Today I’m working on a problem that involves a good deal of research. I love the Internet for the sheer quantity of information available. But today has been like trying to drink from a firehouse and unfortunately most of that volume has been misinformation. My head is throbbing but I love this part of my job. Now if only I can bring this step to a rapid close.
Lovin’ the black censor bar!
When I posted I’m moving to France! I saw today’s post in the comments. Btw, if you haven’t watched I’m moving to France!, go do it now and for added fun start both videos at the same time!
Today’s video reminds me of college for some reason. These people are so happy! I bet there’d be no terrorism if more people played with the black censor bar. The guy in the cowboy hat at the end of the video is my new hero!
The BPA – Toe Jam Featuring David Byrne & Dizzee Rascal
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(I replaced this fuzzy Youtube video with the much clearer DailyMotion video that appears to actually be placed by The BPA)
This is the "Toe Jam" video by Fatboy Slim featuring David Byrne and Dizzee Rascal. I find it altogether too amusing. When I first discovered this one there were just over 6000 views. It’ll be interesting to see how fast those numbers grow.
Update: Some information about this hit video from the Fall of 2008. The Toe Jam song was released July 15, 2008 by The BPA (Brighton Port Authority an alias for musician Norman Cook who is better known as Fatboy Slim. I am becoming a Fatboy Slim fanboy as I was in awe of his Weapons of Choice video featuring Christoper Walken. Toe Jam is a collaboration with David Byrne and Dizzee Rascal. The video is directed by Keith Schofield (Keith Haverbrooks, Eric Schoman and Jeff Mayfield). The Toe Jam song lives on the I Think We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Boat
The BPA also ran a contest which ended March 1, 2009 allowing people to download the Toe Jam song and make their own videos as a promotion for their album release. Although the contest has ended, Toe Jam is still available for download.
Green Monster
Mobile post sent by djuggler using Utterli. Replies. mp3
Short timer’s syndrome
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Too much open..here comes the link dump
I often will see a link in Twitter or on Popurls and open it in another Firefox tab with the intention of reading it and/or blogging about it. Sometimes the link opens a picture that I want to photoshop. More times than not I skim these articles in 30 seconds and leave them for later. Eventually I dump them to Delicious tagged "toread" or "toblog" or I bookmark all the tabs in Firefox and close the window. In either case, I rarely return to the article and you miss out of mind altering, earth shattering, life changing commentary and information that sits collecting dust on an electronic shelf. One of these links could have saved the world! So, for society, I give you my tabs: (click more to read them) Continue reading Too much open..here comes the link dump
Space! … blast where’s Nimoy?
It doesn’t get cooler than NASA! I would have loved to have been an astronaut! Space walkin’.
Who used up all my coffee grounds?!
Oh.. I supposed I did…
We call him Dash
I believe in magic
Dear Beer Fairy,
I particularly like rich, bold, dark lagers. I’ve been an extra good boy.
Sincerely,
Doug
p.s. You don’t happen to be friends with the single malt scotch fairy do you?
p.p.s. Let the coffee fairy know that Juan Valdez is slacking off again.
Doug’s Mantras
McCaughan’s Law of Solutions:
Ask five different programmers the same thing and you will get five different answers…and they will all be correct.
Secret West Knoxville FBI building
Filed under, “Not good foreplay!”
(should have been named Two Tons of Bricks)
Today’s Programming Advice – Code for the impossible
Always code for the impossible case! The impossible tends to happen surprisingly often. The programming language is irrelevant. Whether you code in C, C++, F#, ColdFusion, PHP, JavaScript, or whatever, conditional statements and case statements should always accommodate the unexpected value.
Right now I am dealing with some code that involves a list of 1 or more items. The actionable part of the code involves clicking on one of the items in the list therefore at least 1 item must exist. Having zero items is impossible because if there were no items then I could not click on the item to start the actionable part of the code. So why waste time coding of the zero items case? This is not the best example since this is a multi-user, client/server web application and the zero case can be created quite simply by having two users pull up the same list and then one user deletes an item before the other. But that answers the question of why waste time coding for the impossible? Because it does happen. My code frequently has conditional statements that end with a default case or a special case that simply outputs "This is impossible. Please contact the administrator." and includes some debugging information. In my career, doing this has saved me hours and hours of debugging time on more than a couple of occasions.
I’m moving to France!
This probably isn’t safe for work. The New York one has a bit of a disturbing aspect to it. The France one feels more fun.
Thank you Internet!
(Apparently this happens in New York too Seen at Synthtopia)
Update: Jon found an interview on Pitchfork with the co-directors (Taylor Cohen and Otto Arsenault) and stars (Matt and Kim). Don’t forget, France has healthcare!
Update: Some links- Make the Girl Dance MySpace page, Make the Girl Dance blog, and the unofficial Matt and Kim video.
Of Grasshoppers
Student: All I ever wanted was to be great.
Master: Niagara Falls is great. So is a drop of dew on a single blade of grass.
