Arachnivistic Velocity

The speed at which an arachnophobe retreats from a spider. Can be expressed as:

Av=1/Da

Where Av is the speed of the Arachnophobe in Km/sec and Da is the distance of the Arachnophobe from the spider in question. Note that for extremely small values of Da, Av approaches ∞

He was a pussy...i give you true seaborne terror....

HOVERSHARK WITH FRICKIN' EYE LASERS!!!!!


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I thought those darned illegals were taking away jobs that "Good Americans need and want", that they were denying us paying jobs in hard times.

It would seem, like much of the anti-immigration handwaving, that this line of crap is just thatCome on you screaming mimi unemployed tea-party fucks! There's a set of bootstraps, go yank your fucking self ( Read more... )

When last we left our intrepid hero, he had gotten his application, sans plotting, into a basically functional state. Then he went to Shane Stanley's awesome AppleScriptObjC class, and learned about bindings.

Things got interesting.

So, leaving the hyperbole behind, Bindings are a different way to well, bind UI controls to the code in your ( Read more... )

When we left off last time, we had finished up with creating a brand new file, grabbing data for it, formatting the data into a line of tab-delimited text, and then writing that to the file.

Now, we're going to append data to an existing file, but first, I made some changes to the creating a new file code. Since this is tab-delimited text, it's ( Read more... )

What AppleScript Programmers have been waiting for, even if they didn't know it: AppleScriptObjC
As some of you might know, AppleScript Studio, (Studio for short), never impressed me. To be blunt, I thought that it was a nice try that quickly showed itself to have gone down a bad path. The problem was that to do anything but a really narrow range ( Read more... )

(Just for those who care: no, i'm not an experienced Cocoa or ObjC programmer. It should have been obvious if you knew enough to ask, but just to clear it up.)

This post, we're going to take the initial save file setup we had from last week, and expand that to actually writing data to a new file. Doing this is going to require splitting up the ( Read more... )

Before we get into today's bit:

1. File URLs are not File Paths
2. Just because NSFileHandle can deal with URLs, that doesn't mean NSFileManager does. So you can use either a path or a URL to create a handle to an existing file, but to create the file itself, you have to use the path
3. Documentation that interchanges terms like "path" and "url" makes me want ( Read more... )

Okay, so i've been adventuring with AppleScriptObjC, because a) FaceSpan 5 is in limbo, and will be for some time, (insert wailing noises here) and b) AppleScriptObjC is what i've been raging at Apple to give me for some time now, and it's not 100%, but it's pretty close. Any posts i put up for AppleScriptObjC will have "AppleScriptObjC" as the ( Read more... )

So me and a couple of friends, (Peter Cohen of Macworld and Darby Lines, aka The Angry Drunk) are doing a podcast.

If you like angry, overly profane ranting about the unfathomable size of stupid on the Internet, then you can either go to the site and subscribe to the podcast, or if you are into teh iTunes, then you can subscribe via iTunes too. ( ( Read more... )