June 2007
27 posts
“What do you get when you play a country song backwards? Your girl, your house,...”
– Dr. Yasinsac
Private Facebook Pages Are Not So Private →
Information leakage sucks.
WatchI want to see Sarah do something like this on her DDR pad.
The Science of Gaydar - New York Magazine →
Which came first? The pop culture cliché or the science? (I just discovered I can create diacritic letters by hitting Option-e, then the letter. Sweet!)
Celebrity Sighting (In Tally?!)
While at the Tallahassee Buffalo Wild Wings, i.e. BW3, we saw basketball star Shaquille “Shaq” O’Neal eating there. According to a waitress one of my friends talked to he was attending some kind of conference on obesity.
The first hint that he was there were two giant, stretch cars. Specfically, a Hummer and a Bentley. I had seen a stretch Hummer before, but not one this...
Farms Fund Robots to Replace Migrant Fruit Pickers... →
This is an interesting example of why computer scientists are interested in studying computer vision. I wonder if this is similar to anything my friend Turo is currently researching for his PhD?
The New Yorker: The Interpreter →
Article about a linguist studying a tribe in the Amazon whose language refutes the notion that the basis of all language is recursion.
“I’m man enough to admit I’m all talk.”
– Ryan Walega
Vim Mass Edit Trick
For all you VIM’ers out there (and possibly VI’ers) here’s a neat trick: if you find yourself performing the same series of edits over blocks of text (e.g. changing the formatting a series of functions) you can record the command series as a macro.
To start a macro, enter command mode (i.e. press ESC) and then press ‘q#’, where ‘#’ is a letter...
Leopard
Apple had WWDC, a developer’s conference, today and they unveiled some of the new features in the next version of OS X, also known as Leopard. Not to sound like a complete fanboy, but I’m really looking forward to some of the new features.
The two that I think will be of the most use to me are the new version of Finder, which is taking design cues from iTunes 7 in how it organizes...
The difference between Marketing, PR, Advertising... →
Mortgages are scary
After looking at the condo mentioned in the previous post, I bought Home Buying for Dummies to educate myself on the basics of mortgages and all the other issues involved in buying a home (I didn’t see a Condo Buying for Dummies so I figured this was close enough ;-)).
Obviously, any kind of financial decision as big as this is a life altering event. Considering that moving to a new city...
PBC
Just got back from visiting Panama City Beach to again look at apartments. I had the opportunity to actually see the apartment at Alexan Back Beach (they couldn’t show me the unit last time because of a thunderstorm). I really liked the Sandpiper floorplan.
I looked at a few other places and while they were nice nothing was as interesting as a condominium Kenny had heard about from a...
Back
I had another couple of weeks where I really didn’t want to share my thoughts with anybody so I ended up neglecting the blog. My bad.
Life’s been really busy lately: mentally preparing to move to Panama City (still no start date and still have to find a place to live), working waaaay too many hours on the voting system project at FSU, going to Bristol, Tennessee for Memorial Day...