http://www.economysizegeek.com More Geek. Less Money. Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:45:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Brian Dettmer: Book Autopsies This guy cuts up books (which makes me sad) to expose their visual complexity (which makes me happy). I'm probably drawn to this because I am a bibliophile, but also because it resonates so strongly with one of my favorite art pieces in the world The ... http://www.economysizegeek.com/2008/07/21/art-i-approve-of/ Example.org You have reached this web page by typing "example.com", "example.net", or "example.org" into your web browser. These domain names are reserved for use in documentation and are not available for registration. See RFC 2606, Section 3. I didn't realize it was official. Guess I should use that more often in my documentation. ... http://www.economysizegeek.com/2008/07/21/protected-by-the-rfc/ how long do you have to park for a bird to nest on your hood. probably longer than the parking owners would like http://www.economysizegeek.com/2008/07/17/parking-fail/ I tried to use the Flex SDK 3 with sun's 5.0 jre - got a bunch of seg faults. Annoying... Not least because I hate wrangling Java.... I found this article. from back in 2006 about Flex 2 and Ubuntu. Turns out the solution was pretty similar. I already had java 6.0 ... http://www.economysizegeek.com/2008/07/03/flex-sdk-3-on-hardy-no-likey/ I've had to make some adjustments to the Rock Band drum kit to accommodate my legs and feet (since I'm apparently larger than the target audience) I also found the drum sticks light and uncomfortable. Someone recommended I look at getting bigger sticks - so now I have a collection. Can I ... http://www.economysizegeek.com/2008/07/01/does-thing-mean-i-have-a-rock-band-problem/ Some how in my upgrade to WP 2.5 I broke my RSS feed. I think I've fixed it now. I've probably lost all 10 readers :) (On a side bonus - Google has restored my own RSS reader account so now I can read blogs again - it was so ... http://www.economysizegeek.com/2008/06/30/broken-feed/ The uncooked steaks - from left to right Standard HEB HEB Prime Wagyu Akuashi Grass Fed along the bottom http://www.economysizegeek.com/2008/06/29/steak/ What happens when you combine foodies with the scientific method - a taste off. In this case, we focused exclusively on meat - Ribeye steaks specifically. I brought together 5 other friends to see - can you really tell the difference between very fancy steak and bog standard. Basic overview - ... http://www.economysizegeek.com/2008/06/29/the-steak-off/ I've spent a lot of time lately trying to sort through the large boxes of stuff that I've accumulated in preparation for the arrival of our baby. In some cases, that has meant throwing stuff away that I'm not sure why I had it in the first place. In other cases, ... http://www.economysizegeek.com/2008/06/29/old-answering-machine-tape/ I saw an article about Zoomii on Ars Technica today. It is strange to get a view of Amazon that is so simple and yet shows how different the online vs book store experience really is. Most of the time I end of up at Amazon looking for something pretty specific. ... http://www.economysizegeek.com/2008/06/24/the-simple-pleasures/