Camel Knights: Archive

Losing it

me: again it's pretty technical
me: but some really cool ideas
me: sidenote: i hate it when people say "very cool." as a sentence
me: which maybe extends to "really cool"
me: at this point in time
me: does use of the word "cool" signify that the speaker is not "cool"?
me: at this point in time, does asking 'at this point in time, does use of the word "cool" signify that the speaker is not "cool"' signify that the asker is not cool?
me: is asker a word?
me: deep questions all around
swood: you are definitely losing it

Apr 24th

Hunger Games

crcortland: okay, so, you may have noticed that we have not left yet
crcortland: complications have arisen
me: oh i've been so engrossed in the hunger games
me: i hadn't kept track of the time!
crcortland: oh my gosh, really???
crcortland: wait
crcortland: i should just leave you to it
crcortland: should we not come?
crcortland: you should read
crcortland: oh my god, fun
me: i am reading it though
me: but only because i'm seeing it on friday
me: but only because it's free
crcortland: are you SO EXCITED?!
me: yeah i'm wondering if i should keep my eyes closed during the movie so that way i can see it later for the first time again!
me: and the second time i'll plug my ears
me: and only on the third glorious viewing
me: will i get a "Full Mercury"
me: (that's what we fans call a true hunger games experience)
me: (because hunger games abbreviated is hg which is the chemical symbol for mercury)
me: (was that convoluted enough for you)

Mar 20th

1 note

Jun 13th

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"

May 26th

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.

May 5th

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...

May 1st

Not Dead

Looks like this blog has a few posts in it yet!

Apr 29th

1 note

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:...

Feb 22nd

3 notes

Feb 18th

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?

Oct 21st

Oct 13th

Oct 8th

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...

Sep 16th

2 notes

Aug 27th

Jul 25th

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

Jul 14th

Jul 1st

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...

Jun 15th

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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...

Jun 13th

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.

Jun 9th

Jun 7th

VINDICATED →

http://cybertaur1.tumblr.com/post/307600037/tynt-hijacking-your-clipboard-since-i-dont-know-when

Jun 1st

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 ...

May 21st

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

May 18th

2 notes

Apr 21st

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?

Mar 31st

Mar 8th

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.

Feb 25th

Extension.fm →

Really really nifty Chrome extension for mp3 blogs. The 2-minute introduction video is worth watching.

Feb 23rd

Feb 3rd

The Crayon Fields - Mirrorball

Jan 21st

Tom Waits - Come On Up To The House

Jan 16th

Crowded House - Don’t Dream It’s Over

Jan 3rd

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...

Dec 30th

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...

Dec 22nd

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...

Dec 16th

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. ...

Dec 11th

1 note

The Feelies - Loveless Love Builds and builds...

Dec 4th

Idiot Comics →

American Highway (night)

Nov 30th

Tom Waits - Hoist That Rag

Nov 16th

Neon Indian - Deadbeat Summer

Nov 12th

Richard Hawley - Coles Corner

Nov 8th

The xx - Shelter This entire album is fantastic....

Oct 26th

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...

Jul 29th

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.

Jun 12th

Jun 9th

T-Shirt Idea

The Picture: A single slice of bread The Caption: PSEUDO MAKE ME A SANDWICH

Jun 8th

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.

Jun 2nd