spilog

Sometimes xkcd is too close to the truth.

I’m walking in the desert land
I’m walking without a plan
The sun will rise stars will fall
- Michigan “Valley of Death”

Gingersnaps

Originally uploaded by spi516.

In my rash of updating I can’t forget the fresh gingersnaps I baked over Presidents day weekend. I <3 long weekends. I totally enjoy baking but never find the time during the regular week or even on a regular weekend. However over [...]

DSC_5568

Originally uploaded by alecmcint.

This is what I have been working on during the past year or so. Fun I tell ya.

So The The Daily Colbert Show Report tonight was pretty interesting. Stephen spent a good few minutes proving that the show was live. At least he isn’t going to run away from the show and will stick around and blame the Dems for all the problems they have already caused.

So last weekend after Buffalo got burried under two feet of snow, I decided not to bail out on my planned trip out there and went along for a fun weekend anyway. It was fun first storm of the winter, a good amount of snow, trees down, no power to a large swath of the [...]

Wow what an amazing rant, back in September Steve Yegge posted an absolutely amazing rant on programming in the browser swamp.
Here are some choice quotes. But just go read the whole post yourself, it is worth it, that is if you are into technology.
Like, the kind of radical simplification Ruby on Rails introduced for server-side [...]

Jon Stewart likes jems which is concealed by the fact that Jon always wears a newscasting outfit. After his first apperance on the Daily Show, John Hodgman was able to use that fact to make a well placed bribe to Jon Stewart to become the resident expert on TDS.
That is all.

Walking down a newly built walking path that goes by an abandoned steam factory on a Saturday afternoon.

See a perfect spider web but cannot get the best picture of it. The sun is coming at the wrong angle.

The early hint of fall folidge makes for a nice contrast with the water, rusty pipes, and green [...]