LEGO Finds Spare Discontinued Set So Boy Who Saved Up For 2 Years Wouldn’t Be Disappointed

LEGO Finds Spare Discontinued Set So Boy Who Saved Up For 2 Years Wouldn’t Be Disappointed:

We’re used to dealing with companies that seem to take joy in foiling their customers, so when a company comes through, really performs above and beyond, we jump at the chance to warm a few hearts. Like say when an 11-year-old boy saves up his money for two years to buy a LEGO train set only to find out it isn’t being made anymore and is now a collectible, completely out of his price range. You better believe this one has a happy ending.

Dos años ahorrando por un LEGO. Ese chico va a llegar muy lejos.

Descargando trailers de Filmtrailer

Filmtrailer era uno de los podcasts de iTunes a los que estuve suscrito. La teoría es que iTunes descarga los podcasts automáticamente y los tiene listos para sincronizarlos al iPhone.

En la práctica me topé con varios detalles. No puedes decirle a iTunes una hora específica cuándo descargar y lo hacía en horario de trabajo, mi iPhone de 8Gb se llenaba rápidamente, la sincronización era lenta, iTunes es lento, etc.

Recientemente recordé Filmtrailer y como ya no quiero usar iTunes, hice un script de Ruby que descarga nuevos trailers de la misma fuente. Una tarea de cron lo ejecuta a las cuatro de la mañana.

Pueden descargar el script aquí. Requiere wget y las gemas Mechanize y Nokogiri. En realidad podría reemplazarse Mechanize con open-uri, pero lo programé sobre la base de un script anterior más complicado y quedó así.

Un concentrado de egoísmo y avaricia

Alguien en Quora hizo la pregunta, “What is it like to be an adult and not have kids?” Pensé encontrar respuestas de parejas que no pudieron tener hijos describiendo sus experiencias o algo así. En lugar de ello, hay un escandaloso concentrado de egoísmo y avaricia.

There is, of course, the money issue: children are money pits. Instead of spending my hard-earned shekels on toys for the kids, we get to spend them on toys for the adults. I drive a really fast car; with children, I’d have had to trade it for a minivan or something “safe”.

¿”Money pits”? ¿En serio no es una broma?

I sometimes wish I had a son . . .

Until I realize that I hate the thought of losing all my free time, my free money, my ability to just do whatever I want without worrying about what will happen to the kid when I solder him/her into a cage with a bottle of water, a box of Cheerios, a bucket for a toilet and a TV set to Nickelodeon. That sort of stuff will get a guy in trouble.

Y el ganador:

It is fantastic to not have kids but also it does make me intolerant of people who have kids.

It means I can pretty much do whatever I want. So I eat out at the smartest and newest restaurants and drink at all the cool bars.

It’s given me time to develop a high profile food blog in the city I live and because I’m recognised I get better than normal service.

I explore diverse and interesting cuisines and drinks too.

I go to art openings and exhibitions. I read widely.

I also buy what many people would regard as pricey cloths.

At the end of the day I have nothing to show apart from my paunch, wardrobe and wide knowledge because in my shallow existence all I do is live for pleasure.

Me siento indignado.

A single line of code sends readers into a labyrinth

A single line of code sends readers into a labyrinth:

10 PRINT CHR$ (205.5 + RND (1)); : GOTO 10, a new book collaboratively written by 10 authors, takes a single line of code—inscribed in the book’s mouthful of a title—and explodes it.

That one line, a seemingly clumsy scrap of BASIC, generates a fascinatingly complicated maze on a Commodore 64. Run the little program on an emulator—or on an actual Commodore 64, if you happen to have one collecting dust in your basement—and a work of art unfolds before your very eyes, as the screen slowly fills up in a mesmerizing fashion.

Puedes descargar el libro en formato PDF gratuitamente en 10print.org

iTunes 11

Me gusta el nuevo diseño de iTunes 11, particularmente la forma cómo muestra el color de fondo del álbum seleccionado en base a sus colores.

Y después de diez versiones al fin me funcionan las teclas multimedia sin necesidad de usar un programa externo.

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