Archive for the ‘Piracy’ Category.
19th September 2006, 12:54 pm
It may also mean “no bowties”
Shipping and industrial outfitters ULINE offer, for the bargain price of $16, a roll of 500 3″x4″ stickers of intially unclear function — at any rate, they are anti-penguin. They offer quantity discounts for larger purchases.
My first thought: At one sticker per ten feet (penguins are apparently somewhat nearsighted on land, but let’s suppose that that’s a good spacing), you could mark an enormous area which needs to be kept penguin-free — you’d have nearly a ten-mile perimeter to work with — for as little as $130 plus shipping.
It occurred to me, though, that the more likely application for these stickers was to mark containers as being full of whatever the opposite of a penguin is. You could use them to label for shipment things such as:
- Aristotle’s conception of arete
- Fischer’s 1972 match against Spassky
- Exactly two oak leaves
- The succession techniques of lost martial arts
- Navigational buoys for the inbound port side of channels
- Epiphenomena
- Back issues of Soldier of Fortune
- Gödel’s results on incompleteness
- Flan
- Shipping, itself
Thanks to Doomstalk for the link.
16th July 2006, 09:50 pm
I finally got around to polishing off an Ajax version of Bob vs Sam, just as a little tech demo to make sure I’ve got the concepts under control. It’s something I had been putting off for a while. But now that it’s done, there’s no page reloading or re-rendering, and the Bob vs Sam performance is significantly better, thus alleviating concerns which were often keeping me up at night. Just in case you may not have been around for the beginning of Bob and Sam’s gripping Peano-inspired donnybrook, they’re racing… to infinity… and they need your help.
The actual coding was pretty straightforward. If you go to the web toy - open it in another tab or something, go ahead - and View Source, you’ll see that most of the intelligence is in the “client,” written in Javascript and embedded in the recalculate() function up in the <head> element of the HTML. There are some gotchas.
Continue reading ‘Now with Ajax!’ »
10th July 2006, 04:58 am
Yesterday, at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, in line, a Small Child craned his neck over his mother’s shoulder to size me up. He asked, in that direct way that is a winning feature of Small Children, “Are you a pirate?”
I nodded emphatically. “Aye, lad.”
Thank you, Small Child.
13th June 2006, 06:45 pm
The worst part of my condition is a terrible alienation: why, I wonder, is no one else being gotten by spiders? But it turns out that the Spiders got White Ninja and a record of it was made upon the Intar Webs. And I am, somehow, reassured by the fact that there’s a Next> button on that record, and that another adventure follows it. I shall read more, and be made whole; I will draw strength from his example.
