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Double issue 08 September 2014
The three day weekend threw off my schedule last week, so this week you get a double helping.
Read more →Weekly roundup 24 August 2014
So the exciting news is that Deana and I made an offer on a house here in Boulder and it was accepted. There’s still plenty that can go wrong but there’s a pretty good chance that we’ll be home owners by the end of the year. Now on to all the horrible stuff I’ve been reading over the last week.
Read more →Using Cinder's CameraOrtho and VBOMesh to draw cubes 23 August 2014
I was browsing through OTAKU GANGSTA when I came across this image:
Read more →Mostly depressing sentences 17 August 2014
I’m breaking my own rules this week and posting more than a sentence from each link.
Read more →Comparing the TriMesh and VboMesh in Cinder 16 August 2014
I’ve been playing around with Cinder trying to make a simple app for drawing isometric images with triangles. I’m still learning my way around OpenGL and the wrapper classes Cinder offers but I like what I’ve seen so far. It’s been a lot of fun doing C++ again after a long time with Ruby and JavaScript.
Read more →Late sentences 13 August 2014
Flew out to SF on Sunday and got a bit behind on posting this.
Read more →Still more sentences 03 August 2014
Read more →**** Dude, your Mom’s a babe. Facebook commenter
A week of sentences 27 July 2014
Another batch of sentences from interesting articles and videos.
Read more →Best sentences I read last week 21 July 2014
I loved how the old staff at the Wonkblog—all of whom moved to Vox—would do posts of the best sentences they read that day. I’m going to try doing a weekly version so here’s the inaugural post.
Read more →Final Cut Pro X to 1 Second Everyday via iPhoto 24 June 2014
In my last post I mentioned using my 5D for some of the shots in the 1 Second Every day video. I found it a little complicated to get those from Final Cut Pro X, where I store my video, to the iPhone’s Camera Roll while maintaining the correct date.
Read more →Our Year With Ryland 23 June 2014
It’s been a year since Ryland came into our lives. It’s been amazing to watch him grow and turn into a little person. My favorite moment was watching him put out his candle, not the way we expected that to go at all.
Read more →Her 14 January 2014
Deana and I went to see “Her” tonight and I can’t say enough good things about it. I whole heartedly agree with Craig Mazin:
Read more →Libertarian Paradise 29 December 2013
Every year I look forward to the release of the Year’s Best SF anthologies by David G. Hartwell. I don’t read a ton of science fiction but between reading those and listening to Escape Pod I feel like I’m exposed to a lot of the best stuff.
Read more →Identity Theft or How I learned to spell “bureau” 18 December 2013
Sometime back in May, someone in Ohio opened up a PayPal MasterCard in my name. I didn’t figure this out until August when I started getting calls from a debt collectors which, ironically, I ignored because they sounded like identity thieves. After getting several of these calls I eventually called PayPal directly and determined they were genuine debt collectors, and someone else had my SSN and birth date.
Read more →Looking Back 23 October 2013
Almost a year after leaving New York, Deana and I finally finished our video about our time there.
Read more →VSCOcam is neat 12 September 2013
I’ve been playing around with VSCOcam for the last week or so and, with a brand new blog, it seemed like a good time to post a review.
Read more →Hello Jekyll 31 August 2013
It’s been over four years since I’ve made any major change to my website. The last time was when I’d upgraded from Drupal 5 to 6. I built a custom theme using the—then state of the art—960 Grid System and some CSS to give the typography some nice vertical rhythm. I’d considered trying to upgrade to Drupal 7 a few times but just couldn’t muster the energy. I’ve been doing less and less with Drupal over the last two years so switching to something that’s not reliant on a database was appealing.
Read more →Problem's with Nate Silver's book The Signal and the Noise 11 August 2013
I was bothered by this passage about the Bluefire supercomputer in chapter 4:
Read more →Working at Recurly is awesome 07 May 2013
To celebrate an internal product launch, we took a half-day off and drove up to Tiburon for a long lunch and then rode the ferry back to the city. An awesome day with great people.
Read more →Deana's got a blog 10 April 2013
While I knew that Deana had started a blog about being a mom in Berkeley that she’s been working on for a while but—until she asked me to check that video was showing up on it today—I didn’t realize how much she’d been working on it. But now that I know she mentions me on there I added it to my feed reader so I can keep up-to-date.
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