I’ve got a post at Websites and Beer talking about adding vinegar to beer. Blasphemy? Maybe not…read on.
I’m reposting this here, because it’s sort of a follow up to my post about cheap versus expensive wines. Hooray for food. Hooray for science. And hooray for food & science together!
I love Science. I don’t just love Science, I *fucking* love it. Maybe I’ll do a post on the Science sticks someday.
There’s a webcomic I particularly like, called XKCD. It’s Science-y, Math-y, geek humor. Perfect for me.
One of the best is the following comic, good old #397. I love it because Feynman (one of the […]
Here’s a neat trick, if you’re working with Ruby. Ever wondered how to get a list of all installed gems?
At the command prompt, type
sudo gem server
Once you’ve done this, go to http://localhost:8808, and you can see all the Ruby Gems installed, along with info and documentation about them. Awesome!
Hat tip to Matt
Continue reading about Listing Ruby Gems, or just viewing documentation
I’m sharing the link love today. This is a link to Futility Closet, a blog run by a very nice (and presumably well-educated) guy named Greg Ross. He updates often with lots of odd bits of trivia.
He had a post the other day, discussing the price that was paid to the Native Americans for the […]
My coworker Jacob shared a neat cell phone tip with me. If you often get solicitations from a particular phone number (especially those annoying automated ones), you might find this useful.
Next time you get a call from a number you’d rather not hear from again, add them to your phone book — maybe with the […]
Continue reading about Pro Tip: How to block calls from any cell phone
One hugely important thing in coding is debugging. Unfortunately, a lot of Javascript debugging gets done via alert() calls. This gets awkward quickly, with the alerts affecting timing, and just being annoying if you have to dump large amounts of data out.
Firebug is a great development tool, and has a really handy logging interface that […]
My blog has a new theme. Classic Tim flavor, new box.
This might affect you if you were subscribed to an RSS feed. I think the themes have their own RSS URL structure. But, if you were subscribed to http://www.timrosenblatt.com/blog/, then you should be okay. Of course, if you were subscribed to the old one, you […]
I’ve been practicing my drums lately. I’m better now, more than before.
Before I start the links, here’s an article I found discussing how serious drummers can be more physically fit than top athletes. So um, I’m not making noise, I’m exercising!
There’s some links that I wanted to have handy, and I figured I’d […]
MySpace announced they’ll be creating OpenIDs for their users. Although, it’s not full support for OpenID — users can only use their MySpace logins for other sites, but not for signing into MySpace. I’m not sure why they do this, I doubt it’s for any technical or spam-prevention reasons. It seems like a business decision, […]
Continue reading about MySpace + OpenID. Can OpenID have blinking text and bad HTML?
Zombie Feynman got me reading about Feynman, and I came across a great page discussing Feynman’s involvement with the textbook industry. Although it’s funny at times, it’s fairly sad that this is actually the back end of our education system.