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Fiber for Jersey City

I just nominated Jersey City for Google’s Fiber to Communities project after I found out that Councilman Steve Fulop is also sponsoring it for JC. I’m sure he has considerably more pull than me, but I figured I’d help out. Here’s my submission:
Jersey City has a very homogenous set of residents, ranging from the gentrifying [...]

Posted 06 March 2010 † Carlo § ‡ Comments (0) °

iGhost ride the iWhip

So cool to be so nerdy!

video and title stolen from Giles Bowkett

Posted 11 November 2009 † Carlo § ‡ Comments (0) °

A sneak peak at a future Python feature

$ python
>>> from __future__ import braces
File “<stdin>”, line 1
SyntaxError: not a chance
>>>

Nice.

Posted 22 September 2009 † Carlo § ‡ Comments (0) °

Big Mac Math

The Economist shows an interesting chart comparing how much working time it takes to buy a Big Mac in different cities around the work. The New York City value looks like it’s about 17 minutes of work per Big Mac? Assuming 8 hour work days, that means New York earns about 28 Big Macs per [...]

Posted 21 August 2009 † Carlo § ‡ Comments (0) °

Golden Age of Gaming?

Are we in a golden age of gaming? Check out the production value on these games:

Wet
Darksiders
Batman: Arkham Asylum
Mass Effect 2
Dante’s Inferno
Mafia 2

The production value on these games have a Hollywood-esque sense of epicness. Whether they turn out to be good games remains to be seen, but the quantity of epic releases these days is kind [...]

Posted 21 July 2009 † Carlo § ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: