Pbur's Adventures

The life and times of Patrick Burleson

Category Archives: General

links for 2008-01-17

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Quick REST with ActiveResource and rails (tags: Rails ruby tutorial)

links for 2008-01-16

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How Can America’s Rich Teach Their Children the Value of a Dollar? — New York Magazine Tales about growing up rich and raising kids…you know, for inspiration (tags: commentary family kids money)

Wii Remote Headtracking for Living Room VR

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I just saw a post over at Will’s blog about this and I was amazed. Watch and enjoy:

links for 2007-12-29

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Ruby, Leopard and gems A couple of notes about building native gems on leopard (tags: Leopard postgresql mysql ruby osx)

Happy Holidays

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I wanted to wish all my family and friends a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! 2007 has been a good year for us and here’s looking forward to an even better 2008.  

Vegas Baby!

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Back in August, knowing that Maggie would be graduating this semester, we planned a celebration trip to Las Vegas. This past weekend Maggie graduated with a degree in English and on Sunday we left for Sin City. We were already booked into a pretty nice hotel, The Wynn Las Vegas, and when we went to […]

links for 2007-12-15

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A strange photo of camels in the desert | Frostfirezoo.com (tags: Photos neat trickery)

links for 2007-12-14

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Introducing RunAway Nice looking Nike+ shoe adapter (tags: Nike+) Ion3 license violation My vote for thread of the year. (tags: Software Ports BSD Retarded)

links for 2007-12-13

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Best Buy at Improv Everywhere Improv troop wear’s blue polos to a best buy and causes a “scene” (tags: Funny imp bestbuy Humor prank improveverywhere)

links for 2007-12-11

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glumbert – Intro to Idiocracy The first couple of minutes of Idiocracy. I think it says a lot just in those few minutes. (tags: Movies social commentary)

links for 2007-12-08

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Pure Mac: Software for Macintosh Site containing various categories of Mac software with links to them (tags: Mac Apple OSX software) crazybob.org: Introduction to Guice Video (Redux) Crazy Bob’s Guice Talk (tags: Programming Guice java dependency google framework) Git – a Talk by Randal Schwartz (tags: google Programming software versioncontrol scm techtalk)

links for 2007-12-07

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Mercurial – Mercurial Mercurial home page (tags: mercurial) Devolutions – C# to VB.NET how to do things in VB.NET that you know how to do in C# (tags: C# VB.NET) Mercurial Guide (tags: Mercurial) Distributed revision control with Mercurial Unofficial Mercurcial manual (tags: Mercurial) NWS – National Mosaic Radar Image: Full Resolution Loop Great radar […]

Getting a handle on your Blog reading

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If you’re like me, you’ve subscribed to a ton of Blog feeds. I was up to around 200 until I read a friend of mine Will’s post about consuming blogs. That post has changed my blog reading life. I went from having hundred’s of unread posts when I got home to my Newsreader, to maybe […]

The Human Calendar

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The Human Calendar is pretty cool. It took me a minute to “get it” that all the other people in the calendar were looking at today’s date. Pretty neat.

Beautiful, funny, disturbing

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I think it’s something about the music that makes this somewhat disturbing

Catching Up

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Been a long while since I’ve posted. In that time we’ve had Halloween where Brenden went as a adorable dragon ( pic at Maggie’s site ) . We also went to Maggie’s sister’s wedding in California and has a great time. Well, except for Brenden not having the best sleeping patterns. You know, like screaming […]

Getting older moments

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Over the past couple of days I’ve had two distinct “getting older” moments. The first was while talking to one of the new guys at work and discussing a movie, which one, I don’t quite remember. His response was “that movie was before my time”, and I was like “but that was like the late […]

Weird Al

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Two weeks ago Weird Al made a stop in the DFW area. He was supposed to play in McKinney, but the venue got a little to soggy ( it was outdoors ) and the event was moved to Garland to their “Special Events Center”. This of course caused some major headaches with seating and such, […]

Harry Potter

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For the first time in my life, I have read a book straight through without taking a break for silly things like sleeping ( Maggie was up with me, no idea if that’s happened to her before ). Harry Potter and Deathly Hallows is well worth the wait and all the reading leading up to […]

Couple of New Blogs

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Wanted to post here that I’m starting to post at two new blogs I’ve been invited to: clusterflock – a blog about everything with no filtering, so expect anything SnaggleTruth – a blog about the TV Shows Heroes and LOST ( at least so far ) I know what you’re thinking, “But he doesn’t hardly […]