September 21st, 2009 by alephnaught
Fire extinguisher training
No kidding – we had fire extinguisher training at work a week ago; I’ve been so busy I haven’t had time to post pictures yet.
It was fun; I hadn’t fired off a fire extinguisher since I was a kid. Now I need to get a couple for home and teach Aviva how to use them.
August 17th, 2009 by alephnaught
My new earring
I just got this a few days ago from a vendor on Etsy, Simply Willow. Her work is somewhat steampunk inspired, and I loved this one when I first saw it. Its called Red Key To My Heart Steampunk Earrings. Here’s a picture of one of them (since I only have one ear pierced I [...]
August 13th, 2009 by alephnaught
Learning Rails
Title: Learning Rails
Author: Simon St. Laurent, Edd Dumbill
Paperback: 442 pages
Publisher: O’Reilly Media, Inc.; 1 edition (November 28, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0596518773
ISBN-13: 978-0596518776
I have a couple ideas for data-driven Twitter tools, and I read part of one book on Ruby on Rails before, so since that book’s in storage I grabbed a copy of this one.
The [...]
August 7th, 2009 by alephnaught
We bought a house
We finally bought a house in SoCal – its not as close to Los Angeles as we wanted (its in Woodland Hills), but its big and its ours; 5 bedrooms and 4 baths big.
We bought a painting as our housewarming gift to ourselves – its about 42″ tall and done in a classic Spanish Colonial [...]
July 30th, 2009 by admin
3 Videos: toys making music, a fountain, and bracelets
Three fun videos…
This one is two Japanese toys from a Japanese toy band — Giant Robot carries the whole group, I hope to get them all:
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This one is a fountain at the Grove, a shopping complex in LA:
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And lastly this one is Aviva’s bracelets reflecting light off the ceiling of hte car:
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July 25th, 2009 by alephnaught
Nathan’s first tattoo
My son Nathan got his first tattoo today; I think its really cool:
And here’s Nathan getting his tattoo:
July 24th, 2009 by admin
The Getty Museum
After driving home from ComicCon 2009, we decided to visit the Getty Museum, since Nathan, my son, had never been there. Its a picturesque large museum overlooking Los Angeles; the Getty has the largest art conservatorship in the United States. Aviva and I have been to the Getty Museum before to see the Bernini and [...]
July 23rd, 2009 by alephnaught
ComicCon 2009, Thursday: Pictures
My son Nathan and I attended the Thursday opening of ComicCon 2009; we had a great time, we walked the whole exhibit hall floor. I got a couple gifts for people that are friends on Twitter. And I posted tweets regularly with photos from the event, which some folks seemed to really enjoy. [...]
July 22nd, 2009 by alephnaught
Transcending CSS: The Fine Art of Web Design
Title: Transcending CSS: The Fine Art of Web Design
Author: Andy Clarke
Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: New Riders Press; 1 edition (November 25, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0321410971
ISBN-13: 978-0321410979
This book isn’t really about Transcending CSS but instead equal parts history, technique, design, process and futures.
And if you want to do more with CSS than a how-to book, you want to [...]
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October 25th, 2009 by alephnaught
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