Archive for 2014

Ugh! JetBrains WebStorm is incorrectly indenting this CoffeeScript and causing a callback to be nested improperly. Fixed the Jetbrains WebStorm indenting issue with a few well placed brackets. A work-around. Hopefully fixed in the next update? Some days are spent just diagnosing why the tool isn’t working properly.

SF skyline is pretty from the 30th floor. I think I can see my loft from here. The only problem with being able to see your loft from the office is that you get paranoid you will see someone in your loft that is not supposed to be there.

LEGO MAME cabinet is coming along nicely. Working on the design for a modular, pluggable wiring loom that is semi-intelligent. Which simply translates in to “I have a lot of wire on my desk and I am trying to make sense of it all without causing too much smoke or a localized fire.”

Building some digital signage today. Got all the parts, software is finished, ready for assembly! It is unbelievable how expensive off-the-shelf digital signage systems are.

The problem I have with most people is that they talk too much but don’t say enough.

Ever notice how, as an organization grows, it forgets how to market? Advertising is “easy.” Throw dollars at the problem until something works. And when it doesn’t work. Throw more dollars at it. “We’re trying everything we can! But the customers aren’t interested in our ads!” It’s easy to find people who can readily and…

“Good enough” at one end of a supply chain has an adverse effect that goes far below “good enough” at the other end of the supply chain.

Took the dog with me to Corner Bakery for lunch. She loves it there. I get her the chicken sandwich without the sandwich.

Saying “I’m sorry” to a customer is free. But it should never be treated as “free.” Also, when you say sorry, stop right there. Period. “I’m sorry, but…” turns it from “I care” in to “I don’t care.” Ever notice how the change of a single thing, a comma in a sentence for example, can…

Deciding how you want to live your life is the greatest freedom you will ever be given.

I got the 99% perspiration. I figure the 1% of genius went to someone else.

If you cannot think about it, you cannot talk about it. If you cannot talk about it, you cannot act on it. If you cannot act on it, you have no freedom. Freedom of thought is greater than freedom of speech is greater than freedom of action. Don’t worry too much about whether you are…

I don’t mind you making opinionated software so long as your opinion is not the utterings of some whack-job.

Twitter? Why u no let me mute people today!

I will happily give all of my knowledge and time and energy away for free to a million people. But I will not give one person the time of day. One is altruistic and the other is selfish. But I’m not the one being selfish.

If you call me and don’t leave a message, I just assume you are a recruiter bothering me whilst I work.

It is inevitable. You are about to jump on a scheduled conference call with an important client and suddenly your colon is all like… “Hey! I need to use the little boy’s room to practice my trumpet playing!”

Only in S.F. and L.A. can you go to a flea market and expect to see someone paying $800 for two shipping pallets nail gunned together in to an “art frame” sans art and where every piece of plywood furniture is labelled as “vintage” or “antique.” I bet the Yuban coffee served from the food…

I do so love running in to people who swear they just patented a process or technique we were doing in the games industry 30 years ago. “It’s a puzzle, where you have to fill in words either horizontally or vertically based on the verbal clues you find.” Well heck son, I think you just…