Archive for ‘Play’

Poster Modern

This is a poster of a yard sale sign. Is it advertising the yard sale, or the sign? Hmmm.

Weekend Round-up

Just when I thought “A List Apart” had become a useless dried up husk of RoR wankers, they turn around and publish this gem of an article: Getting Out of Binding Situations in JavaScript I’ve read various descriptions of ‘binding’ in JavaScript before, but this is probably the most clear explanation I’ve seen. As a [...]

The United Mexican States Would Like to Thank the US for the Economic Stimulus Package

My lovely wife is spending the month of May in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico working in an albergue which serves a local hospital. An albergue is sort of an inn or hostel, and in this particular case it houses people who have traveled across Mexico to seek medical attention in Guadalajara. They charge a very small [...]

The only iPhone wallpapers you’ll ever need (until you get bored and need another)

(because iPhone + wikipedia = The standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom ) (because I just re-watched 2001 and 2010 and HAL is neato, Dave.)

This article 93.2% accurate

Nerd handbook. http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2007/11/11/the_nerd_handbook.html

National Hero

http://blogs.zdnet.com/ip-telephony/?p=2605 A buddy of mine at work and I agreed that we’d both gladly fork over $350 to bust up a Comcast office with a hammer. (see also)

Saturn

Some terrific photos of Saturn (plus color commentary) here: http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2007/10/15/cassini-10-years-and-counting/

The UnBoxing

That’s right. Activation was a snap…super easy. It took maybe 10 minutes. Most of that was waiting for the progress bar. Syncing the first time took a little longer than I expected…but it has to basically look through your mac and find email accounts, and photos, calendars, and whatnot in order to give you the [...]

More than meets the bucket

This is one hundred percent pure 10 year old boy awesome: http://wonderdasher.blog.sohu.com/59275208.html This is a paper model made from KFC buckets.

Search Results for Hobos

I looked up Hobo’s restaurant this weekend. We were meeting friends there for drinks, I needed directions. I searched for “Hobos” on Google maps. I saw an ad from Target, who apparently carry Hobos. How convenient. Apparently, also Hobos are a type of bag. “OMG do you see the bag that hobo is carrying? I [...]