Archives for October 2007
Sox in 4
Nice work. The Red Sox are now 8-0 in World Series games since 2003. I was just reading the wikipedia entry for the Red Sox and noticed than in the past 4 world series, the ultimately victorious teams have won all but 1 of the games. (A 4-game sweep for the Red Sox […]
Neural Dystonia
I have this phenomenon that happens to me a lot when I’m coding. I’ll be typing the same word many times in a row, and after a long time of looking at it and typing it, the word starts to look really odd to me, and I wonder if perhaps it is misspelled. It […]
Not laughing
I read Fred’s post about Tumblr the other day and I kind of want to get a tumblelog now. But I don’t want to maintain more than one blog (clearly, I don’t maintain the one I already have very well), so I’m just going to post a bunch of one-liners and links right here. […]
peep show on chime.tv
I was skeptical of Chime.Tv until I spent 45 minutes last night watching peep show. Nice.
The wisdom of attaching 4MB video files to chain emails
There’s a generational gap right around age 45 that divides those who send mass emails out with a link to a video and those who send the video as an attachment. I’ve always considered attaching the video as antiquated practice. Today my dad forwarded me a WMV file that showed a baseball getting […]
Well done, Sox
Deadspin has a nice wrap-up of game 5. I didn’t catch that Danielle Peck, the woman singing the anthem, is Beckett’s ex. That’s pretty shrewd.
I’ve been a Red Sox fan since 2003 when I lived about 20 minutes away from Fenway in Boston. I even spent a day working as a beer […]
bad Popularity Dialer
Oops, the FCC gave us a citation.
We’re figuring out what makes sense (and what’s legal!), and the dialer should be up again soon.
Thank you, Jason Fried
Steven was speaking in Rhode Island yesterday to a group that included Jason Fried, the co-creator of Rails. Here’s a picture of him giving me encouragement.*
* Christian and I work together very closely on outside.in, and the co-nickname that we were given is “the Chronic”. I think I started this when I christened […]
