Posted by lee Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:57:00 GMT
"Favre threw a deep ball to Coles during practice. (The pass was incomplete due to pass interference by Darrelle Revis.) When Coles went to the sideline after the play to get a drink of water, a fan yelled, ‘Chad could never throw it that far.’
Coles’ response? ‘Fuck you.’"
Posted by lee Thu, 29 May 2008 03:13:00 GMT
I got my Macbook Pro in February. For the first two months I had it, I dealt with the error you see in the title of this entry. The display would freeze and be entirely unresponsive, save being able to move the mouse cursor around. The dreaded "Graphics channel timeout" error would be written to the log every 12 seconds until I did a hard shutdown. Eventually, I had my MLB replaced at the Mac store. After a week of living without it, I had it returned to me with a brand new board installed. I got the error again the next morning.
Luckily, the latest EFI update has fixed my problem. Since installing the update (found here), I haven’t had this error occur once. Today, OSX 10.5.3 is available. I’ve installed it, and thus far there’s been no hiccups. Before the EFI update, I was patiently awaiting this release. There was a lot of talk about this update having the fix for the "Graphics channel timout!" error. The EFI update is what fixed it for me though.
Posted by lee Mon, 19 May 2008 00:17:00 GMT
I found myself answering this question on two separate occasions this weekend. I have a reading ‘goal’ of sorts, that I sometimes fall short on because of other obligations (distractions?). As in my weekend conversations, I’ll give the ideal list here.
I read:
* The Wall Street Journal every day
* The Economist every week
* One programming book a month. Just finished The Rails Way. Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns is on deck.
* One non-programming book a month. This one slips more often than I’d like. Currently its the biography of Alexander Hamilton.
* Refactoring, by Martin Fowler, every year. This was the first book I ever read twice.
* Buffetology, by Marry Buffet, every year. Light years beyond any other investing book, blog, or magazine I’ve read.
* Blogs. There are enough blogs worth reading out there that could occupy all of your free time. Probably all of your time, period. The process of slimming these down to a particularly useful and relevant list is a continuing one for me. I don’t want to spend more than half an hour a day on this.
* xkcd and profootballtalk.com are a daily must :)
Posted by lee Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:05:00 GMT
I’ve been going to the gym most mornings before work lately. It was tough at first getting up, but it was a quick adjustment and I’ve begun to wake even before my alarm. Anyway, today was a cold, wet, gray day in New York, so when I glanced out my window this morning, I decided to sleep in. I got up at 8:30 and came to work. The strange thing is, I feel more tired today than I have for weeks. Those people that say "I have more energy throughout the day when i get some exercise in the morning" are actually right!
Posted by lee Wed, 26 Mar 2008 05:59:00 GMT
In less than two weeks, the rest of my team and I have put in over 120 hours each getting weplay ready to go. Its all been leading to tonight. The NY Times is running an article about our company tomorrow, and its online live right now. Its linked to TWICE from the home page of nytimes.com, and should be on the cover of the business section tomorrow. The image block on that page might even be a screen shot of our home page.
Its been a grueling two weeks at a totally unsustainable pace. It has been very productive, but we’re at a point now where productivity will start to tail off as we reach the point of burn out. Luckily, things will be letting up now and we’ll even get most of the weekend off. It’s been a real privilege to work with these guys in this environment, and we’ve impressed ourselves with what we’ve accomplished here. Every one of us would have liked to have done more, but none of us expected to have what we do.
Get on over to www.weplay.com and check it out.
Posted by lee Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:04:00 GMT
As many of the millions of you out there in leebankewitz.com land already know, I have recently begun working at a web startup. All of your inquiries into how it has been for me are appreciated, and I apologize for the lack of response on my part.
I knew when I accepted this job that it would be a demanding position. It has lived up to all my expectations. The occasional twelve hour day, with most evenings spent reviewing code if not actually writing it, has been my introduction to life in a start up. Add to that my additional effort to get up to speed on the technology, and a very big chunk of my time is spoken for. But reminding myself how vested in the success of this company we are has been a great motivator. I’m really enjoying my time on Rails, too. I spent the early part of my career avoiding web programming like the plague, after a horrific stint in Java web programming back in 2003. Rails has made the transition back to the web an enjoyable one; something I thought was unlikely. Anyway, I miss you all and will find time for each of you :)
Posted by lee Tue, 04 Mar 2008 05:29:00 GMT
This site is hosted on a linux VPS at slicehost. Not much comes on the slice, and set up is done entirely through SSH. I’ve gained some *nix familiararity lately from doing Rails developent on OSX, but other than that i have zero experience with the environment. Setting up a web server from a bare bones ubuntu slice would not accurately be described as my forte. Slicehost made it easy. I installed Ruby, Rails, mongrel, nginx, mysql, typo, tracks and subversion on my slice, and set up email hosting at google apps. Following the Slicehost tutorials, I had not a single hiccup in the whole process. Thats a rare thing when doing that much setup. The attention to detail in the walk throughs is very much appreciated, they get a strong recommendation from me.
Posted by lee Mon, 03 Mar 2008 04:32:00 GMT
Hear Me Say has a new home. Tonight leebankewitz.com is alive and well, and I look forward to seeing you all back here often. Welcome!
