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Some Javascript stuff here concerning Google Maps and coding for them. This took me a little bit to figure out, cause I was a little slow, last night. Also, the Google Map API documentation doesn’t seem to cover this sort of eventuality. Say that, for whatever reason, you have an array of GMarker objects and [...]

Never posted this, I guess. This is Motoko Kusanagi I got from Wizard World. She’s all tough and stuff.

I just spent an hour debugging something in vain — I have a Game model that has_many Players. The Player model belongs_to one Game. In my controller, I wanted to do Game.new, then .build off the returned object. I kept getting undefined method ‘build’ and couldn’t figure out why. The method existed when I typed [...]

Enough people liked this that I thought I’d post the recipe. It’s a raspberry cake thing I made and brought in to work, this week. Note that you should double this — it’s super hard to mix when you’re just making for one loaf. Preheat oven to 350F Grease baking pan 1 1/3 cup flour [...]

There seems to be some sort of city grill-off going on, today. Main street outside my window is blocked off and there are all sorts of people in the street. They’re all standing before grills ranging from basic Webers to the kind you have to tow in behind a truck. It smells pretty awesome on [...]

I’m a sucker for the Nordic shoegazer music. Sigur Rós is up on my last.fm player, right now… specifically, Saeglopur. I can’t understand a single word they’re saying, but man it’s pretty. And sad. Good stuff.

My sensei, Shihan James Gillis (or Koncho as he later was termed) died last week. The number of people (not necesssarily students of his) who have called, IMed, and emailed to let me know that he died is testament to his legacy. So, I’m stil processing this — this post is for cathartic purposes, and [...]