Sunday, July 30, 2006

[outing] Magic Castle

When: Saturday, 2006 July 29

- Dave Cox pulling dollar bills out of a lemon
- The evil hynoptist monkey
- Karaoke with the Irma
- Denny Haney's pulling cards and bottles out of
- Puck doing the American Idol magic
- The greatest magic of all: Frank making the MONDO 40+ oz prime rib disappear
- And, Thanks Jessica!

[outing] Alan's birthday

When: Friday, 2006 July 28

- Fogo de Chao: Picanha. Pork Ribs. Lamb Chops. Cheese balls.
- El Carmen: Tequila. Tequila. And more Tequila.
- Number of shots Alan had: My estimate is 10+
- Revenge with toilet paper

Tuesday, July 25, 2006

[homage] Tesla Motors









Hot.
- 100% electric
- 0 to 60 in about 4 seconds
- 135 mpg equivalent
- 250 miles per charge
- about 1c per mile

Monday, July 24, 2006

[outing] The Last Hoorah!

When: Saturday, 2006 July 22
Where: Casa de Crescent Heights

- Wandy: Apple 99 + Butterscotch schnapp
- Pierre: Red Wine + Jim Beam
- James: Vermouth + Irish Cream (and bringing Jack)
- Chuck: 64 Oz of Pineapple Juice
- Amos: Jim Beam from the bottle
- Rod: Stabbing the beer can with a knife and shooting it
- Livin' on a Prayer. Sweet Child of Mine. Mr Roboto. Hey Mickey.

- 160 pieces of sushi
- 90 degrees weather
- 1 great place and many memories

Saturday, July 22, 2006

[outing] Musical theater class guest night

When: Mon July 17th and 18th
Where: Masonic Lodge, Culver City

Hard to believe that this is the third guest night with Cathy's class!

- Pierre, Alan, Mike, Jack, and Coke. Sushi Central.
- Pierre, Eileen, Smirnoff, and Tropicana. Ford's Fillin Station ( killer beef tartar)
- Jessica's coming to both nights!
- Jason, Josh, Laura, Josh, Cynthia
- That baby in the front row
- Traci's Always a Bridesmaid
- Tracy's Adelaide's Lament
- Takayo's On My Own
- Ray's On This Night of a Thousand Stars
- Mel's eBay Dance
- Mark's "I don't need a super model. A regular model is fine"
- "My Lord and Master" (and that nutty b-flat) and "Patterns"
- "Back in Business" and "Bow"
- What did I do on the Santa Monica pier?

Friday, July 21, 2006

[homage] SET

Eileen came over today and gifted me with a deck of SET cards. I have wondered how I managed to not played a game of SET (nor Pinnacle, nor Magic-The-Gathering) through college. But now I've earned one more point on the nerd test, and added one more candidate that can be modified into a good drinking game. Excellent.

Sunday, July 16, 2006

[trip] World Series of Poker, Las Vegas

Departed on: Saturday, 2006 July 1st
Returned on: Monday, 2006 July 3rd
Accomodation: Bill's Comp Room at the Rio

- A poker tourney so big, it looks like a poker sweatshop
- The guy who was walking and hugging his $100,000 stacks of cash
- Tuning $30 wager into $99 at roulette
- Alan's free springroll from the World Carnival Buffet
- The oh-so-cool Bodog room

Voodoo Lounge
- Spending Saturday night at the Voodoo lounge
- Spending Sunday night at the Voodoo lounge
- Lighting storm
- Josh running off on a girl Saturday night
- Josh having a girl ripped away from him Sunday night
- Bill returning at 7am with big bottle of Belevedere, both nights
- So many bachelorette party girls, what are their names again?
- The incredible views and lovely warm breeze on the 51st floor

[tech] Twiki

---+ [tech] Twiki

---++ How I Finally Needed TWiki
    * The table of content with 40 chapters
    * The network folder where all things are but nothing can be found
    * The project with just-in-time requirements
    * I seem to have completely mangled the styles in the Word doc
    * I am always locking everyone else from editing the document

---++ Why I Love TWiki
    * Separated namespace under each web
    * Log showing who has changed what topics recently
    * Predictable mark-ups, which mak beautiful pages
    * Gorgeous tables with alternating colored rows and column sorting
    * Collaborate with TWiki. It does what it says.

Saturday, July 08, 2006

[tech] Ruby Rocks

Woke up too early today. So I spent the morning playing through the rocking Ruby tutorial at http://tryruby.hobix.com/. Guided tutorial with an interactive fully-working in-browser interpreter. Absolutely beautiful. I wish I made it.

Some fun bits:

>> Popup.make do
.. h1 "I should be watching Saturday morning cartoon instead"
.. p ".. but instead I'm playing with Ruby"
.. link "TryRuby", "http://tryruby.hobix.com"
.. end

>> Time.now - 2.weeks
=> Sat Jun 24 09:13:34 UTC 2006

>> def load_comics(path)
.. comics = {}
.. File.foreach(path) do |line|
.. url, name = line.split(': ')
.. comics[url] = name.strip
.. end
.. comics
.. end