Thomas Maxwell

If you hadn’t gleaned from my last somewhat cryptic post I’m currently learning to...

Sun, 27 May 2012 00:22:36 -0400

If you hadn’t gleaned from my last somewhat cryptic post I’m currently learning to program. I’m both nervous and excited about this prospect… I’m nervous because what I’m trying to do is hard, but I have resided myself to this fact. Learning new things is hard, changing is hard, life is hard… I figure if I can get through this initial stage of angst of the unknown - I might actually be able to do this! This little glimmer of hope excites and drives me… Stay tuned.

rice_on_square = 1

64.times do |square|

puts “On square #{square + 1} are

#{rice_on_square} grain(s)”

rice_on_square *= 2

end

a chip off the old bloc: Terminology To Get Comfortable With...

Thu, 17 May 2012 07:58:35 -0400

a chip off the old bloc: Terminology To Get Comfortable With...:

amarabloc:

Ruby’s Building Blocs - Data, Expressions, and Flow Control

• Variable: A placeholder that can hold an object—from numbers, to text, to arrays, to objects of your own creation.

• Operator: Something that’s used in an expression to manipulate objects such as + (plus), - (minus), *…

class Programming attr_accessor :rewarding, :valuable, :fun, :exciting end class Thomas <...

Thu, 17 May 2012 07:09:00 -0400

class Programming

attr_accessor :rewarding, :valuable, :fun, :exciting

end

class Thomas < Programming

attr_accessor :frustrated, :anxious, :confused, :difficult, :consuming

def patient

puts “Beware the fury of a patient man.”

end

end

thomas = Thomas.new

thomas.patient

Shervin: Success Amnesia...

Sun, 13 May 2012 07:54:43 -0400

Shervin: Success Amnesia...:

shervster:

Practice success and failure amnesia. Forget that you succeeded. Forgive and forget that you failed. Learn from both and move on fast. Failure can be a patient teacher- it’s often a learnable event. Success can lead to signal and pattern blindness. The greatest achievers I have met are grounded…

les-nyc: Clams Casino - I’m God The Weeknd - The...

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 07:00:17 -0400

les-nyc:

Clams Casino - I’m God

The Weeknd - The Morning

Everyday Shelter - The Notorious XX

Main Attrakionz - Take 1 ft. ASAP Rocky

The Airplane Boys - Beau Monde

Street Knock - Swizz Beatz ft. A$AP ROCKY

Crew Love (Shlohmo Remix) - Drake ft. The Weeknd

Same Old Song (Dolor Remix) - The Weeknd

N.E.R.D. - She Wants To Move

Kendrick Lamar - The Recipe ft. Dr. Dre

Kastle - Stay Forever

Frank Ocean - Math

Mike G - Forest Green

Sanchez Paris - City Limits

Frank Ocean- No Love

Frank Ocean - Whip Appeal

Kase Prince - Vicious Circles

Bass - ASAP Rocky

Tempa T - Next Hype

Kendrick Lamar - ADHD

Theophilus London - Oops

Mr. Little Jeans - The Suburbs

James Blake - I Mind

Purity Ring - Lofticries

Iggy Azalea - Backseat Trill $hit

ScHoolboy Q - Hands On The Wheel

Mac Miller - Loud

The White Panda - Midnight Life

Blake Masters: Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 3 Notes Essay

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 07:47:41 -0400

Blake Masters: Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 3 Notes Essay:

blakemasters:

Here is my notes essay for Class 3 of CS183: Startup. Errors, omissions, and/or poor phrasing are my own. Credit for good substance and wording is Peter’s entirely. Please note that I actually missed this class (I was on my honeymoon!). Thanks to @erikpavia and @danrthompson for sending me…

Video

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 20:19:39 -0400

What more can I say…

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 20:40:00 -0400

What more can I say…

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 03:00:34 -0400

"Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but..."

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 01:32:30 -0400

“

Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. Why? Because this storm isn’t something that blew in from far away, something that has nothing to do with you. This storm is you. Something inside of you. So all you can do is give in to it, step right inside the storm, closing your eyes and plugging up your ears so the sand doesn’t get in, and walk through it, step by step. There’s no sun there, no moon, no direction, no sense of time. Just fine white sand swirling up into the sky like pulverized bones. That’s the kind of sandstorm you need to imagine.

An you really will have to make it through that violent, metaphysical, symbolic storm. No matter how metaphysical or symbolic it might be, make no mistake about it: it will cut through flesh like a thousand razor blades. People will bleed there, and you will bleed too. Hot, red blood. You’ll catch that blood in your hands, your own blood and the blood of others.

And once the storm is over you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.

”

- Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore (via singlemaltscotch)

The masters of information have forgotten about poetry, where words may have a meaning quite...

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 22:26:16 -0400

The masters of information have forgotten about poetry, where words may have a meaning quite different from what the lexicon says, where the metaphoric spark is always one jump ahead of the decoding function, where another, unforeseen reading is always possible.

– J.M. Coetzee, Diary of a Bad Year

"“A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor..."

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 03:36:13 -0500

“

“A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leaves others to determine whether he is working or playing. To himself, he always appears to be doing both.”

- L.P Jack

”

Bon Iver - I Can’t Make You Love Me/Nick of Time Goose...

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 03:19:42 -0500

Bon Iver - I Can’t Make You Love Me/Nick of Time

Goose bumps…

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Ifan Dafydd – Treehouse

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:03:03 -0500

Ifan Dafydd – Treehouse

"Silicon Valley builds its bridges on abundance. Abundant bits of information floating out there,..."

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:49:13 -0500

“Silicon Valley builds its bridges on abundance. Abundant bits of information floating out there, writing great programs to process it, then giving people a lot of useful tools to use it. Entertainment works by withholding content with the purpose of increasing its value.”

- Here. (via nickcrocker)

Drake - I’m On One (Shlohmo Remix)

Sat, 17 Dec 2011 06:33:00 -0500

Drake - I’m On One (Shlohmo Remix)

Check out my Zeitgeist 2011 album picks on @hypem

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 21:10:30 -0500

Check out my Zeitgeist 2011 album picks on @hypem

Video

Fri, 25 Nov 2011 18:25:28 -0500