hindsight

Praying for snow

mfli — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 23:50:50 +0000

Where’s my La Nina?

Who knew

mfli — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 17:13:07 +0000

… that I have friends with books published on Amazon?

Sarah, Natalie, and August -TOEFL Now with associated TOEFL iBT website.

Gayle – Cracking the Coding Interview, already on its 4th edition! Gayle, you need to get this on the Kindle.

Zappos headers

mfli — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 17:16:39 +0000

Recently discovered:

GET / HTTP/1.1 Host: www.zappos.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.6) Gecko/20091201 Firefox/3.5.6 Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8 Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5 Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 Keep-Alive: 300 Connection: keep-alive

HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: nginx/0.8.34 Content-Type: text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1 Last-Modified: Thu, 08 Jul 2010 01:11:30 GMT X-Cash: cash X-Varnish-TTL: 60m X-Varnish: 800776638 800726424 X-Core-Value: 1. Deliver WOW Through Service X-Recruiting: If you're reading this, maybe you should be working at Zappos instead. Check out jobs.zappos.com X-UUID: a75c0eae-9389-11df-80aa-00215e22da70 Content-Encoding: gzip Content-Length: 14482 Vary: Accept-Encoding Cache-Control: max-age=866 Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 17:07:14 GMT Connection: keep-alive

Emphasis mine.

Sponsorship Fail

mfli — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 19:29:27 +0000

Who knew that the oil spill was sponsored by Microsoft?

Sounders v Boca

mfli — Fri, 28 May 2010 16:14:04 +0000

After a Sounders goal. They won 3-0.

Bananas

mfli — Sat, 22 May 2010 02:38:35 +0000

On display.

Found graffiti

mfli — Thu, 20 May 2010 22:41:55 +0000

On a sidewalk somewhere.

Who says container buildings can’t be beautiful?

mfli — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 02:10:54 +0000

I always knew South Korea was forward thinking. Now they’ve build an ocean side observatory from recycled shipping containers.

Giveaway FAIL

mfli — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:13:58 +0000

Really?

Pollution in China

mfli — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:25:55 +0000

I’ve always thought that it was pointless to get a penthouse apartment in any major Chinese city because you’d be staring at smog the whole time. This series of photos exemplify the pollution that’s happening in China due to the rapid industrialization and lack of standards/control.

What’s striking about this photo is that the kids aren’t wearing gloves, their hands are just that dirty, all the time.