AlternateIdea: Snowboarding in Canada

January 23rd, 2006

Snowboarding in Canada

3 comments on 146 words

Yesterday we all geared up and went snowboarding. It was my first time so I kissed the ice more than a few times, but I had a blast!

Scott pulled off some really good camera trickery to make some of the photos look like I was burning up the slopes, but in reality I spent most of the trip ass to ice..heh.

It was great to relax for a while and escape the mass geekery we have going on in the office.

canada snowboarding

Discussion

jcasimir said on January 23rd

The first day is murder. If you can do it three days in a row you’ll be a convert. If you just go one it’ll be all the suffering without much reward.

My #1 secret: Rollerblade (brand) kneepads. Being able to comfortably drop to your knees is invaluable. Put them under your pants and no one will know you’re smarter than they are.
Justin Palmer said on January 25th

I did a fair job actually. We are going again Thursday, hopefully I can make it all the way down the slope without swallowing any ice ;-).

You have to make your body do things it doesn’t naturally want to do like lean forward speeding down a hill to center your weight.
Lee said on January 26th

First day is usually pretty rough, as far as snowboarding is concerned. Your 2nd or 3rd time out will probably be even more fun than your first. It’s amazing how quickly and steadily you are able to improve.

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Justin develops iPhone and Mac software over at Labrat Revenge by night and by day he is the Design Director for entp, the company behind Lighthouse, Warehouse, and Mephisto. You can check out his dated portfolio for a peek of what he's done.

Beautifully simple issue tracking and project management. With a beautiful Mac-like interface, email and subversion integration, Lighthouse is the perfect project management tool. We took the suck out of issue tracking.

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```
alias grep='GREP_COLOR="1;37;41" LANG=C grep --color=auto'
```
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DoubleClick and Define using Apple Dictionary


var selection;
if(window.getSelection)
  selection = window.getSelection();
else if(document.selection)
  selection = document.selection.createRange();

document.observe("dblclick", function() {
  if(navigator.userAgent.include("Macintosh")) {
      location.href = "dict://" + selection;
    }
});

A quick (and probably dirty) Prototype-based hack allowing Mac users to get the definition of any word by double clicking it.

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A strftime for Prototype


Object.extend(Date.prototype, {
  strftime: function(format) {
    var day = this.getUTCDay(), month = this.getUTCMonth();
    var hours = this.getUTCHours(), minutes = this.getUTCMinutes();
    function pad(num) { return num.toPaddedString(2); };

    return format.gsub(/\%([aAbBcdDHiImMpSwyY])/, function(part) {
      switch(part[1]) {
        case 'a': return $w("Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat")[day]; break;
        case 'A': return $w("Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday")[day]; break;
        case 'b': return $w("Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec")[month]; break;
        case 'B': return $w("January February March April May June July August September October November December")[month]; break;
        case 'c': return this.toString(); break;
        case 'd': return this.getUTCDate(); break;
        case 'D': return pad(this.getUTCDate()); break;
        case 'H': return pad(hours); break;
        case 'i': return (hours === 12 || hours === 0) ? 12 : (hours + 12) % 12; break;
        case 'I': return pad((hours === 12 || hours === 0) ? 12 : (hours + 12) % 12); break;
        case 'm': return pad(month + 1); break;
        case 'M': return pad(minutes); break;
        case 'p': return hours > 11 ? 'PM' : 'AM'; break;
        case 'S': return pad(this.getUTCSeconds()); break;
        case 'w': return day; break;
        case 'y': return pad(this.getUTCFullYear() % 100); break;
        case 'Y': return this.getUTCFullYear().toString(); break;
      }
    }.bind(this));
  }
});

UPDATE: Bugs fixed. Thanks Andrew and Stephen

Also, some of my old and new code has been posted on GitHub. You might find something useful.

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A beautiful, organic animation by Flight404 created using Processing.

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Aaron Patterson shows us how to define ruby methods which can be called from JavaScript using RKelly.
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IE 8 PAsses the Acid 2 Test for those not keeping tabs on things.
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