You are not prepared

It does end up wasting more resources

Sun, 30 Jan 2011 20:28:37 -0800

Having to drag the cans to the curb every week is a bit of a pain, but I’d much rather live in a neighborhood with garbage collection than have to manually release every object I retain.

I'd rather have chapped lips

Fri, 17 Dec 2010 09:17:09 -0800

For the last couple days, I’ve had David Lee Roth stuck in my head.

AND HE’S WEARING ASSLESS PANTS!

DEAR GOD!

PLEASE SEND HELP!

"What if you’re happy and you don’t know it?"

Sat, 11 Dec 2010 12:17:06 -0800

“What if you’re happy and you don’t know it?”

- The Three Year Old, at breakfast this morning.

Daily Kōan

Fri, 10 Dec 2010 09:01:20 -0800

I love the smell of Xcode in the morning: It smells like …

… challenges.

Waiting for Jackie Mason

Mon, 08 Nov 2010 11:02:17 -0800

The one year old, encouraged by her older sister, has become enamored of knock-knock jokes. To be specific, she’s become enamored of a knock-knock joke. It goes like this:

1 Year Old: Knock-knock.

Dad: Who’s there?

1 Year Old: Nuffin.

Dad: Nothing who?

1 Year Old: <silence>

3 Year Old: <hysterical laughter>

The thing is, I don’t think either of them really “get” the joke, and it’s funnier than anything I’ve come up with in years.

Internet Fail! Gigabots Ep. 9 SERIES FINALE (via...

Wed, 03 Nov 2010 10:50:03 -0700

Internet Fail!

Gigabots Ep. 9 SERIES FINALE (via duncanbros)

How is it that I am just learning of this?

This sort of thing is extra awesome because it lures you humans into complacency by convincing you that you’ll always find a way. When the actual robot revolution comes, there will be no limiter for you to disengage.

OpenGL ES for iOS

Mon, 01 Nov 2010 09:38:06 -0700

OpenGL ES for iOS:

quatermain:

Jeff LaMarche (yes, that Jeff LaMarche) has been working on an OpenGL ES book for Pragmatic Programmers for a while now, but due to a lack of time to work on it (he is also very busy as one third of MartianCraft) has had to cancel the project. The good news is that as a result he’s now publishing the completed portions of the book on his blog, chapter by chapter. So far we have:

Chapter 1 — Introduction

Chapter 2 — Meet OpenGL ES

Chapter 3 — Fundamentals of 3D Programming

It’s all well worth a read. Go to it people. Read and be awed.

The view from the new house.

Fri, 29 Oct 2010 16:24:01 -0700

The view from the new house.

Why men have two testicles? So they can trade one for something.

Fri, 29 Oct 2010 13:02:22 -0700

Someone needs to explain to me how it is that the Tacoma Mall has an Apple Store, but downtown Seattle gets nothing. It’s not like Seattleites don’t like Apple. They love apple. Look at this table!

(Note: This table is likely meaningless. Taken from mintdata.)

I just spent thirty minutes tooling around 2 different AT&T* stores and an Office Depot** looking for an iPhone stand. No luck. I swear that if there were somewhere nearby that I could actually act upon my impulses for Apple products and accessories, they would get $500 a month from me.

Update: I just became a backer of the Glif project. I’ll have to wait for my stand, but it’s only $20 and it looks like it’s just what I need.

*Of course we have two AT&T stores (pretty big ones too) within three blocks of each other. Counting Radio Shack, T-Mobile, Verizon, Sprint, and those sleazy looking affiliate stores, there are probably more places to buy a cell phone downtown than there are Starbucks. And there are a lot of Starbucks.

**It may have actually been an Office Max or even a Staples. Is there really any difference between those stores?

産総研オープンラボ2010でのアクトロイド-Fの操作の様子など (via RoboTimes) I bet...

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 09:52:33 -0700

産総研オープンラボ2010でのアクトロイド-Fの操作の様子など (via RoboTimes)

I bet you’d like to think that it’s the human controlling the robot in this video, but it’s really the other way around.

You are all doomed.

I left my comfort zone at home

Wed, 27 Oct 2010 19:21:00 -0700

I’m trying desperately to come up with a joke involving feeling out of my element and the periodic table, but I’m way too uncomfortable to think straight.

Unrelated: They really should serve alcohol at these all-parent meetings at the preschool.

Evidence

Tue, 26 Oct 2010 10:18:29 -0700

I have a feeling that my greatest fear is becoming realized and that the three year old is going to grow up to be a Republican.

I present the following evidence:

Her favorite animal at the zoo is the elephant.
Her favorite genre of music is country.^*
And the clincher - Whenever you try and reason with her during an argument, she stomps her feet, grimaces harshly, and delivers this retort: “No! Don’t say that!”

As for the one year old, her favorite animal is the giraffe. So who knows what the hell that means.

^*I’m taking a bit of poetic licence here. Technically, her favorite genre is bluegrass, especially if it involves a lot a banjo.

"We went to a B-52s concert last month."

Tue, 26 Oct 2010 10:01:38 -0700

“We went to a B-52s concert last month.”

- My parents. (True story.)

So much awesome.

Fri, 22 Oct 2010 08:42:39 -0700

So much awesome.

Humanity, meet one of your future overlords. The longer you...

Mon, 18 Oct 2010 20:51:55 -0700

Humanity, meet one of your future overlords.

The longer you watch, the sooner your enslavement begins.

bbum's weblog-o-mat » Blog Archive » When is a Leak not a Leak? Using Heapshot Analysis to Find Undesirable Memory Growth

Mon, 18 Oct 2010 15:16:30 -0700

bbum's weblog-o-mat » Blog Archive » When is a Leak not a Leak? Using Heapshot Analysis to Find Undesirable Memory Growth:

I saw a WWDC presentation that was very much along these lines as well, but for finding objects that were safe to dump when the app got a memory warning. It pays to get to know Instruments well, it’s a very deep and powerful tool.

Alex Vollmer — Assert Yourself!

Mon, 18 Oct 2010 15:14:11 -0700

Alex Vollmer — Assert Yourself!:

Alex Vollmer has created a really nice Javascript library to make creating UIAutomation based tests easier. Be sure to check out tuneup_js as well.

enormego:developers

Sat, 16 Oct 2010 15:44:38 -0700

enormego:developers:

A nice collection of open source iPhone and Cocoa (and PHP) utilities.

Well, it couldn’t last. It’s going a be a while...

Fri, 15 Oct 2010 07:40:37 -0700

Well, it couldn’t last. It’s going a be a while before I can top that.

Blocks

Thu, 14 Oct 2010 22:16:56 -0700

I wrote my first code using blocks today. It was only for a test project, not production code, but I thought I’d preserve it for posterity.

ALAssetsGroupEnumerationResultsBlock assetEnumerator = ^(ALAsset *asset, NSUInteger index, BOOL *stop) {
    if(asset != nil) {
        ALAssetRepresentation* representation = [asset defaultRepresentation];
        NSLog(@"UTI = %@", [representation UTI]);
        NSLog(@"Metadata = %@", [representation metadata]);
    }
};

ALAssetsLibraryGroupsEnumerationResultsBlock assetGroupEnumerator = ^(ALAssetsGroup *group, BOOL *stop) {
    if(group != nil) {
        [group setAssetsFilter:[ALAssetsFilter allVideos]];
        [group enumerateAssetsUsingBlock:assetEnumerator];          
    }
};

ALAssetsLibrary *library = [[ALAssetsLibrary alloc] init];
[library enumerateGroupsWithTypes:ALAssetsGroupAll
                       usingBlock:assetGroupEnumerator
                     failureBlock:^(NSError *error) {
                         NSLog(@"A problem occured. %@", error);
                     }];
[library release];

I wrote it to answer this Stack Overflow question.