It's A Binary World 2.0

Month: September 2013

  • Memory Wipe: A Stroll Along Pop Culture Memory Lane

    I’ve blogged in a similar vein before, but it’s really neat to come across AV Club’s Memory Wipe. Someone (or a group of writers) who seems to be about the same age as me, give or take a few years, is taking a look back at the pop culture of our youth to see if…

  • A New Development

    Near the end of August Scarlett started waking up saying “Mommy” or “Daddy” instead of crying (although sometimes in addition to some light crying). Pretty neat and I think it signifies a further understanding that we’re around when she wakes up – she just needs to summon us. I better enjoy it – in about…

  • Co-worker at a meeting to create a PowerPoint to get our project funded

    [Very upper manager] will have a boner and give us money -Co-worker at a meeting to create a PowerPoint to get our project funded

  • Meeting the Neighbors and Reaching the Coast (3220-3100 BC / 3700 BC)

    One of the ancient ruins explored by our soldiers had a group of uncivilized survivors. Seeing the awesome nature of our forces convinced them it would be in their best interest to join the Chinese Empire. Their extra labor was quite welcome. Our warriors trekking to the north found two barbarian encampments. In order to…

  • If you disagree that NYC’s Stop and Frisk program should be ended (or changed),

    Read this article about Questlove being stopped repeatedly despite being, well, Questlove!. A few choice quotes: Questlove said his most recent stop was conducted at the base of the Williamsburg Bridge a few weeks ago following an appearance at the hip venue Brooklyn Bowl. Officers pulled over his driver, shined flashlights into the car and…

  • Baltimore Comic-Con is this Week!

    Here’s a photo of Stan Lee, the man most responsible for modern comics. See more photos from last year’s Baltimore Comic-Con here. Sadly I won’t be able to attend this year due to a family commitment.

  • Three Female Pin-up Artists

    Boing Boing linked to an article about three women who worked in pin-up art. (While most of the images are tame enough to view at work, there are at least three drawings of fully nude women in the article, so it’s up to you) I was fascinated by this because it seems odd that women…

  • August 2013 Video Games

    Civilization V (31 hrs) – I’ve been playing with Dan and Dave via Giant Multiplayer Robot. You can follow posts about the game with Dave here. You can follow the posts about the game with Dan and Dave here. There will be a long overlap between those two, however, the one with Dave started a…

  • Technology Growth is Pretty Awesome

    It’s pretty neat how much technology has changed in the past 8 years. Eight years ago Rich West and I coded up a web server on a microcontroller (code here) and part of my justification was that, for only $50, someone would be able to have a web server on a microcontroller. Wouldn’t that be…

  • What the hell, The Children’s Place?

    Not cool guys. Haven’t we been having this argument for years now? You’d think you wouldn’t be so gosh-darned clueless.

  • During A Meeting at Work

    Co-worker1: You know that Snickers commercial? Co-worker2: Is that the one where you eat snickers if you are hungry?