http://www.kerf.org/ en-us blog@kerf.org 2008-01-16T20:37:53-08:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.kerf.org/archives/2008/01/16/baseball_cards_as_objects_the_rest_of_the_checklist.html Yesterday I started creating an object model for baseball cards. I started with just the 1968 Topps set, going through the checklist to see how the model holds up. Each time it failed I made a change to the model... 41@http://www.kerf.org/ technology 2008-01-16T20:37:53-08:00 http://www.kerf.org/archives/2008/01/15/baseball_cards_as_objects_from_players_to_leaders.html So, say you wanted to hold your baseball card collection in a database. What would the object model look like? It's one of those problems that sounds simple originally, but gets more complex as you add some of the intricacies... 40@http://www.kerf.org/ technology 2008-01-15T16:17:50-08:00 http://www.kerf.org/archives/2007/11/28/help_me_find_this_book.html In Episode #110 of This American Life, "Mapping", one of the segments is about a guy who mapped the tones created by different objects around him (e.g., his computer, his space heater) onto different musical modes depending on the "chords"... 39@http://www.kerf.org/ thoughts 2007-11-28T15:51:59-08:00 http://www.kerf.org/archives/2007/11/28/rondas_book_list.html So by reviewing my readings…I’m definitely a girl and I certainly like the classics. I decided to underline the books that I’ve either watched as a movie or TV show or saw mentioned as part of a movie or TV... 38@http://www.kerf.org/ memes 2007-11-28T15:30:56-08:00 http://www.kerf.org/archives/2007/11/07/top_106_unread_books.html A little while ago, Kevin evoked another meme. I tracked down the self-confessed originator of this meme as Nicholas, the user "nhw" at Live Journal. His original post was about a month and a half ago and it's already fallen... 37@http://www.kerf.org/ memes 2007-11-07T07:55:07-08:00 http://www.kerf.org/archives/2007/11/06/social_networks_as_distributed_memory.html Talk about social networking sites usually involves their affect on the here and now. Shared friends, shared tastes, and shared experience are usually given as their reason for existing. Yesterday I had an interesting experience with Facebook that showed me... 36@http://www.kerf.org/ thoughts 2007-11-06T12:09:03-08:00 http://www.kerf.org/archives/2007/11/01/i_am_bengie_molina.html Kevin's post on Chasing Shadows today furthered three memes; one relatively new, one relatively old, and one he made up on his own. The relatively new one involved doing a Google image search on your name. The first picture that... 35@http://www.kerf.org/ memes 2007-11-01T14:24:34-08:00 http://www.kerf.org/archives/2007/11/01/what_i_learned_today_water_pressure.html We've been experiencing water pressure issues since the kitchen was completed about a year ago. At the time, there was construction going on nearby and our neighbor also said that she thought she noticed a drop in water pressure... 34@http://www.kerf.org/ What I Learned Today 2007-11-01T11:23:14-08:00 http://www.kerf.org/archives/2007/11/01/mawwied.html Well, it's been two and a half months, so it looks like it's gonna stick. ;) Ronda and I got engaged on August 11th! Of course, with Ronda's organizational skills, the wedding is well on it's way to being planned... 33@http://www.kerf.org/ personal 2007-11-01T10:56:47-08:00 http://www.kerf.org/archives/2007/05/05/what_i_learned_today_laundry.html Ronda's been gone this week for a long-needed vacation in Myrtle Beach, SC. Whenever she goes away for more than two days, the house starts -- um -- devolving. It's no secret that she's a much better housekeeper than I... 31@http://www.kerf.org/ What I Learned Today 2007-05-05T10:35:58-08:00 http://www.kerf.org/archives/2007/04/19/what_i_learned_today_clean_your_dryer_vent.html When I first moved into my house, I bought what I thought was a really nice washer and dryer, the Maytag Neptune series. As it turns out, the model of washer I got was plagued by at least a couple... 30@http://www.kerf.org/ What I Learned Today 2007-04-19T10:11:36-08:00 http://www.kerf.org/archives/2007/04/17/rondas_here.html Now that the kitchen is done, the next step was to get Ronda moved in! We're not completely finished, but we've made a good start. Astro, her trusty Beagle, seems to love the extra space in the backyard. We... 29@http://www.kerf.org/ home 2007-04-17T14:18:20-08:00 http://www.kerf.org/archives/2007/04/09/what_i_learned_today_concierge_medical_practices.html I recently had an appointment with my doctor that started off with him telling me, ominously, that there would "be some changes in [his] practice." He assured me that they were changes that would improved the level of attention I... 28@http://www.kerf.org/ What I Learned Today 2007-04-09T18:33:46-08:00 http://www.kerf.org/archives/2007/01/17/the_end_result.html At long last, we have pictures of the final result of the "kitchen" remodel. I say "kitchen" because it ended up touching almost every part of the house. The only parts that didn't get touched were the bathroom and... 27@http://www.kerf.org/ home 2007-01-17T18:48:18-08:00 http://www.kerf.org/archives/2006/10/04/a_theory_of_free_choice.html In A Theory of Morality, Kevin submitted that rules reduce morality in a given system. His argument being that cohercing someone to do (or not do) something through rules takes away their chance to do (or not do) it out... 26@http://www.kerf.org/ thoughts 2006-10-04T11:37:16-08:00