infundibulum

I have been on a bit of a health kick lately… it’ll start showing results eventually… right?

RIGHT???

Anyway… I’ve discovered that the key to being careful about what one eats is pretty simple: you have to plan.

You have to have food around that will make you be not hungry. Which is actually pretty challenging if you’re a live-alone coderbot. So I find stuff like this kind of interesting:

The World’s Healthiest Foods: One Week Menu.

I actually like the idea of someone telling me what to eat. I hate thinking up all that stuff. And I hate going to the grocery store and feeling clueless.

But ideally, what I would want is a sort of web-based menu management thing, that tracks the food I actually have. Why don’t grocery stores let you access your bonus card data online? If they’re going to, should I at least have the option? It is about me, after all… Mmm, yeah, a grocery store with an API. That would rock. And it would win scads of geek converts, I’m pretty sure.

If Whole Foods hooked that up, I bet they would become the Amazon of grocery stores. Imagine all the lists you could build and exchange. They could advertise sales right in the web interface, or even link you to cookbooks wth recipes that match the stuff you like.

That would really be an interesting stomping grounds for a Rails or Django app.

Come to think of it, there are probably a billion “brick and mortar” stores that could benefit from an API… Why can’t I track the books I buy from Borders or Barnes and Noble? Why can’t Starbucks figure out that I’m like, their number one addict customer, and let me see just how frightneing my yearly bill is?

Oh wait, they probably wouldn’t want to do that.

But you get the idea.

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Wait, wait, I thought you were –

Oh forget it.

are typography people so arrogant?

Really, they are.

Wow, ever since I started a responsible blog, this one is free for immature whining!

Awesome!

I hate it when people put phrases like this in their blogs:

Read the whole article.

Or:

Read the whole thing.

I mean it’s like they’re saying:

Do what I tell you because I told you.

*shakes fist*

Wow, now that I can put all the content that matters over in the Blogamundo Hacklog , I can fill this blog with mundanity and fluff!

Lucky you!

Hey, where’d you go?

The Jamaica Star :: ‘HAIR’ IS THE HAT ::

DARAIN HOUSEN HAS not taken off his hat for the last 20 years. He bathes, he sleeps and does everything possible in it. It is a perfect fit.

But unlike other hats, his is not made of cloth but from the very hair on his head which is why it cannot be removed.

Heh.

But here’s the best part:

“Dem did love it,” he said smiling. “Mi friends an’ some of the girls said I win di hairstyle contest and buy mi a box a Guinness,” he said.

Good gig. ☺

Why don’t word processors keep the cursor in the middle of the page?

Good grief.

Down arrow, down arrow, down arrow, up arrow, up arrow, up arrow, edit. Cursor goes down to the bottom of the page. Repeat. Get mad. Repeat.

Yahoo Messenger smilies are infinitely superior to Aim smilies.

That is all.

Well begun is not even halfway finished. I KNOW YOU WERE WONDERING… what the titles of the unfinished posts in my stack of drafts were.

…weren’t you?

• The Unicode Problem in Python
• Unicode Again…
• The Way Multilingualism Looks
• Google Toolbar: Autolink and WordTranslator
• cutting snippet
• Localization, Firefox, and Google
• 6 O’Clock Links
• Google and Machine Translation
• Wolof and Unicode
• A Hmong Messianic Script
• More wacky ideas on remote hospital interpretation
• Home Grown Search
• Down with the Count: Regular Expressions vs. Statistics: PART THE FIRST

A friend of mine from Helsinki taught me that. Apparently that’s Finnish slang for “what’s up?”

Don’t say you never learned anything on this blog, eh?

Haven’t updated in a bit, here’s the things I should have blogged about:

• Have you ever looked at the source code to SimpleBits? The blog entries are wrapped in a definition list! Nutty. Also, in the will-html-wonders-never-cease department, I recently discovered that a dl can contain unequal numbers of dds and dts — it’s many-to-many, not one-to-one.
• I’m sad to report that all the Rails Day judges were sucked into the Bermuda triangle, never to be heard from again. Tragic!
  UPDATE: Oh, they were found! Hooray!
• I’ve been wrapped up in CSS land, so I still haven’t gotten around to investigating the curious relationship of Ruby’s unpack built-in and Unicode. But I’m losing sleep over it — so you can rest assured I’ll blog it sooner or later…

Thus ends today’s episode of mundanity and fluff. Nothing else to see here, move along.

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