I just have to say how *nice* it is to be back doing Cocoa stuff again.
No Ruby. No(t much) Java. Just good old Objective-C and C. 🙂
Category Archives: General
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“The front fell off”
I have no idea if this is real or not. Funny, whichever it is.
Australian Senator Discusses Oil Spill – Watch more free videos
COTGM: Red Sox Offer Women the Opportunity to Give Birth at Fenway Park
Call of the Green Monster: Red Sox Offer Women the Opportunity to Give Birth at Fenway Park:
“The only tricky thing about this is that women traditionally need to spend a couple of days in the hospital after giving birth, but we’ll be requiring them to leave the park within one hour of the child’s birth, or we’ll be forced to bill them for an additional 25 grand,” Lucchino noted. “Time is money, and we can’t have some happy young couple getting married in one part of the field, while a woman is resting after giving birth nearby. So, once the child is born, they can just call a cab, and there are several hospitals nearby. It’s a magnificent opportunity.”
Awesome. I just need to convince L now…
A story about “Fenway Fiction: Short Stories from the Red Sox Nation”
by Adam Emerson Pachter
Before Further Fenway Fiction came out, this was the Greatest Book Ever. Now it’s the second.
Still good, though, and well worth reading, for the seven Americans who continue to read, based on the last study.
A story about “Further Fenway Fiction: More Short Stories from Red Sox Nation”
by Pachter Adam
This is possibly the greatest collection of fiction ever written.
Working through the author copies I received the other day.
NIKE+ : Map It
NIKE+ : Map It
This map it is a great feature. For example, the Old Home Day 5 Mile race:
The Route.
God help me. For both the race and the fact that I seem to be getting a little obsessed with this Nike+ stuff…
5K!!!
Argh!
I am a Shoe Hacker
Just got done with the instructions at Podophile:
Podophile » Blog Archive » Shoe Hacker: Nike+iPod Sport Kit Shoe Mod.
Now, it may have taken me slightly longer than 10 minutes it took this guy, as my now ancient home economics skills have probably failed me, and I don’t think my report in 5 months time will be quite the same as his (still going – mine may be along the lines of: “So the piece of Velcro I spent 20 minutes sewing to the tongue of the shoe has come off, five minutes into my first run, which is surprising only because I was able to run 1) for 5 minutes and 2) I was traveling fast enough for something to fall off my shoe, even if it is a poorly sown on Nike+ thing).”), but still. I’ve just managed to avoid paying $8 for something that I’d probably be able to have a lot more faith in.
We’ll see how we get on.
The sole reason I got one of these is because of a post like Cabel’s (cabel.name: Multiplayer Game Of The Year) and some similar sentiments from Jamie… so we’ll see. Maybe it’ll make a runner out of me yet.
Flann O’Brian… ummm… ish. Here’s your grain of salt. (rated 3 stars)
by julian gough
I caught this book in the new Hughes & Hughes in Ennis, down by the river… the praise on the front cover: “Perfect, perfect comedy. A cross between Flann O’Brian, Father Ted, and Morrisey…” from Tommy Tiernan was what got me to pick it up and bring it home with me. Now, I know, you’re thinking, who is Tommy Tiernan to tell me what to read?
Well, no one, it turns out. The Irish comedian may have stormed America some time back, but his career as a book critic has, sadly, not taken off, as of yet. To be fair, it is slightly Flann O’Brian-ish. In that it mentions a bicycle or two. And it is certainly madcap like The Third Policeman or At Swim-Two-Birds. But is it a patch on those two books? Err, no. Then again, not many are.
I’ve just started the online continuation of the levels two and three that Julian Gough is writing, so it’s not over yet. But the bits I read (Level One through to the first 30 or so words of Level Two) were reasonably funny, entertaining, and, for the most part, witty. The jacket quote let me down a bit, but it’s not a bad way to pass your time.