Laser Light Shows Are For Pansies
Real men don't do laser light Floyd shows. They use a Tesla coil to play the Tetris theme song and the Super Mario Brothers' "underground theme":
A Bountiful Link-Filled Catch-Up
I am fully cognizant of my delinquent blogging — apologies all around. I've been in full recovery mode since taking the redeye from SFO to PHL on Friday night. Short observations on that flight? Sucked like a brand-new Dyson 07 with the full pet hair kit. Stupid US Airways.
In exchange for my [...]
Cosmic Justice + Schadenfreude = Cosmifreude? Schadestice? Freudecosmischadenjust?
It's generally poor form to revel in others' distress (see: Hilton, Paris vis returns to jail), but I must admit to a small amount of glee upon hearing the news that O.J. Simpson's company is declaring bankruptcy and may have to transfer publishing rights to his "If I Did It" to the Goldmans as they [...]
Blogslacking (Or, As I Like To Call It, "Doing Real Work")
I've been very busy here at WWDC these past two days and thus haven't really had time to post much.
Classes have been interesting and mostly useful. I got a chance to go out and see Ocean's 13 the other night. My one sentence review: sappy, sentimental, a bit contrived, not much suspense, worse [...]
Conference Observations
There are around 5,000 people at WWDC this year. Excluding Apple and Moscone employees, I think I have seen 25-30 women, total. The ratio of males:females is quite literally 100-150:1.
It's odd interacting with the Mac geekery, being the old Linux/UNIX head that I am. After attending the "Stump the Experts" session last [...]
Looks Like We'll Never Need Another Timmy
I read with a good deal of sadness that Mr. Wizard died yesterday morning. For all of you youngsters, he was like Beakman or Bill Nye, oldschool-style.
His experiments were decidedly a low-fi sort of affair, but they were entertaining and engaging. I'm sure he's responsible for just as many engineers as [...]
