I was looking through the access logs for boulter.com this evening and I noticed that my Tic Tac Toe site is still getting a lot of traffic. No wonder, it’s the #1 result for “Tic Tac Toe” on Google. It’s hard to believe I built this little program nearly TWELVE years ago for a college …
I’ve always hated our microwave. It’s big, ugly and old. It was manufactured in 1986, back when I was in 7th grade. Unfortunately, it has always worked well, so justifying buying another one was difficult – until this week. Midway through the heatup of Anne’s morning tea, it died. Hooray! Time to go shopping. I …
This was our last day in Phoenix, so we planned to just do random things we hadn’t gotten a chance to do yet. Anne once again tried to put Hyatt Place out of business by raiding the continental breakfast. Our first stop was back to the Giants practice field to see if we could catch …
With Anne feeling better, we decided to go hiking on Sunday. We drove over to Camelback Mountain, where we had been warned to arrive early to avoid the crowds and heat. They were right about the crowds. We spent 10 minutes looking for parking, ending up parking at the closest on-street spot 3/4 of a …
Waking up on day 1, we still had to decide what the heck we were going to do for the next 3 days. We guessed that one day would be spent driving around, another hiking and another walking around Scottsdale. With Anne still getting over a cold, driving seemed to be the best idea for …
Last week, people kept asking me what I was doing during the long Presidents’ Day weekend. I said that Anne and I were going to Phoenix. Their next question was “What’s there?”. My response was “I have no idea.” Confused looks were returned. When we saw the long weekend coming, we figured we should use …
I’ve worked with a lot of good engineers and Yahoo! and other places. Recently I was thinking that a lot of the traits that make them great are borderline dysfunctional. Perhaps all good engineers are savants? When hiring, here are the traits I look for. Good engineers are lazy. After all, premature optimization is the …
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My Package Alert service has been uhh… taking a breather… for some time now. I finally found the time to take a look at what was going wrong and in a few minutes everything was working correctly again. Just enter your package tracking number for UPS or FedEx and you’ll get an email anytime its …
Happy-Senseo Originally uploaded by staramaze. WNYC’s Amy Sedaris Craft Challenge encouraged people to upload pictures of food with googly eyes to a flickr group. Many of them are great fun. Check it out.
Well, the war has mostly deescalated to border skirmishes. As I type this, I’ve got Pixel laying on top of my leg and Signal on the couch a few feet to the right. That seems like a good thing. They’re still generally unhappy with each other’s presence though, especially when one of them surprises the …