Archive for March, 2008

Today, I spent 2-hours trying to figure out the correct way to implement an AJAX based call with the wonderful Calendar Date Select plugin. Now I’m sure it’s totally my fault for being a Rails noob, but I couldn’t come up with squat on Google for how to use this plugin with an server side AJAX call. So here’s my write up on how to do it using remote_function.
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Popularity: 80% [?]

Posted by Wyatt on 29 March 2008 at 6:17 pm under Technology.
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Back by popular demand, it’s another round of evil ideas. For some reason, these posts tend to work better as a theme; so for this week our theme is “Baby Shower.” Thankfully, I’ve never been to a ‘real’ baby shower, but I’ve been told there are bunch of terrible games. A quick Google shows the following hits:

  • Diaper pin game
  • Ribbon Around the Pregnant Girl
  • Guessing the Baby Food
  • Cotton Ball Game

As you can tell, these games are above and beyond LAME; however, with my simple to use evil recipes, we can put the BAM! back in the party. So here’s a baby-shower … Evil Wyatt Style ;-)
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Popularity: 60% [?]

Posted by Wyatt on 27 March 2008 at 8:46 am under Evil.
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For some reason, I’ve got it in my head that I need a “fun” project to take up the remainder of my free time. I think it’s going to be a homebrew/DIY snake camera. Something like this, but with the ability to mechanically bend it’s head and assembled for way less cash and from parts I have lying around. If anyone has any links to anything like this already, let me know so I can stop wasting my time dreaming up a design … but I’ve not found anything … yet.

Popularity: 58% [?]

Posted by Wyatt on 17 March 2008 at 2:29 pm under Technology.
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On this blog, you’ll rarely see anything political, one because I don’t think anyone cares what I think about politics and two … logic would never prevail in politics because that’s not what the mob of idiots we call America these days wants.

However, I declare shenanigans on Hillary Clinton and anyone else that says we need an experienced person in office right now. Bull. It’s crap. You know it. Go sit and spin. From the way I see it, you are experienced in politics if:

  • you fail at putting your voters choice above your own
  • you force your ideals on the people in the land of the “free”
  • you are concerned with fixing other countries other than the one that voted for you
  • you approach all encounters with passion and ambition instead of logic and common sense
  • you spend more money on improving the problem, not creating a solution

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Popularity: 56% [?]

Posted by Wyatt on 5 March 2008 at 12:54 am under Rants.
2 Comments.