Archive for May, 2007

Stalk me if you love to W rite T ests F irst!

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 […]

Notes from my first week living in San Francisco

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 […]

Netbeans for ruby looking good with debug/breakpoint goodness

Click on the image or just go read the full story to get the high res screenshot:

Llamas have been plagued with the unfair reputation of spitting.

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 […]

Switched to Google reader; subscribe to my shared items.

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.

I must go back to the future: Smalltalk

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 […]

Super Automatic Espresso Machines

$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.

Sir Mix-A-Lot jams with American Idol Blake Lewis in Seattle

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 […]

Flatulence is part of life.

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?

Markdown and Textile: Can’t decide? Try both!

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 […]