Monday, November 30th, 2009
New Moon in a Minute (Parody)
Entries from November 2009
Thursday, November 26th, 2009
The Perfect Storm: Gimbal Madness
The amount of work and engineering skill that goes into making movies often astonishes me. Via The Perfect Storm: Gimbal Madness Petersen scouted the film world to find the ideal spot to shoot his actors swarming on the Andrea Gail. One by one, the Malta tank, Universal Lake, and the Baja facility where Titanic was [...]
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
Life-size whale
How to make a http://www.sculpture.net/community/showthread.php?t=8063&highlight=inflatable>life size whale me and my girlfriend worked for a theming companies for many years, and we have done a lot of outdoor work imitating textures in general. whale skin is full of texture – this should be taken in mind. my girl friend should be really writing since she has [...]
Saturday, November 14th, 2009
It’s Time to Legalize Drugs
Via the Washington Post: Drug manufacturing and distribution is too dangerous to remain in the hands of unregulated criminals. Drug distribution needs to be the combined responsibility of doctors, the government, and a legal and regulated free market. This simple step would quickly eliminate the greatest threat of violence: street-corner drug dealing. We simply urge [...]
Saturday, November 14th, 2009
A Radical Solution to End the Drug War: Legalize Everything
Via Esquire Last year, Franklin went public with his conclusions by joining a group called Law Enforcement Against Prohibition. Since then he’s made it his business to talk to other cops about the subject, and he’s been surprised by another discovery: “I find that 95 percent of my law-enforcement friends agree that we have to [...]
Friday, November 13th, 2009
How to get over unrequited love
As Sarah disembarked from the plane, I stood holding a red helium balloon. This was an innocent time, before 9/11, when the non-ticketed could still meet passengers as they disembarked from the plane. She saw me, smiled, and came close. “Chris!” “Sarah!” We hugged. “Chris, I’d like you to meet someone. This is Tom.” From [...]
Thursday, November 12th, 2009
GEEK: talmudic notes in vim?
When reading new code, especially code in a language I’m unfamiliar with, I sometimes have to translate each symbol/method very methodically in order to understand what the code is trying to do. Often, I’ll put my notes in the code as comments. While this helps me, this can make the code more bulky and difficult [...]
