Wild safari mem usage
Dear Safari:
Do you really need a GIGABYTE of my memory? Why must you hurt me so? Love,Dave
I'm 23. I write software, play poker, jam on my guitar, and try to meet new people every day.
"Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great." - Mark Twain
"Imagination is a poor substitute for experience."
"One small step up the mountain often widens your horizon in all directions."
"If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea."
Dear Safari:
Do you really need a GIGABYTE of my memory? Why must you hurt me so? Love,I've decided that I want to run the half-marathon on May 1st. I've also decided that I want to run it in my Vibram Five-Fingers shoes (http://www.wired.com/reviews/product/pr_vibram_fivefingers_kso). I have a pair of the KSOs that I wore as much as I could when it was warm out. Now that it's winter, I'm forced to run indoors at the gym. Yesterday I took my first run in them.
They felt fantastic. After a few minutes of running, I noticed I was taking shorter steps and landing on the ball of my foot, hardly using my heel at all. This put alot more strain on my achilles and my calf, so after about a mile I decided to stop. I'd been running a few times and got up to around 3 miles, but my lower legs were feeling much, much more strained than usual. This morning I woke up to soreness in muscles I didn't know I had. Tendons in my feet around my toes are sore, and my calves are burning. It feels great, but it will take awhile to work up to running 13 miles in them. I'll try to update more on these runs, but so far so good. Next time I'll try to go 1.5-2 miles and see if I can do it.Came across a decent analysis of the current state of ebooks, the problems they're trying to solve, and ultimately, the future of the paper medium. As happens frequently, this discussion came from a comment on Hacker News:
I'm going to begin chronicling my experience with my sony ebook reader.
I got my ereader two years ago and haven't used it as much as I could've. I recently charged it up and decided to try reading my next pursuit, "The Post-American World" by Fareed Zakaria (http://www.amazon.com/Post-American-World-Fareed-Zakaria/dp/039306235X). So far, I've discovered that if you want to get books cheaply (read: free *cough*), you're searches are going to be hit or miss at best. Registering for a free account on Gigapedia is a must, and armed with your favorite BitTorrent search engine, you should be well on your way to finding what you'd like to read. I haven't yet looked into interoperability between the Kindle and my ereader. Amazon is by far the easiest place to purchase cheap ebooks, so I need to do some research and figure this part out. Anyway, I'm currently a few pages into my first book and so far I have no complaints. I had to convert what I found to epub or rtf in order to have it be flowable and readable, but that was no problem. I also threw my lecture notes from my classes for future reference. Who knows if I'll use them. Lastly: please comment if you own a reader and have had positive or negative experiences, tips, advice, etc. Thanks for reading!
I have a music theory class every other day. Right next to this class is a local coffee shop where I would ideally like to pick up a coffee/tea/chai/whatever prior to class.
Paying $4 every other day for a drink before class is outside my poor-college-student budget. How could we fill this need? Could a subscription based coffeeshop model work? This plan could be tiered depending on your planned intake. For me, I'd be paying around $30 / week for chai, so imagine if I could pay $30 / week for a drink a day. As a coffee shop owner, I could still maintain a fairly decent profit margin ($4.20 / day, with a cup of coffee costing less than a dollar). Or, perhaps something like $50-$60 / week for unlimited drinks. More complex plans can be created, allowing for different quotas and the like. The customer experience could be very, very good. Just distribute gift-card-like cards (possibly with advertising on the card for local businesses for some extra income), and whenever I want a cup of coffee/tea/whatever, just swipe it like a gift card and your drink is recorded. Overdrafts would probably be allowed, the same as running out of balance on a gift card. Any thoughts?EDIT: a friend also suggested adding food items to this, for example, paying $20 / week for lunch sandwiches and the like. It might also be cool to mix and match subscription items, like 5 drink items and 5 lunch items per week. Delivery could work, too. Think Insomnia cookies for hot drinks and lunches.
Overheard today: "If there was ever someone who looked like an anteater, it's Barry Manilow."
I've been studying for my software engineering final. It's pretty well-established that writing code with the design and intent of reuse and modularity is a good thing. Object-oriented programming has, as one of it's biggest patterns, polymorphism (specifically the idea that subclassing a class is sometimes a better choice than anything else).
I walked up to the counter at a store with some cheap items. I was behind a man that was buying large quantities of stuff and the guy behind the counter was going to help him carry it to his car. He noticed me and told me to just leave the money on the counter while he helped the other customer. He trusted that I wouldn't just leave without paying.
This had a powerful effect. It made me feel like not just another customer. It changed the transaction from something cold and mechanical into a positive human interaction. I wonder if this is possible to achieve on the web?
I should be able to click something in my University class registration that will let me download an iCal or something importable into Google Calendar or Outlook. This should contain my final exam schedule and all of my class lectures and any other pertinent information.
