http://ktheory.com is all about me Mon, 05 Feb 2007 16:03:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I think people should have 'strong opinions weakly held'. I also think my debate/critical reasoning skill are getting weaker as I get older. So it seems like good practice to argue strongly for a weakly held opinion. There is a stigma against people who merge late on roadways. Popular behavior dictates ... http://ktheory.com/archives/2006/12/19/late-to-merge/ At Mint, I spent all day (and some of my night) building Islandoo, a social networking site with the current focus of auditioning people for the British reality show Shipwrecked. Creating and participating in the Islandoo community is a ton of fun, especially once you chat with some new people a ... http://ktheory.com/archives/2006/10/19/islandoo/ I'm leaving arXiv.org and Ithaca, NY to work for Mint Digital in New York City. I'll be a Ruby on Rails developer. This is how excited I am: http://ktheory.com/archives/2006/09/08/qua-vado/ xkcd is my new favorite web comic. Though Achewood is a close second. (If you don't get the joke above, it's because you're not a computer nerd, which is nothing to be embarassed about.) http://ktheory.com/archives/2006/08/29/make-me-a-sandwich/ arXiv under load due to Perelman's Fields Medal Tuesday morning Grigory "Grisha" Perelman was awarded the Fields Medal for his work on (proof of) the Poincaré Conjecture, one of the million dollar Millenium Prize Problems. NY Times, CNN, the BBC and other web sites point out that he published his work ... http://ktheory.com/archives/2006/08/23/what-a-fields-medal-means-to-a-sysadmin/ Father: "Do you like your hot coco?" Little kid: "Yeah." Father: "What does it taste like?" Little kid: "Not like toothepaste." http://ktheory.com/archives/2006/08/19/overheard-3/ Tired: LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl) Wired: ROFL (Ruby on Rails On FastCGI on Lighttpd); rhymes with whaffle. Now we need to invent more platforms for the "Roflcopter" stack. http://ktheory.com/archives/2006/08/18/rofl-the-web-30-application-stack/ Everyone loves YouTube, including me. But adding a video to my favorites is too hard. It takes three clicks! And two of those clicks are clicking 'ok'. It's not such an important operation that it requires double confirmation: it's not the end of the world if I accidentally add a ... http://ktheory.com/archives/2006/08/13/youtube-make-favorites-easier/ ACE2006 Keynote: The Military Industrial Light and Magic Complex (pdf link), via research.techwondo, defines "Ender's Folly" as An excessive commitment to, and a fetish of 2nd Life worlds will inflict irrevocable damage upon 1st Life worlds. http://ktheory.com/archives/2006/07/25/word-of-the-day-enders-folly/ Puns of the word 'seitan' http://ktheory.com/archives/2006/07/20/a-list-of-things-that-crack-me-up-but-really-arent-that-funny/