Feb 14, 2012
I’ve been reading My Life In France recently, and it’s made me very reflective about the state of my own life.
Jan 4, 2012
Like last year, here is the list of cities I visited during 2011, in chronological order.
Nov 8, 2011
Is A Humanities Degree Worth It?
Yesterday I encountered a couple articles that questioned the value of going to college for a non-STEM (science, technology, engineering or mathematics) degree, both on a personal and societal level. Ignorning the societal questions, my girlfriend and I were curious about whether the claim that humanities or social science degrees aren’t valuable from a personal perspective was borne out in the data.
Jan 2, 2011
Like last year, here is the list of cities I visited during 2010, in chronological order.
Dec 31, 2009
Like last year, here is the list of cities I visited during 2009, in chronological order.
Nov 21, 2009
Yahoo Pipes is a really awesome product that a lot of people don’t know about, and I feel like Yahoo hasn’t really done a lot with. It’s basically a node-based data editor, but it can fetch source data from places on the Internet, which means you can have pipes with dynamic output. And then, you can subscribe to the results of those pipes or request them via JSON, which gives you a huge amount of flexibility.
Sep 5, 2009
Last week Monday, in the earliest hours of the morning, my girlfriend and I touched down in Orlando, Florida. We immediately picked up the rental car and drove out to Cocoa Beach, situated along the Atlantic coast, where we were planning on staying for the week. Then we slept. We were in Florida to see the launch of Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-128, which we expected would be pretty cool.
Aug 19, 2009
Building Fences and Doing Things
A week ago last Saturday, I helped my family build a fence.
Aug 3, 2009
Prompted by Andy Ihnatko’s glowing review of Posterous, particularly where he mentioned that being able to post by e-mail made him far more likely to actually make posts, I figured I’d give that a shot. After all, my blog is just a collection of text files, so it’s trivial to turn e-mails into blog posts. We’ll see if it actually encourages me to write more, hopefully it will.
Feb 18, 2009
Mark Dominus posted an article today about states’ second-largest cities and their relationship to the largest city. For cities he used Metropolitan Statistical Areas, though, which I felt made the results a little weird. In particular, many MSAs, especially those for large cities in the small eastern states, cross state lines, and it seemed weird to me to count those as belonging to a single state.