Projectionist: A tumblelog

Thu Jul 31

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Casiotone for the Painfully Alone – Toby Take a Bow

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“ If you’ve never wept and want to, have a child. ”

Incarnations of Burned Children

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sa•ty•ri•a•sis

[sey-tuh-rahy-uh-sis] — noun

Excessive, often uncontrollable sexual desire in and behavior by a man.

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Nouvelle Vague (PiL cover)

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North Korean Mass Games – Finale

Wed Jul 30

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“ Grasp the subject, the words will follow. ”

Cato the Elder

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Iron sign at Sentinel Point

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Tue Jul 29

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Bloody Marys and Grace

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“ This moment is yours and you can give it to someone else. ”

Hercules & Love Affair

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Alizée – Fifty Sixty

Mon Jul 28

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Dr. Ronald Chevalier – The Art of Relaxating

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Tangram shelving system

Sat Jul 26

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“ You have laid here by the water side. You have let the family down. ”

Will Oldham

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1. A composition or structure in radiating form or arrangement, such as a rotating display of fireworks.
2. An ornamental branched candleholder, sometimes backed by a mirror.
3. An earring that consists of a central piece with three smaller ornaments or stones hanging from it.

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Kernel#rand_within range

module Kernel
  def rand_within(range)
    rand(range.max - range.min) + range.max
  end
end

rand_within 12..17
# => 15
rand_within 12..17
# => 13

age_range = students.map(&:age)
rand_within age_range

Fri Jul 25

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“ If your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough. ”

Robert Capa

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Lucky Strike & Sinatra

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The Freestyle (Roc Boys)

Wale on The Mixtape About Nothing

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Date#at_some_point between:start and:end

class Date
  def at_some_point(options = {})
    start_hour = options[:between]
    end_hour   = options[:and]
    if start_hour && end_hour
      hours = rand_within(start_hour...end_hour)
    else
      hours = rand(24)
    end
    
    minutes = rand(60)
    seconds = rand(60)
    Time.mktime(year, month, day, 
                hours, minutes, seconds)
  end
end

class Fixnum
  def am
    self == 12 ? 0 : self
  end
  
  def pm
    self == 12 ? self : self + 12
  end
end

Job.schedule task, :to_run => 
  Date.today.at_some_point(
    :between => 1.am, :and => 7.am
  )

Wed Jul 23

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Tip Butterfly needle

If giving blood makes you light headed or even pass out, ask that a butterfly needle be used rather than a straight needle.

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Gas Panic

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“ Being an intellectual means more than doing your homework. ”

William Deresiewicz

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The Johnny Cash Lawsuit Song

Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci

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“ There are two types of programming languages: the ones that people bitch about and the ones that no one uses. ”

Bjarne Stroustrup

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More REST/CRUD conventions

class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
  def self.set_resource(resource, &custom_setter)
    filter_name = :"set_#{resource}"
    before_filter filter_name, 
      :only => [:show, :edit, :update, :destroy]
    
    if custom_setter
      define_method(filter_name) do
        custom_setter.call(resource)
      end
    else
      define_method(filter_name) do
        instance_variable_set(
          "@#{resource}",
          resource.to_s.classify.find(params[:id])
        )
      end
    end
  end
  
  def self.default_formats_for(data)
    respond_to do |format|
      format.html
      format.xml  { render :xml => data }
    end
  end
end

class AccountsController < ApplicationController
  set_resource :account
    
  def index
    @accounts = Account.all
    default_formats_for @accounts
  end

  def show
    default_formats_for @account
  end
end

Tue Jul 22

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“ He is a jolly and amiable fellow to meet, yet he is also a lone scarred tree, for the lightning of living has hit him. ”

Sinclair Lewis on Hemingway

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Paul Otlet was a Belgian who predicted the Internet in 1934

Sun Jul 20

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Ease Back

Amos Lee

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Soft 404 by Kari Altmann

Mon Jul 14

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Ode to Street Hassle

Spacemen 3

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in•cho•a•tive

[in-koh-uh-tiv] — adjective

1. Beginning; initial.
2. Grammar Of or being a verb or verbal form that designates the beginning of an action, state, or event, such as the Latin verb tumescere, “to begin to swell”.

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Straight of Gibralter

Sun Jul 13

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“ Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1.5 tons. ”

Popular Mechanics, March 1949

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Supercar - Wonderword

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A Very Unlikely Occurrence

MC Frontalot

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This is sand

Fri Jul 11

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con•trap•pos•to

[kohn-truh-pos-toh] — noun

The position of a figure in painting or sculpture in which the hips and legs are turned in a different direction from that of the shoulders and head; the twisting of a figure on its own vertical axis.

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We Will Become Silhouettes

The Shins

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Space Wedding

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“ The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what we share with someone else when we’re uncool. ”

Lester Bangs in Almost Famous

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J. Robert Oppenheimer

Wed Jul 9

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“ Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. ”

Ernest Hemingway

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IM

Ryan - you'll be the first one to integrate sparkline ads into the body of your articles

Marcel - HIGH RESOLUTION ADS

Marcel - the sparklines could be a projection of my monthly revenue increases over time if the sparkline is clicked

Marcel - sufficiently self referential

Tue Jul 8

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Lucifer

Jay Z

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“ There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice. ”

Mark Twain

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Cripple Creek performed by Doug and Tyler

Sat Jul 5

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“ The only important rule is that all sexual climaxes must be simulated, not real. ”

Austin AIR SEX Championships

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Miyajima ferry

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21st Century Schizoid Man

King Crimson

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Edison – Failure of the Year

Wed Jul 2

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“ As usual, Ruby is 100 times slower. ”

Mauricio Fernandez

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IM

Marcel - Have you seen this yet? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrV2SZuRPv0

Marcel - It's pretty funny

Marcel - Although I don't think they made this as a joke :(

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