I’ve been using this site I found about about, GCM Travel Stats, for predicting and analyzing Chicago traffic a lot lately. It works pretty well unless you get an unprecedented freak traffic spike like I did today:
It took me almost two hours to get from Midway to Uptown. I think it was the cubs game [...]
I started admiring this tree off of I-55 about a year and a half ago on my many trips to and from St. Louis from Chicago. I noticed it for its odd asymmetry and for its placement (all alone in a beautiful field on a farm).
It reminded me of that Shawshank Redemption quote–
There’s [...]
I’ve had two realizations about reality and the way the mind works. Sorry if this post is too random or metaphysical; they’ve been rattling around in my brain and I’d rather have them written down.
The first is that we typically think of knowledge as a tree: We are born as a root, and as we [...]
Good god do I want this thing.
More videos here: http://letsmakerobots.com/node/112
That’s amazing.
On today, April 1, click on any featured video on youtube.
Rickroll FTW!
There are several ways to do it:
sudo shutdown -s now
Note: that opens up a terminal window with a warning and a copy of your entire ssh session.
You can also use:
sudo osascript -e ‘tell app “Finder” to sleep’
That one’s more stealthy.
Try this command when you’re SSHed into a machine:
osascript -e ‘tell application “Finder”‘ -e “activate” -e “display dialog \”Happy April Fools!\”” -e ‘end tell’
Open a ssh session to your target computer and try any of these commands:
say Hi
say “Happy April Fools’ Day”
say -v ‘Zarvox’ “You’ve been hacked”
Heh, funny…
http://vortrack.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/magic-eye.gif
I solved it with photoshop…
http://jordanbalagot.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/magic-eye-answer.gif
But the joke’s on me, isn’t it?
As a new Netflix user, here are a couple things I’d like to see:
Sort queue by preference automatically. Like, I’d like newest releases on top and the classics on the bottom for when my queue is almost empty. I’d also like stuff like documentaries towards the bottom unless I specify otherwise.
RSS feeds of my ratings, [...]