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Tron: Legacy.
Really? I must be missing something. They really could have had a decent movie without a bunch of “meaning of life” BS. Why couldn’t it just have been a movie about a kid rescuing his dad? The mystical junk just got in the way and made it confusing. The effects were pretty good and there were only a few uncanny valley moments, but’s not going to save a movie.
I mean, THAT guy was in NY tonight and missed the Doctor Who premier.
At least I have 3000 miles and three time zones as an excuse.
Tony, I mean, that guy… He was right there…
I am crushed. On the verge of tears.
The cast of Doctor Who was in New York for the premier. They had a Q&A. And, this tweet from Bre:
#doctorwho premiere is full of bow ties, scarves and awesome
And, here I sit, in lousy California. Stupid left coast.
This Doctor Who fanboy is broken hearted.
I’ve just launched ProfileMaker v3.0. It’s got all the good stuff you’ve become accustomed to plus even more features. As yet, it still does not do calculations for DC motors.
Please give it a whirl and let me know what you think.
I just updated my Adobe Reader. The only reason I do it is to patch vulnerabilities in their crappy ubiquitous system.
And, with the update it installs a shortcut to Adobe Reader on my desktop.
Seriously, now, why the hell would I want that? How could this possibly be useful to anyone? If I click on a PDF, it opens with Adobe. If I click on the Adobe link, I still have to go find the PDF that I need to open. Has anyone, ever, found a use for opening Adobe Reader directly and often enough to justify a shortcut on the desktop?!
I’ve got a funny day job. Some days I’m out and about at meetings. That’s where I was for the last three days. Some days I sit at a desk. Today was one of those days.
I spent basically the entire day wrestling with a HUGE spreadsheet made by someone else who just doesn’t understand the concept of elegance. Seriously? A spreadsheet of 400,000 rows to perform one calculation? That’s just insane. In the time it took for me to understand what they had done, I am pretty sure I could have mocked up about 85% of a PHP script to knock the answer right out of the park.
I don’t do these kinds of calculations often. I’d say that on average most people in my industry never do a single calculation like this – leaving to others who are more interested in doing so. 1 There were several false starts with me basically finishing the calculations, doing a write up… and then realizing that I had forgotten something. It’s taken me about two days worth of work to iron this thing out. And, quite frankly, I loved every minute of it. Of the very few people in my industry who actually bother to run these numbers, most just shoot for an approximation. 2 And of those very few people, no one really runs these calculations all that often.
Having just experienced the WORST way to run these calculations, I’m ready to build the best way to run these calculations.
This is the 650th post on this blog in the 18 or so months since its launch. As of this moment, very early on Monday morning, there’s 283 posts over at the MakerBot blog authored by yours truly. That’s 933 posts in the 497 days since I started blogging here on 11/23/2009. That’s about 1.88 posts a day, every day, on average. Some of it is even about 3D printing stuff. ;)
I wonder what a pie chart of this website’s content would look like? Probably something like:
[pdrpiechart data=”Random nonsense=68|Doctor Who, sonic screwdrivers, and daleks =18|DIY 3D Printing=27″]
I just realized that about 95% of all of my Facebook content is generated from just three people. And, really, I could do without that content.
Misanthropic much?
I don’t actually remember the definition of irony. I do, however, remember the scene from Reality Bites that highlights the importance of knowing the definition. 1
Uh, my point. Yes. My point.
I’ve got a song stuck in my head and I cannot stop listening to it. Just Can’t Get Enough by the Black Eyed Peas.
Yesterday I was busy cranking out printed parts and soldering some of the components of my MakerBot interface kit. I’ve printed 60 of these parts so far. What I did was organize the letter bracelet sections into plates of 10 parts each, in a Scrabble tile letter distribution. I’m not sure why, except that it seemed like a good way to get a good vowel to consonant ratio. In any case, I’ve printed up 6 of these plates so far, with 4 more to go. 1 I’ll need to upload these plates as a derivative.
The room smelled of ABS fumes and solder basically all day.
On the plus side, these heady vapors made me believe I had super powers for a short time.
