So Laurky dragged me out to doe bay on a Sunday. Aside from eating and sitting in tubs of hot water all day long, I found some nice lengths of bull kelp to make flutes and didgeridoos out of. I commented that being wrapped up in bull kelp while playing it [...]
I had another brief glimpse underneath the surface of reality today. Lately I’ve been really into riding public transportation while listening to postapocalyptic music from the likes of God Speed You! Black Emperor. You know how there’s categorically ‘driving music’ or ‘dancing music’. Well, there is also ‘being ferried through urban decay [...]
Recently I’ve been finding Firefox 3 to be sluggish. Pages on a Rails app I maintain were very slow to render. Looking at the HTTP traffic through the terrific Firebug, I found that every resource on each page was being pulled down on every page refresh. The application uses, and I argue overuses, several different [...]