I awoke this morning in a foul mood for no good reason. All I had was a faint hint of unsettling dreams and general dissatisfaction with my accomplishments of the week. I ate one of Trina's lemon cookies and left her apartment, through the morning drizzle in my car and down to my place.
I found [...]
I was working on Frisbase this morning and encountered the need to calculate a user's age from his or her birthday, as stored in the MySQL date format. Initial googling presented no simple solution, no cute, mathematical one-liner. Unwilling to throw in a big custom function for what should be a simple calculation, I came [...]
I have been very unhappy of late with the photographs I have been exporting from Photoshop. I start with Nikon RAW and export to high quality JPEG. They always look vibrant and fantastic in Photoshop but then dull and lacking contrast when I upload them to Gallery2. Check out this lackluster sunset or unexceptional foliage. [...]
I need never again play Blobette, a Java version of Puyo-Puyo. Yesterday, I scored 543,390,000 from some absurd ~12x combo. For reference, my high score previously was around 750,000. Maybe I will actually work now?
(If you don't, you're probably mentally ill.)
Check out this photostream.
Trina sent me this article (via her brother) on Jackie Chan's professed past as a drug dealer and adult film actor. The article is on a Bolivian news site and nowhere else can I find such detailed accounts of this confession. I find Jackie's openness admirable and, irrespective of his history, have the utmost respect [...]