Dave Schumaker

Good old Flight of the Concords.

"Inner City Pressure" by Flight of the Conchords.

It's like we have our own language...

11:22 PM me: can i ask you a programming question?Kerry: sure 11:24 PM me: so i have a stupid functionme: inside, there is a loop to create a long string based on certain (irrelevant) criteriame: when the function is run by simply calling it in PHP (ie, by simply going: stupidFunction)me: it outputs the stringme: now i want to save this string somehow, and it doesn't seem to be workingme: should I simply be able to do something like:me: $stupidText = stupidFunction(); ? 11:26 PM Kerry: what's the return value of the string? me: there is none, which is weirdme: i try to set oneme: and it screws everything upKerry: hmmKerry: well if there's nothing being returned from the function, then simply outputting it won't give $stupidText any value [...] 1:54 PM me: i finally got stupidFunction to work last night!me: it turns out that stupidFunction was creating a stupidArray inside of itme: so basically $stupidText printed "Array" when I set it equal to stupidFunctionme: Once I did: $stupidText = stupidFunction['idiotDave']; it all worked!Kerry: woooo, nice work

Jupiter, Venus, and the Moon as seen from Moorpark, CA this past weekend.

The following photo is a crop taken with my Nikon D300 at 200mm f5.6. The very bright sphere is Jupiter. The motion blurred streak to its bottom right are its moons! Awesome!

Last night's episode of The Simpsons featured a "Mapple Store" coming to the town of Springfield. The piece pokes fun at Apple in a way that only The Simpsons can.

(Source: Flickr user ekai)

CNN interrupted their coverage of the terror attacks in Mumbai, India with a commercial break. The commercial immediately following their coverage as a tourism commercial for India. How amazing and ironic. I recorded the video and uploaded it to YouTube.

It's a sad day on Sesame Street

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Here is some video I shot last night at a friend's house while they were making some Thanksgiving Day turkey cupcakes.

Within the last few hours, terrorists carried out a coordinated attacks in the city of Mumbai, India, targeting UK and US citizens staying in some of the glitzy hotels in town.

At this point, mainstream media (CNN, MSNBC, Fox, et al.) are finally starting to pickup on the news and cover it. Interestingly enough, social media was right on top of it.

The first news I heard about it was via my Twitter feed:

Thanks to Twitter, we have a lot more, up-to-the-second information available. Flickr user Vinu, is uploading photos he took within the last few hours right now.(Source: Vinu on Flickr)

Vinu also has a Twitter feed, and when talking about the above image, he remarked, "one thing I will definitely remember is the blood around the scooter and a cellphone ringing somewhere inside the debris!"

More information:Flickr Search - MumbaiFriendFeed Search - MumbaiMahalo - Mumbai Terrorist AttacksTwitter Search - Mumbai

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It's a mouse, riding a cat, who is riding a dog.