I am currently a software engineer at Google, where as a member of the Android platform team I build frameworks and user interfaces.
The blog here at dsandler.org is mostly historical; you can find more recent posts on Google+.
Total lunar eclipse schedule for Wednesday, Central time:
Penumbra entry: 7:06p
Umbra entry: 8:14
Totality: 9:23
Midpoint: 10:04
Totality ends: 10:45
Umbra exit: 11:54
Penumbra exit: 1:02a
[4:15] <darryl> > i must report to you with a sad heart that this halloween, i am dressing up like katamari damacy. this is sad because none of you will
be able to do this without coming off like a copycat. so i called it.
[4:15] <em> damn!
Update 10/28: Darryl sez: “Glady says that you really need
to properly attribute this to Drew
from Toothpaste For Dinner because he’s an Internet celebrity and
people will find your post and think that I’m cribbing his idea
which is why he posted his message in the first place.”
Well, there it is, the iPod U2 Special Edition.
Frankly, I think it’s cooler than the iPod photo. I mean, who wants to look at photos on a cell phone screen? (Yeah yeah, AV adapter, etc.) I’m glad they’ve replaced Chicago, however. (Sorry, pal, you were just using too many pixels!) Now, I know the current iPod screens support grayscale (at least 4-bit, I’d imagine)—how hard would it be to get a nice, anti-aliased font, and maybe some grayscale reduced-size album covers, all in an update for current iPods?
One for the ol’ portfolio, I guess: Business Card For A First-Year Law Student.
NYT Science section: The Red Sox will lose because of Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle.
“The worst thing about working at the IAEA is that nobody can hear you say ‘I told you so.’
On account of all the explosions.”