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Flashback: thump, scraaaape… thump, scraaaape…

December 19, 2009

I started blog­ging in 2001.  Prior to that I had a cou­ple of web­site on which I wrote things in a fairly unor­ga­nized fash­ion.  I had netninja.com, my main site since 1997, and used to have diedrichs.org, a site cel­e­brat­ing a gang of cof­fee shop bud­dies, from a few years after that until I finally […]

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Ex Libris

April 3, 2009

As a kid, I was for­tu­nate enough to grow up in a house­hold that pro­moted read­ing.  From a fairly early age, my ele­men­tary school had occa­sional book fairs and a sort of monthly book club.  In fact each month, all of the stu­dents of a par­tic­u­lar set of grade lev­els would get a cheaply-printed color […]

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The floor is made of lava

April 30, 2008

Did you ever play the lava game as a kid?  The sub­ject came up again last night as we were steam clean­ing the car­pet for a house­guest this week­end.  It seems like every­one I talk to has played it, or at least some minor vari­ant.  Tech­ni­cally, I think the label “game” is less accu­rate than […]

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Staple Gun

February 2, 2008

I just tried to treat a sta­ple gun like a real gun.  “Okay, I’ve
removed the clip but how do I tell if there’s still a round in the
cham­ber?”  Wait, no, they don’t work like that.
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Minor Update

January 8, 2008

No recent blog posts… it’s been a busy week.
It would appear that 6 inches of sil­i­cone rub­ber weath­er­strip­ping is the best cat toy ever.  Ebenezer loves it.  Char­lotte, who does not typ­i­cally play with cat toys, was seen to be play­ing with it a few times.  The non-toys always make the best toys.
Port­landers, keep your eyes peeled […]

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It’s a tarp!

January 2, 2008
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Profound statements from around Portland

August 5, 2007
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Rwar!

January 15, 2006
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Funded in part by the surreal. An angel, complete with reservoirs.

December 2, 2005

Today, I am home sick with a cold.  Ick.
I can’t imag­ine the fol­low­ing thing ever becom­ing a meme because the act of down­load­ing the XML and compiling/running all the command-line appli­ca­tions is a bit too time-consuming and arcane for the aver­age Joe.  Any­way, I tried a lit­tle exper­i­ment today that con­sisted of the fol­low­ing:
1. Downloading […]

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“Anything plus radish equals radish”

September 11, 2005

In the math world, you have things like iden­tity func­tions and zero func­tions.  Iden­tity func­tions basi­cally do noth­ing to your number–you put some­thing in, you get the same thing out.  Zero func­tions dis­card what you put in and give you a known con­stant out­put.
In the juice world, you have much the same.  You have identity […]

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“This is your receipt for your husband… and this is my receipt for your receipt.”

July 19, 2005

I just had a very Tuttle/Buttle moment.  I looked up to find a wasp crawl­ing across the ceil­ing.  After grab­bing a heavy stack of print­outs and stand­ing pre­car­i­ously on a chair, I was able to thwack it pretty hard.  It strug­gled around a bit then fell directly into the open hard­ware chas­sis on the desk.  […]

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Wandering Down Memory Lane

June 12, 2005

In doing some recent hard drive and disc cleanup, I ran across a bunch of old pho­tos from when I worked at Vir­gin soft­ware.  That is where my habit of writ­ing crazy stuff on white­boards formed–a habit that per­sists to this very day.

“Happy”

“Sta­ple Reich”

“Gen­e­sis Satanic”

“Binary Tree”

“Shot Dog”

“Gen­e­sis”

The var­i­ous ref­er­ences to Vision, Genes, and Dar­win are soft­ware code […]

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