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The Urban Ninja

This guy was co creator of the sport parkour. Pretty sweet stuff. Here are two other guys doing wall flips and stuff.

Top Thirty Facts about Chuck Norris

Sweet. Also on the same site, Mr. T and Vin Diesel. Chuck is the funniest though.

First snow! Just dandruff right now.

I realize that I use probably 5 or 6 design patterns in my job. Everything else is pretty much window dressing. Which makes sense, as I work on UI stuff and those patterns are pretty well defined. So, today, Woods asked me about something and I surprised myself by coming up with something clever. Basically, he has a lot of numbers (n) and he’s got a mean from them. He needs to recalc when an edit happens to one of those numbers. So, he could reloop through all the numbers. I told him to take the old mean, multiply by n, subtract the old number, add the new value and redivide. I’m sure people use this all the time, but I haven’t seen it too much. It made me feel good to know that I can do more than write for loops that populate combo boxes.

Death by Caffeine

Found this on Boing Boing. I guess I’m easier to kill than I thought.

I think that zombies have become my new favorite Halloween monster. I was really into vampires as a kid, but there seems to be a zombie renaissance going on. I think that while they have certain similarities (being able to turn their victims), zombies have a certain charm. I mean, most of their power derives from banding together into a horde, while vampires seem much more lone wolf. Also, vampires seem really full of themselves, while zombies seem much more chill. Give ‘em some brains and they’re content to shamble.

So, in honor of the new undead hotness, El and I had Z-Day yesterday.

First off, in the morning, I beat Shaun of the Dead and also the Stubbs soundtrack.

Came back, went for a swim in the pool (nothing really zombie related except that trying to run from on end to the other felt vaguely zombie like. Also, my triceps got tired really quickly and everyone knows that zombies need good triceps for proper zombie posture.

Then, cooked up a storm. We made two batches of chili, one w/ meat, one w/out which I referred to as brainstew. Then I grilled artichokes, which I realize aren’t the spookiest of vegetables but hey, I wanted to try. The chili turned out well. The artichokes… not so much (didn’t steam them long enough before putting them on the grill).

Woods and Erin came over for dinner and then we watched Army of Darkness. Todd came over after the NU game finished and we all watched Shaun of the Dead.

All in all, Z Day was a success (and I was totally brain dead this morning, so yay for Daylight Savings turning off).

Til next year, braaaaaaiiiiiiiinnnnns.

Colbert meets Gandalf

Amazingly funny.

That Asian Backstreet Boys video

This video’s ben making the rounds, but I didn’t click on it until today. Really shows how selling it makes all the difference! This page has links to all the other videos by the duo.

Although, I have to say that my favorite Asian Backstreet Boys spoof is still Bok Choi Boys doing “Fry Fry Fry.” Couldn’t find a link to it online though.

Also on YouTube: Anoop Dogg’s Drop it like a FOB.

Steven Seagal’s Lightning Bolt Energy Drink - Asian Experience

I’m speechless. I have… no speech.

TIME.com: Interview: Neil Gaiman and Joss Whedon

El and I just watched the entire series of Firefly this past weekend and I’m about 50 pages into Anasi Boys, so I got a kick out of this interview…