Race Thru the Redwoods 10K
August 16, 2009
Felton, California
This looks like fun, but I don't think I'll drive all the way down there unless I can get someone (or someones ;-) to run it with me. So we'll see what happens.
Awesome! (And it even got me to install Adobe AIR, which I'd been kinda putting off)
And speaking of AIR, they even have instructions for installing it on 64bit Linux. (Because sadly, there is no 64bit version currently, so one has to jump through the 32 bit hoops to get it to work)
This is really clever, and is pretty much indistinguishable from an actual professionally done ad.
More background:
Response to D&AD Student Awards brief set by Hewlett Packard.
"Present an idea which promotes HP Workstations ability to bring to life anything the creative mind can conceive."
The following code does not compile:
public class A { public static void main(String[] args) { int i = Integer.parseInt(args[0]); switch (i) { case X: System.out.println("ONE!"); break; case Y: System.out.println("TWO!"); break; default: System.out.println("ZERO!"); break; } } public static final int X = B.getNumber("X"); public static final int Y = B.getNumber("Y");}class B { public static int getNumber(String s) { if (s.equals("X")) { return 1; } else if (s.equals("Y")) { return 2; } else { return 0; } }}
The compile error is:
A.java:5: constant expression required case X: System.out.println("ONE!"); break; ^A.java:6: constant expression required case Y: System.out.println("TWO!"); break; ^2 errors
I think I'll leave explaining why as an exercise for the reader. (Or for a future post. ;-)
Potion is an object- and mixin-oriented (traits) language.
_why's been working on a new top secret project. Wish I had more time to play with all the neat languages out there. This one seems to have a lot of neat ideas.
During March and April, we spent a day testing the major 3G services in 13 cities across the United States. Verizon's service showed a combination of speed and reliability, Sprint's results lent credence to its 'most dependable' claim, and AT&T's network showed fast upload speeds in most cities.
As an AT&T subscriber, I'm completely unsuprised that AT&T's network is less reliable than Sprint & Verizon. I would have been really curious to see how T-Mobile's network stacked up.
Since I didn't get any company for my lunch run today, I decided to mix things up and run to Coit Tower instead of the normal run along the Embarcadero to Fisherman's Wharf and back. I learned a few things from the endevour:
- Telegraph hill is neither as tall nor as far away as it looks.
- Stairs are infernal torture devices designed by Satan himself.
It ended up being a rather enjoyable run: I discovered a flower garden on the side of the hill, and the views were, of course, spectacular.
In case you're curious, I did upload the map.
I'm definitely going to have to explore more on lunch runs, it was really nice not to be doing the same old run again.
They've posted the official results. I came in 171st overall, 38th in my age group. More importantly, my overall time was 48:26.0, which is 7:48 per mile. That's about 6 minutes faster than my time last year. Ironically, even though I was faster this time, I came in 2 places lower in my age group.
Previously.