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Colin’s balcony makes me jealous…

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 23:45:37 -0800

Colin’s balcony makes me jealous…

My top 5 films of 2012

Fri, 18 Jan 2013 23:50:00 -0800

Martha Marcy May Marlene

The Master

Killing Them Softly

Dredd

Sleepwalk With Me

My top 5 films of 2012

Photo

Fri, 18 Jan 2013 23:40:00 -0800

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Sat, 12 Jan 2013 16:10:24 -0800

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Thu, 10 Jan 2013 21:04:16 -0800

Whisky Quest #8

Thu, 22 Nov 2012 01:06:00 -0800

Ardbeg Galileo

Why?

Because I found it in a shop in my new home of San Francisco and was it excited to get some due to it being completely sold it out (ironically) in Scotland.

Verdict

The whisky has a really interesting taste: initial peat and smoke associated with a standard Ardbeg and but with a stronger hit due to the extra alcohol (49%) and age. There was also overtones of bourbon and a sour/fruity finish that both add a twist to make this a bit special.

Happy Halloween!

Wed, 31 Oct 2012 07:56:42 -0700

Happy Halloween!

My top 5 films for Halloween (for various reasons).

Tue, 30 Oct 2012 21:07:00 -0700

Event Horizon

Donnie Darko

Scream

V/H/S

Saw

My top 5 films for Halloween (for various reasons).

Love this candid of Fee by Chris Rubey

Sat, 27 Oct 2012 22:20:27 -0700

Love this candid of Fee by Chris Rubey

Whisky Quest #7

Sat, 29 Sep 2012 08:06:00 -0700

Finally picked up a bottle of this. Its on the tiny whisky menu at my favourite restaurant which often marks anniversaries/birthdays with my girlfriend and tastes pretty damn brilliant. As you can imagine, its one of my favourites.

Me and my cousin (@jamesscdow).

Tue, 04 Sep 2012 18:03:00 -0700

Me and my cousin (@jamesscdow).

I’ve watched this a couple of times since it came out and...

Tue, 04 Sep 2012 17:53:34 -0700

I’ve watched this a couple of times since it came out and I think its my favourite documentary of the year. A brilliant look into what it means to create something.

COMING ALIVE.

Wed, 29 Aug 2012 11:05:00 -0700

COMING ALIVE.

WAT?! Guessing the fact that it 00:26 in GMT+1… Seems to...

Tue, 24 Jul 2012 17:31:00 -0700

WAT?! Guessing the fact that it 00:26 in GMT+1…

Seems to be fixable by setting config.time_zone in application.rb to your local timezone. Hmmmm…

The most epic rock climbing I’ve ever witnessed…

Tue, 24 Jul 2012 03:04:46 -0700

The most epic rock climbing I’ve ever witnessed…

echo v1.1

Sun, 15 Jul 2012 16:41:00 -0700

I recently pushed a new version of my FRP framework for Scala ‘echo’. This version brings with it the addition of a ‘foldLeft’ function for Events, performance tweaks and bug fixes.

As you might guess, the most significant change is ‘foldLeft’. This allows for rolling calculations over all of an Event’s occurrences. For instance, we could sum the values of an integer Event’s occurrences like so:

val event = Event[Int]
val sum = event.foldLeft(0) {
   (old,new) =&gt; old + new
}

Here ‘sum’ would be a Behaviour[Int] who’s value at any point in time would be the sum of the all the occurred values of ‘event’.

Documentation for the new version is up here and you can check out the framework on github.

Summer so far…

Sun, 15 Jul 2012 16:23:51 -0700

Summer so far…

Happy Friday!

Fri, 29 Jun 2012 12:08:43 -0700

Happy Friday!

The Bartender Never Gets Killed: Prometheus

Wed, 06 Jun 2012 16:42:00 -0700

The Bartender Never Gets Killed: Prometheus:

An interesting analysis of Prometheus by my interesting girlfriend.

"The essence of XML is this: the problem it solves is not hard, and it does not solve the problem..."

Sat, 19 May 2012 18:12:15 -0700

“The essence of XML is this: the problem it solves is not hard, and it does not solve the problem well.”

- Philip Wadler