August 2011
1 post
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-8-14) →
Daft Punk (9) The Prodigy (2) Plastico (1) Daft Punk & The Crystal Method (1) Orbital (1) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Aug 15th
June 2011
2 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-6-19) →
Half-Handed Cloud (1) Bon Iver (1) Andrew Bird (1) The Welcome Wagon (1) Joanna Newsom (1) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Jun 23rd
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-6-5) →
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross (16) Daft Punk (11) The Prodigy (1) Daft Punk & Sander Kleinenberg (1) Carl Cox (1) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Jun 6th
April 2011
1 post
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-4-10) →
Daft Punk (13) Foo Fighters (13) Belle and Sebastian (10) Daft Punk & M83 VS Big Black Delta (2) Daft Punk & The Crystal Method (2) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Apr 11th
March 2011
0 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-2-27) →
Radiohead (8) Plastico (1) Leftfield (1) Orbital (1) Carl Cox (1) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Mar 1st
February 2011
2 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-2-13) →
The Rolling Stones (1) The Morning Benders (1) Justin Townes Earle (1) Timonium (1) Kris Kristofferson (1) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Feb 15th
November 2010
2 posts
My Pitch at Lansing Startup Weekend →
Here’s a video of my pitch at Lansing Startup Weekend for http://www.todayd.com/ - be sure to check out my competition as well: http://mediasite.bus.msu.edu/mediasite/SilverlightPlayer/Default.aspx?peid=3f46d580af914328b1b525bbaa0014801d
Nov 8th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-10-31) →
The Prodigy (2) Leftfield (1) Urban Dance Squad (1) Plastico (1) Kruder & Dorfmeister (1) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Nov 3rd
October 2010
2 posts
MakerLegoBot: A Lego Mindstorms NXT 3D Lego... →
No words can describe how awesome this is.
Oct 19th
Oct 1st
September 2010
7 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-9-26) →
Nada Surf (10) Ida (7) Nickel Creek (4) The Prodigy (2) Underworld (1) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Sep 27th
Sep 24th
Seriously?
Just when you think there’s some semblance of sanity in JavaScript: In Internet Explorer in HTML, Opera in HTML or XHTML and Safari in HTML, all elements with an id attribute are mapped to objects in the global script scope (ie. as properties of window). Sigh…
Sep 24th
Sigh… downloading WinGrep because MSU’s virus software thinks bash is a virus. Hopefully only two more weeks before I go all Linux on my desktop.
Sep 22nd
“Every now and then I feel a temptation to design a programming language but then...”
– L. Peter Deutsch (via reddit)
Sep 16th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-9-12) →
Pearl Jam (17) Foo Fighters (11) Sufjan Stevens (11) Sonic Youth (6) Stephen Stills (5) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Sep 15th
If you have the time to write a three paragraph rant on why my suggestion doesn’t work, the least you could do is include the error message…
Sep 14th
August 2010
4 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-8-15) →
Josh Abrahams (2) The Prodigy (2) Alex Gemmell (2) Underworld (1) Stereo MC’s (1) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Aug 19th
"Choose Your Own Adventure" On Your iPhone →
I spent countless hours with “Choose Your Own Adventure” books. Of course, many of those hours were spent mapping out the decision tree and finding easter eggs in the books… it’s entirely likely that these books are the reason why I never had any problems with trees in my data structures class.
Aug 18th
Need Some Stuff?
I’m getting rid of things again - here’s a partial list of the geekier things - please let me know if you are interested - I just want things to go to a good home: 2 IBM model M Keyboards Macintosh SE with keyboard and mouse (HD has bad sectors) Wyse terminal Powermac 7500 – 233Mhz CPU, ATI video card, 256MB of RAM (I think), OS 8.6 Micro ATX case without power supply Assorted...
Aug 16th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-8-8) →
Thom Yorke (9) Alexi Murdoch (4) Sufjan Stevens (2) The Prodigy (2) Leftfield (1) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Aug 9th
July 2010
3 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-7-25) →
Sufjan Stevens (8) Alice in Chains (4) The Prodigy (2) Carl Cox (2) Orbital (2) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Jul 28th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-7-18) →
Plastico (1) Kruder & Dorfmeister (1) The Prodigy (1) Leftfield (1) Orbital (1) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Jul 20th
Jul 14th
June 2010
1 post
SSH to the Rescue!
I’m trying to build WebKit on Windows (don’t ask). The instructions are fairly good, but the environment takes forever to setup, the code base is huge, so SVN takes forever to check it out, and finally the build takes quite a long time as well. What started as a “quick” project quickly turned into 5-6 hours of tweaking things on a platform I don’t especially like to...
Jun 30th
May 2010
7 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-5-30) →
The Prodigy (2) Orbital (1) Machines of Loving Grace (1) Alex Gemmell (1) Josh Abrahams (1) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
May 31st
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-5-23) →
Bruce Springsteen (10) The Prodigy (2) Plastico (1) Ramshackle (1) Carl Cox (1) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
May 24th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-5-16) →
Ida (11) Ólafur Arnalds (9) Stereo MC’s (1) Urban Dance Squad (1) Plastico (1) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
May 19th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-5-9) →
The Prodigy (2) Leftfield (2) Moby (1) Orbital (1) Fire (1) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
May 10th
May 6th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-5-2) →
Sufjan Stevens (9) Ólafur Arnalds (4) The Prodigy (1) Orbital (1) Leftfield (1) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
May 6th
May 1st
April 2010
9 posts
“Pushing is just pulling in reverse!”
– James Kruth (while attempting to explain Git to a friend.)
Apr 29th
How to Keep Crappy Programmers →
No comment.
Apr 26th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-4-25) →
Sufjan Stevens (19) The Prodigy (6) Leftfield (6) Orbital (4) Underworld (4) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Apr 26th
“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human...”
– H. P. Lovecraft (from The Call of Cthulhu)
Apr 26th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-4-18) →
Bruce Springsteen (29) Elliott Smith (12) Blonde Redhead (11) The Postal Service (2) Alexi Murdoch (2) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Apr 23rd
Binary Search
After reading Are you one of the 10% of programmers who can write a binary search?, I decided to find out if I was. Here’s my submission (written in about 30 minutes in python): # the list to be searched data = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16] # what we're searching for search = 7 # we could do this recursively, but without tail # call optimization we'd just reach a stack...
Apr 20th
Apr 14th
“The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it...”
– John Carmack (via reddit)
Apr 6th
Why I won't buy an iPad (and think you shouldn't,... →
Thank goodness for Cory Doctorow and his frank discussion of our increasingly restricted technology platforms. I am almost finished reading Makers and I too am frustrated with a world with more iPads and less Apple IIs.
Apr 2nd
March 2010
12 posts
Moon8 →
Dark Side of the Moon + NES = Pure Awesome.
Mar 31st
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-3-21) →
Feist (10) Stephen Stills (4) Blind Melon (2) Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi & Tim Smith (2) George Harrison (1) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Mar 26th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-3-14) →
Bruce Springsteen (20) Alice in Chains (4) Smashing Pumpkins (3) Belle and Sebastian (1) Alela Diane (1) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Mar 17th
Come One, Come All!
Thursday March 18th at 7:30 I’ll be playing transition pieces for a science themed poetry reading at the Creole Gallery in Old Town. I’ll be doing my best to add a nice old school Sci-Fi vibe. $3 donation. Open Mic readings after the show ends. Hope to see you there!
Mar 16th
Digital: A Love Story →
If you ever used BBSes or the early internet you’ve got to check out this game - even if you didn’t - definitely worth a look. Brings me back to my Apple II days.
Mar 16th
Mar 12th
Mar 12th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-3-7) →
Alexi Murdoch (13) Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi & Tim Smith (8) Belle and Sebastian (7) Alice in Chains (6) Findlay Brown (2) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Mar 9th
Mar 8th