Archive for May, 2007
Thanks to Google Maps new feature, Street View, if you’d like a free coffee come stalk me! You can see the door to the apartment I’m staying in while being in San Francisco by clicking here . Be the first (or one of the first before I run out of coffee money) and I’ll […]
May 29th, 2007 | Posted in Extreme Programming, TDD | 1 Comment
I’ve been in San Francisco for three weeks now… I have joined the apple cult and purchased a MacBook Pro. Here are some things I remember from my first week being in San Francisco.
Monday
I left Seattle on the 6AM flight to San Francisco and made it to the Flood Building in San Francisco at […]
May 29th, 2007 | Posted in Wes's Boring Life | No Comments
Click on the image or just go read the full story to get the high res screenshot:
May 29th, 2007 | Posted in Ruby, Wes's Boring Life | 1 Comment
I object! Llamas do not spit randomly! Long story short, don’t piss off a llama and you won’t get spit on.
The last 37signals sunspot linked to an unfair entry on Urban Dictionary entry called: llama drama that claims that llamas randomly spit on people. I love llamas (enough that my girlfriend bought […]
May 22nd, 2007 | Posted in Llamas | 1 Comment
I switched from Bloglines to Google Reader months ago and was planning on adding a linkblog feed here that combined del.icio.us with shared items, but I’m lazy… so for now go subscribe to my Google Reader shared items.
May 19th, 2007 | Posted in Google, LinkBlog, RSS/Atom/Syndication, Site Updates | No Comments
I have been pairing with a very smart fellow that is constantly driving me mad with talk about Smalltalk.
I hope to fully understand this quote from An Early History of Smalltalk:
Smalltalk’s design–and existence–is due to the insight that everything we can describe can be represented by the recursive composition of a single kind […]
May 19th, 2007 | Posted in Wes's Boring Life | 1 Comment
$1500+ for a machine that makes “coffee.”? Excessive? Yes, but just think about it a minute.
Wes Maldonado, Super Automatic Espresso Machine Owner
That’s regal.
May 17th, 2007 | Posted in Wes's Boring Life | 2 Comments
Over lunch Jodi and I happened upon American Idol’s Blake Lewis and Sir Mix-A-Lot in downtown Seattle… Blake’s performance was mediocre, but when Sir Mix-A-Lot performed “Baby’s got back” to Blake’s beatboxing I have to admit I didn’t mind being there.
Update #2: From the Seattle Times
“The people on that show can […]
May 11th, 2007 | Posted in Media, Seattle, Wes's Boring Life | No Comments
Flat-D, the number one company for flatulence odor control products, brings us Flatulence Deodorizerâ„¢:
… and if your dog has issues they have a dog thong:
Isn’t the internet awesome?
May 11th, 2007 | Posted in Flatulence | 1 Comment
This post about Textile reminded me that I should ramble about alternative syntaxes for marking up content. I’m lazy and could never write validating XHTML by hand so I decided to generate markup from a more simple source, markdown.
Markdown is a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers. Markdown allows you to write […]
May 10th, 2007 | Posted in Markup syntaxes, Power Text Editing | 1 Comment