Having just arrived home from an evening of company, drink, and debate (three of my favorite things), I have these observations to make on riding home in the rain:

1. Biking in the rain is hella fun.¹ The feeling of the rain pelting against your face, being saturated with water, and having a brotherhood amongst the other bikers on the route… it’s just awesome. Highly recommended. I’ll even go with you, voluntarily.
2. But it may only be fun if you have eye protection. I happen to wear glasses, so I have eye protection wherever I go. It’s definitely worth carrying any type of protective eyewear on a rainy day.
3. It gives you a really good excuse to clean your bike. Well, the frame and exterior bits, anyway. Because all you have to do is scrub it a bit more and wipe it down. We all wash our bikes far less than we should.
4. Chrome bags are also awesome. The outside of my Chrome bag: totally saturated with water. The inside? Totally dry. It wasn’t even shut properly by the user, but it came through with flying colors. While I love to this day the backpack for which I substituted my Chrome bag, it definitely would not have this property.
5. Your shoes will be squishy. Okay, not great, but still super fun.

1. I learned the word “hella” when visiting Dan in California a few years ago. [↩]

This should have made it into the trilogy¹. (via totallycrap).

1. remember: there was only the original trilogy [↩]

Never before today did I notice the great logo on git-scm.com:

Nor can I find any reason why that is the way it is, but it is most certainly appreciated.

Yup, I’ll get right on emailing you about you not being able to serve me advertisements.

There is a nice little Op-Ed about the bond that forms between coders and their code and the value of ideas over implementation.

The most interesting part of it to me, though, was the by-line:

Michael Osinski, a former computer programmer, is an oyster farmer.

Interesting life decision. I’d like to know more about that.

I’ve always wondered why Macs could wakeup from sleep by a mere keystroke, but my Linux boxes required me to press the power button. It turns out you can enable wake from suspend/hibernate in Linux by adding the following to /etc/rc.local, which is run at startup:

for i in <code>/bin/grep USB /proc/acpi/wakeup | /usr/bin/awk '{print $1}'</code>; 
do 
    echo $i > /proc/acpi/wakeup; 
done

/proc/acpi/wakeup will then look something like:

$ cat /proc/acpi/wakeup
Device  S-state   Status   Sysfs node
PCI0      S5     disabled  no-bus:pci0000:00
PEX0      S5     disabled  pci:0000:00:1c.0
PEX1      S5     disabled  pci:0000:00:1c.1
PEX2      S5     disabled

PEX3      S5     disabled

PEX4      S5     disabled

PEX5      S5     disabled

HUB0      S5     disabled  pci:0000:00:1e.0
IGBE      S5     disabled

USB0      S3     enabled   pci:0000:00:1d.0
USB1      S3     enabled   pci:0000:00:1d.1
USB2      S3     enabled   pci:0000:00:1d.2
USB3      S3     enabled   pci:0000:00:1a.0
USB4      S3     enabled   pci:0000:00:1a.1
USB5      S3     enabled   pci:0000:00:1a.2
EHC1      S3     disabled  pci:0000:00:1d.7
EHC2      S3     disabled  pci:0000:00:1a.7
AZAL      S5     disabled  pci:0000:00:1b.0

and voila: when your Linux box suspends, you can wake it up by pressing any key on your USB keyboard.

The Julia Necklace

from “Geek Chic | A Matter of Fractals” by Sandra Ballentine in the New York Times. Made by Boucheron.

See Wikipedia’s Julia set article.