I’ve been using Symbol#to_proc for quite a while now, but in the course of my work today, I found myself looking at the source code. It’s definitely black-belt Ruby coding, but if you can grok it, it is truly a thing of beauty. In a single line of Ruby, it does something that [...]
I turned 33 yesterday (which, as was pointed out to me indirectly this weekend, is the same age that Someone Else’s Lord was when he died). I’d briefly considered waiting until March 14 to celebrate so I could throw a “33 1/3″ party, but after half a second of reflection, I remembered that I’m [...]
There is something inherently amusing about listening to a song titled “Dead Souls (Live).”
Two links via Reddit:
Guys in wingsuits flying through the air at 100mph, buzzing walls
…and a guy who took a Blu-Ray laser diode out of a Sony PS3 laser assembly ($40) and installed it in a toy phaser.
I just tried to purchase a copy of Quicken online, but was stymied by web programmers who, I presume, checked the browser identification string for specific versions of popular browsers. Like Internet Explorer 5.0 for the Mac. Which hasn’t been supported for, what, three years now?
But hey, at least their online contact form [...]
Finally acquired an Intel-based Mac last weekend. I’ve been busy configuring it and, you know, actually earning money, but I had to post this: Leopard has a few neat new tricks. Because I haven’t yet transferred my iTunes music across to this machine, I’ve been listening to Pandora again. Problem is, [...]