Yoda Origami
Sunday, June 12th, 2005Anyone who knows me well enough is aware of my collection of Jedi Master Yoda artifacts. He're one more I'm about to add...origami!Try it out: http://www.pajarita.org/aep/internacionales/intern2-1.pdf
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Anyone who knows me well enough is aware of my collection of Jedi Master Yoda artifacts. He're one more I'm about to add...origami!Try it out: http://www.pajarita.org/aep/internacionales/intern2-1.pdf
What’s Your Star Wars Name?
Sunday, May 29th, 2005How to determine YOUR Star Wars name:Your New First Name:1. Take the first 3 letters of your 1st name.2. Add the first 2 letters of your last name.Your New Last Name:3. Take the first 2 letters of your Mom's maiden name.4. Add the first 3 letters of the city you ...
The 101 Rules of Prog Metal
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2005Thanks to Chuck Ball for this one:http://www.metalstorm.ee/fun/view_fun.php?id=18I think I most identify with #12.
My Linguistic Profile
Monday, May 2nd, 2005Apparently, living in the south (if South Florida counts as "the south") has finally infected my linguistic profile by 20%. This is quite depressing, as I have always prided myself in my untarnished Brooklynese. According to this Blogthing, my profile is as such:Your Linguistic Profile:55% General American English25% Yankee20% Dixie0% ...
Time Traveler Convention
Friday, April 29th, 2005The Time Traveler ConventionMay 7, 2005, 10:00pm EDT, 2 hours past sunset (08 May 2005 02:00:00 UTC)East Campus Courtyard, MIT42:21:36.025°N, 71:05:16.332°W(42.360007,-071.087870 in decimal degrees)http://web.mit.edu/adorai/timetraveler/
A Perfect Priest
Wednesday, April 6th, 2005Many would be surprised to learn some of the great things about Pope John Paul II written by Rabbi Marc Gellman (Temple Beth Torah in Melville, NY). Here's an excerpt that has reshaped my opinion of the late Karol Wojtyla:Once, just after World War II, a mother came to a ...
13,944 Lines of Code
Thursday, February 3rd, 2005Why on Earth would my good friends at Mozilla put up with a single module of C++ consisting of 13,944 lines of code?You guys know better than that!
Tablet PC Capstone Course
Sunday, January 23rd, 2005The University of Washington is now offerring a Tablet PC Capstone course in its Computer Science and Engineering Department. The prescribed text is the Jarret & Su book, Building Tablet PC Applications.
Online Consulting and Value-Based Fees
Friday, January 7th, 2005Conrad Agramont and I debate the "online consulting" model and value-based fees: http://weblogs.asp.net/conrad/archive/2005/01/06/348180.aspx
Arbitrary Object Serialization/Deserialization
Thursday, January 6th, 2005I frequently need to store and retrieve object state. I've found the .NET Framework's XmlSerializer invaluable in this capacity. To make my life even easier, I've come up with a pair of functions that serialize and deserialize an arbitrary object to an XML file. I've stripped out comments, exception handling, etc. ...
