Kempton Mooney Less Profundity, More Secundity

What geeks get in the mail

You know you spend too much time in Excel when it starts sending you invitations.
Because everybody loves a graph. No, really, let me show you with this chart. This axis represents the appreciation of visualized data…

New England Road Trip

Over the weekend I went on a roadtrip to New England with these guys:

in this car:

to here:

and here:

Mostly we did this:

If you would like to see more photos, they are here.

Alt Key Symbol Shortcuts

Here is a great page of alt key symbol shortcuts:
http://www.tedmontgomery.com/tutorial/altchrc.html
To access, hold down the alt key and type the number code in the numerical keypad then lift the alt key.
Mostly a note for me because I can never remember how to generate the different little symbols

Commitment

Commitment: When you have it, people can tell

Concentration exercises

Having just read the PALE KING by David Foster Wallace, I have been thinking about concentration. Concentration is key element in learning, in being respectful, and in being efficient, things that have always been important to me. So I took a look around and found a couple of simple concentration exercises that I thought were [...]

Mini displayport to component adapter

How do you connect the mini displayport interface on your macbook to a device with RCA input? This one took me a while…
I have an older macbook that had a mini-dvi port and Apple manufactured a mini-dvi to video adapter that allowed it to connect to s-video or composite (RCA) cables. However, my new macbook [...]

Boy’s arm reattached after shark attack

One story that has stuck with me for several years has been the one that follows. No one ever believes me when I tell it, so I am putting it here where I can find it, and leaving it in the words of the source with a link so that next time I tell it [...]

US Net Worth

Found an interesting article on net worth on Forbes recently. The article gives a formula for calculating the amount of the US population with a given net worth. I grabbed the most recent US population (307mm), and created a table below of the percent of Americans with a net worth over a million. The scale [...]

My new desktop

I have done some serious scrubbing of my hard drive and have determined to be much more organized in my filing. In part to motivate myself and in part to constrain myself to keep only what is useful, I have given myself a new desktop.

How to connect two macs using ethernet cable

* Connect both Mac, using a standard network cable
Mac #1:
* Open up System Preferences > Network
* Choose Ethernet, and select Manually instead of Using DHCP.
* Set the IP address to 192.168.0.1, Subnet Mask to 255.255.255.0
Mac #2:
* Same as above, IP address 192.168.0.2
Now you should see the other Mac in the Finder sidebar. You can use [...]