$ cheat git (tagged: tutorial reference git ) Pro Git – Reset Demystified Scott Chacon writing at the Pro Git blog; consider this post to be "part one" of the otherwise missing chapter on git reset. Good stuff. (tagged: tutorial git ) Processing.org (tagged: design visualization tools art software todo ) SwimmingHoles.info: Vermont Swimming Holes […]
…a review of Chuck Klosterman’s Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto If you must, you may call it jealousy, but there is no getting around the fact that if someone had read my essays during college, and then paid me to keep writing those essays, then I could (would) have been Chuck […]
1. Posed Kisses (2001), 2. Daytona in December (2002), 3. self-portrait #79 (2003), 4. Beach ’04 (2004), 5. self-portrait #1234 (2005), 6. Self-Portrait #3016 (2006), 7. self-portrait #3098 (2007), 8. last moments as a childless couple (2008), 9. self-portrait #6830 (2009), 10. at the “prom” (2010), 11. self-portrait #8899 (2011; can you believe there are none of just A. & I this year so far?), […]
I’m at a party with JJA. He is drinking a beer out of a white paper cup and leaning up against a doorframe. It is the kind of party you would see in a movie about college fraternities. JJA is quiet and just watching the people go by. I introduce my self and we start […]
How to run an effective meeting by Kevin M Hoffman (writing in .net magazine) — a good piece but I would add two other pieces of advice: [1] never underestimate the value of a clock or stopwatch (e.g., “You have five minutes to explain starting… now.”); and [2] structure the meeting so you can dismiss […]
no country for old hackers Garann Means: But I can’t pretend it doesn’t kill me that the most exciting thing we can think of to do with JavaScript is to clean it up to appeal to people who don’t like JavaScript. (Although I disagree a little bit with her quip about "all those terrible little […]
I’m called into a room. There is family here. (But dream friends, and dream family; not my waking life family.) There is news for me. She is to be a mother. (But she is not my wife; in fact she is another man’s wife. A friend’s wife. But everyone knows about this [him included] and […]
a game of Buick some JavaScript dirty tricks and: “Throw rocks at them.” “Search Term Haiku” is a series wherein I examine this site’s log files and construct one or more haiku poems from search terms and phrases that led visitors to the site. Where possible, I attempt to keep the search phrases intact. However, […]