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Science Night in the Avery/Weir/Frisina Household
Given a large block of dry ice and the following substances, create an hour of fun for three people: Warm water Dishwashing liquid Isopropyl alcohol Laundry detergent A piece of lettuce Dark cola A Ziploc baggy I was very late picking up the camera and had a hell of a time getting the 55-200mm lens to focus, but here are some shots:
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Weekly Linkage: The Long Edition
At some point in the last 2 weeks, I had 0 unread items in Google Reader. It was a short-lived, joyous experience, but this is the result of my web branching: HCG Diet Dangers: Is Fast Weight Loss Worth the Risk? – MSN Health & Fitness – Healthy Living – "But the so-called hCG diet is either a weight-loss miracle or a dangerous fraud, depending on who's talking. The plan combines drops or injections of hCG, a pregnancy hormone, with just 500 calories a day." I don't even have words for how stupid this sounds. And how unhealthy. "Yeah, I'm going to shoot up with a hormone and engage in…
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Deployment Automation with Fabric: Bee’s Knees
One immensely valuable thing I learned at Skookum was the value of automated deployments. I worked with a gent who took the time to work up Capistrano scripts for each staging and production environment of the whale of a project I worked with him on. I appreciated it during development, but I didn’t appreciate it until we were deploying single tweaks out to production on Amazon EC2 in rapid cycles. I haven’t worked with EC2 since then (second half of 2009), but let me tell you, deployments were for the birds. With his scripts though: run the script, enter your SSH or git password(s) a few times, and you have…