October 2009
12 posts
2009-2010 Influenza Season Week 40 ending October... →
I find it odd that the pediatric death rate in Region 6 (AR, LA, NM, OK, TX) is twice that of the national pediatric death rate. Makes me glad to live in Iowa.
“Instead, e-mail has, in the past 15 years in particular, become that path of...”
– E-mail: Reports of My Demise are Premature » Basex Blog »
“Son-of-bitch! I work at Taco John’s and don’t get called...”
– Dave Helmer in response to someone yelling “Very well, sir!” to him when he asked the crowd how they were doing at the Vaudeville Mews on Thursday night.
“…when under the influence of extremely high magnetic fields, there is...”
– Vern Paxson, explaining the risk of explosion in superconducting magnets used in particle physics like the Large Hadron Collider. The LHC will start again in December.
“Sadly, at the last minute, the production facility got cold feet because it...”
– HR.com Human Resources Management, Training, Jobs, Information - Features
“It’s the Tom Sawyer business plan: I’m trying to convince all my friends how...”
– Reporter Resurrects Career - Buys His Own Paper - NYTimes.com
Quick Campfire Insult Bot
#!/usr/bin/ruby
require 'rubygems'
require 'tinder'
require 'hpricot'
require 'open-uri'
campfire = Tinder::Campfire.new ''
campfire.login '', ''
room = campfire.find_room_by_name ''
def insult
url = "http://www.randominsults.net/"
doc = Hpricot(open(url))
doc.search( "//table[@id='AutoNumber1']//tr/td//i" ).first.inner_html
end
puts "bot starting up at " + Time.now.to_s
(1..100).to_a.each...
“Pitchfork has always seemed more obsessed with canonizing indie rock than most...”
– Pitchfork’s Decade Of Lists - All Songs Considered Blog : NPR
“As he put it: “You get to decide what you worship.” But before we get giddy with...”
– Zadie Smith at a memorial service for David Foster Wallace in October 2008.
“The very paradigm of work planning has changed: Where we used to be plan...”
– IEEE Spectrum - October 2009
I’ll be adding an IRQ number to my business card. I always thought interrupt-controlled I/O was stupid. Probably the same reason I think raising your hand in class is stupid.
