http://blog.semi-sentient.com Randomly generated words and pictures Sat, 24 Oct 2009 17:23:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [wave id="googlewave.com!w+EKq8zGr4C"] http://blog.semi-sentient.com/2009/10/foobar/ I whipped up a simple Ruby API interface for Flickr using HTTParty and this evening decided to use it to play around with some numbers from my own Flickr account.  Just a basic graph showing which hours of the day that I most (and least) take pictures.  I did minimal spot checking on pictures and noticed ... http://blog.semi-sentient.com/2009/02/fun-with-the-flickr-api/ Season 1 of MacGuyver free on CBS.com! Very awesome "Don't tell me you can make a bomb out of chewing gum!" "Why, you got some?" http://blog.semi-sentient.com/2008/02/tonight-on-macguyver/ I hate to quote, link, and run but I'm going to do just that: "We've been asked to pause for a reality check," Obama said. "We've been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope. But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false ... http://blog.semi-sentient.com/2008/02/yes-we-can/ Whoa, I don't know what to think of this whole no pants on the subway thing, but you've got to watch it all the way through. http://blog.semi-sentient.com/2008/01/crazy-pantsless-people/ My website notes that I'm turned on by style and functionality. Keeping that in mind, I hope you can understand why Leatherman's upcoming Skeletool gives me a raging hard on. It's simple, sleek, sexy and, oh yeah, carbon fiber. Plus, I can introduce it people by saying "This is ... http://blog.semi-sentient.com/2008/01/skeletooool/ MC FrontalotOriginally uploaded by cheerfulstoic.Anybody who's seen Radiohead, either live or in a video, is probably familiar with the particular way that Thom Yorke shakes his head. Rather than shaking or bobbing, it seems to rotate around a point, in the same plane as his body. Generally this ... http://blog.semi-sentient.com/2008/01/rock-and-roll-wave-induction/