June 2011
1 post
May 2011
3 posts
vark.im
Aardvark: Guys, can you give me some realize wed side. To download some free economic books. Such like "solution manual of Corporate Finance 7th edition"
12 Monkeys
I just finished 12 Monkeys (I forget the chain of events which led up to my watching it) and I definitely recommend it.
That is all.
Not Dead II: Still Alive
I haven’t tumbld in a while, huh. That’s the beauty of RSS readers, though: set it and forget it.
Videos
What have I been up to lately? A good question, one I often ask myself. Here’s a small sampling in the form of a chain of embedded video.
I’ve been watching a lot of Mr. Show - haven’t quite finished its four-series run yet, but I’m close. It’s...
April 2011
1 post
Not Dead
Looks like this blog has a few posts in it yet!
February 2011
2 posts
left my IM client open all weekend whoops
(11:36 am)
Christine Rutan: are yo really heree
Christine Rutan: yo, r u rly hear
Christine Rutan: our ya reelee heer
Christine Rutan: i’m going to get it right one of these times
Christine Rutan: spelling is hard, man
(5:56 pm)
Christine Rutan: workin late?
Christine Rutan: or lately workin?
(12:00 pm)
Christine Rutan: sithman speth!
(1:40 pm)
Christine Rutan:...
October 2010
3 posts
Aardvark strikes again
(From Sierra B./F/Seattle,WA) *humanities*
how do you get people you care about to stop telling you puns in a way that doesn’t stop them from existing?
September 2010
1 post
Ticketmaster Sucks
In so so so so so many ways.
Before my anger cools, I’d like to go through my most recent purchase: 2 tickets to see Big Boi at The Regency Ballroom, on the 23rd.
Step 1: determine if there are, in fact, tickets available. Can’t tell from this screen. I know you can’t tell because I *also* tried to purchase Arcade Fire tickets from them a few weeks ago, but they were sold...
August 2010
1 post
July 2010
3 posts
George is in Sofia
George: the power went out at my house earlier
Me: oh dear
Me: i was going to say that's never any fun
Me: but
George: the entire neighborhood actually
Me: sometimes it's kinda fun
George: traffic lights weren't working
Me: *that* isn't fun
George: :)
George: apparently some gypsies stole some power wires
Me: seriously?
George: yup
Me: hahahaha
Me: i have never heard that before
George: happens a lot
June 2010
6 posts
Amazon Payphrase
I just set up a payphrase on Amazon. What that means is that you can buy me things. With my money. Just enter the payphrase and PIN.
Payphrase: “Appreciable Size”. Note that Amazon suggested it, and who am I to disagree with Amazon.
PIN: 5465
There will be at most $55 in the account at any given time, and $25 is added per month (until that limit is reached).
Books are...
Pitch (needs a name)
The 5-second pitch: Packing boxes custom-constructed to perfectly fit all your stuff.
The 10-second pitch: A team armed with hand-held 3D laser scanners enters your house and scans stuff. Boxes are then “printed” with 3D printing technology which hold things in a sane, easy-to-pack way.
The 30-second elevator pitch: No more crumpled papers! No more stuffing glassware into...
Cloud App →
I don’t think this has been talked about enough. Super simple very nice helper app, runs in background, automatically uploads things to the cloud for you. If you take a screenshot, it’ll upload it and put a link in your clipboard, there’s a keyboard shortcut for uploading stuff from most standard Mac programs (Finder, iTunes, etc.), and it’s fantastic. Very convenient.
VINDICATED →
http://cybertaur1.tumblr.com/post/307600037/tynt-hijacking-your-clipboard-since-i-dont-know-when
May 2010
2 posts
24 Hour Show Playlist
A: Arcade Fire, Funeral
Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)
Neighborhood #2 (Laika)
Une Annee Sans Lumiere
Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)
Neighborhood #4 (7 Kettles)
Crown of Love
Wake Up
Haiti
Rebellion (Lies)
In The Backseat
B: Andrew Bird, Armchair Apocrypha
Fiery Crash
Imitosis
Plasticities
Heretics
Armchairs
Dark Matter
The Supine
...
can you make .rar files?
crutan: also can you make .rar files?
me: me personally?
yes
crutan: will you make me one?
me: why
crutan: you can put whatever you want in it
I want a file named dinosaur.rar
heh
April 2010
1 post
March 2010
3 posts
Are You Kidding Me. →
I bought the freaking iPod app for like $6 because I had heard about the app from some peeps and first the OS X client crashes whenever I run it and now they’re discontinuing it?
February 2010
3 posts
Yesssss →
This is the biggest thing I miss for Chrome - and now it’s an extension!
Type an apostrophe to enter Link-Search Mode, then start typing in the text of the link and you’ll jump right to it! Such a time-saver.
Extension.fm →
Really really nifty Chrome extension for mp3 blogs. The 2-minute introduction video is worth watching.
January 2010
3 posts
The Crayon Fields - Mirrorball
Tom Waits - Come On Up To The House
Crowded House - Don’t Dream It’s Over
December 2009
5 posts
Tynt - hijacking your clipboard since I don't know...
I’m not a huge fan of Tynt.
Here’s the idea in a nutshell. Users visit your site, highlight words with the intention of copying them and pasting them elsewhere. Little do they know that their selection is being transmitted to Tynt’s servers somewhere, and that when you copy that selection (as long as it’s more than one or two words), when you paste, you get a blurb at...
Go-nowhere idea: driving speed graphs
My windshield was dusty the other day so I applied some wiper fluid while driving down the highway. It reached around towards the driver-side window, and there was a small river moving across. It was actually moving upwards, and the faster I went the higher it would go. And when I slowed down, it dropped. I started wondering if it would end up being something like a record of my trip, just as...
Mono output
Protip: if you have a set of speakers only one of them is broken so that every song you play is like 100% bass with no vocals (or maybe just backing vocals and guitar with no lead or synth) then one of the things you can do on the mac is to purchase and install audio hijack pro and this monomaker plugin and pipe the audio from itunes -> audio hijack pro -> non-busted speaker. this is the...
Valid not before not set.
So we’re working on a Java project dealing with X509Certificates. We thought we were all set, until we ran across this error.
“Valid not before not set”.
What the hell does that mean. At first we thought it was “Valid ____ not ___ before ___ not set” or something, with a variable that just wasn’t properly initialized or something? But it made no sense.
...
The Feelies - Loveless Love
Builds and builds...
November 2009
4 posts
Idiot Comics →
American Highway (night)
Tom Waits - Hoist That Rag
Neon Indian - Deadbeat Summer
Richard Hawley - Coles Corner
October 2009
1 post
The xx - Shelter
This entire album is fantastic....
July 2009
1 post
Sometimes Computers are Too Smart
I’m working on an application that needs to be able to read a date from a string. Obviously there are countless libraries that will do this for me, so I essentially renamed the long datetime.datetime.strptime(string, “%m/%d/%Y”) to a shorter name.
I had initially assumed everything would be in mm/dd/yyyy format, but occasionally I would notice people leaving off the first two...
June 2009
6 posts
Crazy Link Of The Day: Fibonacci Edition →
Let F(n) be the nth Fibonacci number - that is, F(1) = 1, F(2) = 1, F(3) = 2, F(4) = 3, etc.
Then (in pseudo-latex notation)
sum_n F(n) / 10^{n+1} =
0.01 +
0.001 +
0.0002 +
0.00003 +
0.000005 +
0.0000008 +
0.00000013 +
...
is equal to 1/89.
T-Shirt Idea
The Picture: A single slice of bread
The Caption: PSEUDO MAKE ME A SANDWICH
Previous Post
I apologize for making that last post a chat instead of just plain text, but I had already explained it to a few people and didn’t feel like retyping it all. And all of that actually happened, I promise.
Oh, also check out my new blog, Google Food. It’s my attempt to document every lunch and dinner that I eat at Google. Hopefully I’ll remember to take pictures in the future.
My Morning
seth: i had an insane day
seth: completely insane
seth: like nothing i ever imagined
seth: so
seth: new interns were supposed to get to mountain view by 8:00
seth: returning interns by 8:45
seth: i'm in san francisco; mountain view is a non-trivial distance away
seth: i figured i might as well get there early
seth: so there was a bus that left from the civic center at 6:45
seth: and another at 6:55
seth: my reasoning was that if i somehow missed the 6:45 one, i'd at least see it leave, and know where the stop was, and be able to get the 6:55 shuttle
seth: so i woke up at 5:30 since i really didn't want to miss these shuttles
seth: i got to the civic center at 6:20 or so
seth: plenty of time to spare
seth: when it occurred to me that i didn't know exactly where the stop was
seth: i realized that the "civic center" area was far bigger than i thought it was
seth: like a few blocks in both directions
seth: so i was looking for the stop, but i didn't see it
seth: and i didn't see anyone who looked like they worked at google either
seth: anyways
seth: long story short, 7:05 rolls around, and it's pretty clear that i missed both shuttles
seth: now, apparently i had passed by a certain coffee shop a few times while i was rushing up and down the street
seth: and this guy came out and asked if i was lost
seth: or looking for something
seth: so i told him i was looking for the google shuttle, and that i had to get to mountain view
seth: he was very friendly and offered to help
seth: said he had some time to spare
seth: i was thinking about getting a taxi since i didn't want to be late on my first day
seth: but he suggested that i take a caltrain (public transportation) to mountain view and then go from there since it would be a lot cheaper
seth: the caltrain station wasn't very close by
seth: so
seth: the plan was to take a taxi to the station, take the caltrain to mountain view, and then get to google after that
seth: now
seth: he said he was going in the same direction that i was
seth: so he went with me to try to flag down a taxi
seth: we tried to get one, but they kept passing us on the wrong side of the road
seth: anyways
seth: it soon became abundantly clear
seth: that he was gay
seth: and hitting on me
seth: pretty hard
seth: like, he eventually lost all subtlety
seth: he asked if i was "a healthy young man"
seth: well, i'm not sure if he asked that or stated that
seth: and if i liked to party
seth: what i liked to do
seth: pot, alcohol
seth: where i was staying, how i liked san francisco so far, what i'd be doing for google, where i was from
seth: etc.
seth: i answered his questions with the minimum amount of information required to be polite
seth: do i like to party? sure
seth: where am i staying? around union square
seth: how do i like san francisco so far? it's pretty good
seth: etc.
seth: i mentioned "i'm spending the summer here with my girlfriend"
seth: didn't faze him
seth: he was very persistent
seth: at one point he mentioned possibly getting my number
seth: i deftly changed the subject and he didn't bring it up again
seth: anyways we finally found a taxi
seth: so since he was going the same direction, we both got in the cab
seth: during the cab ride
seth: he asked if i had a pen
seth: unfortunately, i did not
seth: fortunately, he had both a pen and a piece of paper
seth: he gave me a piece of paper with his name
seth: and his phone number
seth: and his email
seth: the one piece of information that he didn't give me was his actual address
seth: we finally reached the caltrain station
seth: and i got off the taxi
seth: he offered to pay
seth: but i didn't let him
seth: so
seth: i got out of the taxi
seth: paid
seth: and then he tells the taxi driver "no, i'm not getting out here... can you take me back to where you picked me up?
seth: so he just came along purely for the ride
seth: anyways i finally caught the caltrain
seth: i was like 30 minutes late
seth: on my first day of work
seth: luckily, it didn't end up being a problem
Evil companies
Boingo used to be the evilest company I could think of, but that was before I recently tried to buy tickets to a Wilco concert on Ticketmaster. Not only do they charge exorbitant “handling” fees (such bogus - since when does emailing a ticket cost more than sending it through the mail?) but they also TIME you while you’re making your purchase.
You first find the event that...