jaschu's record

You’re what? You’re where?

Jason S. — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 21:52:36 +0000

I’m mostly not posting here anymore. You can find me here and here. No, I know I was trying not to constantly be on the move. I know.

Freakout error

Jason S. — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 00:46:10 +0000

Google released codesearch yesterday, and we’ve been having fun at the office reading people’s source comments when we search for certain terms. As Heidi puts it, “It’s an amazing repository for coder pathos made public.”

My favorite bit, for purely whimsical reasons, comes from the MIDI-perl library. Do a search for “freakout” and you might find this:

} else {
die “BADASS FREAKOUT ERROR 31415!”;
}

It also delights me that so many functions are named freakout() or have “freakout” in their name.

Sex, instruction, shoes, betch

Jason S. — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 21:26:34 +0000

From the internet video invasion, we have Mr. and Mrs. Bender exploring the new field of straightness, and from A Liam Show we have a teenager getting what she wants. Both set to techno and both addicting views.

The amusement of embarrassment

Jason S. — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 02:04:47 +0000

I feel bad for these guys, but it's also terribly absurd that anyone would go to such lengths just for 10 minutes of TV.

Geographical accounting

Jason S. — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 21:47:54 +0000

For states, I counted anywhere I've touched down in an airport or rode through on a train. I can't say I did anything in Delaware, for example, except sat on a train going to New York.

(Prompted by Nicole's maps)

A vlog by any other name…

Jason S. — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 22:52:33 +0000

Nicole: i think vlog is a horrible word
Jason: Vlog the Implogger
Nicole: it doesn't roll off the tongue at all
Kevin: yeah i think the marketer should come up with a new buzzword. how about vournal?
Jason: "vi-log" pronounced vuh-lahzh'
Kevin: "i'm so addicted to video journals, i've got vournal disease"
Jason: vournal is good too, there's a lot of tie-ins. You could have a con in spring called Vournal Equinox
Nicole: …
Jason: What.
Nicole: that's the ONLY tie-in. unless, uh, you go to the city of Vernal, UT. (just googled)
Jason: Not necessarily. What about that Ernest guy? "Hey, Vournal!"
Nicole: i can now see the evolution of the word condensed to just "Vern"
Jason: But "Vourn"
Nicole: Vourn sounds more like mourn, no? the round o
Kevin: how about just Vee. it's like Wee. but better.
Jason: OMG. People could have Vs about Wiis
Nicole: hee
Kevin: and you could tie it with V for Vendetta marketing, and use all the V words that V uses
Jason: hahaha!
Nicole: and like, have a tie-in with the V show from the '80s, and have people ripping off their faces
Kevin: and and
Kevin: have a ton of asian tourists on marketing material
Nicole: oooh! dude.
Kevin: (jumping up and down in excitement)

Smacbook!

Jason S. — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 19:55:10 +0000

Using the motion sensor in a Macbook, Erling Ellingsen has worked it so that his desktop manager switches desktops when he taps his laptop screen, like a little shove. So fun!

It’s 6

Jason S. — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 00:50:23 +0000

Someone pointed out Erdõs-Bacon numbers to me today. My first thought was, "Who the hell thinks this stuff up?" The second thing I thought was, "Hey, what about that Winnie chick from Wonder Years? I wonder what her number is."

Fictional character terrorizes Eurovision Song Contest

Jason S. — Thu, 25 May 2006 01:40:05 +0000

Silvia Night, a character from an Icelandic comedy television program, entered the Eurovision Song Contest and totally fucked with it. Nice. See videos of her performance and a Greek news segment on her involvement.

Thematic satisfaction

Jason S. — Tue, 23 May 2006 21:47:59 +0000

Looking over the latest WordPress themes, here's the ones I really dig:

Industry V2
The really beautiful but kind of dumbly-named DFire
Rusty
FallingDreamsv2.0
Redisnice

Found through the latest theme competition. (Link courtesy o' Courtney)

Also, someone's take on the top 10 WordPress plugins. (Link courtesy o' cygnoir's delicious)