December 2008
15 posts
Speed Date the Entire World
Let’s say you wanted to meet every person in the world before you died, and it took you 1 second to shake a person’s hand. It would take you 76,415 days solid handshaking time — over 209 years.
That’s clearly impossible, given current life expectancy in the US, 77.8 years. But how many people could you meet in that period of time?
Since we’re assuming a 1-second...
My year in cities 2008
New York, NY
San Francisco, CA
Portland, OR
Palm Springs, CA
Idyllwild, CA
Breezewood, PA Cincinatti OH
Cincinnati OH
Topeka KS
Grand Lake CO
Inspired by abangupjob, et al
(Revised spelling of Cin-cin-nati because my friendship with katherine means that much to me.)
my year in cities 2008
abangupjob:
HOW COULD I FORGET THE ROADTRIP, christian!?!?!! where did we stay in PA again?
plus:
Cincinnati, OH
kkr:
cincinnati, oh
covington, ky
san francisco, ca*
south lake tahoe, ca
reno, nv*
encinitas, ca*
long beach, ca*
paris, france
new york, ny*
brookln, ny
saint louis, mo
dexter, me
tahoma, wa
san luis obispo, ca
abangupjob:
Brooklyn, NY*
South Boston, MA
...
nattles:
indierawk:
Death Cab For Cutie -...
NYT on great cocktails around the bay →
The NYT’s love affair with SF continues…
Using mock_model and Factories & Workers Together
While refactoring some functional tests for a side project yesterday and came up with a simple but great pairing: mock_model with a side of Factories & Workers.
mock_model is an RSpec helper that stubs out many ActiveRecord methods to limit (but not totally remove) calls to the database. It has the conceptual benefit of isolating your tests from the database, but the practical benefit is...
Just an ordinary email conversation at work
bhaggs:
Christian - “Can you grab a few business cards for me from the top drawer of my desk? I ran out the other night and keep forgetting to bring more home. Keep some for yourself so you can experience the thrill of being me whenever you want.”
ME - “Got em! “And I ate all your pills. Man I am feeling wooozy. Are those uppers or downers, or both?@!$@%”
Christian - “They’re my...
South American adventure blog →
(via nattles)
imnotdeadyet is the best domain ever.
my apartment is famous! (oh, and buy these) →
I’d recognize that green phone anywhere!
(via abangupjob)
