Nov 30, 2013

It's on Cruise Control

Anchorman 2 stole this line from Bloom County, the original strip is here.

Nov 28, 2013

Spock in Eclipse

I was having to run spock from the command line (Cygwin), until I fixed the CatalogSpock project using this article as reference. Not sure if it was

./gradlew cleanEclipse eclipse
from kousnit's block, or tweaking the pom.xml as per mrhaki's blog

Incidentally Mr. Haki has two interesting books groovy and gradle:

Nov 7, 2013

Antechamber font

Cool font Antechamber by Alex Varanese

Nov 4, 2013

Recommender Systems

Ran into this toolkit, lenskit, put out by Michael Ekstrand, who is one of the instructors of the Recommender Systems course.

TIL: Galois Lattices

Galois Lattices

jquery script to gather h1-h6 header tag text from a web page

var ht={};
ht["title"] = $("title").text().trim();
ht["description"] = $("meta[name=description]").attr("content").trim();
ht["keywords"] = $("meta[name=keywords]").attr("content").trim();

var hs=[];
for (var i=0;i<6;i++) {
  hs[i]="h"+(i+1);
  ta=[];
  $(hs[i]).each(function() {
    var t = $(this).text().trim();
    ta.push(t);
  });
  ht[hs[i]] = ta.join(",");
}
console.log(ht);

Nov 1, 2013

Wicked

For Quincy's birthday, we went to Wicked at the Orpheum in Minneapolis, MN. It is based on the book, Wicked, by Gregory Maguire. I liked the neon and steampunk like set. It reminded me of a Russian Constructivism play I saw once in Minneapolis with exposed mechanisms as part of the backdrop.
Photos from Jenn Gambatese's site. Purse??? Videos:

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