Vanity

I registered my new car and got my first vanity plate. The answer to which one should be obvious. Picture to come, "within ninety days."

Where Is Curtis

Ahead of my Grand Canyon and Collegiate Range trips, I dusted off some XSLT books and rebuilt whereiscurtis.com: a Perl script pulling Spot locations from IMAP into XML, SFTP uploads, and an embedded Google Map. The XSLT took freakin' forever.

Climbs

Three plans in the works: the second annual Death March at the Grand Canyon (chasing sub-20 hours), four-plus days across the Collegiate Peaks, and a possible West Rib climb. I need ice climbing partners. Anyone? Fat chance, I know, but I ask anyway.

Homeopathy

Wikipedia cuts straight to the heart of homeopathy: since water has touched nearly everything in its history, drinking it should treat every imaginable condition. And a 30C dilution would need a container 30 billion times the size of Earth.

Lethargy

I bought a '94 Lexus and suddenly notice all the other Lexi, a tribe that drives as slowly as possible as far left as possible. But find the Over-Drive button, switch it off, and oh, there's the V8. I get half the rated mileage in every car I own.

Doppler

If you're reading this: did I hand you my radar detector a couple years back when I sold my car? I genuinely can't remember who has it.

My Other Profession

I'm famous. macdesktops.com.

Cloud Computing

I can't wait until "cloud computing" gets shoved out of the vernacular. But given that "cyber-" still haunts government press releases two decades past its expiration, I suspect I'll be hearing this one for a long time.

Postgres, Timestamps and the C API

A surprise from libpq: pass "1" for binary results and a Postgres timestamp comes back as a 64-bit count of microseconds since 2000. Here's the arithmetic to turn 303,687,735,731,339 back into a date you recognize.

INTJ

I've never read anything that describes me as well as this profile of the INTJ Myers-Briggs type. Crazy stuff. Update: I made an INTJ shirt on Zazzle.