Talking Flat Rat Jerky

A certain passionate photographer and power blogger at work made an extremely unsettling, but curiously delightful discovery when shooting one day- a completely flattened and rather leather-like rat corpse.  She actually brought this deflated beast into the office in a little bag, and I even got to handle it a bit! (while it was in [...]

5-Second Test: Simple User Interface

I’ve designed a very simple user interface inspired by a basic functionality required to address low barrier of entry in web application user interaction for a particular subset of users, which are often discussed in circles around lunchtime at my workplace.
To that end, I’ve set up a 5-Second Test using the nifty service at www.fivesecondtest.com. [...]

eunuch.py

eunuch.py : Dedicated to my favorite hen-pecked, ball and chain-encumbered, Python-programming android. Best of luck in remaining steadfastly co-dependent, constrained, and subservient, old chap!

Dwellbox: Raising the Roof!

My longtime friend, former employer, and consulting client Mr. Ethan Anderson of Boone Takeout Express fame, has always been passionate about showing me his excitement for a certain flavor of woodsy dwellings based upon simple construction materials primarily revolving around Intermodal Steel Building Units (aka steel shipping containers). (more…)

Collapse: It’s what’s for dinner

Everyone is riveted to their own respective news funnels, searching in vain for clues or semblance of understanding related to the current financial shenanigans going down. Some act as if it’s just a phase, merely our taste of a 21st century depression on the horizon. We’ll bounce back!
( original content Xeni Jardin’ed ;-> )
In a [...]

Legendary Shiny Business Card

Kevin Mitnick began social engineering, or perhaps discovered his first engineerable situation at the age of 12. He realized he could bypass the punchcard system used for the Los Angeles bus system: by buying his own punch, he could get free bus rides anywhere in the greater LA area. Social engineering became his primary method [...]

Drummin’ and Dancin’ on Campus

As I was leaving work yesterday, I heard the not-too-unfamiliar sound of some sort of music close by. Being that some faculty are known to wail on electric guitars and such inside the faculty lounge in the upper floor of my building, I assumed that something similar was going on.  When I exited the building, [...]

Yo Ho! Be gettin’ yer talk on, me hearties!

Be ye knowin’ that today be th’ day t’ be maroonin’ yer proper talkin’ an be talkin’ like a Pirate instead? If ye be reekin’ from th’ stench ‘o th’ newb, be castin’ an unpatched eye ‘wards these here videos t’ be gettin’ th’ hang of it, an whatever ye be doin’, be keepin’ yer [...]

Avast! It be Pirates an Python!

In honor of th’ swift approach of me favorite day after Festivus, an me family member’s birthdays, me be invitin’ ye to be ponderin’ upon a time sink of golden proportions. For this year’s Talk Like a Pirate Day, thar be no better way to celebrate than t’ be losin’ one’s precious moments in [...]

Meme or Viral Marketing Brilliance?

This is one brief mention that I intended to post a couple months back, but being a lazy bastard, I filed awaythe screenshot, and promptly forgot about it.  Anyway, I was working on something a couple months back, while sitting in my car in a parking lot one evening on Faculty street, when my laptop [...]

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