Archive for July, 2008
Books I Read
July 29th, 2008I updated my booklist which I link at the top of my blog. Please let me tell you a little about it.
Generating the Page
Organizing the Books
I use GoodReads to organize my books. James Currier, proprietor of MedPedia, invests in GoodReads. It lets me add books quickly and easily, plus I easily export the book list. [...]
Font Comic: Attempt #1
July 28th, 2008I love to read about others’ unique creations. I love to get ideas from them.
By pure chance, I happened up on David Friedman’s excellent blog called Ironic Sans where he showcases designs both illustrative and mechanical. He recently created a funny (punny) little graphic:
It reminds me of XKCD, a beautifully simple yet intellectually esoteric webcomic. [...]
Blackberry Theory of Email Apathy
July 26th, 2008The Germ Theory of Disease saved billions of lives from early deaths. It identified a root cause, as well as solutions, to the population-threatening problems of contagious diseases.
Today, email apathy plagues the workforce. Whenever you send someone an email and he or she never replies to you, realize that you have been slashed by the [...]
Heart Rate
July 24th, 2008In PE in middle and high school, I always remember taking my pulse and having a very high resting heart rate relative to others. I forget the exact number, but it might have reached 80 beats per minute or higher. I always thought I counted incorrectly or double-counted.
I’ve started running and walking almost daily recently. [...]
YCombinator Application Guide
July 20th, 2008YCombinator, a kind of mini- venture capital firm, invests tens of thousands of dollars ($$$) into very early seed stage start-up companies run by smart technology hackers.
I applied to YCombinator two times. The first time, when I applied with my friend Mason for the Summer 2007 round, I arrogantly presumed that Paul would lavish on [...]
Steve Yegge Rules
July 19th, 2008I stopped writing in this blog once I realized that people actually read it. I received a few comments in one technical blog post. They pushed me over a cliff. Instead of publishing whatever popped into my mind regardless of the quality of the idea or writing, I hesitated over every agonizing sentence. Every word [...]