From the Onion AV Club interview with Demetri Martin, on working for The Daily Show:
AVC: What allowed you to transition from intern to correspondent? DM: It was a pretty simple process. All I had to do was leave the show, work at temp jobs, then become a full-time proofreader, do [...]
Periodically, Netflix sends me an email asking me when I received a movie that they mailed, or when I mailed a movie back to them that they received. I assume that this is so that they can confirm that the mail is getting delivered in a timely fashion, and I’m sure that some people [...]
I’ve decided to start a little series of post about interesting music I’ve found at emusic.com. Not because I want to promote that site, but rather because it’s where I’m finding most of the new (to me) music that I’m listening to these days.
Today’s interesting album is 1000 Years of Popular Music, a live album [...]
AutoWeek reports that Ford put a release candidate of its new model, the Edge, in the hands of some customers for last minute testing. They’ve made some minor changes to the vehicle in response to feedback from the testers, and will reportedly tweak the production line over the course of the year with other changes. [...]
I confess that I’m a sucker for quantitative analysis of sports. Heck, I’m a sucker for quantitative analysis of just about anything. One argument people who are interested in statistics often hear is that the numbers suck the joy out of the game. Breaking down the stats is somehow a less noble way to follow [...]
When it comes to stories, the difference between a mystery and a thriller rests on the knowledge held by the audience versus the knowledge held by the protagonist. In a mystery, neither the protagonist nor the audience know the answer to the question central to the plot. The challenge is for the audience member to [...]
Let’s say you’ve got a project in a Subversion repository, and you’ve created a branch of trunk, in branches/newfeature. You’ve been merging changes from trunk to branches/newfeature for awhile, but now you’re done with that work and you’re ready to move all of the changes in the branch back to the trunk. What’s the best [...]
I am a huge fan of object-relational mapping. One of the most tedious problems for developers who use object-oriented languages is transforming query results into objects and generating insert and update statements to save objects. There are a number of ways to deal with this problem, but the easiest way to handle it is to [...]
I was watching Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip last night and it occurred to me that writing a TV show is better than writing a blog. Sure, I could write tedious posts explaining why gay marriage should be legal, but that’s really nothing compared to being able to write dialogue. You can dream up [...]
O’Reilly has a series of short books that they distributed in PDF form, called Short Cuts. Yesterday, I bought Cody Fauser’s RJS Templates For Rails, which explains exactly what the title says it will. The sweet spot for these books seems to be between finding information about a topic with Google and ordering a book [...]