Tap My Mind

A Blog by Scott Isaacs

Tag: Fun

I Finally Broke Down

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On May 12, 2005

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So I finally bought a Design Patterns book, Refactoring to Patterns, by Joshua Kerievsky.  I haven’t cracked it open yet, but it was recommended by a few people, including The Agile Developer and Gerry.  This will be my first official foray into Design Patterns — hopefully I can keep my interest up long enough to learn something from this book.  🙂

Also, a few of us are going to see Star Wars, Episode III, Revenge of the Sith next Thursday night (the night it opens).  That should be a lot of fun.  I’m not really a huge sci-fi fan, and I’m far from a Star Wars expert, but I’ve always liked the movies, and have seen all of the others at least once or twice each. 

So it should be a really fun night.  Just me, a few friends, and a few hundred other geeks…

Stand Up

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On May 9, 2005

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The Dave Matthews Band is releasing a new studio album, Stand Up, tomorrow and Kelly pre-ordered it for me.

In case you couldn’t tell by the fact that (1) I am blogging about (2) pre-ordering the CD, I am a pretty big fan.  🙂

Last I checked, my copy is somewhere between Louisville and here.  I should see it tomorrow sometime.

TSA Targets Tux!

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On May 6, 2005

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Apparently, even the government thinks that penguins might be dangerous.

Speaking of the TSA, did you know that knitting needles are allowed as carry-on items?  I was on a flight a couple weeks ago and there was a lady knitting with two 10″ (estimated) knitting needles that appeared to be made out of stainless steel or some other metal.  But pliers and toy weapons aren’t allowed?  Now, I’m not looking to allow pliers or plastic guns on planes, but I would think that if those weren’t allowed, then long, pointy knitting needles wouldn’t be allowed either.

Fortunately for all of us, cattle prods are prohibited.  Call your airline or go here for a complete listing.

Attention All Readers

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On April 4, 2005

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Thanks for reading.  It’s not like I’m getting major amounts of traffic to this site, but I’m getting more than I expected — currently a few thousand page views per week on average, which I’m pretty pleased with since I haven’t really told many people about it in person.

Now if I could ask a simple favor…

Please register for this site (don’t worry — it’s free and SPAM-free).  Then, please leave me some comments.  Or send me a note to let me know that you’re reading, or have subscribed, or that you’ve linked to me.

Anyway, thanks again.  Stay tuned because you never know when one of these posts might actually be interesting… 

 

A History of the Future of Media

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On March 21, 2005

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EPIC 2014

The Big 2-0

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On March 15, 2005

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No, I’m not talking about my age (sadly, I’m the big 3-0).  I’m talking about blogging.  I just realized that I was at 19 posts since I started blogging again on February 7.  So I decided to post this one to round it off to twenty.

I haven’t decided if I’m going to do this “milestone post” on a regular basis.  I guess that depends on if I have anything to say after my 29th post, or 49th post, etc.  I suppose for that matter I could just start posting “milestones” at any point, such as “This Is My 32nd Post”, but I don’t see any rhyme or reason to that — unless, of course, you consider that 32 is a power of 2.  Hmmm.  I could have a decimal milestone post AND a binary milestone post! 

Don’t even get me started on base 3!  Or prime numbers!!  That would be really fun!

I’m getting kind of excited over here!  I might actually have some serious amount of blog content pretty soon at this rate.

Bloggers in The Neighborhood

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On March 10, 2005

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I found BlogMap by accident, but thought it was pretty fun. So I added it to my left navigation.

If you register your blog here, the link they give you shows a map of bloggers that are in your area.  It’s using MapPoint technology (the map image says “Evaluation”), and it’s a pretty interesting use of the technology.  I’ve yet to decide if there is a real benefit to this, but I thought it was cool anyway.  🙂

Sign up for your own BlogMap here.

Sand Art

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On March 9, 2005

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This video is pretty awesome!  It’s several minutes long (maybe 10 minutes?), but well worth it.  If you’re on a slow connection you should probably download the file instead of streaming it.  Do this by right-clicking on the link and choosing “Save Target As…”.

Thanks to Karie (my sister) and Dennis for sending this to me.

Yummy!!

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On February 22, 2005

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I have decided that I have a new favorite Pop Tart!  The Chocolate Chip Pop Tart is delicious.  My mouth is watering just thinking about it.

Buy me a box for President’s Day… or St Patrick’s Day…  As a matter of fact, I would appreciate it if I got a box of these every week.

The vending maching at work has had them (I think I ate them all).  I had never tried that kind, but didn’t know what I was missing out on.  I’m working in Illinois the next couple days and really have a craving.  I might have to make a trip to the local grocery store…

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