señor taco’s travels

But damn, does that look tasty as all hell:

Bacon on a stick with fries on the back

(via riceplate)

Warren Ellis writes:

“The more creators who only took on housepainting as a part-time gig, the healthier this medium would be.”

Oh man, so true. This is why staring my own work up is very appealing.

Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch, who is dying from pancreatic cancer, gave his last lecture at the university Sept. 18, 2007, before a packed McConomy Auditorium. In his moving talk, “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams,” Pausch talked about his lessons learned and gave advice to students on how to achieve their own career and personal goals.

[via Clickable Bliss]

Time for a fun head game.
(from bynkii)

Today Ian Baird of Skorpiostech has released an awesome comparison tool, Changes. Besides doing text diffs you can also do directory diffs and see what files are new, removed, or changed.

It features great integration with TextMate, BBEdit and Xcode. There is also a wiki with tips for SCM integration. The addition of a great command line utility chdiff is a boon to us developers too.

I loved it so much I bought a license before the beta was over.¹ Now if only I had Leopard (required) at work to use it there. Some day.

1. I even contributed to the wiki where there was an offer of free licenses, but I turned that down, choosing instead to support an indie dev with my dollars.↩

As seen on Twitter 2008-02-16:

Every time you sniff and say somebody has “too much free time,” the part of you that used to love making things for pure joy dies a little. — Merlin Mann

I love reading Dinosaur Comics. The humor is top notch and yesterday is no exception. Nascent machine intelligences. I almost spewed my coffee on my screen.

I am an unabashed fan of peanut butter. You can just ask my mom. Best food for a snack? Peanut butter. Best food to have stranded on a dessert island? Peanut butter. Best oil to use in frying foods? Peanut oil. See, even not in butter form the peanut is awesome! But I digress, for this is a post to point you to another titled The Best Peanut Butter in the World:

I love peanut butter. But more importantly for the statement you are about to read here, I know peanut butter. I know peanut butter the way Da Vinci knew fluid mechanics, the way Einstein knew physics, the way Grand Master Flash knows a turntable, the way Tom Brady knows how to perfectly balance throwing touchdowns and humping supermodels. I have eaten it. I have coddled it. I inhaled. What can I say? That’s how I spread.

Now I have to go and find this “Parkers Family Farms Peanut Butter” of which he speaks.

There is something strangely beautiful in this and utterly saddening photo set of the Canopus thermonuclear test in French Polynesia.

Irony: They’re filming a Microsoft ad at Zoka¹ today. Double irony: The entire crew is using Macs. Only PC is in front of the model.

(via Twitter)

1. For a little background, Wil’s company — Delicious Monster — doesn’t have an office, they just work on laptops out of University Zoka coffe shop. I’m going to make sure to visit Zoka when I make my way up to Seattle.↩