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{ Monthly Archives } October 2009

Happy Halloween

Chris Ware’s New Yorker Cover Is Wonderful [Art]: via TwLing

2009 10 30 Nick Post Comments Off

Nooooooooooooo!

Thanks Arif!

2009 10 29 Nick Post Comments Off

How keyboards work

I never knew how moderni inexpensive keyboards worked. Who would have thought it was so simple… plastic domes and three sheets of mylar. Check out this channel 9 video from Microsoft which talks about pressure-sensitive keyboards, which are more sophisticated… Thanks Pavan!

2009 10 26 Nick Post Comments (1)

Evolution of a Programmer

High School/Jr.High 10 PRINT “HELLO WORLD” 20 END First year in College program Hello(input, output) begin writeln(‘Hello World’) end. Senior year in College (defun hello (print (cons ‘Hello (list ‘World)))) New professional #include <stdio.h> void main(void) { char *message[] = {“Hello “, “World”}; int i; for(i = 0; i < 2; ++i) printf(“%s”, message[i]); printf(“\n”); [...]

2009 10 25 Nick Post Comments Off

30 Stunning Apple Concepts

Cool use of Photoshop… check out all of the concepts. Thanks Pavan!

2009 10 24 Nick Post Comments Off

Man almost gets hit by bus

This will wake you up.

2009 10 23 Nick Post Comments Off

Dust Devils on Mars

Most APOD posts are awesome, but this one was so cool I had to repost it here. Explanation: Who’s been marking up Mars? This portion of a recent high-resolution picture from the HiRISE camera on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows twisting dark trails criss-crossing light colored terrain on the martian surface. Newly formed trails [...]

2009 10 22 Nick Post Comments Off

Equation Editor

Did you know that Google Docs has an equation editor? That’s pretty neat! Via Google Blog. Google Docs Has an Equation EditorGoogle Docs Has an Equation Editor

2009 10 22 Nick Post Comments Off

And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.

“And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln

2009 10 21 Nick Post Comments (1)

Socks and Undies Plus Butt

Marco, my six year-old, despite his extraordinary athletic abilities, is quite the industrious little bugger. On Saturday, I recall that Lisa and I were talking in my office about this and that. Marco, at that time, had kept coming in and asked us questions. A few of them. To be honest, I can’t remember what [...]

2009 10 19 Nick Post Comments Off

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