The means of guilt-tripping people into doing things via gifts has a name: the “rule of reciprocation”. http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2012/11/26/165570502/give-and-take-how-the-rule-of-reciprocation-binds-us

TRES LECHES!

Belated birthday cake.

Las Vegas

“On the left is the children’s museum…”

“How often do they let them out?”

SUGAR RUSH!!!!

“Slice n’ Share”

OMFSM. I’m in a Hot Topic and I spot myself in a mirror. I look like I belong here. I’m a cliché.

First holiday activity of the year

Coca-cola asked the government to create a 7½¢ coin. And the reason that you can’t get a 5¢ Coke is because the U.S. dropped the gold standard. High economic weirdness of aqueous carbonic acid. http://j.mp/W9u5s9

Exclamation!

Today’s Ruby “Say what?!”: the Array class implements the “<=>” operator but none of the other magnitude comparison operators.

Rising to the occasion of a Sunday morning with the Extra Action Marching Band’s “The Triumph of Fascination”. (@EAMB)

You should go see Chuck. He makes nice tea.

I’m assuming that his mood hasn’t improved in the past year, though.

http://www.buildingstage.com/2012_shows/dickens_landing.php

Don’t use which(1) to determine where a command comes from; it’s an external program and uses hacks to get at aliases, etc.

Use your shell’s builtin command instead: «type» for #bash and #zsh and «whence» for #ksh.

Election Night

Voting in Chicago is like being in high-school scantron test-land again.

HOME!!!! 🏡

OMFSM!!! I’M ON A PLANE!!!

Off the island, soon hopefully off the ground.

Apps are going to kill TV, which killed movies, which killed theatre, didn’t it?

http://www.asymco.com/2012/11/01/the-app-revolution-in-filmmaking/

Giving up on getting out of New York tomorrow.