Who’s Still Standing? Certainly Not NBC.
Posted by John Luetke on 12/21/11 at 9:53:34 am
My girlfriend and I watched NBC’s Who’s Still Standing the other night. For those unfamiliar, it’s essentially a rip-off of an older show named Russian Roulette that aired on GSN in the early 2000′s, in which people are standing on trap doors, and have to answer trivia questions. If they get the answer wrong, they fall through the trap door. It’s a fine trivia show, but theres one part about it that turned me off from watching future episodes.
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Tags: gsn, last man standing, nbc, russian roulette, tv
Using the Sparkle Update Framework with MonoMac
Posted by John Luetke on 08/13/11 at 8:18:16 pm
Most OS X users have been exposed to the Sparkle framework: an extremely unobtrusive and lightweight application updater. Its a breeze to configure your Objective-C application to utilize it, and subsequently, it is a breeze to configure your MonoMac application to utilize it.
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ACM Programming Contest 2009
Posted by John Luetke on 11/3/09 at 7:05:19 pm
On Saturday, I participated in the ACM Collegiate Programming Contest: Midwest Division.
Never have I undergone such mental pressure in my life.
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It’s cool to be a computer nerd.
Posted by John Luetke on 04/24/09 at 10:23:07 pm
Yes. You read the title right. About 1 hour ago, I had the revelation: It’s cool to be a computer nerd.
Why? Aren’t computer nerds constantly the source of being others entertainment by being on? Stereotypically, yes. Actually, I can’t answer, because I’ve never found myself in that situation.
Anyway, back to the point. It’s cool to be a computer nerd because …
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PTI = stupid
Posted by John Luetke on 03/23/09 at 9:25:52 pm
Today on PTI, the Marquette vs. Mizzou game was discussed. More specifically, Hayward’s stepping on the boundary line while in-bounding the ball. During that discussion, a question asking whether or not Mizzou desevered to win the game was posed. The given answer: yes.
W. T. F.
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Tags: espn, mizzou, mubb, pti
Recommendation: Scalaris for OS X
Posted by John Luetke on 03/2/09 at 10:51:37 am
Are you obsessed with Twitter like me? I’ve found an AMAZING app for Mac OS X that is extremely lightweight, lives in your menu bar, displays tweets for those you are following as Growl notifications, and provides you with a simple pop-up window to @reply them, or tweet something new.
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Tags: scalaris, twitter
Google Maps Fail
Posted by John Luetke on 02/27/09 at 11:50:28 am
Somebody didn’t complete their mapping of I-94…

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Apple + Java = Fail
Posted by John Luetke on 02/16/09 at 4:53:37 pm
The Apple-provided JRE 1.6 only supports 64-bit machines. WTF?!? Steve, what ever happened to Java being a “first class citizen of Mac OS X??
SoyLatte to the rescue.
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UNIX time milestone
Posted by John Luetke on 02/13/09 at 5:31:30 pm
It’s 5:31:30pm on Feb 13, 2009…UNIX time reads 1234567890!!!
Next milestone: 32-bit overflow on Jan 19, 2038
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Dirlister News!
Posted by John Luetke on 02/10/09 at 10:54:22 pm
Hey all, here are some long awaited Dirlister updates!
1) SVN repo has been moved from http://jserve.johnluetke.net/svn/dirlister to http://lopez.johnluetke.net/svn/dirlister. Sorry to those who checked out from the previous repo, but the machine crashed and I wasn’t able to recover the repo.
. As such, the version numbers for the new repo are screwed up.
again.
2) I’ve begun to think about more changes to the code that I want to make, and as such, the next public release will be a complete rewrite of the code, so be in store for that.
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