Work today is consisting primarily of sitting around thinking about “should I do X and what are the implications of that?”.
Lines of code written/modified/deleted: 0/0/0.
Comparing sound from an iPhone 4S and an iPhone 5 by playing the AirMech soundtrack on both simultaneously. Actually sounds pretty good despite being slightly out of sync. Being all instrumental doesn’t hurt. #frontlineassembly #FLA
Released #Fig v0.2.3, which requires #Ruby v1.9.2.
No more Ruby v1.8, woohoo! I get to use splat everywhere now!
Slow removal of “can’t do X because Ruby 1.8 doesn’t support it” comments in the code commencing.
Hooray for promoting pedestrian use of streets. [youtube.com/watch #chicago #cityplanning #heywatchwhereyouregoing
Birds chirping like nuts outside. You’d think it was Spring.
#Adobe won’t fix #Linux video bug in #Flash; they keep closing tickets. How to deal with it? Modify the video library to detect whether it is being called from Flash and flip RGB input around if so. http://j.mp/XqDzER
Oh, wow. K&R-style C function declarations. #bash
#bash:
Inside double square brackets, == and != are not string equivalence tests, but glob pattern match tests, i.e. «[[ x == ? ]]» returns 0.
You can quote the right-hand-side to escape metacharacters: «[[ $X == ‘?’ ]]»
#bash: “Because the extglob option changes the way certain characters are parsed, it is necessary to have a newline (not just a semicolon) between the shopt command and any subsequent commands that use extended globs.” http://mywiki.wooledge.org/glob
You should go have tea with Chuck. Ask him what does in summer.
http://www.buildingstage.com/2012_shows/dickens_landing.php
#chicago #theatre #chuck #dickens #tea #begrudging
Thumbs up for We Three Lizas. Not what I expected, in a good way. #chicago #theatre [youtube.com/watch
“Undercover meteorologist”
♬ The Business End of Love ♬
Today’s word: “Kinderarchy”, as in being ruled by children.
“I hear people who say… they’re quitting coffee. They’re giving that up. But I think why would you do that? What is that getting you? You know what that’s getting you? Nothing.”
“It makes you think that you’re better than coffee.”
From All Songs Considered “The Albums We Missed This Year” episode, band that should exist: Hampster Pudding.
“When I give, I give tattoos.”
“… depictions of Santa change and evolve as time passes on, but lately I have noticed that many of your books and movies seem to be leaving out Santa’s whip. Let me assure you, he’s still got that whip.”
Bitsquatting: Abuse other people’s bad RAM for fun and profit— http://dinaburg.org/bitsquatting.html
Wowzers. Abusing bad RAM for fun and profit: https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~appel/papers/memerr.pdf
Some high weirdness going on… something on my Mac is running Firefox every time I try to type an exclamation point.