The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century

“Keeper” is a golden retriever/vizsla mutt who was a stray puppy found by her owner.
Click the picture to see her photos.

If you need a daily fix of cute animal pictures and are getting tired of all those cats, The Daily Puppy has got what you need.

I’m surprised this didn’t come into existence much sooner: Dickipedia, a Wikipedia-like wiki for people unpleasant enough to be categorized as dicks.

I hereby declare MissRFTC’s tweet (that’s a message on Twitter) about the L.A. Earthquake an “overshare“:

Here’s a photo from a t-shirt stall at the San Diego Comic-Con, which took place this past weekend:

Remember that scene in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan where William Shatner yells out “Khaaaaaaaan!”? Someone took the effort of charting the number of a’s that appear in “Khaaaaaaaan!” on web pages everywhere according to Google:

Recommended “Khaaaaaaaan!” Reading

Here’s the “Khaaaaaaaan!” scene from The Wrath of Khan.

If you haven’t got the patience to watch the whole scene and just want the “Khaaaaaaaan!”, khaaan.com has got what you want.

What’s New, Khaaaaaaaan!: Tom Jones and William Shatner, together at last!

Here are the latest articles posted to my technical/programmer blog, Global Nerdy:

Enumerating Enumerable

Enumerating Enumerable is my series of articles in which I attempt to do a better job of writing up Ruby’s Enumerable module that the folks at Ruby-Doc.org did. Here are the methods I’ve covered so far:

1. all?
2. any?
3. collect / map
4. count
5. cycle
6. detect / find
7. drop
8. drop_while
9. each_cons

Notes from RubyFringe

The weekend before last, I attended the edgy Ruby programming conference RubyFringe, which I may have to declare “the best programming conference I’ve ever attended”. I took copious notes, the links for which are listed below:

• Scenes from RubyFringe, Part 1
• Day 1 Notes, Part 1
• Day 1 Notes, Part 2
• Day 2 Notes, Part 1
• Day 2 Notes, Part 2
• Day 2 Notes, Part 3

Damian Conway’s Presentation

A slide from Damian Conway’s presentation.

I also attended Damian Conway’s presentation, titled Temporally Quaquaversal Virtual Nanomachine Programming in Multiple Topologically Connected Quantum-Relativistic Parallel Timespaces…Made Easy. He managed to connect the space-time continuum, relativistic effects as you approach the speed of light, carbon nanotubes and Perl programming in a lengthy (2 hours!) but interesting lecture. Again, I took notes, and you can see them here.

Tucows (Re)Introduces OpenSRS

And finally, my old employer, Tucows, has rebranded OpenSRS to encompass all their reseller services: domain names, ssl certificates, email and “personal names”. Better yet, they called on local superstar illustrator and designer John “Robot Johnny” Martz to make the lovely retro-graphics for the brand. Well done!

How can a single photo say so much?
Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.

Gary Spivey, “professional psychic”, wears his trademark afro wig whenever making a public appearance. I’m certain that in his mind, the wig says “take me seriously”.