Homestar patches
April 29, 2008 – 4:19 pm
Homestar patches
Originally uploaded by mmayers
This morning, a co-worker gave these to me claiming that she “found” them. They’re pretty epic. I just need to hot glue them to my laptop bag.
Ubuntu Hardy Heron Release Party
April 24, 2008 – 11:14 amIf you’re in SE Michigan and excited about the release of Hardy Heron, head out to Arbor Brewing Company (google map) this Saturday, April 26 for a release party.
If you aren’t in this area, no worries! There are parties being held all over the freaking place. Check this page to find one local to you.
My friend Jake.
April 13, 2008 – 4:27 pm
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Originally uploaded by mmayers
My friend Jake.
Matt on… 2.5
April 4, 2008 – 3:11 pmThis blog is now running on Wordpress 2.5 with no major issues so far. A couple of my plugins aren’t working, but no big deal. I’m sure they’ll be updated in a timely fashion.
So far, I’m pretty pleased with the new admin interface. It’s pretty. I’ll have to take some time this weekend to look over the API changes.
Has anyone else noticed any major problems with this new release that I should be aware of?
“I think we should only get three honks a month on the car horn…”
March 20, 2008 – 4:01 pm“…Then, someone cuts you off, you press the horn and nothing happens. You’re like, “Crap! I wish I hadn’t see Ricky on the sidewalk!”
This is easily the Mitch Hedberg joke I agree with the most. To me, a car horn is a safety device, not an outlet for your rage. A car horn is to alert someone to present danger. Here are some examples of what I’m talking about.
- Someone pulling out of a driveway unaware that you are trying to drive where they intend to be? A polite honk to alert them of your presence.
- Backed up traffic moving slowly through an intersection? Sure, there are probably a couple people up the line that could be moving faster and are fucking it up for everyone else, but honking is just rude and doesn’t solve anything.
- Honking at me after you almost ran me over because I was crossing the street (legally) and you weren’t paying any fucking attention to where you were turning? Bad idea!
The driver in that last scenario also proceeded to glare at me as though it was my fault that she had nearly smeared me all over the pavement. Then, she drove off, denying me the opportunity to “explain” my view of the situation to her.
There are a lot of other drivers on the road that stress me out too but laying on the horn to voice your disapproval is just annoying to everyone around you. So the next time you use your car horn to get someone’s attention, make sure you’re saving someone from a potentially bloody accident.
Lunar Eclipse 2008
February 20, 2008 – 11:48 pmI managed to force myself out into the cold long enough to watch the lunar eclipse and snap a few shots with my little Sony Cybershot. Unfortunately, I own a Sony Cybershot and the pictures didn’t come out very well at all. Well, I don’t care. I stood out in the cold for almost an hour and a half staring at the sky to take these photos and I’m posting them.
Yahoo Pipes is pretty neat
February 15, 2008 – 11:03 pmI know Pipes has been around for a while, but I just now got into using it. The interface is really simple to use but configuring the actual modules is something that requires at least a little programming talent. This is particularly true once you start involving aspects like regular expressions. Pipes doesn’t do everything, but it gives you enough logic bits to create some pretty impressive mashups.
You can see my first pipe here which basically just combines the RSS feeds for people in my office. The whole thing is pretty simple… It grabs the feeds, spits them through a couple of regexes to add the source to the title of each item, and does a descending sort on the pubDate. That’s pretty awesome.
Pipes also allows you to grab the results of your creation in either RSS or JSON, which means you can use that data programatically without having to make a bunch of requests to a bunch of different sites. This also means, if you want to add data sources to your applications all you have to do is add the info to your pipe, save it, and your application will update.
Pipes doesn’t replace webapps but it does make them easier to build. Now, if you’ll please excuse me, I’ve got to stay up all night tinkering with my pipes.
Test SyntaxHighlighter
February 15, 2008 – 10:00 amTesting SyntaxHighlighter…
module EvenOdd
def even? # is the number even?
0==self%2
end
def odd? # or is it odd?
0!=self%2
end
end
Integer.send(:include, EvenOdd)
Matt on… wordpress
February 13, 2008 – 11:31 pmI’ve been playing around with Wordpress a lot more lately and have decided that I love it. So, I’ve migrated all of my MT content over to WP. I was using a combo of Drupal/MT for my site previously and still have to get the Drupal content into WP, so I’m sorry if you came here following a link that doesn’t work anymore. I’ll try to get the rest of that content in here soon.
RIP Weighted Companion Cube
October 14, 2007 – 1:41 pmIn rememberence of Weighted Companion Cube: the best companion cube ever to be manufactured. WCC will be missed…
