1. Popular with Jerks 25-40

    Popular with Jerks 25-40

    Washing my high-horsepower, low-milage car as a break from my computer-based job while wearing Local Sports Team’s baseball hat and streaming music made by white males (see below) from my Apple phone to a Bluetooth speaker, I thought to myself, “Boy, you need to step …

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  2. MySQL and Python on OSX

    MySQL and Python on OSX

    Because I rarely use MySQL nowadays and because how often do you set up a new machine, this is a reminder to myself on how to get mysql-python installed in a virtualenv

    1. Add /usr/local/mysql/bin to your path (permanently in your .profile)
    2. If …
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  3. Top Tips for Patients

    Top Tips for Patients

    Having recently had shoulder surgery, some advice:

    • Memorizing your patient number will amuse the nurses
    • Conversely, making your first statement after coming out of general anesthesia, “It was supposed to be the other arm” will not amuse them
    • Like the man said, you can’t buy …
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  4. Parochialism

    Parochialism

    Don’t do this:

    https://twitter.com/AndrewBerkshire/status/344972991404310528

    At best, it says, “I’ve been drinking”. At worst, it just looks stupid. Rene Rancourt is a thing— if you’re from New England, he’s perfect. If you’re not, I guess he’s annoying. Regardless, there …

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  5. CSS: min-width vs. zoom

    CSS: min-width vs. zoom

    Ran into an interesting quirk today that I don’t see a lot of search results for: if you have a min-width set on an element but then set a zoom on an element other than 100%, the min-width (and, one presumes, the max-width) is scaled …

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  6. Ruining Fletch

    Ruining Fletch

    If you’ve never seen Fletch, stop here and go watch it. It’s a great comedy and one of the rare cases of a movie being better than the book. Assuming everyone reading past this point has seen it, you’re familiar with the plot: businessman Alan …

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  7. Django, Haystack & Elastic Search

    Django, Haystack & Elastic Search

    (Yes, I know it’s been a while.)

    Just a quick note in case this bites someone else. I’d file a bug with Haystack, but I have a feeling I’m doing something incredibly dumb. I have a convoluted set of filters for a search …

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