February 2012
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October 2011
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“Now, if some short-haired, Volvo-driving, apartment-dwelling,...”
– “Here Comes the Judge! Taurus .45/410 Revolver” by Jeff Quinn, 19 February 2007.
Dude I just wanted to see the spread pattern of a Taurus Judge with .410 shells, no need to be a jerk.
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September 2011
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Self scanning Table of Contents →
If you maintain a page by hand and want a table of contents on it, this will help you.
August 2011
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June 2011
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April 2011
4 posts
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March 2011
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Earthquake
catanddaveinjapan:
Konichiwa,
Dave and I just want to let everyone know we are completely fine. We are at least 14 hours away from all the action. Thank you for your emails wondering if we are okay, but I assure you all, we are alive and well.
Arigato gozaimasu!
That’s pretty fucking good to hear. I’m fucking sick of tectonics. They suck. Nothing cool has ever come of tectonics....
February 2011
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I know amazing people…
…and this one is the most amazing. And this person is having a tough time doing Teach For America. And it sounds awful.
We used to write one another letters when I was still an idealist, a promising student and athlete (ha) who refused to realize his full potential, before I decided to wear myself down and aim pretty low. And before I retconned for myself a jaded pessimism born of a thousand...
This is why we shake off the awkward things we say...
January 2011
7 posts
Joe Sprinz: "he also dropped the ball" →
No idea how I got to this page whatsoever. Pretty hilarious story regardless.
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December 2010
5 posts
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Embedding your tumblr somewhere else
EDIT: Disregard all of this since the ruddy API has moved to OAuth for everything.
Seize the day! be a gangster. Put your tumblr in a page using the magic of PHP. I never use Javascript exclusively to deliver content because some people don’t have javascript going, or don’t want it. And it’s just unfair to ask them to process your junk. The following code downloads your...
❒ Single ❒ Taken ✔ No one likes me...
yourpalmal:
omg totes
“Whenever people say they have a special guest, I think that means that they have...”
– Anonymous
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June 2009
3 posts
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Semantic Set Theory in #LaTeX
So I’m all done with my math course and its notes. The following is a file I call settheory.sty which I invoke with \usepackage{settheory} and it works pretty well for me. The gist of it is that I don’t have to describe what a symbol looks like, rather what it means. Also, it means that later, when you are writing the stuff out by hand you aren’t saying “A-cup-B” in...
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May 2009
3 posts
Tres Coronas - Locked In
These guys are so...
April 2009
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Set Theory in LaTeX
I hate the lack of syntax in a lot of LaTeX math, especially now that I’ve started typing my notes and problem sets in two classes that are all set theory. Think about it, syntactically I am entering the symbol for set union, so why should I call it \cup? I shouldn’t. Thus, I have put together a whole heaping helping of set theory commands that I use all the time. If you want to...
March 2009
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LaTeX and Electromagnetics +1
…and maybe you finished studying for this exam, or you think you did, but really you can’t be sure, and you want to eat batteries, and this kind of looks like shit but you don’t care, and this is every equation you need to know for emag but it still won’t help goddamnit. Vita meretrix est.
\documentclass[11pt]{amsart}
\usepackage[margin=.75in]{geometry} % See...
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LaTeX and Electromagnetics
maybe you have an electromagnetics final in 7.5 hours like I do. maybe you want a study sheet. Maybe I have one for you, because I’ve got the LaTeX if you’ve got the time…
\documentclass[11pt]{amsart}
\usepackage{geometry} % See geometry.pdf to learn the layout options. There are lots.
\geometry{letterpaper} % ... or a4paper or a5paper or ......
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Collapsible Tag cloud in tumblr
Hey, so maybe you want a sweet collapsible tag could in your tumblr page like mine. I took the tag cloud code from here and the collapsing javascript from here and rolled them up into this. Drop this in your Customize → Info → Description as you see fit.
<a href="javascript:;" onmousedown="if(document.getElementById('tags').style.display == 'none'){...
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flip() for Arduinos, or really any C-esque...
I just helped a friend with a digital art project. She is a great artist and a great programmer (double major in Visual Art and Computer Science) so she knows what she’s doing. What she needed was to borrow my soldering iron and expertise, both of which I love lending out, especially when I get cookies in return. Anyways, her project has 6 potentiometers functioning as voltage dividers. ...
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Speedometer Project Update 01
More thinking, more plotting, more science since we last left off. I just discovered the AMAZING capabilities of Arduino’s pulseIn() function. I now have a new plan.
loop
do this 5 times
if the speed sensor is low
pulseIn HIGH the speed sensor pin
write that value to an array
else
pulseIn LOW the speed sensor pin
...
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Speedometer project
I am on my college’s SAE Mini-Baja team. I really like it, even though I don’t know too much about car design. Building shit that moves is so righteous. I f you don’t know, a Baja car is a single passenger car designed for offroading. It gets its name from the Baja rally in Mexico, where a number of vehicles of all types race across really rough terain in the desert. We...
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Laying out Code in tumblr
(X)HTML’s <pre> is pretty cool for laying out codeblocks. It allows you to put everything monospace, and interprets the whitespace literally. I thik it also is pretty forgiving if your code contains reserved HTML characters, but that might just be tumblr. I actually just borrowed the CSS from my tumblr dashboard to make it look nice on my page. If you want to do that, just go to...
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tumblr adding weird line breaks
I often do a sort of post stutter when submitting. That is, I edit it after submitting. Since I write most of each post in the HTML editor, I find it irksome when my code inside of <pre> tags gets full of empty lines when I go back to it. What I do is I open up the HTML editor in tumblr, and copy all of the HTML source into a text editor that supports find and replace using regular...
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Programming for Space Efficiency
When we last left off with the physical Gmail notifier, we were using pin #11 for PWM output proportional to the number of unread emails. We were using pin #13 (which on my Duemilanove has a built in LED) for binary output of whether or not there were unread emails.
The problem I have with that is that I am a cheap bastard. And even though I get a lot of parts for free from the shop at school,...
tweeting from class. I AM A REBEL!
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Stuff that should have been in LaTeX vol. 1
Sometimes you want to do superscripts in the text environment, be it for exponents, ordinal numbers, or whatever. I like this command, because normal superscript spaces things out in a weird creepy way
\newcommand{\super}[1]
{
\kern-.2em \textsuperscript{#1} \kern-.2em
}
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Tangible Gmail (0)
I’m working on a gmail notifier, borrowing heavily from Jamie Matthews.
I am using his second Python Script. I had never used Python before today, but I got the hang of it. The whole “Leading whitespace is significant, but there are no brackets to guide you” thing threw me for a minute or two. I think.
Here’s what I did to the Python script to make it more...