Speediest Christmas Ever
Posted by adam in Fun
Eva’s gift to me this year was a speedbag stand and installation. This new toy beats any video game. No contest.
Thank you, Eva!
It was nice to have someone I trusted doing the assembly and mounting.
Happy Holidays, Have some Powder
Posted by adam in Fun
Here’s a video from White Pass, WA. This is Andy Mahre, wearing a helmet cam.
This should make you want to get out in the snow.
Forced Remote Firefox
Posted by adam in Interesting
If a local instance of Firefox is running and you ssh into a remote machine (while forwarding X connections locally) a remotely invoked Firefox may simply open a new window in the local instance. Here’s a workaround (spoiler: use the -no-remote command-line flag).
Backslash: Subtle Butt and Christmas
Posted by adam in Fun, Odd
Subtle Butt: anti-fart pads (via Strange New Products)
Is it Christmas? (via Patrick)
Elegant Lead Sheets are Back!
Posted by adam in Fun, Music
As the holidays are fast approaching, many musicians will be called forth to back a multitude of sing-alongs. Be prepared! Musicians that care memorize or use sheet music, and nerdy musicians love Chordie!
Chordie turns text files with embedded chord names into beautiful, stafless PostScript lead sheets.
Chordie is a fork of Chord, and is written in under 5,000 lines of K&R C. Chordie currenly only runs on *NIX-like operating systems, but there may be ports to other operating systems someday.
On Traffic
Posted by adam in Interesting
Here’s a recent image from one of the WSDOT cams. Is this some kind of subjective review of Seattle traffic?
Tree Lit by Electric Eel
Posted by adam in Odd
Apparently this eel is being used to power the lights for a Christmas tree.
Via Metaefficient.