blog.elfredpagan.com http://blog.elfredpagan.com The Occasional Musings of Elfred Pagan Thu, 24 Jan 2008 03:33:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 en Edward Tufte Likes his iPhone http://blog.elfredpagan.com/2008/01/23/edward-tufte-likes-his-iphone/ http://blog.elfredpagan.com/2008/01/23/edward-tufte-likes-his-iphone/#comments Thu, 24 Jan 2008 03:33:49 +0000 elfred http://blog.elfredpagan.com/2008/01/23/edward-tufte-likes-his-iphone/ Edward Tufte displayed how the iPhone resolves the small screen display issue. The coolest part of it all, is that his phone is jailbreaked, that’s impressive.

p.s. I’m working on a overhaul of this little blog and I expect to write in it more often. This last year has been pretty intense, but some of my time has been freed up.

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Originally uploaded by elfredpagan.

Fri 05/18/2007 17:54 05182007 Jenn passed out in the train

]]> http://blog.elfredpagan.com/2007/05/18/lifeblog-post-2/feed/ Lazy on the Blog http://blog.elfredpagan.com/2006/12/20/lazy-on-the-blog/ http://blog.elfredpagan.com/2006/12/20/lazy-on-the-blog/#comments Wed, 20 Dec 2006 21:55:45 +0000 elfred http://blog.elfredpagan.com/2006/12/20/lazy-on-the-blog/ I’ve been pretty lazy with my blog posts lately. I’m currently on vacation chilling out so I decided to write something here. I just got back from a Business/Leisure trip to Upstate NY, Connecticut and NYC. We held out second internal Hack Day at IBM on the 15th, and I was part of the team organizing and developing the infrastructure for it. After Hack Day, I spent the weekend in NYC with my sister. Basically we walked a lot in Manhattan and saw Spamalot, which was awesome. Now I’m home, on vacation, slacking off :)

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]]> http://blog.elfredpagan.com/2006/11/08/the-start-of-better-times/feed/ What a few days http://blog.elfredpagan.com/2006/11/03/what-a-few-days/ http://blog.elfredpagan.com/2006/11/03/what-a-few-days/#comments Sat, 04 Nov 2006 04:30:43 +0000 elfred http://blog.elfredpagan.com/2006/11/03/what-a-few-days/ Long story short, I’m an uncle, two months early. The good news is, it seems like the worst is behind us, the baby looks fine and she’s breathing on her own, the mother is doing great too and ecstatic that her baby is doing well. Grandma arrived today, and she too is incredibly happy, dad is relieved and ecstatic also. Granpa comes in on wednesday, someone will be spoiled and Uncle, well, what can I say, it’s been a stressful few days, but I’m certain the baby is going to be one helluva bundle of joy.

]]> http://blog.elfredpagan.com/2006/11/03/what-a-few-days/feed/ Drinking for Cirrhosis http://blog.elfredpagan.com/2006/10/20/drinking-for-cirrhosis/ http://blog.elfredpagan.com/2006/10/20/drinking-for-cirrhosis/#comments Fri, 20 Oct 2006 17:15:44 +0000 elfred http://blog.elfredpagan.com/2006/10/21/drinking-for-cirrhosis/ Here a bunch of us are at The Jackalope participating in our Ode to Alcoholism Drinking For Cirrhosis. Stats Below

Attendants: Cesar, Martin, Esti, Kavan, Melissa, Laura and Elfred Stats:

11:10 

    Cesar   1 shot  1 beer
    Martin  1 shot  1 beer

11:15 

    Esti            1 beer

11:25 

    Kavan   1 shot  1 beer
    Cesar   1 shot
    Elfred  1 shot  1 beer
    Laura   1 shot  1 beer

11:46

    Martin          1 beer

11:50 

    Elfred          1 beer

11:55

    Cesar           1 beer

12:10 James and Kinai Joined

    Kavan           1 beer
    James           1 beer

12:14

    Kinai           1 beer

12:15

    Cesar   1 burger

12:20

    Kavan   1 chicken + 1/2 fries
    Laura   1 chicken + 1/2 fries
    Martin  1 beer (guiness)
    Esti    1 beer (new castle)

12:23 

    Elfred  1 Beer (guinness)

12:30

    Esti    1 Burger (black and blue)

1:00

    Cesar   1 Fried Mushrooms
    Laura   1 vodka + doctor pepper

1:05

    Cesar   1 (guinness)

1:10

    Martin  1 burger + fries

1:15

    Cesar   1 worm + 1 hot cigarette = worm jumps

1:15 

    Elfred  1 beer (guinness) + 1 burger (chipotle)

1:30

    Esti    1 beer (new castle)

1:31

    Melissa 1 beer (new castle)

1:34

    James   1 beer

1:40 

    Kavan   1 beer (guinness)

2:05

    Cesar   1 beer (guinness)
    Martin  1 beer (guinness)

2:10

    Elfred  1 beer (guinness)

2:27

    Melissa 1 beer (new castle)
    Laura   1 vodka + doctor pepper

2:45 

    James 1 tineman

2:50 

    Esti    1 beer (XX)

3:00

    Kavan   1 beer(new castle)

THIS BAR IS CLOSED (BACK BAR)

3:10 Coraly Joined US

    Martin 1 beer (guinness)
    Elfred  1 beer (guinness)
    Cesar   1 beer (guinness)
    Coraly  1 beer (pacifico)

The bartender is kinda pissed at us

    Cook    1 beer (miller lite) (yes, we paid a drink for the cook)

3:15

    Melissa 1 burger + fries

3:20 

    Kavan  Some beer

3:34

    Melissa     1 beer (new castle)

4:10

    Laura + Kavan   Fried shrooms + chipotle wings

4:25 

    Esti    1 beer (XX)
    Cesar   1 beer (guinnesss)
    Elfred  1 beer (guinness)

Melissa hit on the bartender, making him unpissed off

4:35

    James   1 beer (stella)

4:40

    Melissa 1 beer (new castle)

Bartender is looking at Melissa very sexily

    Kavan   1 beer (pilsner)

4:55

    Cesar   1 rum & coke + portabella sandwich with fries

5:00

    Melissa 1 Shot jager (free)

5:05

    Elfred  1 rum and coke
    Martin  1 beer  (guinness)

5:15 

    Martin  1 Shot Whiskey

5:16

    Cesar   1 shot  rum

5:37 

    Rafa + Carlos   1 Pitcher

5:45

    Esti    1 beer (xx)

6:10

    Martin  1 Beer (new castle)
    Elfred  1 rum + coke

6:11 

    Rafa + Carlos   1 Pitcher

6:23

    Cesar   1 rum + Coke

6:30

    Kavan   1 beer (shiner)

6:35

    Laura   1 dr. pepper + vodka
    James   1 Beer (fireman 4)

6:45

    Elfred  1 rum + coke
    Melissa + Martin    1 Pitcher (New Castle)

Bartender invited melissa to hang out

6:50 

    Maneesh 1 beer (XX) 
    Judy    1 beer (fireman 4)

6:57 

    Rafa + Carlos   1 Pitcher

7:00

    Anna    1 beer
    Eric    1 beer

7:05

    Maneesh 1 beer  (XX)

7:10

    Cesar   1 rum + coke

7:30

    Elfred  1 rum + coke

7:50

    Laura   1 vodka + dp
    James   1 beer (fireman)
    Kavan   1 beer
    Eric    1 beer
    Cesar   1 rum + coke
    Elfred  1 rum + coke

8:00 

    Esti    1 burger    rum + coke

8:10

    Chinton ...
    Rachel  1 beer, 1 whiskey + coke
    Josse   1 pitcher
    rafa    1 beer

8:15

    Carolina    1 rum + coke

8:25

    Elfred  1 rum + coke

8:30 

    Rachel  1 whiskey + coke

8:35

    Esti    1 rum + coke

8:40 

    Cristian    1 beer

8:44

    Martin  1 beer

8:47

    Laura   1 vodka

8:57

    Elfred  1 rum + coke

9:00 

    Melissa + Martin    1 chicken sandwich and fries
    Cesar               1 burger
    Elfred              1 burger
    Rachel              1 whiskey + coke

9:10

    Martin      1 beer (guinness) e
    Melissa     1 beer (new castle)

9:15

    Rachel  1 double whiskey + coke
    Chinton 1 whiskey + soda
    Cesar   1 rum + coke

Kavan is feeling sleepy

9:29

    Rachel  1 Jack + coke
    Rafa    1 jack + coke

9:55 indecipherable scribbles…

    Esti    1 rum + coke
    Kavan + Laura   1 red bull

10:00

    Kavan   1 whiskey + soda

10:04

    Cesar   1 sake bomb
    bartender   ""
    melissa ""
    Elfred  ""
    Martin  ""

10:07

    Elfred  1 rum + coke

10:10 

    Melissa 1 beer (new castle)

10:12

    Carolina    1 Malibu +Pineapple
    Carlos      1 beer (lonestar)

10:19

    Bill    1 bourbon + soda

10:25

    Scott   1 whiskey + coke
    Tess    1 vodka

10:30

    Rachel  1 Whiskey + coke
    Chinton 1 Whiskey + soda
    Kavan   1 whiskey + soda
    Eric + Anna 1 beer each, heffenheizen

10:32

    Ana     1 Gin + tonic
    Eric    1 Gin + tonic
    bill    1 bourbon + soda
    James   1 beer (firemans 4)

10:35

    Martin  1 beer

10:40 

    Frank + susan   Apple Martini

10:45

    Chinton 1 Vodka redbull
    Kavan   1 ac
    laura   1 ac

10:50

    Carlos  1 beer (lonestar)

10:55 

    Rachel  jibberish....

10:59

    Tess    1 vodka
    Scott   1 whiskey + coke

11:00

    Elfred  1 rum + coke
    Cesar   1 rum + coke
    Adrian  1 black and tan

11:05

    Kavan   1 whiskey
    Jesse   2 PBRs

11:10

    Esti    1 rum + coke

11:15

    Cesar, kavan, carlos, elfred, chinton   1 big girlie drink

11:17

    Cesar, Elfred, Martin, Scott, CHinton, Melissa  1 big girlie drink

11:18

    Laura   1 vodka + coke

11:20 Cesar claims he’s fucked up….

11:30

    Elfred  1 rum + coke

11:24

    Tess    1 vodka
    Scott   1 whiskey
    West    1 lone star
    someone 1 jack

11:35

    Martin  1 shot whiskey  1 beer

11:40

    Bill    2 bourbon + soda
    Esti    1 rum + coke

11:55

    Cesar   1 water
    Elfred  1 rum + coke
    Laura   1 vodka/coke
    Kavan   1 scotch + coke
    James   1 crown + 2 beers

11:58 

    Melissa 1 beer (new castle)

12:00

    Kinai   crown + coke
    scott + tess    1 pint pabst

12:05

    Martin  1 whiskey + 1 guinness
    Cesar   1 rum + coke

12:10

    Chinton 1 gin + tonic
    Carlos  1 beer (lone star)

12:25

    Elfred  1 rum + coke

12:35

    Kavan   1 whiskey + soda
    Melissa 1 jager bomb

12:48

    Elfred  1 rum + coke

12:50

    Carlos  1 beer
    Esti    1 rum + coke
    Scott   1 pint pabst
    Tess    1 pint pabst

1:07

    Elfred  1 rum + coke

1:20

    Thom    Pabst
    Esti    1 Rum + coke

1:25

    Cesar   1 rum + coke

1:30

    Brendan too much to count

1:40

    Elfred  1 rum + coke

1:55

    Kavan   1 whiskey+soda

2:00

    Laura, Kavan, Elfred, Esti, Cesar, James    1 Mexican Fly Shot

AND IT’s DONE

That’s the timeline of our little event… Do not try this at home kids, these people are trained professionals in a closed course.

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AS.app(’Aperture’).projects.get.each do |project| p “project: ” + project.name.get project.albums.get.each do |album| p ‘album: ‘ + album.name.get end end [/ruby] Which nicely prints out as:

"project: ACL Day 2"
"album: flickr"
"project: ACL Day 3"
"album: flickr"
"project: ACL day 1"
"album: flickr"
"project: BBQ"
"project: Pikes Place Market"
"album: my album"
"project: Ratatat"
"project: Redmond Day 1"
"album: redmond album"
"project: atx"
"project: Puerto Rico, Oct 2006"

Combine this with some ruby-cocoa magic and you can easily build native looking applications that can use applescript in a much easier manner than Cocoa alone.

And that my friends is pretty damn sweet.

]]> http://blog.elfredpagan.com/2006/10/19/rb-appscript/feed/ Not it! Mass. elementary school bans tag - Yahoo! News http://blog.elfredpagan.com/2006/10/18/not-it-mass-elementary-school-bans-tag-yahoo-news/ http://blog.elfredpagan.com/2006/10/18/not-it-mass-elementary-school-bans-tag-yahoo-news/#comments Thu, 19 Oct 2006 01:32:44 +0000 elfred http://blog.elfredpagan.com/2006/10/18/not-it-mass-elementary-school-bans-tag-yahoo-news/

Not it! Mass. elementary school bans tag - Yahoo! News: “Recess is ‘a time when accidents can happen,’ said Willett Elementary School Principal Gaylene Heppe, who approved the ban.”

Lets raise a bunch of antisocial brats.

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