This is a climbing “simulator” which I received in honor of my birthday. It is used to do various forms of pull-up and finger strengthening exercises (like dead hangs and L-hangs. It causes me much pain. I love it.
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An article from the New Yorker seems sad but true to me. I’m about to recycle about 6 years worth of “Science” magazine. Given that they’re all online, and that my house is smaller than it was…plus the fact that they do nothing but gather dust…out they go. Anyone want them? If you cover shipping, they’re yours. Just by accident, I seem to have hit a big productivity enhancer. I was tinkering with my desktop settings (on ye ‘olde Mac) and decided to make the toolbar hide itself. Some people like this feature, some people don’t. I’m getting more and more like my friend Alan in that I want every single . . . → Read More: Productivity Today I’m writing an autogenerator for a pile of WSDL. It’s a program that writes another program. Nothing new there. I’ve been writing programs to create scripts for a while now. The new part is that this autogenerated code defines a set of generic interfaces, which will themselves be used to autogenerate code. So it’s . . . → Read More: Code autogeneration Another trade rag article: In which I rant about the evil overhyped-ness of grid computing. Jen’s parents were just in town for a weekend visit. They brought along a few birthday presents, among them a red swingline stapler (a la Office Space). They had no idea that Jen had been serious when she kept saying “just bring him a red swingline stapler! Seriously!” Nobody touches the precious. Nobody. Climbed . . . → Read More: I own the red swingline stapler |
