Tromping through fields and woods, to RK’s log cabin. (He has a log cabin now?) There are three of us. She is new to us, a pretty young thing that says that she is “looking for a change” (and leaves it at that). We get back to his cabin; it’s dim inside but we make […]
Nodeload2: Downloads Reloaded at GitHub (tagged: performance architecture git Node.js github ) Fastersite: Finding memory leaks Useful reading on a useful exercise in JavaScript profiling and how to identify and mitigate memory leaks. (Short answer (as usual?) is "be careful with the DOM".) (tagged: javascript web google performance programming essay ) Easy Hikes Around Lake […]
In a sudden change of plans, we move our family to the District of Columbia. Our new home is small and brick and horrifically over-priced. (Why have we moved here? Some hasty follow-the-business decision?) I assume that the yard to the house is tiny but it actually seems impossibly large. And overgrown. And the first […]
Obama’s Pyrrhic Defeat, Ctd Andrew Sullivan — Debt Ceiling Reading List #2: I have to say I'm not that unhappy with this result, as I explained last night. But that's because I want serious budget cuts and don't regard our current debt as benign. I guess that is what makes me not-a-liberal. But I also […]
Beer Can Chicken Recipe at Simply Recipes — So simple; so delicious. (tagged: recipe food cooking beer grill ) ClojureScript Brings Clojure To The Browser via Javascript Werner Schuster writing for InfoQ on the introduction of ClojureScript — some of its hows and whats and whys. (tagged: javascript Clojure clojurescript essay todo ) An Ode […]
string theory drama pencil drawings of monsters Tao of LOL I think I might have a new favorite. “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 […]
$ 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 […]