I got most of the books I wanted the most for Christmas this year. It was a great haul that will keep me busy for a while. Among them were: Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications Algorithms on Strings, Trees and Sequences: Computer Science and Computational Biology Visualizing Data: Exploring and Explaining Data [...]
Posts Tagged ‘christmas’
Books for Christmas
Posted: 4 January 2009 in UncategorizedTags: books, christmas, collective intelligence, computational linguistics, computer science, data visualization, evolutionary computing, genetic algorithms, string algorithms, web 2.0
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Just a few books and stuff I wouldn’t mind getting for Christmas. Just sayin’. Note: sort by priority.
Dunder and Bliksem
Posted: 31 December 2007 in UncategorizedTags: christmas, comics, dutch, german, reindeer, santa's reindeer
Among the several online comics I read on a regular basis is the Saturday Bulletin. It’s a great comic that takes an old-timey picture and reinterprets the content. So today’s comic is of Santa tromping off over a hill in the snow, saying “mmm… venison.” Blitzen isn’t feeling so good about it. The thing that [...]
New Camera
Posted: 26 December 2007 in UncategorizedTags: christmas, digital cameras, flowers, photo-editing, photowalking, picasa, presents, roses
One of the things my mother got me was a nice, little digital camera. I didn’t want something super-high quality that would cost a fortune, but I wanted something good, small and that I wouldn’t have a heart attack if I broke. I wanted something that would slip in my pocket that I can (hopefully) [...]
Merry Christmas Tree Fractal
Posted: 23 December 2007 in UncategorizedTags: chaos, christmas, christmas tree, fractals
Courtesy of Chaotic Utopia:
Old Christmas Tree
Posted: 3 December 2007 in UncategorizedTags: christmas, christmas tree, daedalus, dogs, puppy, south carolina
Donna just had me dig up a pic of our Christmas tree 2 years ago, so I figured why not post it. I think it was beautiful. That was the Christmas we got Daedalus. Be sure to scroll down to see the little boy.
Slumber Party Christmas Album
Posted: 27 November 2007 in UncategorizedTags: christmas, christmas music, doom rock, music, slumber party
So I’ve mentioned Slumber Party before. They are a detroit girl band (femme doom rock) and are freakin awesome. Seriously, I can’t get enough. They are just brilliant to me. So anyhow, I saw they had a Christmas album with 2 unnamed songs. According to the website, it’s a limited edition of 50 hand made [...]
Hanukkah Dog
Posted: 24 November 2007 in UncategorizedTags: christmas, dog toys, dogs, hanukkah, hanukkah dog, humor
I’ve seen Santa dogs and elf dogs. Frosty the Snowman dogs and Rudolf dogs. But this is a new one to me.
Daedalerberus
Posted: 30 September 2007 in UncategorizedTags: cerberus, christmas, costumes, dogs, greek mythology, halloween, pets, reindeer, reindog
I came across this dog costume on the Green Man. I think Daedalus would look hilarious in it. Last Christmas, we dressed him as Daedal the red-nosed reindog. Just need to find some stuffed animals and someone who knows how to sew…
