Revealed: God, Pop Songs
White Man by The Michael Gungor Band
via alliefab
Four Chords by Axis of Awesome [note: some salty language]
via kill ugly radio
ACID vs. Key-Value Object Stores
Drop ACID and think about data by Bob Ippolito of Mochi Media, Inc. from PyCon 2009.
The Video:
The Slides:
Glossary:
ACID
CAP Theorem
BASE
BigTable by Google
Dynamo by Amazon
Cassandra, an Apache Incubator Project, formerly of Facebook
Python dict
Immutable vs mutable (computer science)
Tokyo Cabinet
Tokyo Tyrant
Redis
Document database
CouchDB
MongoDB
JSON
BSON
Sharding
Column databases
MonetDB
LucidDB
Vertica (commercial, MochiAds uses this)
Bitmap Index
BBC: byte-aligned bitmap compression
WAC: word-aligned hybrid code
FastBit
Bloom filter
Sharing; this one time…
In keeping with the "all I'm going to do is post videos indefinitely" theme that seems to be occuring, here are two of my favorites, they're really phenomenal, which were posted on Cartoon Brew:
This one time... from nelson boles on Vimeo.
Whitney Brothers; Processing, Jbum
At BarCampLA, Jim Bumgardner was inspirational for many things. One small thing was for pointing out these two films:
"Lapis," a short film by James Whitney:
"Catalog," a short film by John Whitney, 1961
Over on Coverpop, Bumgardner shows off work inspired by John Whitney: Whitney Music Box which is beautiful and hypnotic and surprisingly musical. Mathematics and music indeed!
Inspired by this and Jim's work, I downloaded Processing for the first time and began playing based on some of the examples on his Processing page.
I had a real good time at BarCampLA-7.
My President speaks at Arizona State University
I like this guy.
James Ellroy
Source: Salon Interview: James Ellroy, 1996:
Well, I write in a cultural vacuum, so I don't understand what's out there in the culture too much.
You don't watch TV?
I watch boxing on TV and I listen to classical music. I talk with my wife a lot and exercise. Culture to me is just shit in the brain. I just hate it when I tour overseas and people want me to talk about Quentin Tarantino. I've offered a lot of flagrantly abusive opinions about modern popular culture, and I've put the skids to it. I just don't know what it is. I like to think. I like to lie in the dark and brood about things. I have a good idea where my own writing career is going. I have no idea where American culture is going. I really don't. I mean, I don't even know who the good guys are in the Serbo-Croatian war. I don't know who we're supporting.
I finished My Dark Places this weekend and a more harrowing, raw, and unflinchingly confessional piece of writing I can't think of. It's got me thinking.
Seen and listened to
Seen on my way to work today
On back of a horse carrier:
CAUTION SHOW HORSES
Why the need to say "show" about the horses. Am I less likely to be cautious for regular horses?
Messily spraypainted on a sign on an overpass:
Ron Paul - The Next Thomas Jefferson"
Listened to on my way to work today:
"Do Grand Wizards of the KKK get to cast racist spells?" - Rich Cerow, You Made Me Lose My Guy, Episode 14.
I've not posted here lately. But things are fine.
I'm refactoring everything and it's taking longer than I thought.