No address currently -- I'm in the process of moving. Let me know if you need to mail me something. (August 2011)

Cell: (310) 809-9044
Email: gwillen@nerdnet.org
Facebook: facebook.com/gwillen
IRC: irc.freenode.net (gwillen)

X-posted: Facebook ( Read more... )

Hi LJ! Got a spare iPhone? Can I borrow it?

I need an iPhone with a good camera (a 3GS/4/4S) for about a month and a half, to test an app. I would gladly pay (with dinner, or cash if you prefer it) to borrow one, so that I don't have to buy one.

Can anybody help me out? Or have a friend who can? I'd love you forever. :-)

DO YOU WANT TO (1) STOP AT THE NEXT FORT, (2) HUNT, OR (3) CONTINUE ( Read more... )

I was on a team that won a Mystery Hunt today.

It was pretty cool.

:D

I have been doing some experimental baking, and am fond of the following cookie recipe. It's somewhere in the space of linear combinations of the Good Eats / Alton Brown "chewy cookies" and "brownies" recipes ( Read more... )

Interesting: Interactive map of United States road accident deaths, 2001-2009. (They say "casualties", but they mean it in the informal sense of "deaths", not the military sense ( Read more... )

I have finished the promised essay on puzzles. It is ... quite long. It can be found here ( Read more... )

In the aftermath of the KGB puzzlehunt (which my team "won"!) I have written an essay about puzzle-solving, and how information theory pertains to search space when solving puzzles. Problem: It's 1623 words and desperately needs editing before I can post it. Solution: Remind me to edit it tomorrow, and your reward/punishment will be getting to read ( Read more... )

I responded to a post on Hacker News today, and decided I should post here too, with my pet theory of free market capitalism ( Read more... )