meatballhat words

"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood."

Fri, 29 Oct 2010 21:43:12 -0400

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.”

- Marie Curie

Aardman animators are magic

Fri, 01 Oct 2010 07:26:57 -0400

Stephen and I have been watching “Shaun the Sheep” a lot lately. HEART. A lot. Recommended.

Akron Half-Marathon == Ka-CHOW!

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 08:05:41 -0400

Akron Half-Marathon == Ka-CHOW!

The mayor of Portland, OR is following me

Thu, 19 Aug 2010 08:00:01 -0400

The Open Government gang sign

I’m going to pretend that I mean he’s been tailing me ever since I left OSCON 2010.

In all seriousness, I think that this is objectively AWESOME and if my town even had a mayor I’d want her or him to follow the heck out of me. Open Government, FTW!

On a related note, these are good people and I’m looking forward to contributing in the future (if at all possible.)

P.S.: No, those are not my hairy arms. My entire body is free of hair.

"… I continue to introduce ( ): in the function def as almost like an emoticon, like two eyes..."

Wed, 04 Aug 2010 12:32:28 -0400

“… I continue to introduce ( ): in the function def as almost like an emoticon, like two eyes with an open mouth. Turn that mouth sideways to make it look more like a mouth, and remember that’s where to put your arguments. This is easy to remember, as people use their mouths for arguing all the time.”

- Kirby Urner (by way of the Python Edu-SIG mailing list)

my talky talk from PyOhio 2010

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 22:30:43 -0400

For those of you who weren’t privileged enough to be in Columbus, OH on a Saturday morning watching me stumble over my words, here it is:

PyOhio 2010 Intro to Core Involvement

"I have a bit of a funny accent, so if you can’t understand me, just wave your hand … and..."

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:33:39 -0400

“I have a bit of a funny accent, so if you can’t understand me, just wave your hand … and I’ll wave right back.”

- Laura Thompson of Mozilla Corporation in http://bit.ly/ak61qe

"It looks like you’re trying to build a framework!"

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 19:12:55 -0400

“It looks like you’re trying to build a framework!”

- YAGNI, the programmer’s equivalent of Clippy

how can I work when it smells like this?

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 13:35:56 -0400

how can I work when it smells like this?

I gots an F in popularity

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 12:11:16 -0400

where F ==

my lady was asked to type "flubbing huge"

Fri, 18 Jun 2010 22:07:20 -0400

by a reCAPTCHA while signing up for a Twitter account. I now officially love reCAPTCHA that much more. Immediately following this event, my lady says,

Now what do I do?

to which she answered herself with

What else? Follow Conan O’Brien

I love my wife. Lots.

This is from the first row of image results for flubbing huge:

make money

Fri, 04 Jun 2010 22:11:34 -0400

make: *** No rule to make target `money'. Stop.

It’s not that I don’t have enough money. I live a very privileged life in this here fattest state of the fattest nation in the world.

I just don’t trust myself to do simple arithmetic — specifically for balancing my checkbook.

fancy at first

My first solution used Python’s decimal library and did the trick just fine. But then I got the wacky idea that I should take the opportunity to learn how to do decimal math with bc.

Dumb idea?

…probably

… but if that’s the case, then so was making myself learn sed and awk… which are now very much part of my daily shell scripting habits.

I use Dropbox for lazy version control — not least because I keep my data files and “code” files in the same directory for the sake of yet more laziness. My file layout looks like this:

    .
    |-- bank-balance
    |-- checkbooking*
    |-- last-done
    |-- Makefile
    |-- my-balance
    `-- outstanding

the Makefile

As seen below, the target is “last-done” and its dependencies are all of the data files — “bank-balance”, “my-balance”, and “outstanding”.

the `bash` + `bc` script

As said above, the following bash script just uses bc to do the decimal math.

And with that, I’d much appreciate it if somebody would hurry up and tell me what I’m doing wrong.

:)

is #bikecommuting the heck out of this Friday afternoon

Fri, 04 Jun 2010 16:58:00 -0400

My 2002 Bianchi Volpe is still serving me well. Thank you, nation of Italy, for insisting on making high-quality bicycles.

"sometimes I have to step away for the screen for awhile to write code http://flic.kr/p/871t2E"

Wed, 02 Jun 2010 13:36:18 -0400

“sometimes I have to step away for the screen for awhile to write code http://flic.kr/p/871t2E”

- ginatrapani

"Restructured text rules. Use it!"

Wed, 02 Jun 2010 11:20:25 -0400

“Restructured text rules. Use it!”

- mcrute

"Aw, I don’t mind one-player mode. I usually just TIGER, TIGER, TIGER the whole way through."

Wed, 02 Jun 2010 09:38:05 -0400

“Aw, I don’t mind one-player mode. I usually just TIGER, TIGER, TIGER the whole way through.”

- third-hand via coworker

hooray for bikes! hooray for walkies!

Tue, 01 Jun 2010 09:55:55 -0400

hooray for bikes! hooray for walkies!

truncated work weeks deserve epic tuesdays

Tue, 01 Jun 2010 09:36:56 -0400

…which is why I’m starting mine with some very much epic John Adams a la Harmonielehre. There’s something very focusing about

“…the rapid repetition of chords in E minor in standard minimalist fashion.”

travors: This is the result of averaging the colour values at...

Mon, 31 May 2010 13:14:08 -0400

travors:

This is the result of averaging the colour values at each pixel for every regular (non-Sunday) Garfield strip from 2007. Buried in the blur you can notice some interesting features:

The absolutely static 3-panel structure with a borderless panel in the middle.

Jon tends to stand on the left and Garfield on the right.

The dialogue is always lined up exactly in the same vertical location.

(via mezzacotta - Square Root of Minus Garfield)

The dirt mounds now have seeds in them. Does that...

Sat, 29 May 2010 12:48:00 -0400

The dirt mounds now have seeds in them. Does that count?

Stephen couldn’t help wanting to walk on the tops of the mounds after planting. Too many new concepts, methinks.

meatballhat words

"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood."

Aardman animators are magic

Akron Half-Marathon == Ka-CHOW!

Akron Half-Marathon == Ka-CHOW!

The mayor of Portland, OR is following me

"… I continue to introduce ( ): in the function def as almost like an emoticon, like two eyes..."

my talky talk from PyOhio 2010

"I have a bit of a funny accent, so if you can’t understand me, just wave your hand … and..."

"It looks like you’re trying to build a framework!"

how can I work when it smells like this?

I gots an F in popularity

my lady was asked to type "flubbing huge"

make money

fancy at first

the Makefile

the bash + bc script

is #bikecommuting the heck out of this Friday afternoon

"sometimes I have to step away for the screen for awhile to write code http://flic.kr/p/871t2E"

"Restructured text rules. Use it!"

"Aw, I don’t mind one-player mode. I usually just TIGER, TIGER, TIGER the whole way through."

hooray for bikes! hooray for walkies!

truncated work weeks deserve epic tuesdays

travors: This is the result of averaging the colour values at...

The dirt mounds now have seeds in them. Does that...

the `bash` + `bc` script