August 2009
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July 2009
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“The bitter anger of a lone chef-writer? Hardly; other food bloggers quickly...”
– Prissy Food Bloggers Hate Food Blogger Movie - Alice Waters - Gawker
We caught the trailer for “Julie and Julia” the other day when we went to see “(500) Days of Summer” (which is really good, but even though I loves me some Zooey Deschanel, I have to say Joseph...
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What's the Deal with PHP?
I write code. I maintain servers. I’ve been doing this a long time, and I’m curious:
Am I that stubborn or are that many people just doing it wrong?
In my professional history I’ve written and/or maintained code in the following languages and/or environments:
Perl
Java
C# / .NET
C
Objective-C / Cocoa
PHP
Javascript
Visual Basic
In addition I have at least passing...
Watchtbridge:
Okay, this is pretty damned creative, and the Italian seems to be pretty spot on.
My favorite part, amusingly, is still “Khan! KHAN! KHAAAAAN!”
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Neighborhoods, Assessment Neighborhoods,...
Because the DC Citizen Atlas is both useful and awful, here are some links:
Neighborhoods
Assessment Neighborhoods
Assessment Sub-Neighborhoods
Neighborhood Clusters
Not that anybody but me needs those links, but I will find them useful in the future.
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“If the new vehicle is a category 1 truck that has a combined fuel economy value...”
– CARS.gov - Car Allowance Rebate System - Helpful Q&As for Consumers - Formerly Referred to as “Cash for Clunkers”
Our gubmint at work. I have a twelve-year-old car that is completely ineligible for the CARS rebate program because its combined MPG is 25. Not that I’d want to send it to the...
Don't Ask Me →
The original, and much more charming, video for OK Go’s “Don’t Ask Me.” There’s a newer video made when the song was released as a single in the UK, but the first one’s better.
Really, the label should just stop trying to make videos for them.
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J. Random Whoeverthefuck
J. Ran•dom Who•ev•er•the•fuck (jā răn’dəm hū-ĕv’ər-THə-fŭk)
n.
Follower on twitter who showed up unannounced and unintroduced, seemingly at random: “I’d like to know when I’m losing real people as opposed to J. Random Whoeverthefucks.” (fedward)
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More Administrivia
A month ago, as noted in this post, I turned off the import of my twitter feed into this here tumblelog. I looked into deleting the imported posts just to clean out the archive, but it seems that the tumblr people didn’t choose to make such a thing possible (they’ll allow you to delete your whole site, but not selected posts in it).
Last night I got curious about the problem again,...
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“He puts a good hard sear on both sides using his plancha, the freight train of...”
– The Perfect Burger and All Its Parts - NYTimes.com
I’m never really sure what to think of burger articles in the Times. They always seem like they’re coming at them with an air of, “look, how quaint.” But props to them for devoting this many words to something other than...
“The early summer has brought at least a dozen new trucks, many of them run by...”
– The Street Vendors’ Food Fight - NYTimes.com