cross-browser-compatible) scripting gyrations [...]

This Yahoo HotJobs article, How to Ace a Meal Interview, has some good basic advice. More interestingly, however, someone appears to have gone through the file and (with two exceptions) replaced “foo” with “bar.”
Much hilarity then ensues:
To excel at a meal interview, avoid bards that could cause embarrassment:

Stay away from bards you eat with [...]

“Hmmmm…”
(The usual caveats about Paul Graham’s writing applies: it’s very broad and generalist, with an unnatural focus on Lisp, but there are tons of crunchy ideas to play with.)

Must. Have. Subscription. Who cares if I don’t have time to make these — by the time I graduate, I’ll have a backlog of cool projects to work on.
Okay, I go collapse now (headache).

I really must remember to launch iTunes on campus more often…

I always like it when people responsible for getting me a paycheck send me email with sentences like “YOU ROCK MY FUCKING WORLD!” It helps make up for at least some of the random crap tied up in every job.