• Pre-Phase Phase (I'm not good with phases)
• Phase 1 - Fuel for your Future
• Phase 2 - Secure your Food
• Phase 3 - Home Compound
• Phase 4 - Self Preservation
• Phase 5 - Recreation
• Phase 6 - Keep your mind busy
• Final Phase - Seal your fate.

/via kottke

Instead of designing beautiful data-structures and elegant algorithms, we’re looking up the EnterpriseFactoryBeanMaker class in the 3,456-page Bumper Tome Of Horrible Stupid Classes (Special Grimoire Edition), because we can’t remember which of the arguments to the createEnterpriseBeanBuilderFactory() method tells it to make the public static pure virtual destructor be a volatile final abstract interface factory decorator.

After work, I played Modern Warfare 2 (on the PS3 — you can probably guess what my PSN name is) and set a personal kill streak record (22 kills!) and played a match without dying.

I reapplied thermal paste on Nicole's MacBook. I don't know why, but from the factory it looks like they applied thermal paste like its purpose was to insulate these chips.

Last December, my nephew accidentally bumped a table, causing a glass of water to spill right into the back vents. I took the MacBook apart completely, hunting for liquid, but I'm guessing a combination of Nicole's quick reaction, winter's insanely dry air, and the insanely hot wood stove at my parents', and just taking it apart took care of it all. Of course, I didn't have any thermal paste at the time and combine that with the incredibly thick layer that was laid down... you can imagine it wasn't doing it's job very efficiently.

I figured out the best thing to use to apply thermal paste is the back of a plastic spoon. While I'm at it, allow me to also give you a couple more, what the french call, le pro-tips:

• Use tape, sticky side up, to keep screws from getting lost. I also keep the screws arranged analogously to their spatial relationship of the machine I'm taking apart. Keeps me from getting lost, as well. A large magnet might work as well, but I've got a semi-irrational fear of large magnets in proximity to computers¹.

• Stick a small magnet on your screw driver to temporarily magnetize it, to keep the tiny little screws from falling off and into your machine. Yeah, I know what I said in the last tip. Please also note that I qualified that with "semi-irrational".

• Backup before you do any of this. In fact, backup before you backup.

Now, I'm blogging it up while eating a bowl of ramen, as if I were some sort of nerd.

12:42 PM Dave

http://www.flashmobileblog.com/2010/02/23/redmond-pie-and-the-farmville-test/ oh man.

12:44 PM Nicole

heh

12:44 PM Nicole

i can barely run flash on my computer.. i don't want it on my phone..

12:44 PM Nicole

ew

12:44 PM Dave

rofl

12:45 PM Dave

all the ipad haters say 'my wife doesn't care about how cool the ipad is, she just wants to play farvmille THIS IS WHY THE IPAD SUCKS'

12:46 PM Dave

apparently the ipad haters married idiots.

Seriously, who didn't think of the Newspad in Arthur C. Clarke's and Stanley Kubrick's 2001 immediately when they saw Steve Jobs holding up the iPad?

This site basically tries to figure out where you are through various methods and fallbacks, does a search on Twitter and plots recent and geocoded tweets onto a map.

Caveat: Currently, the latest WebKit nightlies automatically refuse to return a geolocation, but the shipping version of Safari should work. I tested in Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera and IE 8 & 7.

Enjoy!

Anyone deserving of the nerd or geek moniker should see the potential in a device like the iPad, especially if they have family. Ask yourself, "How many hours of tech support have I done over holidays?"

It's actually a complete rewrite, with some changes, but I tried to remain fairly close to the aesthetic.

I've added a hook for "muting" tweets: In the rules tab, choose "Add a CSS class" for the action, and type in "mute" (sans quotes). This will take those tweets that match down to about 30% opacity.

Download Modern Bubbling for Kiwi!

I started shopping for thermal insoles (hard to find, apparently) and came across a few patent and trademark disputes that discussed the composition of these thermal insoles. They consist of roughly 3 layers, a bottom layer (presumably made of rubber) for keeping the insoles in place, a middle layer that acts as a heat shield, and a top layer that acts as an insulator and padding for your feet.

Here's the secret: The "heat shield" layer is basically a sheet of aluminum foil.

Naturally, after reading that, I decided i could make it myself. I picked up some new Memory Foam™ insoles (for insulation) and stuck a sheet of aluminum foil in my shoes before sticking the new insoles.

Does it work? Let me just say that before I did this, the sidewalks were covered in ice, and after making my tin foil shoes, there's water everywhere. Coincidence?