April 2008
36 posts
Could someone please teach Boris Diaw some non-crappy post moves? Or, if that’s too difficult, how to pass out of the post?
Watching the Suns is incredibly frustrating. Like watching a very precocious 8-year-old relative debate foreign policy.
Man, I had forgotten how stressful interviews are, even when you’re not heavily invested in the outcome.
Dropped tweets problem seems to be back. No updates by other people after Friday evening show up in my “Recent” list or on Twitterrific.
Apparently it’s not just me: http://tinyurl.com/5wmgd8
WatchHow creativity is being strangled by the law
Free your mind →
If the breathless advocates of “the free distribution of ideas” are serious, they need either a) to come up with a realistic proposal as to how I am to keep feeding myself while giving the fruits of my labours away for free; or b) come out and say honestly that they don’t think any such thing as a “professional writer” ought to exist, and that I should just get a job like anyone else. In a way,...
Solving the Enigma - History of the Cryptanalytic... →
Fascinating story, from no less an authority than the NSA, of the cracking of the Enigma.
IKEA | Flat-pack accounting →
Much has been written about IKEA’s remarkably effective retail formula. The Economist has investigated the group’s no less astonishing finances.
What emerges is an outfit that ingeniously exploits the quirks of different jurisdictions to create a charity, dedicated to a somewhat banal cause, that is not only the world’s richest foundation, but is at the moment also one of its least...
Magic Ink: Information Software and the Graphical... →
I suggest that the design of information software should be approached initially and primarily as a graphic design project.
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Twenty years later, despite thousand-fold improvements along every technological dimension, the concepts behind today’s interfaces are almost identical to those in the initial Mac.
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The future will be context-sensitive. The future will...
Er, should have been a question mark at the end of that last.
Gregg Popovich definitely shouldn’t wear that tie on television. Fucking yikes.
When the FUCK will NBA coaches learn to foul when their team is up by three with seconds left.
Man, this game is a flopfest…yet, strangely, still pretty enjoyable.
Idea: delay video feed of sporting events a fraction of a second longer than audio feed from announcers to compensate for reaction time.
Holy Christ. You’ll be seeing that alley oop from LeBron on SportsCenter later.
And now, to eat pizza and learn that, in fact, you cannot hear the shape of a drum.
Surprised how few Clinton/Obama ads I’ve seen, especially since the PA primary is next week.
Curious: http://tinyurl.com/6a7dee
You’d think I could write a 1 hour talk in less than 20 hours. But you’d be wrong.
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Good God am I sick of campaign commercials.
Is it just me, or is “Deadliest Catch” strangely fascinating, but also fairly appalling?
For some reason, whenever I get an idea to do something complicated in LaTeX, I spend hours working on it, even if it’s fairly peripheral.
I am so sick of giving talks. Four this semester, but it feels like twice that.
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I really wish I could prove a theorem or two; I’m getting thoroughly sick of these computation-intensive examples.
Do red light cameras work too well? →
Reassuring that cities installed red light cameras for all the right reasons.
And the upshot is: another new logic board. I’m really getting my money’s worth out of AppleCare with this computer. A mixed blessing.
Apparently UNC un-imploded for a bit after I stopped paying attention.
Strangely satisfying to see Tyler Hansbrough’s team completely implode.
UCLA’s offensive disjointedness just killed them in the second half.
This Planter’s commercial is really getting on my nerves.
Subtext of these new “Ex” commercials seems to be: “If you quit smoking, you’ll become a bumbling moron”. Not sure that’s really the right approach.
My computer is dead again, for the second time in four months. This is not happy-making.