Jesse Mullan

GalleryCon 2007

Written on Thursday, the 19^th of April, 2007 at 2:48 pm and was filed under: Nerdity

I have volunteered the fair city of Minneapolis (and, to a lesser extent, the rustic and slightly off smelling but generally sincere and pleasant village of Saint Paul) as the setting for a small convention of the international open source developers who write and maintain Gallery. There are some questions that need answering, like where should we have our big expensive dinner?

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Keelhaul it!

Written on Monday, the 9^th of April, 2007 at 2:01 pm and was filed under: Nerdity

Paul has been busy redesigning this website for maximum awesome.

Prepare for boarding:

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There is no such thing as a one sixth note

Written on Friday, the 16^th of March, 2007 at 7:18 pm and was filed under: Music, Nerdity

I keep listening to various performances of the Super Mario Brothers theme music, and I keep hearing some weirdness. I decided to pull out a tracker and get the timing down right. I was sort of right about the internet notation being wrong. The time signature is 4:4 with a nice triplet in there. To notate it in step notation I had to use a 96 line block, with each beat encompassing 6 lines.

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Fill My Belly, Tiny Sandwich

Written on Tuesday, the 6^th of March, 2007 at 12:37 pm and was filed under: Diversions, Nerdity

My brain tells me that I was up until five last night hunched over the laptop writing code. I expect only the craziest of thoughts all day as a result.

Oh, I totally woke up from a dream with the fix for a coding problem that I was having. Crazy times.

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emacs php lint mode

Written on Wednesday, the 28^th of February, 2007 at 2:23 pm and was filed under: Nerdity

This will excite everyone, for suitably nerdy definitions of everyone. Also, assuming that you use emacs to edit php. Also assuming that you edit php. So. Really. Just me.

php-lint-mode.el

Hot.

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Other, better things

Written on Tuesday, the 6^th of February, 2007 at 7:31 pm and was filed under: Photography, Nerdity, school

One of my monitors died last week, so I bought a nice new one. It was a bribe to get me to work on my CSci5161 homework. It seems to have worked! Hooray!

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Dear Media Temple

Written on Sunday, the 4^th of February, 2007 at 3:16 pm and was filed under: Diversions, Mediatemple

I think that I’m going to start looking for a new hosting provider.

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In Former Soviet Russia, Tetris Plays YOU

Written on Thursday, the 11^th of January, 2007 at 3:02 pm and was filed under: Nerdity

I can’t watch an hour long video at work. I just can’t do it. Instead, I will post it so that I can watch it when I get home.

It’s the BBC. It’s Tetris. I’m considering leaving right now so that I can watch it when I get home

(video after the jump — the cut)

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Now, I have become Robot, the destroyer of worlds

Written on Monday, the 8^th of January, 2007 at 12:04 pm and was filed under: Music, Nerdity

Last week Zach stumbled upon 8 bit peoples. On that site they have collected the best bleeping music ever. Ever ever. You want your SID chips, Coleco sounds, Nintendo breakbeats? You got ‘em.

I am nerd, hear me bleep.

Over the weekend, Zach downloaded 1.4 gigabytes of bleeping. Cue worktime freakout dance moves.

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Uh oh, it’s magic!

Written on Monday, the 8^th of January, 2007 at 2:01 am and was filed under: Nerdity

I think that my desktop computer is having hard drive issues. If you’re keeping track, this has happened about a million billion times over the last year.

Maybe I will be lucky, and it will just be memory or processor issues.

Cross your fingers!

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