Understanding Phish
After dabbling in Phish-related phanaticism for the past dozen years, I finally saw my first Phish concert in Atlantic City this Friday, opening night in the 3-show set that closes this leg of the current tour. I’ll admit that I didn’t quite “get” the Phish culture at first – definitely liked the few studio albums [...]
Tiger Biscuit In The Basket
Thanks to Wally McDonough for this one. Last night was possibly the first time two Princeton University hockey alumni have scored goals in the NHL on the same night. Darroll Powe scored for the Flyers (his second) and George Parros picked one up for the Ducks (unassisted, his first of the year) on a slick [...]
Machine of Popularity
[Thanks to Jeph Jacques for this pointer. And read his comic, he's as insightful as he is funny] Quick summary: An independently published collection of short stories called Machine of Death is attempting to be an Amazon best-selling by clumping purchases into one day (that would be today, October 26). You can follow along on [...]
How Not To Start A Season
The Devils are off to their worst start in 27 years. As far as I’m concerned their 1-4-1 record is an overstatement. They’ve lost five games and haven’t won a game in regulation yet this year. Their inability to score goals is a sign that something is very wrong with this team, and with the [...]
WordCamp NYC Skyline
I’m speaking, and Erik and I are sponsors through Amphibimen Comics (another proud WordPress powered site). The deal this year was you got to pick a building, and were charged a dollar a foot for the building’s height. No more gold, silver, bronze, platinum, diamond, ruby, yttrium, molybdenum, or manganese level sponsorships here. Our choice [...]
Speaking at WordCamp NYC Next Weekend
Coming up next weekend: Version 3 of “Parsing Strange,” my WordCamp talk about the mechanisms WordPress uses to turn a URL into SQL and therefore a collection of posts to display. I’m confirmed as one of the speakers at WordCamp NYC 2010, and I have the added pleasure of being a small-scale sponsor of the [...]
Why You Care if P=NP
I had started a long thought on one of the toughest open problems in computing and realized I had stepped in too many scientific puddles along the way. So here is a long thought in two parts; the first is for everyone (including non-math, non-computer science people) because I believe this is the kind of [...]
Purple For Pride Day
I love the Grateful Dead’s Terrapin Station. I scored my first ever ice hockey goal in November 1983 on a pass from my left winger. I have been fascinated by the P=NP Problem for more than a quarter century. OK, so I win today’s non-sequitur prize. But there’s a common purple thread in those three [...]
Really Simple Sharing Experiment
Early results are in from my decision to stop using Facebook Notes. Due to a variety of failures on Facebook’s end, I decided to announce new blog entries as wall posts on my own and the Snowman On Fire Facebook pages. I’m calling the decision to switch a huge win. Facebook is now the largest [...]
More on Facebook RSS Slurpage
After spending a little bit of time connecting varous blogs back to Facebook via RSS Graffiti, I found that no notes were being imported. Even tried post-dating an entry to see if it would be picked up, but no bits moved. This is where RSS Graffiti shines as much as Facebook’s own RSS parser removes [...]