Greg Guthe g-k

Ethiopia from roughly "burnt face land" in Greek
- respected as devout early Christians (but not Catholic)
slaves originally from Caucasus
diplomats from Morocco, etc.
used darkness of material color (bronze, wood?)
painted over Medici child
New York Chamber of Commerce portraits of old white men (Washington, Edison, Carnegie) on walls in high density (like original Barnes)
Claude Monet - london fog - trying to capture atmosphere: http://www.princetonartmuseum.org/collections/objects/32454

Recently an mdworker process was pegging my CPU and cooking my lap.

From its man page description: "mdworker is the metadata server worker process. It is used by mds to scan and index files as a volume is mounted or a file changes."

What's mds? "mds is the metadata server. It serves all clients of the metadata APIs, including Spotlight."

mdfind uses the builtin metadata index and can be a faster alternative to recursive grep or find and an easy way to search all the files on a mac (assuming the index is up to date):

$ find . -name '*.js'

Vega provides a layer on top of d3.js for describing visualizations with a JSON spec.

It makes it easier to try new visualizations like a chloropleth map or small multiples, frees co-workers from needing to see terrible things I've done with d3 and JS, and provides a canvas renderer for easy backwards compatibility on legacy browsers (note: canvas is the default; to use SVG if it's available do something like: chart({ ..., renderer: (Modernizr.svg ? 'svg' : 'canvas') })).

A couple things caught me off-guard:

The tutorial covers the visualization spec. Getting started directions are on the runtime wiki page. I missed the part where it said "Runtime - Deploying and using the browser-based Vega runtime."
Axes labels are a separate text mark?

var A = function () {
  console.log('calling A with this:', this);
  this.name = 'A';
  return new this;
};
var B = function () {
  console.log('calling B with this:', this);
  this.name = 'B';
};

Shopping Notes and Book Review

Note: Purely Hypothetical

Purchasing

Not too long ago I went to a bookstore to buy a book:

	<!DOCTYPE html>
	<html>
	<head>
	<meta charset="utf-8" />
	</head>
	<body>
	<script>
	var source = new EventSource('/events');
	source.onmessage = function(e) {
	document.body.innerHTML += e.data + '<br>';

	// Boxed JS number with valueOf method can mask its value.
	> three = new Number(3); // Box 3 as a Number object
	Number {}
	> three.valueOf = function () { return 1; };
	function () { return 1; }
	> 2 + three
	3
	> 2 + 3
	5
	> 2 + +three.toString()

	var swap = function (list, i, j) {
	// swap items at i-th and j-th entries of list
	// console.log(swap(items, 0, 2)); == [3, 2, 1, 4, 5]
	var tmp = list[i];
	list[i] = list[j];
	list[j] = tmp;
	return list;
	};

	var randomInt = function(max) {

	include gmsl-1.1.2/gmsl
	# ^ Thank you Mr. Make

	three := $(call int_encode,3)
	five := $(call int_encode,5)

	start := $(call int_encode,1)
	stop := $(call int_encode,100)

	// http://www.jasondavies.com/factorisation-diagrams/
	var primeFactors = function (n) {
	var factors = [],
	f;

	while (n > 1) {
	factors.push(f = factor(n));
	n /= f;
	}
	return factors;