We won the SF edition of AppOlympics, the BeMyApp weekend hackathon, and are now competing against the winners from Berlin, London, Paris, NY, and Boston! Vote for PlayPitch here: http://appolympics.bemyapp.com/!!! I have GOT to go to bed, but not before posting about what the heck just happened. PlayPitch is our iPad app that teaches basic… Continue reading PlayPitch wins BeMyApp!
When Taxi Drivers Attack
I went through an ordeal last night. I was at Eudemonia for BATLL IX (Starcraft tourney!!) all day, and caught the last BART home. I got off at Daly City and walked towards the cab line. I was fourth in the group of passengers. The first two passengers got in to taxis without incident. The… Continue reading When Taxi Drivers Attack
PhoneGap + Wikipedia meetup (1/23)
I went to the PhoneGap + Wikipedia event at Adobe immediately after the Wikipedia hackathon. I heard about it that Monday in the irc room O_O and thought initially that I couldn’t go, because I usually have Spot the Octopus rehearsal on Mondays… but that week, some Spots were sick and others out of town,… Continue reading PhoneGap + Wikipedia meetup (1/23)
Wikipedia SF Hackathon! BERLIN HO!!!
I went to the Wikipedia SF Hackathon this weekend at Parisoma! Neil and I coded a phone gateway for the English Wikipedia on Twilio. You send it a text with your search query (like “Barak Obama” or “Seattle”) and it calls you back in a few seconds and reads you the entire text of the… Continue reading Wikipedia SF Hackathon! BERLIN HO!!!
Events over the last few months, and other thoughts
Once I miss one event, I feel like I can’t blog before I catch up. Blizzcon 2011: October 21-22! I’ve been to 6/6 Blizzcons now. (The others were in 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010.) I watched esports. Lots of esports. GSL finals on Friday night, Blizzard Invitational on Saturday night. On Friday, Jaedong, Fantasy, and… Continue reading Events over the last few months, and other thoughts
Lilypond
Here is Peterson arranging Wassail in Lilypond, which is music engraving software for TeX. Unlike most music editors, you have to enter in the notes as text. Also, you can’t just select a part and play it: you have to use the tool to convert it to a midi, and then play that. It renders… Continue reading Lilypond
“You require more neutrophils”
According to two blood tests in August & September of this year, I have persistent asymptomatic neutropenia. I have an appointment with a hematologist in January of next year. I picked up my referral packet today at NEMS. NEMS got me a referral to SF General Hospital (which is where the hematologist is). NEMS is… Continue reading “You require more neutrophils”
kittens
Our housemate Quentin came home with orphan kittens on Sunday. He and his girlfriend had found them in the street, in the rain, huddling next to the body of their mom. They were really weak and inactive on Sunday, but we’ve been feeding them (formula from a bottle, then food from a can) and now… Continue reading kittens
Last-minute homework
I’m taking ai-class.com with 130,000 people on the internet. 80,000 were active in a 24-hour period over the weekend. Homework 1 is due in about 4 hours (4:59pm on Sunday Oct. 16 in my time zone), so naturally, I’m doing the homework now. Here I am, chugging along through the videos, when they stop loading.… Continue reading Last-minute homework
Getting started with Rails – what I’ve done so far
Five days ago, I restarted the hartl Rails tutorial book so that I could do it in Rails 3.0.9. These are my notes: I took them so that when I try to make my next project, I can find information more quickly! They grew much bigger than I meant. Doesn’t wordpress have a “read more… Continue reading Getting started with Rails – what I’ve done so far