Took a mini-vacation to NYC this weekend, which was fun. Saw some friends and family (Aunt Ellen and Uncle Mark and their family, also my other cousin Ben and his fiancée), ate bagels and borscht, visited The Cloisters, caught a photography exhibition done by one of my cousins, drank lots of coffee, talked a lot about weddings ( Read more... )

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Last weekend, I took a jaunt to NYC with Julie. On Saturday, we ate amazing croissants in Harlem and caught up with a long list of acquaintances: Emmett (a high school friend and animator), his sister Clio (chef and pudding shop entrepreneur), kmo (podcaster and online acquaintence who I had the pleasure of speaking with in person for the first time ( Read more... )

Programming: Here's an article on binary math in C. For more practical stuff (in you're a Python programmer), read this bit on the fileinput library in Python (very useful, but I hadn't heard of it previously).

Essays: Ever play Monopoly and wonder why the game (as you were taught) is so slow? That's because you were taught wrongDouglas ( Read more... )

Lot of good stuff from the past few weeks! Political talk and commentary:

• Olbermann rants about 9/11(TM), as the Republicans spin it.
• O'Reilly defends Obama... what? The Daily Show team talks to Republican convention-goers about small-town values.
• John McCain slams Obama for... protecting children from child molesters? Of course, this is good for ( Read more... )

Programming:

• I've been seeing quite a lot of discussions of web design style lately. Compare the emerging style of early web design with the polished Web2.0 Style. Even newer styles, such as Grunge and Hand-Drawn use the techniques of modern web design while breaking from the Web 2.0 aesthetic.
• Rich Programmer Food: On compilers and the most ( Read more... )

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More Skikka art! This sketch was made by Rene, who DM's the campaign that Skikka is not in. Anyway, ( behold! )

A while ago, I posted a request for character art for my DnD character, Skikka (Male Scurrian Rogue) on the WotC boards. Today, the art was posted on the request thread:


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